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The Power Geeks #22
by DarthMolen on Oct.29, 2009, under The Latest Shows
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What We Are Playing
JP – Bejeweled Blitz (just to keep beating Steven’s scores! Don’t tell him) and a little ODST
SM – Bejeweled Blitz and Rollercoaster Kingdom
Cole – Still playing dress-up (see the pics at the bottom of this post)
Tech,Gaming, and Geek News
- Nigeria Taking Steps to Shut Down Scammers (SM)
- Working with Microsoft to fully implement “Project Eagle Claw” to catch the criminals
- Claims to have already shut down over 800 Scammer sites
- Steven I told you not to give that Dictator your Bank acct info!
- Working with Microsoft to fully implement “Project Eagle Claw” to catch the criminals
- New Google Maps app to do Turn by Turn voice GPS guided for free?? (JP)_
- Before you shell out a huge chunk of change on a GPS app (they are REALLY expensive)
- Read this article and hold out for a short bit…
- 2 things to see… 1. Will Apple approve it? (it’s been submitted… but so was Google Voice)
- and 2. how good will it be? I doubt it will completely kill the paid for apps… (it requires a live data connection ) but I bet it’ll be good enough for alot of folks
- Before you shell out a huge chunk of change on a GPS app (they are REALLY expensive)
- Facebook to preserve Accounts of the Dead (Cole)
- Perfect for the Halloween spirit
- Accounts that are “memorialized” can no longer be updated
- Friends and Family will still be able to post on the wall
- Only “friends” will be able to search for it.
- There’s a “deceased form” for those needing the service.
- Non-English Domains Set to Change Internet (Steven)
- For the longest time, only Latin characters allowed for domain names
- ICANN (International Corporation for Assinged Names and Numbers) is set to throw this open
- 1.6 Beeellion users of the Internet, over half of them don’t use a latin based character set for their language
- I hear Al Gore started this trend back when he created the Internet…. (hahahah)
- Remedy in works for enabling “unauthorized” xbox 360 memory units (JP)
- The game of cat and mouse begins…
- the company that makes the units already has a work around…
- they just aren’t going to release it too soon, or M$ will come up with another fix
- We’ve been talking about this all over the place for the last couple of weeks. Palm Pre and Apple?
- Netflix Streaming Coming to the PS3 (SM)
- Netflix confident they can circumvent the exclusivity agreement with Microsoft
- Basically, Sony can’t make it part of their XMB…
- netflix sending out blu-ray discs with the software on it for streaming
- You have to have the disc in the drive to be able to use netflix
- Netflix confident they’ll have ample supply
Geek-Speak
- A-Team Remake (SM)
- Production Pic
- Excited and leery… hope it’s good… but I am a little worried… What about you guys?
- What about the listeners?
- First 8 minutes of V
- Getting more and more excited the closer this gets…
- Already pissed about the scheduling though
- 4 episodes to air in November, then it goes on hiatus till March
- Already pissed about the scheduling though
- I’m beyond excited!!! (Cole)
- Getting more and more excited the closer this gets…
- NBC Moving up the Return of Chuck and ordering more episodes!
- (Steven) convince me why I should like Chuck….
- Time Lapse Video of Hot girl transformed into a Zombie
- Very cool… and you have to read the description from the guy who posted it! hilarious!
- There REALLY is an App for EVERYTHING now….
- Ask the Hoff… (an app to receive spiritual guidance from David Hasselhoff )
- and Chuck Norris: Bring on the Pain
- Trailer says you think you’re playing a Chuck Norris Game… BUT Chuck Norris can’t be played!
- Lego Architecture series
- This past weekend I went to the iHobby expo in Chicago
- I bought a SEARS Tower Lego and got it autographed by the artist (Adam Reed Tucker) who spent a little time going over things with me…
- His Frank Lloyd Wright House is unbelievable… actually slides apart when put together so you can study the rooms, and construction
- he has some really cool stuff in the works for next year too!!
- Cole, Steven are you guys Lego geeks too? What do you think about these? What types of stuff do you like to build out of Legos?
- Does a man crap brown lego bricks? of course I am… best lego’s I ever saw was at Star Wars Celebration 2…
Deal of the Week
- UnDead Attack! Pinball on sale in honor of Halloween for just $0.99
- Fun iPhone game combining two of our favorite things… Zombies and Pinball!! for just 99 Cents… C’mon
Contest
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Intarweb Goldmine
- Ferret stuffed down pants then used as weapon
- Courtroom Feces Thrower gets 31 years
- I have no words… but I bet he’ll have worse done to him in prison
- Social Media Pumpkins… My Fav above… the Fail Whale from Twitter
Doghouse Systems
- New System – Under $1000 – Still handcrafted with care
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-Performance in WoW is still great: 40 Frames / sec @ 1920 x 1280
-Don’t forget their laptop which has 2 graphics card built in, the mobius, at a mid-line desktop price
-If you want all the bells and whistles, they can handcraft that too, just call them up during normal business hours, they’ll talk with you, find out your needs, and recommend the system that you need (not the one that costs the most)
-877-DHS-DHS2 (347-3472)
Jinx
- Lifestyle apparel for your inner-geek
- Men’s, Women’s, all sizes
- Specific Collections? They got them,
- World of Warcraft – Home is where the hearthstone is, Baby-T = “My other stroller is [Epic]“, Tanks, Your Welcome
- New Sticker This week (JP)
- They even have hats – Quest-giver hat
- Stickers, Patches, Pins
- Go online jinx.com or call them @ 1-888-JINX-COM - 888.546.9266
Cole, The Very Tall, Supermodel Vampire Slayer
If looks could kill, then all zombies would be dead.
