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By on January 30th, 2011

TECHGEEK Weekly 30: Death by SMS

Wow. We’ve reached 30 episodes – who knew from the beginning we would actually have reached this far. Anyway, we discuss the IPv4 running out of addresses, the new PSP2 by Sony and the Egypt Internet Blackout.

We also find out that we are really good at debating points of view, so you may find this episode to be longer than what we usually have our podcasts Sorry if we explode your download cap, but it is a must-listen episode, especially since it is our 30th episode!

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By on January 9th, 2011

TECHGEEK Weekly 27: CES is driving us GaGa

And we’re back officially. CES was in full swing, and we saw a lot of tablets, 4G phones and 3D from Sony. We also had crazy Harvey Norman trying to put GST on our purchases online, Facebook being valued at $50 billion and the Mac App Store launch – and hack.

And yes, it is the first hour long podcast – and the only one as it seems. But, hey, we had a lot to cover, especially with Sony’s 3D addiction.

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By on November 14th, 2010

TECHGEEK Podcast 18: Put that in your phone

John Brumby goes Oprah and starts giving doctors iPads, Facebook tries to kill Gmail with their own email project and your phone will be able to determine if you have a STD instantly. What a freaky little world.

Oh, and turns out the Kinect is starting to be a bit creepy (and its not because of Project Milo) when advertising companies are getting images of you performing acts in front of the camera.

Ouch.

This edition, we’re joined with the whole family of podcast stars – Terence, Stewart, Tom, Chris and James (only for the first half, he’s gone back to la la land).

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By on November 12th, 2010

Back from the Dead: KIN to make a comeback?

The KIN. Developed by Microsoft in order to try to appeal with the youth market with a fancy website that stores your photos and messages, let you post on your social network and text. Hmm, about every other phone then? And it was the biggest flop of the year, getting axed just within months of the launch and its European launched cancelled.

But, according to new rumours, the KIN may be returning back from the abyss.

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By on June 1st, 2010

Pokemon Black and White: Legendaries

The Japanese Pokemon Website has revealed the fifth generation Pokemon or Pokemon Black and White Legendaries, Reshiram and Zekrom.
The cover of the Pokemon Black version will feature the Legendary Pokemon Reshiram, and the White version cover will feature the Legendary Pokemon Zekrom.

Pokemon Black VersionPokemon White Version

Reshiram is white in colour with blue eyes, possessing big wings and claws. Reshiram somewhat has familiar features such as Palkia’s feet and Darkrai’s head and tail? It also has a weirdly shaped body and tail, and it looks quite powerful and elegant.
Zekrom, on the other hand, is colour black with glowing red eyes.

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By on May 28th, 2010

Victoria to trial iPad in Australian schools

On the same day as the iPad was released, the Victorian Government has announced that it will spend over $300,000 to pay for the newly-launched device in a ground-breaking trial to see if this device could have educational benefits within the Victorian education system.

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By on May 27th, 2010

Rumour Mill: Is Ballmer going to appear at WWDC?

Apple Logo GenericLet’s end the day with a rumour that may cause some anguish in the Apple community.

Steve Ballmer is rumoured to be making a cameo at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) – Apple’s biggest event that it holds every year for developers? According to Trip Chowdhry, an analyst with Global Equities Research, who said that he will make an appearance on the opening keynote held on June 7. The topic? It’s most likely going to be about Visual Studio 2010, which will allow developers to write native applications for the iPad, iPhone and Mac OS X.

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By on May 14th, 2010

Leaked IMs and backlash highlight Facebook’s problem: privacy

Facebook LogoAnd when you thought Facebook couldn’t take any more heat, leaked instant messages published online appear to show Zuckerberg mocking users joining the social networking site (then called The Facebook and was limited to Harvard students) in 2003, and is very brutal on the people who published photos and addresses and was willing to give them out to people when asked.

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By on May 10th, 2010

Aussies can now pre-order their iPads

It’s May 10, and you know what day it is. It was the day Nelson Mandela became the president of South Africa. Also, it happens to be the day when you can now pre-order your iPads from the ye-olde Apple Store. So, why you’re still here? Go and get one now. Remember, the device will be out on May 28; and will be the only place you can get it so far as Telstra and Optus have confirmed that, unlike the iPhone, it will not be selling the device but 3G data plans – no word on what VHA is doing, but an announcement is coming soon, according to a spokesperson talking to us.

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By on May 4th, 2010

Apple faces antitrust review on coding restrictions

Apple Store GenericApple might be in trouble with its restrictions after all, and it took them this long? Reports coming from the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission are looking in beginning who will be taking on Apple on an antitrust complaint on developing applications for the iPhone – the main question, however, is who will it be?

After the launch of the SDK for iPhone OS 4, it made restrictions on what programming language to make the applications, including Objective C and Javascript. Apple claims that this is to keep the quality of applications, but it also seemed to be a hit on Adobe’s Creative Suite 5 software.

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By on May 3rd, 2010

Aigo’s sexy tablet fills the the Slate hole – packs Tegra 2 and Android

Look at that sexy design. No, that’s no mockup. It’s a new tablet from Aigo (or Patriot) with beautiful slate-like design. According to new details from China, it will run on the Tegra 2 processor from NVIDIA alongside a 1GB ARM Cortex A9 processor with 512MB of DDR2 memory, a 800 x 480 pixel touchscreen display and HDMI output. It comes with a 4GB, 16GB and 32GB options and will have Wi-Fi and 3G. Also, this is running on Android 2.1 – bet you didn’t even know until I said it when you were looking at the picture, hmm?

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By on April 27th, 2010

iPhone leak saga continues: Gizmodo blogger house raided by police

NEWS IN BRIEF: Turns out, acquiring stolen property (though Gizmodo says it was ‘found’ in a bar) is a crime after all. Wow (note the sarcasm). Anyway, Gizmodo – the same people who broke the news that they found a working prototype – broke the news that one of its editor’s houses was raided by the California’s Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team after a warrant was issued when he wasn’t at home, and managed to take four computers and two servers.

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By on April 22nd, 2010

iPhone hack makes running Android a reality

I bet you, as readers on TECHGEEK.com.au, that you wish that you want to experience the magic of Android – a phone where you can run almost any application that you want, especially those “porn apps” that the CEO of Apple said that you aren’t going to get on the iPhone (unless you use Safari, almost any restriction is bypassed with Safari).

Well, now you can – without ever leaving the stylistic designs of the iPhone – with David Wang’s (or “planetbeing” on the Dev Team) hack that he announced on his blog that will let you run the rival OS on the device. It’s also simple to switch over, just reset and hold the home button when you see a dual-boot menu and then you’re done.

Not everything works, especially when the iPhone OS is built around one button (the home button), when Android uses many more, an drivers for Android phones do not exist for iPhone technology – and it’s very, very slow (granted, it is a debug version).

You can watch the video after the jump.

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By on April 20th, 2010

Ping makes clothing the new Foursquare for your friends/stalkers

Never thought we would cover clothing, but we are now – for this article.

This is the Ping – and it’s apparently a “social networking garment”, and it does what it is supposed to do, let you stay connected to Facebook friends or Twitter stalkers by updating them… with every move you make like lifting up your hood, zipping up the garment or even moving around and bending your arms. No, we are not kidding. What’s even more interesting is that you can also customise the settings and assign different messages based on where you are located, who are you replying or even your mood.

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