for July 23rd, 2008

Alternate Titles

It takes a lot of bits for More Echoes?

Google-Life Second-Google Furniture on the island

Stone Age Braveheart

I talked to one of the eggheads

I meant eggheads in the nicest of terms

My servers get thrashed.

The hard drive light never shut off.

Show Notes

We’ve had some new posts on the site this week:

Digital 3d Movies
Some Live Mesh Posts
Microsoft Hyper-V (My Friday Links Post)
Ubisoft steals Anti-DRM Crack

The Week in History:

- July 21st, 1975 - Xerox withdraws from the Computer Market (On Monday)
- July 22nd, 1997 - Apple Announces OS 8 (On Tuesday)
- July 23rd, 1930 - The writer of the first FORTRAN text book, Daniel McCracken was born. (On Wednesday)
- July 25th, 1990 - Microsoft's Revenues exceed $1 Billion. (On Friday)

Tech News

Google Launches Google Lively

Google's 3D World
Official Announcement
Google fends off adult rooms
Google lively installs Google updater, and then runs 3 instances of it?

E3 was last week
Microsoft announced a major update to the XBox 360 Dashboard.
With some tools coming up, anyone will be able to make a game and run it on a Xbox.

Netflix on the XBox 360
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Talks about the XBbox 360 Netflix Player
You need a XBox Gold Membership which is $50 a year.

Evidently, you can already stream it to a player if you have Vista home premium or ultimate, with some freeware.
Here's the guide on LifeHacker
It looks like the plugin is for Media center, so in theory it should work on my popcorn hour, I think.

Mike's Topic
Scifi Surplus is a great podcast!
High production quality, neat segments, really good banter. Highly Recommended.
I heard about Can’t stop the Serenity, and was really bummed out that I missed the local showing. I’ll have to make sure I go next year. All the proceeds go to a worthy cause.

Listening to Jack Palms 3 (Podiobooks) by Seth Harwood

Art's Topic
GPSVisualizer

The Techie Geek pointed out the Levelator in a recent post. Can’t wait to try it out.

Art liked Drillbit Taylor, and Vantage Point, but not 10,000 BC.

Mike Loves Digital 3D and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Brief discussion about how it works.

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Windows Linux GPSVisualizer Podcasts Hyper-V Microsoft Windows tech geek