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December 2008

45 posts

HP Magic Giveaway Rules

The rules are simple you must listen to the Geek News Central Podcast that was released today Tuesday Dec 16th and the show that will be released Friday Dec 19th for up to “6” chances to be entered to win the $6000.00 HP Magic prize give away.

GNC-2008-12-16 #432 HP Magic Giveaway Kick Off

You must listen to this Podcast for your 3 separate opportunities to win the $6000.00 HP Magic Giveaway prize package during this show. Three more chances on Friday. You have a chance today to be entered three separate times by listening to this show. Listen for your chance to win. On another note a bit more of a rant about

Pepcom and Digitial Experience Frustration Grows

My frustration with getting my cameraman badged for Digital Experience which is run by Pepcom is such at this point that our coverage of their event this year is in jeopardy.  This all stems from my having hired what they term a non accredited cameraman.

EPIC Action Sports Video Cam Review

While in Costco today I picked up a $99.00 EPIC Action Sports Video Cam. I wanted to use it as a cam I could wear during CES to help in capturing some of the Back Channel Video.

Digsby Adds Annoying Plugins

I am installing the latest version of Digsby and am shocked that the application is asking me to install a number of highly intrusive plugins with the install.

Processes, Processes – Killing my Web Experience

Todd's talked about this before - you go into task manager and see a bunch of programs you closed still running. Then again you see programs you never opened running. Some of them need to be there, but others could be nixed. The worst part - it could be slowing down your Web (or computer experience). I was working on

CES 2009 Update

Hey folks we are less than a month away for the Consumer Electronics Show and for the 4th year we are packing the gear up and headed to Las Vegas.

Hey MySpace! I Really Don’t Want Email! Thank You

I really enjoy it when a social network updates or adds new features to the site. It makes it cool and exciting to have a new feature or a way to update. However, when they add or change stuff, they change your preferences. Not in a real bad way - more in the level of sending me email. For example,

GNC-2008-12-11 #431 I Vent about Digital Experience

I am a bit aggravated at the folks Pepcom who organize and run Digital Experience held during CES. Really aggravating and hopefully phone call with them tomorrow will clear things up but way to much time wasted on my part trying to go again this year. Please Support my Show Sponsors!: [Save 10% off on any order at GoDaddy.com!] Use

New Technologies on the Horizon

As we get to the end of 2008 the predictions for what will happen next year start coming out. In the PC space it looks generally like it will be a continuation of the same process we have seen recently. Die sizes for chips will get smaller, hard drives will get larger capacities, and video cards will continue to increase

HP Magic Giveaway Continues!

In about a week I will be starting my HP Magic Giveaway contest but I wanted to remind all of you that there are a lot of sites giving away gear. Each of these 50 sites will be giving away the entire prize package seen below.

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