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Braindead TechCast EP 131: Yes we’re still alive

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Steven Hodson
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After missing two night Sean and I are back to disprove the rumors of our demise even though one of us is sick as a dog.

This is kind of a mish-mash show given that it should be our night of cool stuff we tossed a few items of news just to balance things out after missing a couple of days.

Posts referred to in tonight’s show.

  • Video: Meet Hexapedal Running Robot Phasma – CrunchGear
  • Incredible race simulator makes all others look like toys – DVICE
  • Digg Version 4 – Digg Blog
  • Call phones from Gmail – Gmail Blog
  • Is this Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 9 interface? – Mary Jo Foley
  • Nice IE9 image but is this what we’ll see come Sept. 15? – WinExtra

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Categories: Podcasts | Tags: Apple, Braindead Techcast, Google, Microsoft

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 93: Don’t mention Klout around Sean

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Steven Hodson
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What to know a little secret.. just between you and me … mention Klout to Sean and watch as a grown man crumbles into a shadow of himself. Seriously. I’m not kidding. I should know because I had him threatening to grab the next flight to Canada and come smack me.

On more important news and being the comic fans we Sean and I couldn’t pass up talking for a few minutes about Wonder Woman – the Cougar edition.

From there we had a few words to say about the Kin … and Verizon.

Posts referred to in the show

  • Makeover for Wonder Woman at 69 – New York Times
  • BREAKING: Microsoft to put the KIN out of its misery – WinExtra
  • Microsoft Dumps The Kin, Turns Out It Was Insane Thinking – The Inquisitr

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Categories: Podcasts | Tags: KIN, Klout, Microsoft, Wonder Woman

Braindead TechCast EP 81: Moronic Monday & why no kudos for Microsoft

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Steven Hodson
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Normally Monday’s show is dedicated solely to all the moronic things that Sean and I have stumbled across in the previous week but this week we’re doing a bit of a switch-up. The first few stories will of course be of the moronic level but the remainder of the show is all about Microsoft’s announcement at E3 today about the new Xbox 360 with Kinect.

While Sean and I are honestly quite excited about what the new Xbox means as far as our living room entertainment hub bot of us were perplexed why there doesn’t seem to be any – holy crap Microsoft, you actually have done something pretty damn cool.

In fact other than the typical live blog type posts of the events as they happened the response has been the typical lukewarm *yawn* type of thing. Oh well I can say at least that both Sean and I pretty well have our Christmas shopping figured out this year.

Posts referred to in the show

  • Phoneballs!: They’re Balls for Your Phone!! (Is There Any Reason to Write an Actual Headline For This?) – Geekosystem
  • Is putting Android in a coffee maker going too far? – DVICE
  • Want to Burn Out Your Friends’ Eyeballs? Get the Spyder III Laser Pointer – Switched
  • What’s cool for Google is an ethical question for Microsoft – WinExtra
  • Microsoft stakes its claim on the living room with Xbox and Kinect – The Inquisitr
  • ESPN and Live Sports Events Coming to the XBox 360 – SiliconAngle

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Categories: Podcasts | Tags: Braindead Techcast, E3, Microsoft, Moronic Monday, Xbox
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