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4 tech fights in 4 minutes 4 everyone Primary Format : Technology Also Listed as: Technology City : Johannesburg State/Province : Gauteng Country : South Africa Country : AF User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of 4Geeks Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of 4Geeks Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of 4Geeks Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. 4Geeks #15 Recent tech obsession Ever obsessed over something? Not a person, something smaller; something you just must have, or something you suddenly have an interest in? Like obsessing over Pluto losing its planet status, then keeping it, then becoming a dwarf planet, then-… We three Geeks discuss our recent Tech obsessions. Join us for a listen Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 4Geeks #14 - Consumer electronic devices What is your favourite consumer electronic device? GPS, cell phone, satellite TV, iPod, laptop, wireless router, HDTV, DVD recorder, DV camera, DVR, Tivo or something else?? Mike is in the studio again, and this week he dragged Grunt along to discuss consumer electronic devices with us. Grunt is a great friend, an ex student, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 4Geeks #13 - Surgeon General’s Warning: … Interested in what it takes to put together a 4Geeks podcast? Have a listen at how we play around before recording a live show. It takes a lot of intelligence to be this stupid! A note of warning: some people might find some of the content mildly offensive. If you don’t like it, just ignore the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 4Geeks #12 - Tech companies review This week Mike grills me about my choice of tech companies to pit against one-another. He has problems with my choice of companies (Google and Apple), as well as the descriptions or tags I use to describe the companies. He also discusses his own choices for possibilities of coolest tech company. At the core (pun intended) [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 4Geeks Episode 11.5 - Special Thanx… Our thanx to a lot of people for their help: Tom, Molly,Veronica (from Buzz Out Loud) – mentioning iTunes problem and offering to publish my feeds. And especially Tom for the liaison with iTunes development team. Maybe that’s why he was tops in one of our previous fights? Rob Walch (podcast411)– for actually publishing my feeds, he [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 4Geeks Episode 11 – Special: PS3 vs… itself? Is Sony its own worst enemy? Harking back to 4Geeks episode 4, Mike still debates my choice of the PS3 over the Xbox or the Wii. “Buy a Wii regardless, and then another console” is his sage advice borrowed from both Sony and Microsoft. He raises a couple of interesting arguments against the PS3: Expensive Expensive Expensive Difficult to code [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Internet Idiot of the Week - US Senator Ted Stevens Although his by-now-infamous “Tubes speech” has been around for a while, I am again enraged by it today just thinking about it. On episode #155 of the well-known Podcast411 show, Rob Walch has a hilarious interview with our Internet Idiot of the Week. Although I enjoyed this show, the following show (#156) contains some listener feedback, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 4Geeks Episode 10 – Special: Browser Wars 4 tech fights, 4 minutes, 4 everyone Intro: Another session from the father-in-law’s pub in Johannesburg, South Africa. Mike from darwinshome.za.net is here again, taking me to task on browsers. Apparently Firefox is not so much more secure than IE. And the winner is…? Fight: IE 7 vs Firefox Mike: IE 7 (even beta 2) Tom: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 4Geeks Episode 9 - Power to the people 4Geeks Episode 9 – Power to the people 4 tech fights, 4 minutes, 4 everyone Intro: Not a fight a minute, but 4 minutes per fight? Hmmm? Best listenr correction: Mike on media players, or Robert on Bluetooth Robert wins Drove me around in his car to demonstrate Bluetooth GPS to iMate Carkit to iMate Solution: different bluetooth ports/services Best upcoming power technology: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 4Geeks Episode 8 - Special Review The second Special Review with Mike from darwinshome.za.net. In this episode we review the 4 topics I discussed in episode 3. We digress (as always) to argue about CPUs as well.Next week I’ll post another 4Geeks episode in the old format. Suggestions and fights welcome at 4GeeksPodcast@gmail.com or tomvanaardt@gmail.comDownload mp3 or download zip fileor click [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 4Geeks Episode 7 - Special Review Special in-studio guest: Mike from darwinshome.za.net. This is the first in a series of reviews of previous fights. In this episode we review some of my subjective choices from episode 1 and 2 - Mike has his own opinions… Mike always emails me after every show to discuss my choices. I decided to drag him in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 4Geeks Episode 6 - People in Tech 4Geeks Episode 6 – People In this episode I air my - higly subjective - viewpoints once again on some interesting tech topics. The theme for this episode is tech people, and I choose my favourite tech journo, apple founder, podsphere hottie and Internet billionnaire. Differ from me? Let me know at 4GeeksPodcast@gmail.com or leave a comment! Favourite [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 4Geeks Episode 5 - Media Player Special Delivery Windows Media Player 11 beta vs Apple iTunes or darwinshome vs Tom Episode 5 Sepcial: Media players Windows Media Player 11 vs Apple iTunes 6 In all honesty, I haven’t used WMP11, sorry. BUT. Let’s face it: they stole the interface and everything else from Apple. AND it’s only in beta. Mike chooses WMP11: ·  Transfer MP3 from PC to media player [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 4Geeks Episode 4 - Eggplant recipes and tech? Why eggplants mix well with technology Favourite browser: IE vs Firefox What a stupid question, but some people never learn Available on different platforms: Win, Mac, etc IE unsafe, Firefox more secure Extensions [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 4Geeks Episode 3 - Ninjas or …? pirates/ninjas/pirates/ninjas/pirates/ninjas/pirates/ninjas...? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 4Geeks Episode 2 - Mangoes Welcome to 4Geeks Epsiode 2. 4 tech fights in 4 minutes 4 everyone I’ve changed the tag line to include everyone! Not just for geeks, in fact now YOU can sound smart: “Nah, ForecastFox is my favourite extension, because…” You might notice my terrible flu on this one! Standard fight: Bluetooth vs 802.11g Easy [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 4Geeks Episode 1 - Introduction Episode 1click to subscribe freeor download mp3 directWelcome to my very first podcast, and the first 4Geeks podcast. (If you want to sponsor some theme music, contact me at 4geekspodcast@gmail.com!) Pre-infancy would be a good description.In this episode:Intro and explanation of 4GeeksFavourite software: iTunes vs AudacityFavourite podcast of the week: TWIT vs Buzz Out [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website