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The Geekcast #73
The Geekcast #73 
Show Notes:
Contact info: | Feed: feeds.feedburner.com/geekcast | TheGeekcast.com | geekcast@gmail.com | Skype & Gizmo: Geekcast | 206-98-geek-1 | Show notes: send blank e-mail to geekcastpodcast-subscribe@yahoogroups.co
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Items of Note:
A new extension to The Geekcast is coming. Will you be ready?
Microphone Fund Results:
We've met our goal! Thank you so much to everyone who helped out. The total donated was $191.00 with $109.50 for charity!
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Tech news:
Intel Drops Logo After 37 Years. Intel whose marketing made its computer chips a household name, is changing its logo for the first time in 37 years. The dropped ``e'' in Intel will be shed in favor of a swoop around the company's name with the tag line ``Leap Ahead.'' The ``Intel Inside'' phrase, a fixture since 1991, will be dropped, Santa Clara, California-based Intel said yesterday. Intel's image change, to coincide with next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, is part of an effort by new Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini to push Intel into home entertainment. The company, whose processors run more than 80 percent of personal computers, is trying to gain a foothold in the consumer market to counter slowing growth in PC chips.
Apple's .Mac bandwidth limit has been upgraded to 1Tb/Month. I'm not sure how long it's been like this, but the bandwidth limit on .Mac in 1024Gb/month.
Purchase downloadable content for your PSP. The PSP is certainly no stranger to playing movies. Movies on UMD are being released at a furious pace. The "homebrew" scene is ripe with options for getting content onto your all-in-one media wonder. But there haven't been a ton of options for downloading affordable, legal movies. That's starting to change with the debut of the 29MP4 Video Store. As you might expect the service works a bit like iTunes, but without the same level of polish or the same amount of content. Currently in beta, the store offers an initial selection of movies that cost $2.99 per download.
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Test a geek: This segment will return on a future episode of The Geekcast
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How To: Convert video for your iPod / PSP / XBoX360
The Videora Converter handles video conversion for your favorite hard-to-please device like the 5G iPod, PSP, TiVo, or Xbox360. Videora allows you to convert your regular PC video files (avi, mpeg, etc) into the proper video format that your mobile or fixed video device understands. Each version is tailored specifically to the device in question.
I know that a lot of PSP and iPod owners are constantly looking for new and better ways to convert videos for their portable device - the Videora Converter looks like a really nice option.
Check it out at http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/
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Ask A Geek: Chris wants to know how to get his music off his iPod and onto his computer.
Answer: You can use a program called Senuti. This was featured on The Geekcast episode 12 for the PC and episode 32 for the mac. Here's the text from that article.
Copy music from your iPod to your PC
Apple says the iPod is a one way transfer. That's a bunch of crap. Get your songs off the iPod by doing the following:
1. In Windows, turn on the ability to see hidden folders.
2. Mount your iPod in Disk Mode.
3. Open your iPod in My Computer.
4. Navigate to the folder iPod_Control\Music
5. Each folder listed will contain the music on your iPod. Change view to Details view to see the tag information.
6. Drag and drop the files from those folders to your PC and the copying will begin.
Copy songs from iPod to iTunes on a mac
Back on Geekcast #12, I showed you how to copy music from your iPod onto your PC. At the time I was still looking for a program that would allow you to do this on OsX. After some research, I have found Senuti, a small but great program to get those tunes off that small white box and onto that big white box.
When you launch Senuti with your iPod connected, you get a listing of all the playlists and songs on the iPod. By selecting the songs you want to get off there, and pressing the 'Copy Selected' button, the process will begin and the songs will now exist on your mac. When the copy process is finished, all the songs will be automatically added to iTunes, ready for your listening pleasure. If you aren't sure which songs you want to transfer, you can play the tracks from within Senuti to get an idea of which ones you want.
Senuti is a fantastic program that works great, matches the OsX interface and does its work seamlessly. Senuti is free, requires OsX 10.3 or higher and can be found at http://wbyoung.ambitiouslemon.com/senut
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Hack: Get Windows Live Mail for free without an invite.
If you're looking to play with the new Windows Live Mail!, you can get an account for free. You do need an MSN or Hotmail account in order to do this.
1) Open up Internet Explorer. MSN likes Internet Explorer, and hates Firefox. (Damn Microsoft!)
2) For this to work, you must be signed out of MSN. Go to the MSN Homepage, and double check you are signed out.
3) Copy this URL to Internet Explorer:
http://by101fd.bay101.hotmail.msn.com/c
4) You should be redirected to another URL (Another URL to login). Sign in.
5) You should see the regular hotmail once signed in.
6) Once you see the regular hotmail, do Step #3 again. Copy the same URL above.
7) Click ‘Particpate’ on the bottom.
Make sure your language/country in your settings is set to English, and America. Windows Live Mail! is for U.S. only.
