Aussie Geek Podcast #52 :: Tag Team Podcasting

It’s that time again. This week the guys take turns skipping out on Dave in the middle of the show, but we still managed to pull together a ton of great content, and a couple of surprise guest appearances toward the end of the show.

Show Notes

Welcome

Tech News

• Google Map Adds Disaster Alerts
• Boffins Map tweets to Study Earthquakes
• New NASA Satellite Snaps “Blue Marble” Shot in High Def
• Google Knows your Male, live in Belgium and Dress up in Pink Spandex
• Apple Q1: By the Numbers
• Great Video of a Canadian LEGO man in space
• Pingdom’s Annual Internet by Numbers for 2011
• Apple Updates iBooks Author EULA
• Apple Pulls Several Missleading Apps from the Store
  
• twitter more addicting than beer, smokes and sex…

Gear (New for 2012)

• 15K Lumen Light Canon

Applications

Desktop

• WonTube (PC/Mac): Drag and Drop Video conversion tool
• Gelatin (Mac): Merge multiple PDF’s into one
• Skip Ads on YouTube (Chrome): Just as it says, skip those annoying ads before the main video with this Chrome extension
• Reader for Chrome (Chrome): Transforms Greader into a cleaner experience
• Darik’s Boot and Nuke (dBan): Disk formatting/secure wipe utility/boot disk
• Dropbox Offering 5GB to users willing to go beta link!!!
  
• Firefox 11 beta: Stuff fixed
• OWNCLOUD : One line of code to build your own cloud storage.
• Uberstudent : Linux distribution for Students.

Mobile

• WorldCard (iPhone/iPad): Turn business cards into contacts
• Webdavnav : Connect to your own cloud server on your phone.
• Fullcontrol : control your mac from your iOS device.
• Next big thing : Samsung releases new iphone add (and another one )

Tablet

• Ticket to Ride: Popular board game ported to the iPad and iPhone
• Vodio (iPad): Reviewed in a previous episode – Dave is pleased to say he has used it and it ain’t too bad at all
• Yetyet : Turn your tablet into a furby

Web

• Current Position of the ISS: Track the ISS in real time with this great Gmaps MashUp (awesome!)
• At Libs: Input a few key words to generate a Mad Lib on twitter

Feedback

• Audio from Mr. Gadgets & Frank08!

Farewell

• Write us a review in iTunes!
  
• Follow us on twitter
• Remember the twitter tag #agpme

Featured Music

Keith was too lazy to find something new, so we bring you the full version of the AGP anthem.