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A pretty good show again this week on the Global Geek, despite some technical trouble on my end (which you’ll hear was starting to frustrate me), the Geeks got through the whole show but as usual ran over the one-hour mark.   :mrgreen:  I’m in a tad bit of a rush this week so the notes [...]

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Calling all Podcasters!
Regular listeners to the Global Geek Podcast will know that the microphone I use for my segments isn’t the greatest.  To be truthful, it’s a four-year old cheapie that I bought at London Drugs back when I used to actually play games.  :wink:
So I’m now on the lookout for a replacement… the question [...]

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There were some great views of the Lunar Eclipse this past week.  I had the opportunity to take a break from a class I’m taking and watch the eclipse reach totality.  The event lasted quite a bit longer than I had anticipated (admittedly, I’ve never spent the time to watch a full eclipse event before.

Photo [...]

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Dave’s choices in naming episodes not withstanding, we had a great show again this week.  I joined the geeks for the latest round of the Global Geek Podcast.
LiteIcon
First up this week is FreeMacSoft’s LiteIcon.  This is a great application for helping you manage the system icons on your Mac.  Apple has a tendency to dumb-down [...]

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Today when I checked my email I was given a rather pleasant surprise.  A comment on one of my blog posts from the folks at Flickr Fight.
Hi,
we considered this blog post as a claim and updated our site.
Now we are giving a reference and link to photographer under full sized photos.
Thank you
Flickr Fight Team
Great News!  [...]

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This is a topic I’ve been considering for some time now. Many of you (who don’t use an ad-blocker) will have noticed that late last year I began experimenting with placing ads on the blog. The idea behind this was the “get-the-blog-to-pay-for-itself” mentality that most of us go through when we realize that [...]

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Messaging and “GTD-ish” service Jott has just launched new local numbers in many major cities in Canada. The service has gone from one local number in Toronto, to twenty nation-wide.
Here is an excerpt from the email sent to Canadian Jott users today:
In an effort to protect your privacy, most Canadian mobile providers have blocked [...]

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Recently some of you may have noticed some instability with the theme on this blog. The theme on the blog seemed to reset to the WordPress default without any rhyme or reason. I assumed it was one of the many plugins I had installed to try to provide additional content or functionality [...]

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Another week and another GGP. We had an absolute blast on this week’s show. So on with this week’s collection of Mac Freebies:
iPhoto Batch Image Enhancer
This application gives you the ability to make changes to large batches of your iPhoto images. This is a standalone application and doesn’t integrate into iPhoto, but [...]

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Well after a far more successful 2007 than I could have imagined, I’ve released the first significant feature update to the Admin Links Widget.
First, THANK YOU to everyone who has downloaded the widget.  It has been downloaded an astonishing 2300 times since the inaugural release on August 14th of last year.
The most significant changes for [...]

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