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Braindead TechCast EP 110: Techmeme Friday says Mr Clippy is to blame for the Gulf Oil disaster

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Steven Hodson
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Ah yes. It’s Friday, the end of the week, the beginning of the weekend which means that it is time once again for – Techmeme Friday.

This is the night where Sean and I go through the Techmeme headlines at the time when we hit the record button and scoff, make fun of and generally disparage said headlines.

Some of the Techmeme headlines that were sacrificed for tonight’s show

  • Tab Candy: Making Firefox Tabs Sweet – Aza on Design
  • Samsung offering Galaxy S phones to frustrated iPhone users – Wired
  • India shows $35 ‘iPad’ prototype – BBC News
  • A New Way To Embed YouTube Videos – YouTube
  • Most iPhone users love AT&T – Fortune
  • Mac Pro Unavailable for In-Store Reservations at Many Locations – MacRumors
  • Apple Delaying White iPhone 4 So It Can Fix The Antenna Problem? – Silicon Alley Insider
  • Tech worker testifies of ‘blue screen of death’ on oil rig’s computer – Computerworld

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Categories: Podcasts | Tags: Braindead Techcast, Techmeme Friday

Braindead TechCast EP 109: Bored with Flipboard but is it legal?

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Steven Hodson
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I’m not sure what happened to Sean at one point during the show but he managed to fight his way out of the fog and return just in time for a fun conversation about movies. Don’t worry they are tech related.

Posts referred to in the show.

  • Is Flipboard Legal? – Gizmodo
  • Sorry, No, I’m Not Going to Write a Piece Arguing That Dan Lyons Is a Jackass – Daring Fireball
  • Apple the new world leader in software insecurity – Ars Technica
  • Apple Safari is a hacker’s info harvesting dream – The Inquisitr
  • I know who your name, where you work, and live (Safari v4 & v5) – Jeremiah Grossman
  • Nokia’s Q2: 111+ Million Devices Shipped, Sales Tops €10 Billion, Profit Drops 40% – TechCrunch
  • T-Mobile wants Apple and Google to start showing them the money – The Inquisitr
  • OMG I actually getting stoked for a movie – The Tron Legacy trailer – The Inquisitr

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Categories: Podcasts | Tags: Apple, iPad, security, Tron

Braindead TechCast EP 108: Wow we have a listener and we answer his question

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Steven Hodson
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It was kind of a mish-mash night for Sean and I but it turns out that we actually have listener and he took the time to reach out to Sean on Twitter with a question.

Yup, that’s right, a real life question from a real life listener.

Needless to say we did our very best to answer the question.

Posts referred to in the show.

  • Fred Wilson: Apple is “Evil” and Facebook is “a Photo-sharing Site” – GigaOM
  • First look at “revolutionary” social news iPad app: Flipboard – Scobleizer

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Categories: Podcasts | Tags: Apple, iPad, iPhone, Microsoft, Windows Phone 7

Braindead TechCast EP 107: Birthday times 2

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Steven Hodson
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No we’re not twins but Sean and I do share the same birth date so today’s show is in celebration of our mutual birthdays (Of course Sean is the younger less cranky of the two but don’t tell him I said that).

To help along with the celebration of us both heading into yet another cranky year of goodness we have a fine line-up of topics to talk about.

Post referred to in the show

  • E-Books May Have Finally Found Their Tipping Point – TechnoBuffalo
  • What Amazon didn’t say about e-books – CNET
  • U.S. Authorities Shut Down WordPress Host With 73,000 Blogs – TorrentFreak
  • Why Web host shut down 73,000 blogs a mystery – CNET
  • Over 70,000 Blogs Mysteriously Shut Down (UPDATED) – Huffington Post
  • 70,000 Blogs Shut Down by U.S. Law Enforcement – ReadWriteWeb
  • World’s First Pirate ISP Launches In Sweden – TorrentFreak
  • Users Rate Facebook Slightly Above the Tax Man - Digits

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Categories: Podcasts | Tags: e-books, Facebook, Pirate Party
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