Geek Force FiveCast 006 (Video)

After a two-week hiatus, I’ve brought the Geek Force FiveCast back to life. I’m going to tweak the format a bit. Instead of “five stories, in five minutes or less, five times a week”, I am going to promise a more reasonable “five minutes of geeky content per week.” That’s something that I think I can stick to, something that would have been even easier to stick to tonight, had iMovie cooperated and imported the first version of this show that I recorded earlier today.

In today’s FiveCast, I bring you up to speed on the format change and then talk about my organization system in iTunes. I don’t think it’s nearly as boring as that sentence makes it out to be.

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Geek Force FiveCast 004 (Video)

The fourth episode of a semi-regular show/podcast from GeekForceFive.com. Today, we cover 1) Viddler co-founder Rob Sandie’s birthday; 2) This week’s issues of the Amazing Spider-Man and the Mighty Avengers; 3) Pac-Man on the iPhone; 4) 1,000 albums to hear before you die; and 5) Ben’s man on the boat.

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Apple TV DVR - So What?

Electronista asks whether Apple is developing live Apple TV recording in an article posted today. I’ve included one of the mock-ups that Apple included with their recent filings with the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Personally, as an Apple TV owner, I’m not too bothered or too excited by this. I’m sure that it’ll be hardware upgrade if it ever happens (as opposed to the recent software upgrade), meaning that my current generation unit will become “irrelevant” or something, but I’m not sweating it. I’ve never been too excited about DVRs. I got into the whole craze with the HP Media Center PC that I bought back in 2003, but that thing’s TV tuner crapped out on me within a year, and I was always trying to come up with ways to cut commercials and get the video onto my TV. It was too much damn work. I likes me the iTunes Store, which delivers commercial-free copies of my favorite shows direct to my TV with just a few button clicks. I don’t have to worry about poor broadcast quality, irritating commercials, or figuring out where to store my shit. And I don’t ever have to buy the DVD, because I already have the whole season on my hard drive, long before the DVD is even in stores. 

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Geek Force FiveCast 003 (Video)

The third episode of a semi-regular show/podcast from GeekForceFive.com, this time complete with screaming toddler ambience! Today, we cover 1) Steve Jobs on the cover of Fortune; 2) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts A and B; 3) Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead dominating Last.fm; 4) A possible Widmore flashback on Lost; and 5) the wrapping of Zack and Miri Make a Porno.

You can watch the video here, and on a couple of other video sharing sites across the Interweb. And, if you’d like, you can subscribe to the show as a podcast via PodShow.com. I hope to get it listed in the iTunes Store soon, as well.

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Geek Force FiveCast 001 (Video)

The first episode of a semi-regular show/podcast from GeekForceFive.com. Today, we cover 1) What GeekForceFive.com is; 2) Accidental AppleTV Purchases; 3) Lost Dueling Analyses; 4) The Beatles on iTunes; and 5) The Incredible Hulk Teaser Teaser.

You can watch the video here, and on a couple of other video sharing sites across the Interweb. And, if you’d like, you can subscribe to the show as a podcast via PodShow.com. I hope to get it listed in the iTunes Store soon, as well.

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