Podcast Episode #8 – Apple takes over the work

We’re back! It’s been a long time since our last podcast and we apologize!

This week we talked about why Apple is looking at purchasing ARM, the iPad and some questions we have about Ubuntu’s user experience research.

• Apple to purchase ARM  (appleinsider.com)
• Ubuntu and notification area elimination (design.canonical.com)
• Ubuntu and making my freaking network settings disappear, disabling alt-tab, and disabling my task-bar when I tried to fix it…
• iPad hmmmm

 

 Pointless Rants Episode #8 [45:51m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Podcast Episode #7 – Search Giants

Hey, we’re behind again! But I think we had a good podcast.  We are introducing a new member of the pointless rants team, Ben, who’s also in the IT field.

Topics:

• Serverfault.com
• Google Wave/app engine
• Microsoft Bing.com
• Pointless Rants!

 

 Pointless Rants Episode #7 [40:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Podcast Episode #6 – Way behind Schedule

Well we are extremely behind in recording these.  I hope to get caught up at some point.

Here’s some of what we talked about…

1. Topics
   1. Win 7 RC – is it worth getting hyped up for, windows mobile sweetness – gAlarm
   2. Agile/processes – New toys (Macbook Pro, Nokia BH-503), boxee
   3. OS X Java Vulnerability
   4. IT Conversations (Stackoverflow)

 

 Pointless Rants Episode #6 [40:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Episode #5 – Tekken thumb to the French police

Sorry we’re so late in getting this out.  Hopefully, we can get on a regular schedule for putting these podcasts out and maybe some good posts too.

Keep watching and feel free to comment or give suggestions!

1. Topics
   1. “Tekken Thumb”
   2. Quad-core vs. Dual-core
   3. Chainlove.com
   4. The french police adopt ubuntu arstechnica.com
   5. More talk of communications between linux distributions
   6. We got Linked!
   7. “fizzbin” hanselman.com
   8. deathswitch lifehacker.com
   9. spokenword.org
   10. Twitter uses amazon S3 to host it’s images

 

 Episode #5 - Tekken thumb to the French police [57:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Episode #4 – A Day Late and a Dollar Short

Yeah we’re burnt out, tired, failing classes but we’re podcasting for you! Just for your enjoyment! Because we love you all!

1. News
   1. Stock market 12 year low?
   2. MS wipes winmo 6.5 from stolen phone  – engadget.com
   3. Windows 7 to Kill Quicktime ? techradar.com
   4. Google joins European Union in antitrust case for IE in windows tech.slashdot.org
   5. Gamer Skin disease idle.slashdot.org
2. Topics/Rants
   1. Management Woes/Rewards
   2. Will there ever be a “Perfect” OS?
   3. College burnout How to remedy?

 

 A Day Late and a Dollar Short [40:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Episode #3

Pointless Rants Episode #3

We’re on iTunes! Yay!

Would you go to a Microsoft store to see all their toys in action?
Apparently the term “Netbook” was trademarked a long time ago by a company called Psion.
sIFR and CSS Zen Garden are awesome.
Why are baby-boomer’s on Facebook all of a sudden?

Topics

• Microsoft Store
• sIFR
• Netbook a trademark?
• CSS Zen Garden
• Facebook baby boomers

 

 Pointless Rants Episode #3 [40:53m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Episode #2

Pointless Rants – Episode #2

In this episode we had a guest, Eric Shull who is nearing completion of his math degree.  Eric also has strong interests in programming and technology as well, which is why I picked him to post and guest on the blog.

Speakers: Tom, Trevor, Steve, Eric

The topics for this episode were…

• Trevor and Tom’s laptops came!  Dell Stuido 1537 and Lenovo R500
• IBM Sequoia ( Physorg )
• Hotmail POP3 availability ( LifeHacker )
• nVidia CUDA ( nVidia.com )
• Malware Bytes ( http://malwarebytes.org )
• Don’t attempt to replace your ipod screen
• Facebook 25 random things

 

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