Geek News Central 2006-01-24 #139



This is probably one of my top shows put together in recent weeks had a lot of energy tonight, their is some very important information that you are not going to want to miss in this show. I have some info straight from the iTunes team along with some very important legislative information!

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DVD Shrink
P2P File Storage
FolderShare.com
BluePulse
Last.fm
Internet Survey
XML Demystified
XP and Intel Mac Cash Challenge
RedBull Renegade
Instant Domain Search
Monsters
IE7 Screen Captures
MapHacks.net
Google News
No More Movie Theaters
RIAA and MPAA Fair Use War [EFF] [PK]
ISS
NYC Cabbie
Gates Spyware
Dumb Drug Dealer
Podcast Awards Ceremony Video (Partial)
Toogle
XP Boot Thumb drive

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About Todd Cochrane

Todd Cochrane is the Founder of Geek News Central and host of the Geek News Central Podcast. He is a Podcast Hall of Fame Inductee and was one of the very first podcasters in 2004. He wrote the first book on podcasting, and did many of the early Podcast Advertising deals in the podcasting space. He does two other podcasts in addition to Geek News Central. The New Media Show and Podcast Legends.


2 thoughts on “Geek News Central 2006-01-24 #139

  1. DVD Shrink is great. Been using it for a while.

    URL’s – We have all, at one time or another, told someone about a great site that we visited. But when it comes to giving them the URL, it can be quite tricky. What if it was very long, or easily misspelled? For a while now pc mags have been using tinyurl’s in their print. A tinyurl (see tinyurl.com) takes any lenght url and condences it to a 5 didget alphanumeric code. For example geeknewscentral.com is 2ttlf. This cuts down on mis typing the url and ending up on another site.

    I live outside America where some words are spelled very differently. Centre (center), Tyre (Tire) and so on. This could be of great use in podcasts. Not for every url, but those that may be difficult to give out. Just a quick “..or tinyurl 2ttlf….” at the end of the url.

  2. DVD Shrink has been around for years. Development stopped in 2004 I believe. The author went to work for Ahead (Nero). It’s still very useful but I understand that it fails with some encryption due to it’s age.

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