Show Notes

Welcome

Tech News

• The end of an Era
• 3rd Generation iPad Launch
• Twitter Acquires Posterous
• Google’s New Spell Check
• Google Goes Bush
• Samsung Gets Sandwiched
• Apple is Evil Retracted
• Crazy Bastard Jumps from Really High Up Video Here

Gear

• Cloaked Cars
• Tape Player Converter

Applications

Desktop

• MakeMKV (Mac and PC): Disc to File Conversions
• Firefox Page Inspector: See how sites are constructed in a snazzy 3D view
• Audacity 2.0.0: Free open source audio editing gets a point release
• Thunderbird: Gets an update

Mobile

• Plex: Media streaming for just about every platform under the sun
• Fast Camera (iOS): Takes up to 800 images a minute

Tablet

• Draw Something (All Platforms): Pictionary for the modern age
• Hanging with Friends (All Platforms): word game similar to hangman but with balloons into lava

Web

• Every Time Zone: Visual time zone comparison tool
• PubMyCal: Lets you email your calendar in one click
• Attachment Icons for Gmail (Chrome): Extension that changes the attachment icon depending on the file type

Feedback

Farewell

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

Featured Music

My Amends
“Do Over” (mp3)
from “Acceptions”
(Ingenious Records)

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Show Notes

Welcome

Tech News

• MS to release scaled down WP7 Devices
• Windows 8 Consumer Preview
• We might have mentioned a Foursquare Story
• Readability Finally Makes the App Store
• Hackers Perforate the Mars Rover, well not quite
• Nano-bots in Your Blood
• twitter update
• Street View for the Great Barrier Reef
• SanDisk Makes Small Chips
• Boffins Create Bloody Small Transistor
• Faster than Light, not so Fast

Gear

• Self Balancing Unicycle
• Spherical Solar Cells

Applications

Desktop

• iExplorer: iDevice Explorer for Mac and PC
• Reflection: Mirror your iDevice to your Mac
• SnagIt: Point Release for PC and Mac version 11 and 2 respectively
• Zorin Linux: Linux that looks like XP

Mobile

• FX PhotoStudio (iPhone): Very cool feature rich app that will make your photos look great
• Twitter Voice (Android): Speak your tweet and send it to twitter
• GIFBoom (Android and iPhone): Create your own GIFFs, yes they are making a comeback

Tablet

• Paper Monsters iPad/iPhone: Great game for grown-ups and kids, great graphics and heaps of fun
• Star Chart iPad/iPhone: Explore the night sky

Web

• Night Sky: Explore the night sky with this great web app
• Chomp: App discovery for all devices
• Splash: Event organizing tool, looks great and feature rich

Feedback

Farewell

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

Featured Music

The Black Sorrows
“Waitin For The Hammer” (mp3)
from “Crooked Little Thoughts”
(Head Records)

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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.

The Thought Criminals
“I Want To Be a Celebrity” (mp3)
from “Smash Hits”
(Ninthwave Media)

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Buy at eMusic
Buy at Rhapsody
Stream from Rhapsody
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Show Notes

Welcome

Tech News

• Tricorder X-Prize
• IBM Makes Use of Atoms
• Waterproofing Gadgets
• Nanoscale clotting
• Android Market Share
• RAZER’s New Gaming Gadget
• Kindle Store Web App for iPad
• 5 Years of iPhone
• We also talked about this video – iPad Survives Fall from Space

Gear (New for 2012)

• Innergie Magic USB Cables

Useless Facts to Amaze your Friends about YouTube

Applications

• Snapseed (MacOSX): Popular iPad app comes to the Mac
• Send to Kindle (Win): Send documents to kindle with this handy app. Mac version coming
• Private Eye (MacOSX): View all incoming and outgoing internet traffic with this simple app
• Marked (MacOSX): Markdown preview tool by Brett Terpstra

Mobile

• Beachsafe (iPhone): Awesome app for Aussie summer for beach conditions and solid safety tips

Tablet

• Nowbox (iPad): Watch YouTube in style
• Vodio (iPad): flipboard for video (Dave has now tested this and it is quite good

Web

• You Have Downloaded: Big brother is watching
• What Happened in My Birth Year?: Great site that can tell you what was happening when you were born
• QRHacker: One of the better QR generators that we have come across

Feedback

Farewell

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

Featured Music

Great song this week – thanks KD!

