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An open letter to Optus.

chris | August 5, 2008

Dear Optus,

I signed up for two iPhones when they came out - as I’ve not received a bill yet I’d like to check my bill online. Here’s how my attempts have gone so far:

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Where we at?

chris | August 4, 2008

Hi guys! As at least one person has noticed, there hasn’t been an episode for a couple of weeks. Fear not, dear listener, we’re not gone for good, just re-grouping

We decided to take a break for a couple of reasons, the main of which is that NAT was taking the direction of a nerdy news show and that’s not what any of us intended it to be.
Sure, we wanna talk about stuff we come across online, but we don’t wanna just be a recap show - there are enough of them - we wanna share the geek passion and get excited about nerdy stuff like updating my podcast blog from my iPhone on a train that smells like vomit. That kinds thing.

We’ll be back In a couple of weeks. Until then keep leaving feedback - you’re the guys we want to appeal to.

What do you wanna listen to?

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NAT #6 - iPhones and Lego and Batmans, Oh My!

chris | July 15, 2008

Episode six is done!

This week we discuss:

Al’s trip to GameOn
Vista 56meg five word update

Windows 3.1 no longer available for embedded devices

This Week in Amazing Military technology
B2 upgraded to ‘Pentium class’ processors

Radiohead film new clip without cameras

iPhone

Anti Iphone top 10:
Top 3:
3: Nokia N81 8GB
2: 02 XDA Orbit
1: n95 8gb

Twitter says the darndest things

TWIL: Aircraft Carrier

Playboy asks which blogger you’d like to see naked
Xeni Jardin, Violet Blue, Julie Alexandria, Veronica Belmont, Amanda Congdon, Brigitte Dale, Sarah Lacy, Sarah Austin and Natali Del Conte

AMD announces $1B loss this quarter - mainly due to the declining value of ATI

Iran has photoshop - image of four launching Shahab-3 missiles is actually 3.

Photoshop disasters

Batman begins on Bluray

AVG breaks internet

Desguises itself better

Fixes things

Jimmy Introduced as co-founder of WikiPedia

Belkin ipod thingo

Geek Weightloss challenge

 
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Would Your Wife Like That? (Redux)

pete | July 9, 2008

Sorry guys, the iTunes Link seems to be borked, so I’m reposting this episode.

Episode 5 is hatched and ready to roll…

Tonight we discussed various things like:

Voicemail is dead

Led Zeppelin not playing nice with Rock band and Guitar hero

Lego Egg timer and Lego Clone Trooper army invade earth

Back to the Future Nike shoes

Nintendo wall stickers

Light saver DS things

Apple orders a few flash chips

Google earth hologram thing:

Ashai Beer Robot

Bruce Willis buys underage kids cigarettes in Japan

We have a unplanned geek out on some of out favorite games of the moment;
Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart, MegaMan 9, PacMan, Spaceinvaders

Our dog on the skateboard story for this week is: 3d Twitter fail whale

 
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Hit it Twice Before 9am

pete | June 30, 2008

Bill Gates steps down as executive chairman of MS
Top 10 hits andmisses at MS
Grow Asparagus on mars
Nokia buys Symbian - makes it free.
MS Send FireFox team cake
3d hologram of tie fighter
Lego Vault contains every lego set, ever:
Walle done by an animator;
We’re still off our tits about BatMan, which is selling out in the US.
Hackers crack London underground
The ‘Moaster’ is the highest popping toaster in the world
Easychair Workstation

The Website is down.

 
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Sexy New iTunes Button

pete | June 26, 2008

SInce iTunes has given us the love of being Australia’s Number 1 Geek Podcast, i thought I’d give it some love back by adding a sexy new iTunes button in the sidebar. For those reading this in an RSS reader, here’s what it looks like.

Cleek it! You know you want to… :)

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We’re Number One!

pete |

We’re the number one tech podcast in Australia today! God bless iTunes bizarre chart system. :)

tehehe!

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The Website is Down

pete |

Its been posted all over my feeds and twittters and what nots, so normally i wouldn’t bother re-posting here, but I just mentioned it to an ubergeek and he hadn’t seen it yet. 

Nicely played: 

 

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Google’s Exchange Killer

pete | June 24, 2008

Listeners to the show will know I’m a bit of a Google fan. I wouldn’t go so far as to say fanboy, there are many things about the Goog’ i find frustrating, and possibly terrifying. But as a Mac user, I’ve been fascinated by the Goog’s tremendous growth, and as them being the only game in town big enough to take down Microsoft. 

One thing I’ve been obsessed about recently is the idea that Google could use its Apps suite of Email, Docs, Address Book Syncing and the like and form a kind of Exchange Killer that would be easy to set up, and compatible with multiple devices and operating systems. 

Well, today that idea seems closer to reality as The NSW Department of Education announced they will be moving from Exchange to Google Apps, through their partner SMS. 

One argument i always hear against the idea of Google Apps replacing Microsoft Exchange is that large companies will never go for a set up they can’t monitor ‘in house’. I’m sure larger companies would be reluctant to change to a hosted system, and some never will, but todays decision is a vote of confidence that atleast some sectors will think about making the switch.

Have i completed missed the point here? Microsoft Exchangers, what are your thoughts? 

 

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Robot Plays Airhockey..

pete |

One of my all time favourite ’sports’ is Air Hockey, its about as sporty as any geek should get. Well, some guys over at Nuvation have just released an Air Hockey playing Robot. Teh Awesomes.

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