From the archive

March 2010

48 posts

The Underground Guide To The iPhone!

Download The Unofficial Guide to the iPhone both for not only the new iphone user but also those that have long time experience with the device, this guide is really good. You can also get daily updates on new websites and applications via e-mail as well. My friends over at Netline turned me on to this, and I think your

Have You Tried Google Labs

I have to admit I like to try new things and am willing to take the risk that it entails. Which is why I love Google Labs. The lab contains experiments that Google believe have potential, but are not ready to release to the general public yet. If you decide to use a lab product, you need to be aware that it is just that an experiment. It may not work perfectly and it can be pulled at anytime, without notification. How long somethings stays in the lab, varies by product, some products spend years in the lab, while others either die or are released quickly. Google Reader and iGoogle are just two of many graduates of Google Labs. There are some Google products that have their own labs, such as Google mail and Google calendar. There are a couple of ways to get to Google Lab, the first is if you are in a Google product, you will find it under the more label, when you click on even more. The direct url for Google labs is www.googlelabs.com.

My Internet Explorer 6 Eulogy

Last week, Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) got a full funeral and hopefully (soon) burial. I, too, am glad to see the older browser go: Even though there are some who will try to hold on for dear life. Nonetheless, if I was to have given a Eulogy for IE6, this is how it would have went. You know, I remember

Why Ad Blocking Hurts Sites like this one

The folks over at Ars Technica of which I am a personal fan, put out a post today titled "Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love". There is no way I could have expressed as elegantly as they did what I have felt for a very long time. I am not sure I would have done the

A Personal Reality Check for Bandwidth Caps

Over the years of GNC, I've heard Todd rail on about broadband bandwidth caps and while I've enjoyed his rants, it's been low priority topic for me.  Why? Because I think I'm a power user with a good selection of podcasts, a fair bit of online TV viewing, some (legal) music downloads. However, in a single month, I have never got anywhere

GNC-2010-03-05 #557 SXSW in my Cross Hairs!

Heavy into planning for SXSW the show goes on the road for about 20 days starting with Thursdays show. Lots of exciting things in the pipeline, we made a major announcement today over at blog.blubrry.com getting our podcast communities ready for the revolution / evolution of the website. Details to all of you as soon as I can put the

Quick – Tweet Now! You Might Be the 10 Billionth Twitter!

Well, the craze is on. 10 Billion Tweets will probably be hit by time you read this. 600 tweets a second (2.16 Million an hour). So in about 18 hours - Depending on how many people go Tweet crazy - The 10 Billionth Twitter will be posted. The 5 billionth was held by Robin Sloan, who posted "Oh Lord". It

Firefox Addon Site Launcher

I am a member of a Web site called MyLikes, it was previously called Likeaholixs. As a member of the Web site I signed up to do sponsor ads for them on my personal Web site, Musing and Gadgets. Yesterday I was sent a message that a sponsor ad was available and it was for a Foxfire add on called

Has Six Degrees of Separation Really Become Three?

I was rummaging through my photos and videos the other day and realized something. There is no more six degrees of separation. I have met people in the last year that have in fact hob-nobbed with the celebs. I have Friends on Facebook being friends with other friends of facebook - And I don't even know how they know each

GNC-2010-03-02 #556 I Get Called on the Carpet!

Your not going to want to miss a segment in today's show where I get called on the carpet by a long time listener. I have been in touch with the Advanced tech support at iTunes, I am hoping the show updates on schedule tonight. If it does not there are instructions on how to guarantee how to get the

Geek News Central at SXSW

I will be in Austin for SXSW from March 11th to 15th. Unlike CES I will be going Solo and this will change the way I cover this event. Expect more intimate interviews some audio and some video dependent on the situation, location etc. I am also going to try and live stream some of the events as well but

Palm & WebOS 1.4 – We’re Getting There

Late last week Palm pushed out an upgrade to its WebOS operating system for the Palm Pre and Pixi phones, taking them to version 1.4.  In the past few weeks, Palm has taken a fair amount of flak, primarily from analysts but also from users.  Its performance in Europe hasn't exactly been stellar though it seems to have done well

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