Hosted by: David McVay & Josh Philpott
This week on the all new Geek Actually: the Robonaut is unboxed, Australian internet censorship, Chinese mobile phone censorship, Valve plays hardball, Sony Xperia advertising, Geohot flees and Apple says yes. We also recommend a some apps and celebrate the anniversary of the virus. So sit back, get comfy and let’s geek out!
Geek Actually is the fusion of the old Tech Actually and Geek Actually After Show podcasts into an all new show. All the Tech and geek goodness that you have come to expect from the old shows wrapped up and made easier to swallow as one simple, little, tasty podcast. DeltaKnight (AKA DAvid Murray) continues to supply us with some of the geekiest stories on the web and Josh and David love to play with the tech news.
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Just a word of warning, Robonaut is now unpacked! Haven’t they seen Saturn 3?
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/03/no-longer-in-packing-foam-the-robonaut-is-freeeee/
The Australian mandatory internet censorship filter raises it’s head again.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/03/facebook-ninemsn-and-yahoo7-tell-government-mandatory-internet-filtering-wont-work/
But, if you are ever worried that our censorship is too much, think of the poor Chinese.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/03/censorship-in-china-is-more-scary-than-you-probably-realised/
Is Google finally losing the trust of people? Book deal sunk by judge.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/23/technology/23google.html?_r=2
Apple says yes and wins again in customer service.
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/36006/iPad-2-Wife-said-no-Apple-said-yes
Could this be the future of 3D TV and movies?
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/03/first-ever-single-lens-capable-of-filming-3d-images-created/
Sony’s Playstation Phone (Xperia Play) is getting a big ad push.
http://www.geekologie.com/2011/03/xperia_play_aka_psp_phone_comm.php
The ultimate easter egg.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/03/galaxy-tab-has-secret-message-on-its-silicon-chips/
Remember the PS3 hacker Geohot? This case just gets more ridiculous as the days go by.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/03/ps3-hacker-flees-long-arm-of-sony-for-south-american-freedom/
Geek Stuff
You can’t sell your Steam account, Valve don’t like that! But, doesn’t he own the games?
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/valve-teaches-kid-a-lesson-for-trying-to-sell-his-steam-account-20110315/
Let’s go nuts! Should we buy geekactually.xxx or filmactually.xxx?
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/03/icann-approves-xxx-domains
That Time Warner TV streaming app, not a hit it would seem.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/03/tv-networks-hate-the-new-time-warner-ipad-app/
Very cool (but expensive) universal remote option. So cool.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/03/unityremote-makes-your-iphone-a-universal-remote/
Here’s a new file transfer tool that looks interesting, we need to test this.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/03/sendoid-is-like-dropbox-bittorrent-rapidshare-rolled-into-one/
and finally a Bill of Rights for internet users, damn straight! What a good idea.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/03/obama-administration-planning-to-extend-privacy-rights-for-internet-users/
Weird Food!
A word of warning to food store owners, watch those price increases!
http://www.geekologie.com/2011/03/goin_beefy_crunchy_the_new_goi.php
Geek Picks of the Week
Every week Josh and/or I will give you our geek picks of the week, these could be anything from iPhone apps to a great sandwich recipe (more likely to be an app though).
Josh’s Picks of the week – an update to “Dungeon Raid” (for iPhone) now available and a must get: free if you own the game. And “Overkill” (Universal for iPhone/iPad) from Craneballs Studios: Free.
and we also recommend getting Richard Branson’s iPad magazine, Project, free this month.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/03/ipad-magazine-project-is-now-free/
…and to finish us off today, a moment in history.
Happy 40th birthday to the computer virus.
http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/the-computer-virus-celebrates-its-40th-anniversary-20110317/
As always this episode carries an explicit tag due to possible bad language.
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