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Show #801 coming to you from Japan. Details in the show, has been a very busy couple of days here and was happy to find time to squeeze the show out. Subscribe Today: Audio | Video (HD) | Mobile Video | iTunes | Zune Download the Audio Show File Follow me on Google+ Follow @geeknews on Twitter Geek News Central
Anti-virus software is a necessary evil in today's world, thanks to the proliferation of hackers, malware and botnets. Unfortunately, the software can frequently cause high profile problems like locking users out of their computers and causing endless reboots by deleting necessary Windows system files. Perhaps no problem has been more embarrassing than the recent Sophos debacle. The security software flagged it's own files as malicious
The winning images from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2012 were announced today and as you might expect, they’re absolutely stunning. Organised by the Royal Observatory in conjunction with the Sky at Night magazine and Flickr, every single one of the pictures is fantastic. Nearly 700 pictures were submitted to Flickr for 2012 and you can see them all
Yesterday, I hurried home to upgrade my iOS devices to iOS 6, expecting it to go smoothly. I have an iPad (3rd Gen) and a 4th Gen iPod touch. I did the iPad first and was very happy to learn that Siri is now enabled. I spent some time playing with that on the iPad while my iPod updated. I
This is great news for podcasters as well as people who enjoy checking out live podcasts. Livestream has announced that is has free accounts that are ad-free. In other words, it is now possible to do a live podcast through Livestream without it costing the podcast producer any money, and without forcing the viewers to sit through a series of
Geeks of a certain age will undoubtedly remember when the Rubik's Cube craze (or Magic Cube as it was originally known) spread through school playgrounds in the early 1980s. Building on the current popularity of all things retro, this Rubik's Cube Speaker will bring back memories of success or frustration depending on whether you were able to solve the puzzle or
The smartphone market is full of great phones running Android, iOS or Windows Phone. Regrettably none of them is running WebOS, so it was with much sadness that I decided to retire my HP Pre 3 and move on to a more current device. I tend to buy off-contract so as not to get locked in, but I don't usually
Mozilla has been hard at work on a Firefox operating system that will power mobile devices, mostly of the lower-end variety. The OS has been rumored to be launching first in Brazil in early 2013. Now, hardware maker ZTE is rumored to be the first to get devices on the market, and they are expected very soon. ZTE has several
Having a NAS (network attached storage) device in your home is a smart solution for backup, but it's far from all you need. Obviously, in the event of a disaster like fire or flood, not only can your home computers be wiped out, but in-home backup will be gone along with it. Now ioSafe is looking to solve that problem
Besides not knowing what day it is, Show 800 is a bit of a walk down memory lane and also some insights I probably have not shared before. I hope you enjoy the show and have a better understanding of where I as a host and business owner are coming from in regards to this show and the podcasting space.
The cleaning robots have joined forces! No, I don't mean the robots connected to each other in the way that the individual parts of Voltron did in order to form a larger, more powerful, form. I am referring to a press release from iRobot Corp. that states that the company has acquired Evolution Robotics, Inc. for $74 million. Together, the
Shazam the music recognition app has been updated to also recognize TV shows . I was trying it out today and it still needs some work. It didn’t recognize many of the shows that I was watching. It either gave back no information or incorrect information. There were times when it took multiple tries before it came back with the
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