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Shownotes:
I met Mark Taylor from TAYLORMARK (it’s an Oprah/HARPO thing!) a couple years ago when I had a hard drive failure. He watches The Brief and invited us over to his office to see if he could recover it. He recovered that one, and then a little later, I had another failure and he recovered [...]

Please note the audio on this is horrible!!! We fixed the audio shortly after my presentation at WordCamp Dallas, but were obviously having some issues during this one. It’s pretty unwatchable due to the audio, but a lot of people had asked for it, so here it is…

Panel Discussion at WordCamp Dallas 2009, Part 1 of 2
Panelists (from left to right): Cali Lewis, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins, Dave Moyer, Matt Mullenweg, Andy Skelton, Liz Strauss, Giovanni Gallucci, and moderated by John P.
Topics covered during the discussion included blogging tips, advertising, mistakes and lessons learned, blogging equipment, themes, plugins and much more.
WordCamp Dallas 2009 [...]

Panel Discussion at WordCamp Dallas 2009, Part 2 of 2
Panelists (from left to right): Cali Lewis, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins, Dave Moyer, Matt Mullenweg, Andy Skelton, Liz Strauss, Giovanni Gallucci, and moderated by John P.
Topics covered during the discussion included blogging tips, advertising, mistakes and lessons learned, blogging equipment, themes, plugins and much more.
WordCamp Dallas 2009 [...]

This is a video of the forthcoming LG Chocolate BL40. Forget 16:9. This has a 21:9 screen that is 4 inches wide and has a resolution of 800X344.

Shownotes:
The Messless Charger looks like a futuristic fruit bowl, but holds phone and other portable electronics. It looks like it’s only available in the UK at the moment.
Jens Stoltenberg, Norway’s Prime Minister, deserves some geek cred. Take a look at his monitor setup!
The Cordless Rechargable Margarita Machine will give you up to 70 margartias before [...]

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Shownotes:
Allan Grinshtein was bored on Monday so he decided to write an site called PingWire that shows all the pictures posted to TwitPic in (almost) real time. It was too much for the TwitPic servers to handle, so he switched to YFrog. Warning: may be NSFW
Meeting Ticker is a result of a GitHub.com collaborative [...]

This is a demonstration of the Leidenfrost effect in which a dude sticks his hand in a bucket of liquid nitrogen and walks away fine. Do not try this at home!

The 88 is a band opening for the B-52s as they tour the East Cost. While driving to a show, one of the guys found an iPhone App called FourTrack. They bought it and recorded a song called Love is the Thing entirely on the phone using the iPhone’s mic. This video shows how they [...]

Shownotes:
We heard about gdgt last year when Peter Rojas and Ryan Block announced it and have been looking forward to finding out exactly what it’ll be. Now we know. It’s a cross between social network, wikipedia and a database. You can create an account and associate yourself with gadgets you’ve owned and you currently own. [...]

The PogoPlug is intended help you easily access your files from anywhere, whether you’re at home or out and about. Plug the PogoPlug into the wall, attach it to an ethernet cable plugged into your router, then plug an external hard drive or USB stick to it. Once you activate it online, you’re set and [...]

Shownotes:
Sony announced their VAIO W netbook. It has a 10.1-inch display, a 1.6GHz Atop processor, 1GB of RAM, runs Windows XP and a resolution of 1366 X 768.
Bristol Interactive is adding PC power to their ViewSurfer TVs. The 22″ and 32″ TVs are powered by an Intel Atom processor, have a gig of memory, a [...]

Sons of Maxwell wasn’t getting any satisfaction when they complained about a broken guitar. Apparently they saw the guitar case being thrown watching from a window seat. Their frustration lead to the making of this video and they GOT United’s attention.

Shownotes:
Google finally officially announced Chrome OS. It’s meant for netbooks at first, is built on Linux and uses Web apps to keep things simple.
Juicy is selling a pink silicon roll-up keyboard with their logo on it. You can get it at Nordstrom for $45.
Yoostar has potential, but I’m afraid there isn’t enough information on the [...]

Shownotes:
If you’ve been watching GeekBrief.TV for a while, you’re familiar with my love of Data Robotics, the company that made Drobo (the first storage robot). Their newest edition is the Drobo Pro. Data Robotics makes data redundancy easy. Shortly after I fired up my first Drobo, I asked them for a Pro version (http://m.podshow.com/media/13917/episodes/91078/gbtv-91078-12-14-2007.mp4) with [...]