Jesus On Extasy
“Lost In Time” (mp3)
from “Lost In Time”
(Artoffact Records)

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We have a great show lined up. This is a special edition of the show with appearances from some special guests and a heap of fun! We take a step back in time with cuts from very old shows with Dr Evil as well as the first edition of the Mac Lab Rat – that’s Keith’s first podcast!

Don’t forget to leave your feedback any which way you like

Show Notes

Welcome

Special: The Internet is for Geeks

Links to Some of the Stuff that we Mentioned

• Dot Matrix Printer
• That Annoying ICQ Sound
• Lycos
• Webcrawler
• Infoseek
• Metacrawler

Farewell

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

Featured Music

Blame Herne… well and truly… seriously Herne!

Don’t Stop Believing – HD – Acappella Multitrack

By: Vance Perry

PS: The blooper reel returns as Keith pushes out the show this week, so not even I will be safe

Show Notes

Welcome

• Knightwise goes to FACTS
• Dave’s ute in the garage… sorta
• For those who’ve never seen it, here’s an explanation of “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog“

Tech News

• Kickstart project come to fruition
• Sleek “Smart” thermostat from an ex-Apple designer for some Green tech
• Apple’s Newsstand no dud for publishers
• Google goofs on privacy, again
• New WiFi Repeater goes the distance
• Researchers build logic gates from poo bugs
• New sub-$200 tablet
• Oil Skimmer breaks records
• Windows XP makes it to 10 and remains somewhat functional

Diversions

• Will it Blend? iPhone4S
• Siri the Bartender… it has to get better than this

Applications

• Dual Monitor Taskbar: puts a functional taskbar on the second monitor and more
• LineIn: Fixes a long standing Apple issue especially for podcasters
• Adapter: File conversion – anything to anything (pretty much)
• TunnelBear: Simple, easy and semi-free proxy application

Sites and Services

• YouTube Doubler: Play 2 videos at once… you may ask why and so did we
• Draw a Stickman: We loved it, nuf said. We are sure you will too
• Spreaker: Broadcast like a radio jock but on the Internet
• Support Details: Simple System information to assist trouble shooting
• IKEA Hackers: Showcase IKEA modding = fun
• Is It Old?: See if your new news is old hat
• Obsolete: Tech that may have passed you buy and looking more familiar to us oldies
• Google Image Ripper: Displays thumbs from Google Image search with a direct download link
• UPDATE: Dropbox Launches “Teams”

Feedback

• iTunes Reviews (Aussie Store)

Farewell

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

Featured Music

The Jim Jones Revue
“High Horse” (mp3)
from “Burning Your House Down”
(Punk Rock Blues Records)

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Welcome once again to another fun filled episode where Knightwise is getting far too much coffee and porn and Keith is sleep deprived and yet good to have around!

In this episode we pay AGP respects to Steve Jobs but that means that we did not actually talk about the man so much as what he left behind and how that has impacted our lives.

We also have some of the usual stuff and the return for a limited time of the blooper reel!

Show Notes

Welcome

Tech News

• Farewell Steve
• Our take on a tribute
• James Williams’ Blog Post that we talked about in the show
• Juice is still available if your interested
• iOS5
• What has Mythbusters got to do with it?
• The Zune is Dead!

Applications

Desktop

• Hotspot Sheild: Pay and free personal VPN for private and anon browsing and porn watching
• Roboform2Go: USB Portable version of the most awesome password management software Roboform
• Lightscreen Portable: Another awesome portable app to capture screens

Mobile

• iMessage (iPhone): message with data and not SMS on your updated iOS iPhone (also for iPad et.al.)
• Cards (iPhone): Send cards anywhere… we are still scratching our heads
• Evernote (WP7): The remember everything software for Windows Phones
• Newsstand (iPhone): Buy, organize and read magazines on your idevice
• Kaspersky Mobile Security: Security software for your android device with some slick features we like

Tablet

• Box.net (iPad): Box.net are giving away 50GIG LIfetime accounts. Service similar to DropBox

Feedback

Farewell

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

Featured Music

This week it is a parody track from a video and it’s damn funny.

