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Show #49: X-Rays and Watercooling!

* FURL!
* Digital Dentist – see Chuck’s Head
* Frank Frank talks to us about his home made server cooling system
* What were the first cookie cutters made from?
* GPS Feedback: Jorge commented that TomTom GPS is pretty big in Belgium.
* Followup on Sharepoint
* iTunes 6 fixed the 64K encoding – thanks to our friend in tech Douglas E. Welch
* Samsung forced to pay $300MM due to price fixing of DRAM
* Digital Dentist – Chuck’s X-Rays (Get inside Chuck’s Head)
* What the Chuck!: Nigeria will make it illegal and fine $3500 for spammers in their country
* Kreg’s Rant: Patents Suck

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Show 48: Where in the World is Chuck San Diego?

* All About GPS
* Steve’s Unit
* Apple Video iPod: Stuff Magazine – Hot Stuff
* Apple – QuickTime – Tutorials – Creating Video for iPod

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Some friends of mine were discussing “beta” programs. Is it a cop-out to label your first public release of something as a beta release? (e.g. Yahoo’s podcasting, Gmail, Google everything else).

On the one side you’ve got the argument that “alpha” releases are normally tested internally, and “beta” releases are your first public release to a select group to let them find any remaining flaws or logic errors.

Lately it seems that that the beta groups are getting out of hand. It wasn’t too long ago that a beta release meant you were a SELECT group, some fraction of the whole, that got to test software. In some cases, like an operating system, you had to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Now you get something like Yahoo podcasting and it’s basically released to everyone with a label “Beta” at the top. Is this a cop-out to discredit any flaws or errors? “Hey, your software gave me an error right after it pulled up the wrong file!” “Well, that’s beta software for you!” C’mon, everyone knows that software today is going to be riddled with issues. Are we so naive that we think that Yahoo or Google hasn’t already done some beta testing before releasing things like this to the public?

Show #47: Urban Legends, Cameras, and Robots Roaming in the Desert

* Kreg’s Hack of my CVS disposable Video Cam
* Listener Feedback
** Steve Pruett – Chernobyl Motorcyle Photo Tour
** Bruce Barr – His visit to Charlotte
* Video of a guy demonstrating a MECH!
* Kreg’s hack of my CVS disposable Camcorder
* Google’s News Reader
* There is a winner in the Darpa Challenge!
* OpenOffice 2.0.0RC2 is available
* Canon makes camera that senses smiles before it takes pics
* Google says: No Office Suite from us
* Scientists Finding Out What Losing Sleep Does to a Body
* Details on Microsoft Patch Tuesday

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Show # 46: This ain’t no Party, this ain’t no Disco…

* A first look at GIMP 2.4
* I/O Brush: The World as the Palette
* Chernobyl Motocycle Trip
* More Chernobyl Pictures
* Microsoft FAT Patents Get Thumbs Down
* Playing FLICKR v2.0
* Chuck is starting to use Sharepoint
* Chuck is also learning UML
* Nicolas Cage’s Super Baby – Yahoo! News
* Keepass PocketPC version
* Kreg is installing Gregarious
* Monty Python’s Flying Circus: Just the words
* Deskzilla Features And Benefits
* …and another Geek Thought.

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Show #45: A sense of Serenity.

* Summer Brooks from the Dragonpage.com and Kickassmysticninjas.com podcast comes back!
* Shout out to Cornelius Fletcher from the Project Management Podcast
* Send in the Skype clones
* Hacking the Atari Flashback
* Esquire wikis article on Wikipedia
* Digg 101 – Why use it?
* Chewie Throws A Fast Ball

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Show #44: Vacuuming the Internet.

* Online News Aggregators
** Bloglines.com
** Rojo.com
** NewsGator Online
* iTunes on my PocketPC?
* Google TV is coming!
* Google Wifi in New York
* Time Warner is raising the specter of killing off iTunes
* I found Magic Button for PocketPC! Has Battery app and closes apps.
* Mike Tech Show has put together a Zip file with apps that will run from your Thumb Drive
* What the Chuck?: Why does my palm do a cold reset every copy of months?

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Show #43: We Landed on the Moon?!?

* Why did Opera give away thier Browser?
* Contact Loved Ones
* This Guy looks like he has Toy’s R Us in his basement!
* David Devries illustrated a book from Childeren’s Drawings
* PDA Arcade
* Atari 2
* Nava Apollo 11 30th Anniversary
* Nasa Audio Clips
* Special contribution from Chad Streck: Office Slang
* Scrapbook for Firefox
* PC Load Letter

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Show #42: The Dark Secrets of High Def.

* Asterisk Update
* Looking outside Kreg’s Internet Connection
* Jorge gets digged
* Opera is now free!
* Skype CEO Press Conference muffled
* How to make a sentry gun
* The Big Ass Computer
* Feedback from Bruce Barr
* iTunes 5.0.1 now available
* Grandpa Ben’s stories of wiring
* Bob’s Stories of HDTV
* Geek Library: C’mon kids, let’s program!
* Recommended site: tivocommunity.com

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Show #41: Stack ’em high!

* Sip Phones!
* Lego Factory
* Ubuntu announces The Dapper Drake
* Apple Confirms iTunes5 and will have a fix this week!
* Ajax: Getting Started at Mozilla
* Firefox Wallpapers
* Bill Gates goes to College
* VNC server for PocketPC

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