Archive for April, 2008

The call is made. For years now we knew we couldn’t keep living like this, yet, we still did. Now (for America), the reality is coming light a freight train toward a brick wall. We keep pulling those brakes, yet we’re not stopping.

Ever since the first windmill, we have been trying to pull energy from resources to make our jobs easier. Powering a light, running a car or using a laptop. Energy is a way of life, and we take it for granted way too often.

Recently, there have been some who have jumped out of the gate to say they have an energy source that would help. There’s even an inventor that says he has created a device that will give free energy which he plans to unveil it on June 20^th. With all those claims, we still seem to be stuck in the same conundrum we have been for the last 20 years. Will we ever break free and have a clean, reusable energy for our daily routines?

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On this day: Mothra vs Godzilla (64), Last Episode of Battlestar Galactica(79), Commodore Bankruptcy(80), Tiger Released(05)

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Lots of great info in this LIVE SHOW –

-We talked with Earl Thibert – a fellow ustreamer and first Handicap Lifestreamer

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/earl-thibert-live

- Earl asked a question about Sleep Mode on a computer
- Video Cards
- XP SP3
- PC Anywhere
- Garage Salein
- Linux 8.04
- Twitter vs. Pownce
- PS3 and Grand Theft Auto 4

Hour 1

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Do you download via iTunes? How about listen to great music, shows and podcasts (like geekazine… hint hint) on the player?

Today marks the 5 year anniversary of iTunes – a corner of Apple’s market that had a hand in making the company so popular today. Here is a rough timeline of events in the last 5 years:

History this week includes:

First Portable Cell Phone Call
Founding of Dell Computers
Geocaching
Amtrak
First Heart Transplant
Mac OSX 10.4 Tiger
8 Hour Workday
Paris Hilton’s Address Book is Hacked

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Green Gas

3G iPhone Announcement on June 9

Ubuntu 8.04 Released

Feature: Getting XP after the cut-off date:

Change. Some love to do it, others would like to stay where they are. Sometimes change is needed – newer, faster, more powerful to take over old and un-updatable. Still, within time change happens like it always does in life. Its really a question of whether you want to change with it, or stick with the same.

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According to German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler, his theory was that the Universe was created on April 27th 4977 BC. Kepler was fascinated with theories of planetary ordering. Kepler did a lot of scientific research and calculations of planetary motion. He also worked in the field of optics – especially the human eye and how it produces sight.

Kepler lived from 1571 to 1630. Although some of his theories were later disproved, he definitely inspired many: such as Sir Issac Newton. Some of his theories were based on the idea that the Earth was the center of this Galaxy, not the Sun.

Of course the Big Bang theory devised in the 20th century had disproved Kepler’s theory by 13.7 billion years. Still, we need something to hold on to, sing Happy Birthday, wear cheezy party hats and bake a cake over – only so Milton can continue to pass the cake until everyone has some, but he didn’t get any last year and wants to have cake this year and…..

Anywho, even though this is most likely not the birthday of the Galaxy’s inception, we may never know the official day. So today is just as good as any to celebrate. Just as long as I get an end piece….

Just one last reminder – We are giving away a Zune or iPod nano (You get to choose which) on May 1st – that’s less than a week away. All you have to do is comment on the following page about the site or the podcast – good or bad – and you are entered into the contest.

Just go to http://www.geekazine.com/win-a-zune-or-ipod-nano and send me a comment on that page!

This week we sit down with Steve Ballmer and Jerry Yang to try and resolve this merger issue. Dr. Eric Schmidt also joins the group. Select the picture to enlarge.

Permalinks are the names of the file links that take you to the page you are looking for. For a while, we’ve been using a p= page format. Since the move to 2.5, we’ve been doing some updating and decided to change the format of the permalink. Now the pages will linked with a category name, then the title of the article.

Hopefully this will give the user a direction. For some, it may cause some confusion and some links may not work. Please let me know via twitter or email (geekazine at gmail. dot com) so I can make adjustments.

Thanks for your time and patience.

Web Apps.  Can we live without them anymore? What did we ever do without them? Webware put out it’s top 100 and we’re going to go through them and see what was good, what was bad, and what was… well, you know..

Webware is a site dedicated to watching what is popping up out on the internet. Any application that a web developer puts out will be checked out and reported on by this organization. It’s a good thing, too. There are so many out there, it’s tough to keep up.

On April 21^st, Webware put out the list of the top 100 apps. There were ten categories, each with ten winners. There were 5000 nominees, and 300 apps were chosen as finalists. Over 1.9 million votes were cast to dwindle this list down to 100.

According to Webware, most of the winners were also winners last year. There were a couple apps that pushed their way onto the list. This might not be as easy next year as Web Apps are expected to be more widely used within 2008.

So here are the top picks:

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