Moves Like Jabba

You can sing along – the lyrics are on the video page

Below is this weeks show notes with all the links and goodness you have come to expect. All three of us have managed to get together once again which is kinda nice. Trust you enjoy the show!

Show Notes

Welcome

Tools to Track the ISS

• Follow @twisst
• Find out where and when from NASSA – you need to input your location

Tech News

Applications

Desktop

• MaryFi (Windows): Free software router
• iStat Pro (Mac): Stats and Rats for your dash
• Secunia Personal Software Inspector (Windows): Keeps your software up to date
• iATKOS: Turn PC components into a Mac (an interesting thought experiment)

Mobile

• Viber (iPhone): Soft phone for your iPhone
• SMS to Text (Android): Export your text messages as text
• Quora (iPhone): Official Quora app for iPhone
• Wunderlist (All platforms): Beautiful, simple to-do or list app with great sharing features

Tablet

• UPDATE: iPlayer Global
• WordPress (iPad): New update, more features but still lacking

Web

• Phylo: Save the world and have fun at the same time
• epubBooks.com: curated libary of public domain books in ePub format
• Page2RSS: Create an RSS feed from any page

Feedback

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

Featured Music

Tornado Rider
“I’m a Falcon” (mp3)
from “Jark Matter”
(Silver Sprocket)

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We are pleased though that both Keith and Dave are able to see their way clear for a bit more podcasting.

Thanks for joining us and we trust that you enjoy the show!

Show Notes

Welcome

Tech News

• Wndows 8 Developer Preview Release
• 4 Core CPU’s for Mobiles (wow!)
• Techcrunch Drama
• Facebook Stalking
• Google + API Released
• YouTube Video Editing
• Skype Facebook Integration (beta)
• Linux has a Birthday

East Bay Ray and The Killer Smiles
“Raising the Stakes” (mp3)
from “East Bay Ray and The Killer Smiles”
(MVD Audio)

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I should also apologize for not getting the show out a tad sooner as this show is obviously older than the post. Truth is that Dave has had the week from hell. The fridge broke down, the washing machine gave up for good and we dealt with a very sick dog. Unfortunately for our family we lost our dear pet Tess during emergency surgery. That just topped off a shit week. The family are all OK, even the kids but a pretty tough ride for everyone.

That said, no more excuses, here is the show…

Show Notes

Welcome

• eReaders
• Wireless Access Point
• Ubuntu, Linux and Amahi

Tech News

• OK Google Now What?
• More Mobile Malware Warnings
• Bye Bye Steve
• Palm OS and Tablet Wars
• Apple Vs The World

Applications

Desktop

• Smooth Gestures: Chrome Extension for mouse gesture support
• Visualize Your TV
• EVOM (Mac): YouTube capture tool
• Multisystem: Multiple USB boot creator for Linux based OS (French – translate to English)
• SGplus: Google Chrome extension to allow cross posting to G=, twitter and facebook

Mobile

• Google+ (All platforms): Google Plus on your device (don’t bother with the iPad version just yet)
• 3Gwatch Dog (Android): Keep track of your bandwidth usage
• Bubblator (Android): Display twitter and facebook feeds as a screensaver

Tablet

• Skype (iPad): Skype finally arrives on the iPad
• Daily Telegraph Newspaper Edition (iPad and iPhone): Newspaper app the way it should be done
• Boxee (iPad): Dedicated app for the iPad
• Airplayer (iPad): DLNA client for the iPad
• iPlayer: BBC global iPad on demand service. Not available in Australia as yet 11 European countries are first in the roll-out

Web

• Spideroak: Cross platform dropbox alternative
• The Junkbox!: Buy and sell electronics

Feedback

Farewell

• Write us a review in iTunes
• Follow us on twitter
• Remember the delicious tag is #aussiegeeks
• Follow us on twitter
• Remember the twitter #tag #agpme

Featured Music

The Story So Far
“Quicksand” (mp3)
from “Under Soil and Dirt”
(Pure Noise Ent.)

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