Hosts: David McVay & Josh Philpott
This is the official tech podcast of geekactually.com. The tech show by geeks for geeks and non-geeks. Accessible tech for everyone is the motto we live by. This week on Tech Actually we discuss the Australian Federal Election and how this affects the geeks, we have a webcamgate update, robots are given emotions and we talk about our experiences of pulling the iMac apart.
Now, if you are new to Geek Actually you are probably wondering why this episode of Tech Actually is numbered 97. No, we are not insane, Tech Actually and Film Actually (our movie podcast) used to be one show called The Geek Actually Podcast and this week we split them into two shows. We kept the numbering continuity across all three of our shows (this includes Geek Actually After Show). All the information on the re-structuring of the shows can be found here at geekactually.com.
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Tech News
Follow Up: Remember webcamgate? Here’s the final resolution.
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Technology/2010/08/19/No_charges_in_school_laptop_spying_501295.html
It was time to go vote, some things to think about.
That’s right, the Federal Election is here and we can’t tell you how to vote but when it comes to technology, Labour is way out in front… surprisingly.
Tony Abbott Doesn’t even understand his plans
http://www.news.com.au/technology/tony-abbott-struggles-with-broadband-basics/story-e6frfro0-1225903762404
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/tony-the-tower-abbotts–technical-ignorance-on-a-national-scale-on-wireless-and-broadband-20100817-127re.html
Stephen Conroy may be an idiot but he’s got Broadband nailed
http://www.news.com.au/features/federal-election/conroy-v-smith-in-communication-policy-debate/story-fn5tar6a-1225903268098
Plus Labor’s National Broadband Network has just gotten a speed boost
http://www.news.com.au/technology/network-will-be-10-times-faster-than-we-promised/story-e6frfro0-1225904296822
And to top it off Tony Abbot has double standards
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/abbott-accused-of-double-broadband-standard-20100820-12ujz.html
Plus, the Internet Filter is essentially dead so let’s take that off the table. Plus we have a thriving economy, low interest rates and believe it or not the boat people are not that big a threat.
Other Bits of News
Robots with emotions, what could possibly go wrong?
http://www.news.com.au/technology/scientists-create-robot-with-emotions/story-e6frfro0-1225903141869
Twitter related death?
http://www.news.com.au/technology/heidi-montag-mourns-loss-of-most-brilliant-surgeon-who-ever-existed/story-e6frfro0-1225907164029
Finally, some reasonable download limits are becoming available in Australia
http://www.news.com.au/technology/isps-race-to-offer-the-biggest-download-limit/story-e6frfro0-1225907188295
John Cougar Mellencamp – Whack Jobs ‘R Us!
http://www.news.com.au/technology/john-cougar-mellencamp-says-ipods-make-music-unrecognisable-internet-like-atom-bomb/story-e6frfro0-1225907214383
Have we discovered the source of the Apple leaks?
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/apple-manager-charged-for-leaking-corporate-secrets-20100816-125lp.html
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/apple-manager-pleads-not-guilty-in-bribe-scandal-20100817-127hd.html
http://fugitive.com/archives/26878
Topic of the week
As you know, we didn’t have a show last week because our production machine, a 24″ Intel iMac called Grace had a mid heart attack and died. This week Josh and David got a chance to pull apart and rebuild the aluminum iMac. We have the machine back up and running and we thought we’d share some thoughts (and photos) with you over the inside of this sexy machine.
As always this episode carries an explicit tag due to some bad language.
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