TECHGEEK Tips #2: Facebook Chat in XMPP/Jabber

By TECHGEEK.com.au Team on August 16th, 2010 No Comments

While Terence and James can debate whether we should call it Jabber of XMPP, the second episode of TECHGEEK Tips with James Wilson tells you how to chat with your Facebook friends without actually opening your browser.

Being like a Mac head he is, he will tell you how to do it on iChat. Windows and Linux fans, don’t fret, you can still perform how to do this, you just need to install a XMPP/Jabber client in order to do.

Don’t forget, you can catch new episodes of the TECHGEEK Tips podcast every Monday, or hear it two days before on Saturday on the TECHGEEK Podcast. Oh, and now we are on iTunes, so rate us!

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TECHGEEK Podcast #6: We don’t need sex to create a scandal

By TECHGEEK.com.au Team on August 14th, 2010 No Comments

Turns out, to create a scandal, we don’t need to have a sexual relationship. However, we get a little bit sidetrack with the NBN to talk about that story. Yes, the NBN. We ranted about the NBN – that’s a first. We also talk about a new FaceTime video sex service and is Android getting a new gaming platform for Android?

Anyway, we also introduce to the podcast the lead editor of our Gadgets section, Tom Solari, as part of our podcast. And yes, we promise that this is will be in a better quality than last week’s episode.

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FBI.com – conspiracy or intention?

By James Wilson on August 14th, 2010 No Comments

Here at Techgeek, we value freedom, life, democracy, love, peace, war, rainbow unicorns and hard drive failures. With reference to the first one, we are curious about the url fbi.com. Everyone of the TG that attempts to access this URL is redirected to 0.0.0.0! Coincidence? Conspiracy? We would like to know.

Wikileaks to publish more Afghanistan docs

By Terence Huynh on August 14th, 2010 No Comments

Wikileaks, the notorious website known for leaking classified documents, is said to be publishing the last batch of documents on the current Afghanistan war within weeks, according to wire service AFP.

Spokesperson and founder Julian Assange said in a press conference in Stockholm that the are “about halfway through” of the final batch of the 15,000 classified files leaked on the site, and that it is just “a couple of weeks” before it will release them.

The site has released 76,000 documents relating to the war and includes reports of civilian casualties and suggested links between the intelligence service of Pakistan with the Taliban.

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US: New iPhone coming to Verizon?

By Terence Huynh on August 14th, 2010 From Cupertino Loop No Comments

RUMOUR MILL: While we have the luxury to choose a carrier for the iPhone, in the US, they do not – stuck with using AT&T, which has been criticised for poor network coverage in the main areas where the iPhone is sold (San Francisco and New York). But today, a new rumour popped up – a new iPhone just for the US carrier Verizon.

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Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2′s Release Date, Demo and Collector’s Edition (EUR)

By Gabriel Huynh on August 13th, 2010 From Pwnage No Comments

The sequel of Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm, released on the PS3, has finally been given a released date and as well a collector’s edition of the game. The game’s release is set for October 15th in Europe. Unlike the original game, this game will be released on both PS3 and the Xbox 360.

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iOS 4.0.2 waiting to meet your iPhone, Apple Retail Store’s safe.

By James Wilson on August 12th, 2010 From Cupertino Loop 1 Comment

Well that was short-lived. After much publicity, the PDF exploit that jailbreakme.com utilises (that site and others) to jailbreak your iPhone has been fixed by the big A. Apple this morning released the 4.0.2 update to fix that specific issue. That is all. No antenna fixing issues. No 3G painkillers. Nothing. Just a PDF, font-subsystem fix to keep Apple’s iPhone and iOS happy. Oh, and to stop youngsters (both real and young-at-heart) from breaking Apple’s retail display iPhones.

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NBN 100x Faster than Originally Anticipated

By Tom Solari on August 12th, 2010 No Comments

When the National Broadband Network was announced, we were told that it would reach speeds of 100 Mbps but now NBN Co. has come out saying that the NBN will reach speeds of 1 Gbps meaning that the NBN will be 100 times faster than originally planned and just under 170 times faster than the average ADSL connection.

Even though the NBN is getting a huge speed increase, the costing for the network remains the same, $43 billion. This is because the feature to provide faster speeds is already built into the equipment that NBN Co. are using. The speed of the NBN can be upgraded to get even faster internet in the future.