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The geek's view: This segment will return on a future episode of The Geekcast
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Show Notes:
Contact info: | Feed: feeds.feedburner.com/geekcast | TheGeekcast.com | geekcast@gmail.com | Skype & Gizmo: Geekcast | 206-98-geek-1 | Show notes: send blank e-mail to geekcastpodcast-subscribe@yahoogroups.co
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Items of Note:
A new extension to The Geekcast is coming. Will you be ready?
Microphone Fund Results:
We've met our goal! Thank you so much to everyone who helped out. The total donated was $191.00 with $109.50 for charity!
**************
Tech news:
Intel Drops Logo After 37 Years. Intel whose marketing made its computer chips a household name, is changing its logo for the first time in 37 years. The dropped ``e'' in Intel will be shed in favor of a swoop around the company's name with the tag line ``Leap Ahead.'' The ``Intel Inside'' phrase, a fixture since 1991, will be dropped, Santa Clara, California-based Intel said yesterday. Intel's image change, to coincide with next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, is part of an effort by new Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini to push Intel into home entertainment. The company, whose processors run more than 80 percent of personal computers, is trying to gain a foothold in the consumer market to counter slowing growth in PC chips.
Apple's .Mac bandwidth limit has been upgraded to 1Tb/Month. I'm not sure how long it's been like this, but the bandwidth limit on .Mac in 1024Gb/month.
Purchase downloadable content for your PSP. The PSP is certainly no stranger to playing movies. Movies on UMD are being released at a furious pace. The "homebrew" scene is ripe with options for getting content onto your all-in-one media wonder. But there haven't been a ton of options for downloading affordable, legal movies. That's starting to change with the debut of the 29MP4 Video Store. As you might expect the service works a bit like iTunes, but without the same level of polish or the same amount of content. Currently in beta, the store offers an initial selection of movies that cost $2.99 per download.
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Test a geek: This segment will return on a future episode of The Geekcast
**************
How To: Convert video for your iPod / PSP / XBoX360
The Videora Converter handles video conversion for your favorite hard-to-please device like the 5G iPod, PSP, TiVo, or Xbox360. Videora allows you to convert your regular PC video files (avi, mpeg, etc) into the proper video format that your mobile or fixed video device understands. Each version is tailored specifically to the device in question.
I know that a lot of PSP and iPod owners are constantly looking for new and better ways to convert videos for their portable device - the Videora Converter looks like a really nice option.
Check it out at http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/
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Ask A Geek: Chris wants to know how to get his music off his iPod and onto his computer.
Answer: You can use a program called Senuti. This was featured on The Geekcast episode 12 for the PC and episode 32 for the mac. Here's the text from that article.
Copy music from your iPod to your PC
Apple says the iPod is a one way transfer. That's a bunch of crap. Get your songs off the iPod by doing the following:
1. In Windows, turn on the ability to see hidden folders.
2. Mount your iPod in Disk Mode.
3. Open your iPod in My Computer.
4. Navigate to the folder iPod_Control\Music
5. Each folder listed will contain the music on your iPod. Change view to Details view to see the tag information.
6. Drag and drop the files from those folders to your PC and the copying will begin.
Copy songs from iPod to iTunes on a mac
Back on Geekcast #12, I showed you how to copy music from your iPod onto your PC. At the time I was still looking for a program that would allow you to do this on OsX. After some research, I have found Senuti, a small but great program to get those tunes off that small white box and onto that big white box.
When you launch Senuti with your iPod connected, you get a listing of all the playlists and songs on the iPod. By selecting the songs you want to get off there, and pressing the 'Copy Selected' button, the process will begin and the songs will now exist on your mac. When the copy process is finished, all the songs will be automatically added to iTunes, ready for your listening pleasure. If you aren't sure which songs you want to transfer, you can play the tracks from within Senuti to get an idea of which ones you want.
Senuti is a fantastic program that works great, matches the OsX interface and does its work seamlessly. Senuti is free, requires OsX 10.3 or higher and can be found at http://wbyoung.ambitiouslemon.com/senut
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Hack: Get Windows Live Mail for free without an invite.
If you're looking to play with the new Windows Live Mail!, you can get an account for free. You do need an MSN or Hotmail account in order to do this.
1) Open up Internet Explorer. MSN likes Internet Explorer, and hates Firefox. (Damn Microsoft!)
2) For this to work, you must be signed out of MSN. Go to the MSN Homepage, and double check you are signed out.
3) Copy this URL to Internet Explorer:
http://by101fd.bay101.hotmail.msn.com/c
4) You should be redirected to another URL (Another URL to login). Sign in.
5) You should see the regular hotmail once signed in.
6) Once you see the regular hotmail, do Step #3 again. Copy the same URL above.
7) Click ‘Particpate’ on the bottom.
Make sure your language/country in your settings is set to English, and America. Windows Live Mail! is for U.S. only.
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The geek's view: This segment will return on a future episode of The Geekcast
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