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May 2008

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Hundreds of Press Releases a Day

I literally receive well over 100 press releases each that are addressed directly to me and seem to all have a semi-private note attached. So a tact I have begun to take lately is sending them a little note back to them.

The HP HDX Dragon Giveaway Continues!

I hope all of you that do not listen to my Podcast have been at least reading the blog post associated with the show as I have been providing links to the schedule of contest and giveaways to the participating sites.

Problems with XP SP3

There have been a few reports of people having reboots after upgrading their XP systems to SP3. Considering the frequency with which this occurance seems to be observed, particularly amongst those with AMD processors it does beg the question whether Microsoft applied the proper rigor to their pre-release testing. While we have come to expect that new software releases from

GNC-2008-05-12 #373 Live from Silicon Valley

Quick trip out to Silicon Valley more on that in the show. Little bit shorter show tonight due to the timezone change but lots to talk about.. Please Support Show Sponsors: Special Promotion code 20% off on 1 Year Shared Hosting Plans use Godaddy Code Todd20 [Save 10% off on any order at GoDaddy.com!] Use Code Todd [Try GoToMeeting free

Headed for the West Coast!

I am very unexpectedly sitting in the Airport tonight headed for the West Coast. While I would not normally travel on Mothers Day I need to be where I am headed by tomorrow morning and in meetings starting tomorrow afternoon.

Geek News Central Ohana Forum Is Open!

Last year I closed the forum I had here on Geek News Central but by popular demand of my listeners of my podcast, I have put one back online and hopefully we will be able to get some traction on it.

GNC-2008-05-09 #372 Recording while you Sleep

I swear I was half asleep recording this show. If nothing else it should be funny, send me time hacks to anything wacky I may have said. Please Support Show Sponsors: Special Promotion code 20% off on 1 Year Shared Hosting Plans use Godaddy Code Todd20 [Save 10% off on any order at GoDaddy.com!] Use Code Todd [Try GoToMeeting free

A Interview with PodcastingNews.com

Those of you following the Podcasting Space and User Generated Content, will want to check out the Interview I did with Elisabeth McLaury Lewin of [PodcastingNews.com]

Firefox Viewing Add-Ons

If you're a Firefox geek, like I am, you are always looking for ways to make it work better for you. It is one of the advantages of having something open source that lots of developers can work on. I know, the majority of the world still runs on Microsoft Internet Explorer, but like a good Firefox evangelist, I'm continually

Sprint advertising iPhones

Unfortunately what they are actually trying to advertise is their own competing phone. The series of Internet ads being planned by Sprint could end up costing them a lot of actual money. And as each of them show the competing product. Sometimes the way to create a buzz in marketing is to break the rules. The unwritten rule that mentioning

Free Forum Hosting by Lefora

As you all know for a long time I ran my own forums here at Geek News Central. In all honesty it was a pain because every time I turned around we had an issue with the application. Either there was a security issue or some spammer had dropped in a bunch of post.

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