David McVay

Owner and admin of GeekActually.com and the host of the Geek Actually and Film Actually podcasts..

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Belkin apologises for paid online reviews

An electronics company says it is investigating one of its employees for offering to pay for positive online reviews of its products. Source: Sydney Morning Herald Go to Source

A Sequel to The Phantom in the Works

This should get dropped in that huge box (the movie Australia also belongs in it) labled “Bad Ideas”. Once again sorry this is a little late, we were offline for a couple of weeks. An Australian production company on Monday announced it had secured the rights to The Phantom Legacy , a follow-up to the …

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Internet filter may spark ‘adult-shop explosion’

This is a little late but I have been offline :-) Just a little follow up to the Clean Feed issue that we have talked about on the podcast. Sex shops will inundate the country if the Federal Government filters internet pornography, an industry expert has warned. Source: Sydney Morning Herald Go to Source

The Judd Apatow Family – I Am Seeing a Trend

This post is purely food for thought. When I watched ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ last year I turned to Mirren Lee (Geek Actually co-host and my mom) and I proposed a thought to her. Judd Apatow (Producer of Forgetting Sarah Marshall) seems to take whoever is co-starring in his current film and cultivate that person into …

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Geek Actually Release Day Change

Hi everyone, just a quick note to let everyone know that the podcast, “Geek, Actually” is changing day. We have been trying to get it up on Tuesdays since we started and we are always late because of schedule conflicts etc. So After a little thought, I have moved the release day to Fridays. So …

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Windows 7 Public Beta – Has Microsoft Finally Got It Right?

First thing I have to say is that this product is fully cooked and ready to serve. Rumour has it that Microsoft has been quietly leaking versions of this product onto the torrent sites for months. apparently, this was so they could get all the major problems out of the way early, before the beta officially launched. …

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