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It's Earth Day, my fellow geeks. And while I love my technology, I love my home, too, and Earth Day should be reminder to act respectfully when it comes to our environment and what we are doing to it. It may feel cliche, 40 years after the very first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, to make a big deal
I have been using Godaddy services since 2004 and am a very satisfied customer. While GoDaddy has sponsored my podcast since 2005, I must disclaim that I pay for all of my servers and domain names with my own money. I do save a lot of money each year by using GoDaddy Promo codes. Being we just wrapped up the
My Faithful audio recording machine refused to record tonight, but we had the backup recording machine and everything went as planned. Congrats to Jeff that won the Ring Central contest and will get a years free worth of service. On Friday's show we will give away the Roku to a lucky listener plus we will pick the iPhone application developer
*NOTE* Upon publishing this piece, another rumor had sprung up that Gizmodo paid $10,000 to gain access to the next generation iPhone. There is one thing that really gets my goat when I read the news section - The inundation of "Rumors". One person says the right words on the right blog and everyone jumps on; Next thing you know, multiple articles
[This is a summary of a ComputerActive article which appeared in the 1st-14th April edition but isn't yet online.] There are lots of nefarious characters on the internet trying to extort money from unsuspecting victims. Here are the top ten con tricks and how to not get caught. Most Geek News Central readers will be wise to most of these
It has been a busy week for Twitter, not to mention a controversial one. First on Wednesday of last week Evan Williams, the chairman of Twitter announced that they had purchased Albeit the company that owns Tweetie. Tweetie is one of the most popular twitter clients on the Iphone. Then just a few days later, Twitter announced that they were
Big apologies for not making my normal schedule, all is explained in the show. We are extending the Ring Central giveaway submit why you want the prize!, You have a chance to win a Roku in tonight's show. Important I will be including a link to download and vote on the Geek News Central iPhone application in the show notes
Hey everyone, everything is fine here in the land of Aloha. I have had a very full week managing some things here which caused me to cancel Tuesday's show. I will be recording Fridays show Friday evening versus tonight. Thanks for having patience all is well and I will get everyone caught up. I will tweet Friday afternoon when I
Last month, Ning CEO Gina Bianchini was replaced by Jason Rosenthal - which made me wonder if some big changes were afoot. I guess I was right as it turns out Ning is changing their business model. Let's look at what happened and what that means to you. This letter was posted over on TechCrunch: Team, When I became CEO
This last week has been a pretty good one for me, for I got to review more than just a computer, printer or network. I got to review a car. Well, mostly the computer in the car, but still a very tricked out Ford Taurus SHO. A $37,000 vehicle with the Microsoft SYNC system inside. Ford delivered the Taurus last
I was never a gamer, and not a hoarder, either, but both of those things just made Tanner Sandlin of Austin, Texas, a little bit richer. He sold his boxed (but used) cartridge of Air Raid for the Atari 2600 for $31,600 on eBay. The game is only one of 13 known copies to still exist, and the only known
This is a follow-up post to an earlier entry I wrote back in on March 21, 2010, titled Trouble with Yelp. It was about Yelp being sued for manipulating reviews and pressuring businesses into buying advertisements with them. Last week, Yelp announced some changes in its policies. The first change they made was to start showing all reviews, even those
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