Archive for August, 2008

At the beginning of the month I was concerned I wasn’t going to make the numbers I made in July. I had one story get a mini Digg and that gave some great stats for the day. The end result was a high monthly visit rate. So that made August the concern – after all, can I do something that can be that powerful?

Well, maybe there is.

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Apple said it was an update. They applied the update and it didn’t fix the problem. Apple is still saying its about the update.

Now a woman in Alabama sues Apple for false Advertisement. Jessica Alena Smith filed the lawsuit stating that the advertising said the iPhone 3G was suppose to double the speed of the original iPhone. There is no report of how much she’s suing for.

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Nowadays you don’t use a phone to call a person. That’s too passe. Nowadays, you txt, you twitter, you picture message or whatever. Only call when absolutely, positively necessary. Then,…. don’t call.

This weeks Bitstrips we talk about messaging. Enjoy.

It’s all about the video, right? Text is dead, audio is boring. We need video stimulation. So why not You Tube? Lifecasters, part-time jockeys, and even the occasional “Dad gets hit in the jublies with (insert object here)”. Why do we YouTube and could we live without it?

Remember when the Funniest Videos show was all the rage? I remember when we got our first video camera. Big ole thing that you had to hold on your shoulder. Walked around seeing if I could get that shot that could win me 10 thousand dollars. Never did.

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I’ve been following GeekMommy on Plurk for a while. The site is a Blog chuck full of information. So when GeekMommy decided to run a contest, I thought it would be a good idea to help her along.

Let her know of a good Vlog and you might just walk away with a Flip Ultra video camera. I know I will. It promotes so much by doing this – GeekMommy, the Vlog you watch and of course, you.

So check out Geekmommy. Help her out and you might just have something that will let you start your own Vlog.

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This week we ask 5 questions that would be found on a CCNA Certification test.

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Once again another stellar Live show came and went. @DedRyzing, @husker_fan, @jlariviere and more joined us for a great talk about a lot of things. One big subject was Operating Systems and how we always wait for the “Next One”. We had some great websites chuck full of information, too.

W3c has a great chart of OS Statistics. During the show we talked about how much storage there is out in the world. We found this site, which has a great footprint ticker. We also talked about Twitter Keywords, Cloud Computing and so much more.

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We launch the first podcast from the “Geekazine Quickcast” Podcast. It’s Monday, so we are doing this week in tech history. In this episode we talk about DOD, Microsoft Windows 95 and NT launches, bubble memory. PSP, GameCube, Gateway is junk by S&P, Ultima II and III are released and MP3.com is sued.

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The summer is getting ready to go away. It’s sad, but what can you do? Prepare for the fall. When you do that, you have to prepare for the one thing that makes the Fall best….

FOOTBALL!!

Being a Wisconsin native, a lot of drama has come up with our football team – the Packers. I won’t get into it since this is not the site, but I will say I am happy how everything turned out. And for the record, yes. I am going to watch the Jets this season.

Props to all that are at the #NME. I wish I was in Vegas this weekend networking with you. I’ll definitely be there next year….

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Amazon went down. Twitter goes down. Gmail went down. Now Netflix experienced a big outage. Is there anything that won’t stay up? This week, we explore that question.