The year 2011 was one year that we will all never forget. Even though they were all in the beginning of the year, the floods in Queensland and Brazil, the earthquakes in Christchurch and the tsunami in the north of Japan are still present in all of our minds. We also saw the death of a tech luminary, Steve Jobs; and the powerful News Corporation losing its influence over politicians in the UK after the phone hacking scandal took a drastic turn from celebrities to victims of crime.
It is a sad day folks. The most well-known man in the tech industry has passed away today, October 5 (PST), after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. That man was Steve Jobs. Known for his attention to detail and drive for perfection and intuitive products, Steve created and shaped the world of personal computing we see and know today.
Apple’s iOS devices such as the iPhone and the iPad have been a great place for education tools and resources. Meet iStoryTime, whose aim is to make interactive story books for younger readers at school.
Hot on the heels of the wailing and gnashing of teeth of 10.7.0 users, Apple today released OS X Lion 10.7.1 that addresses a few issues.
MacBook users will be pleased to know that any WiFi dropouts experienced after upgrading to Lion seem to have been resolved as well as freezes when playing videos in Safari.
And here we are for another week. And Stewart is back after a few weeks of being away. In this episode we talk about the Nokia N9 not being released in the United States, Apple’s September media event and the death of Symbian.
We have turned fifty, Nokia says that we should not look at “Sea Ray”, and has Apple made a fatal mistake with its new version of Final Cut Pro? All this and more on this week’s special edition of TECHGEEK Weekly.
In this weeks episode, we discuss Rebecca Black’s legal troubles with her song on YouTube, Microsoft’s monopoly of the IM market and the things that LulzSec do to, well…. make us Lulz.
Sony has blamed Anonymous for hacking their servers. They disagree. (Image: Wikimedia Commons/Creative Commons)
Sony’s hacking woes continue with blames to Anonymous, delays in restoring service, Linux returning and reports of a third hack being planned. As well, we discuss if the (accidental) live tweeting of the death of the most wanted terrorist is the “CNN Moment” for Twitter, and a new Wikileaks competitor from News Corp?
Turn off the rumour mill: here are the facts about the new Final Cut Pro. Today the National Association Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas held some reserve time for a 7PM (local time) presentation from Apple to unveil its new Final Cut Pro software, dubbed: Final Cut Pro X (10). The cost? $299USD (or about 284.789028 Australian Dollars). Yes, thats right. Its just $299 for the full package, no more Final Cut Express, just this one package. No word on Final Cut Studio however. It will be available from the Mac App Store.
Forty episodes in, and apparently nothing has changed. This episode, we examine why PS3 fanboys hate Anonymous, Telstra getting some brand new phones and bacon, as a perfume? Get ready for one of the most tripping episodes of TECHGEEK Weekly ever.
That’s right iOS lovers: Apple has released yet another update to iOS – in this case 4.3.1. The incremental update is a bug fixing update. It currently supports iPad 1, 2, iPhone 4 (GSM), iPhone 3GS and 4th-3rd Gen iPod Touch.
Check out our overview here which will be updating with more information shortly. That’s right, TECHGEEK will be live, on location at the iPad 2 Launch tomorrow night at 5PM AEDST. We will be in the midst of the launch and commotion from around 4:30PM AEDST. We will have a live blog running on CoverItLive (below) and as well, we will be carrying a camera which will be automatically uploading photo’s to my Flickr account (below or link) as they are taken. We will also be tweeting with the hashtag “#tgipad2″. So join in the fun tomorrow at about 4:30PM AEDST with the Live Blog and Flickr stream photo’s from the iPad 2 Launch at the Sydney CBD Apple Store.
Its update time! The folks at the Infinite Loop have released some software this week including:
Mac OS X 10.6.7
Improve the reliability of Back to My Mac.
Resolve an issue when transferring files to certain SMB servers.
Address various minor Mac App Store issues.
We give our take on the Apple iPad 2 announcement, find out Microsoft’s response to the tablet and see if 3D is a big gimmick on the Nintendo 3DS. As well, IE6 hopefully goes into the grave and Street View now on bicycles? You’ll have to listen and find out.
The little Wii gets a bit more intimate with a brand new game, Mortal Kombat banned in Australia and the MacBook Pro gets a little hardware revamp – and we make a big deal about it and the new Thunderbolt. Wait, what? That’s all this week on the TECHGEEK Weekly podcast with the return of James Wilson plus one guest – Matt Rossi.