Jun 03

APad, iPed – Here Come the Knock Offs!

Two months, it didn’t take long, only two months. The iPad knock offs are here. They look like an iPad, they are packaged a lot like an iPad but look a little closer and you can see the differences. The video below is in Japanese, but you get the idea from the images alone. These iPad like tablets are running the Android operating system on intel chips with inferior hardware at drastically reduced prices. Even though Apple’s iPad isn’t even on sale yet in China, you can buy a knock off for as low as AU$126, almost a fifth of the cost of an iPad in Australia.

Are they worth it? Don’t count on it. Watch the demonstrations in the video, the user interface is clunky and seems to have really slow response time. Continue reading

Jun 02

Google is Dropping the Windows Operating System

Talk about a slap in the face for Microsoft, Google Inc. has decided to phase out the use of Windows on it’s internal computers due to security concerns. This decision comes after the Chinese hacking incident earlier this year.

This doesn’t have anything to due with Google developing it’s own operating system based on Linux and the Chrome browser. That operating system is actually being developed for Netbooks and low speck laptops. It is not a full fledged desktop system for major applications. Actually Google is currently looking into Apple’s OS X or Linux as a replacement for their internal machines. Continue reading

Jun 02

Geek Actually Episode 86 After Show – Make Evil Sexy

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David McVay is joined by Josh Philpott, Ben O’Brien and Shane Gregory

Welcome to the Geek Actually Podcast After Show, the show were we just leave the mics on and record whatever we feel like talking about. This show gives us a chance to talk about anything that didn’t fit into the format of the main show. If this is your first experience with the Geek Actually Podcast, stop! This is not an actual show, it is the random ramblings of a bunch of geeks. Go listen to the main show first then come back to us. The Geek Actually Podcast and After Show are recorded live on Ustream. Continue reading

Jun 02

Geek Actually Replay – Geek Actually Episode 86 After Show Live Video

Here is this week’s live video version of The Geek Actually Podcast Episode 85 After Show – Make Evil Sexy. This week David McVay and Josh Philpott are again joined by the very quiet Shane Gregory and Ben O’Brien for a look at the Australian iPad release and a couple more comic book pieces of news that didn’t make the main show. The audio podcast of this episode can be found on this site or on iTunes.

Almost every week we record the Geek Actually Podcast while feeding it live to Ustream. We record the Ustream feed and it is available go back and watch later if you want. It occurred to me that we should just embed the past shows here so you can find them easily. You never know, you’re listening to that podcast and something visual happens, now you can simply find the show here and watch what happened. Enjoy. (Note: We only started recording the feed as of episode 46, there are no videos of earlier shows.)

Jun 01

Trailer: Japanese Trailer for The Last Airbender

It is amazing what a little cutting can do. This Japanese trailer has surfaced for ‘The Last Airbender’ and even though I have no idea what the narrator is saying, the trailer actually looks more like the cartoon series than any of the previous trailers. You can actually make sense of the story with this one, not bad considering I don’t speak Japanese! Anyway, take a look and you ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ fans let me know what you think in the comments below.

Jun 01

Update: The Hobbit

Late last night I posed a wish for Peter Jackson to come back and direct ‘The Hobbit’ now that Guillermo del Toro has left the project. Today it seems that it could be a possibility, a very slight possibility, but a possibility nonetheless.

He said yesterday that if that is what it take, he would look into what it would take to make it happen. This is in no way saying that he plans to direct the prequels. He has many contracts with other studios at the moment (the most pending is ‘Tin Tin 2’ which he starts in 2011).

According to New Zealand’s The Domino Post, Jackson would rule out not directing the prequels himself. To quote The Domino Post article: Continue reading