The NBN would be sold to retailers at 1 Gbps with no limit on downloads though this is unlikely to be passed through to consumers as some ISP’s like Internode say it is unreasonable for consumers to have unlimited downloads.

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Sony Ericsson to build PSP phone, threat to iPhone?

By Terence Huynh on August 12th, 2010 1 Comment

RUMOUR MILL: A report has claimed that Sony Ericsson is working on creating a brand new Android phone that will feature a new gaming ecosystem based around the Playstation.

The report, from Engadget, claims that the Phone will be a cross between the Samsung Captivate and the PSP Go, and features the controls of the PSP Go instead of a QWERTY keyboard.

Hardware side, the device is said to have a screen that is between 3.7-inch and 4.1-inch in size, a 5 megapixel camera and a 1GHz Snapdragon processor. It also said that it will feature Android 3.0 – which is not even out yet.

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Microsoft to launch game studio for WinPhone7

By Terence Huynh on August 11th, 2010 From Pwnage No Comments

Touting Xbox Live integration is one thing, but creating a new studio just for games is a huge leap for Microsoft. Microsoft Game Studios, the same people who created Fable and several other popular first-party games for the Xbox 360, has announced indirectly a new group dedicated to develop games for Windows Phone 7.

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Apple Peel 520 goes white before iPhone 4

By Tom Solari on August 11th, 2010 From Cupertino Loop No Comments

You have all heard of the Apple Peel 520, right? Well its a silicon case for the iPod touch which actually contains the parts from the iPhone that are not in the iPod touch in order to turn you iPod Touch into a makeshift iPhone. Well the Apple Peel 520 is now being made in white which has beaten the white iPhone 4 which has currently been delayed.

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Poll: Which broadband plan is better? NBN or NBC?

By Terence Huynh on August 10th, 2010 1 Comment

ELECTION 2010: Since we like gauging opinion, we want to ask what you think about the recent policy announcement from the Liberal Party about their broadband plan.

So we have decided to compare the two plans from the Coalition and the Labor parties, and you can decide which you like by voting on our little poll at the end.

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New HTC Android, Windows Phone 7 phones leaked

By Terence Huynh on August 9th, 2010 No Comments

HTC has experienced a major leak on its two supposedly new and upcoming phones for both Android and Windows Phone 7 after video has emerged on the web showing the two, and both were reported by the same team (though on supposedly different websites which are known as 247Android and 247WindowsPhone).

The Windows Phone 7 phone has been called Schubert and nothing has really emerged from that other than its name (or codename), but there is speculation that this will be the first phone out there in the market, and that it will be (because of “tradition”) that it will be running the Snapdragon 1GHz CPU from Qualcomm.

The Android phone, known as the Desire HD, does have some specifications to come along with the video. Desire HD will feature Android 2.2 and features a large 4.3-inch touchscreen. It also has an 8-megapixel camera that can record 720p HD resolution video and 4GB of on-board memory. It also apparently has an e-book reader feature and will be running the Snapdragon processor.

There is speculation that this will be the GSM version (or in other words, the international version) of the HTC EVO 4G (without the 4G).

Video of both devices are below.

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BlackBerry Tablet to sell for US$499?

By Terence Huynh on August 9th, 2010 No Comments

Okay, while the much rumoured name for the BlackBerry Tablet is called the BlackPad – I’m going to stick to calling it the BlackBerry Tablet. However, while we can speculate on the name, the most important thing is “Does this product exist?”

According to a Chinese-language website Apple Daily (Yes, that is the name of the site), pricing for the supposed tablet is rumoured to be at US$499 – similar to the pricing in the US.

The device also is rumoured to have a front-facing and rear-facing camera, 9.7-inch display and the usual Bluetooth and WiFi. DigiTimes also is reporting that it will support 3G via a connection to a BlackBerry device.

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TECHGEEK Tips #1: Make Movies become TV Shows on iTunes

By TECHGEEK.com.au Team on August 9th, 2010 2 Comments

In a first episode of our brand new podcast series TECHGEEK Tips, James Wilson (our editor at Cupertino Loop) takes you around how to make your movies appear as TV shows on iTunes.

The following tutorial is only available for the Mac – because James is a die-hard Mac fan – and you can download it here on TECHGEEK.com.au.

You can always listen to the tips on the TECHGEEK Podcast every weekend, or wait till the next Monday for the individual episode.

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