Quickcast #154 – State of Geekazine for February
This month’s Quickcast, we talk about what is going on at Geekazine and what to look for in the month ahead.
GWP Ep #124: Win a Copy of Diskeeper 2010 on this Weeks Show
This week we’ll talk about the remaining 91 CES videos. Set up a special feed for CES 2010 and it’s now up on Zune. Chrome extentions are now installed. Firefox is loosing my interest. Call out to people and making this show better. Win a free copy of Diskeeper 2010. Try GoToAssist free for 30 […]
Startpage (Ixquick) is a Way to Offer Private Search – Frank Tests it Out
I learned about Startpage in an article on Reuters. Here’s a nugget: So I decided to play around with it for a while.
TechPodcast Roundtable Ep 55 – Backupify and Mobile Podcasting with IPadio
This month we have another great Roundtable filled with valuable information. In the show: GotoMeeting is the official sponsor of the Tech Podcasts Round Table you can get a free 30 day trial at www.gotomeeting.com/ techpodcasts Free Webcam Chat at Ustream
Back in My Day, They Were Called “Data Centers”
The Guardian documents a case of creeping jargon: The UK is going to create its own “cloud“: Buried in the story, though, is some news I find exciting: they are encouraging a move to open source. From the same story:
Apple iPad – The Rumor becomes Reality
Well, after weeks of anticipation, the Apple iPad has become reality. The 1.5 lb, 9.7 inch device with a 1 GB Apple A4 processor in 16, 32 and 64 GB models. It’s an e-reader, it’s a photo book, it’s a video display and a lot more. All for a price that blows away Kindle. The […]
Podcast Ep 123 – Predictions on the big Apple Event
CES Videos pumping out 3 a day. Congrats on the CES Winners. Roundtable this Saturday – Conectify confirmed. Will be working on some new ventures in the next week, then FAWM. Congrats to the Saints and the Colts. Mophie, and ZBoost. Call out to people and making this show better. Try GoToAssist free for 30 […]
Cloudy Futures
I have several times indicated my skeptical take on “cloud computing.” It boils down to this: Last week, Charles Ledbetter, writing in the Guardian, considered another concern: that the untidy anarchic free nature of the internet is increasingly under attack. Ledbetter sums up the dangers he sees in this way: