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Bill Gates says goodbye.

Rogers Wireless is still crap.

Princeton is making textbooks available on Kindle.

The Monsterpod, apparently, sticks anywhere.

The Super Side Bar is a Liquor faucet.

VidBlaster is working with Ustream. Test tomorrow at 4:00 PM Central time at www.CaliLIVE.tv.

10 Responses to “GBTV #383 | GeekBrief.TV”

1. TBigMan Says:
   June 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm

   They say that rats leave the ship just before it sinks… So now that Mr. Bill has left M$ does that mean that the $hip is sinking?…

   Linux Rules!!!

2. Dave Peterson Says:
   June 28th, 2008 at 12:06 am

   Great job hitting four episodes right on schedule despite the Little Trip this week! Well done!

   I love the idea of textbooks on Kindle. There’s nothing this side of a dwarf star quite as heavy as a bag filled with enough books for a full day’s worth of classes. Now we just have to convince Amazon to offer a student discount on the reader.

   And, for anyone who missed Cali’s note on Twitter, she was featured in a nice segment on the DaFoWo Show, an online video show from the Dallas-Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She’s at the end of the show.

   http://www.star-telegram.com/dafowo/

   (See what you miss when you don’t follow her on Twitter?)

3. Linh Says:
   June 28th, 2008 at 7:35 am

   Yeah… that monsterpod is a bit concerning… I don’t think I could put my camera on that, haha

4. John Bailey Says:
   June 28th, 2008 at 4:07 pm

   Okay, the SuperSideBar is a great idea, especially the programmable part. I can see them at kiosks at clubs where you get the glass, put in the credit card, order the drink and it automatically mixes it and dispenses it for you. Wonder if it can sound an alarm when you’re getting low on something?

5. tim ashman Says:
   June 28th, 2008 at 8:00 pm

   Hey Cali why haven’t you covered the Mac Trojan news. I use to think you where unbiased but I don’t think so anymore.

6. Technobob Says:
   June 28th, 2008 at 8:38 pm

   Hi Cali

   Can you help me and my fellow Canadians in fighting Rogers high rate plans for the iPhone. If you can make mention of this petition that would be a great help.

   http://www.ruinediphone.com

   Thanks
   Technobob

7. Jeff McCord Says:
   June 29th, 2008 at 7:26 am

   Call me rude or maybe “spoiled” but here’s why I don’t like Kindle. There’s no color. No graphics. Wouldn’t it be cooler if it had some type of color interface and had the ability to show real graphics? Then, I would buy it in a heart beat.

   Thoughts?

   Jeff McCord

8. Dave Peterson Says:
   June 29th, 2008 at 12:43 pm

   Hey Jeff,
   The Kindle would be infinitely cooler with better graphics. Its graphics really are pretty poor, and all I can do is shrug and say it’s a first generation device, one where graphics really weren’t the focus. The emphasis was on the e-ink technology, which really is pretty cool in its own context. The display has very low power usage and can provide a lot of use between charges, compared to a gorgeous full-color display like the iPhone. It does a very specific job, displaying plain text books, very well. Back in November, when I ordered mine, I talked here about using it to read magazines. Well, I’m not doing much of that. Magazines on the Kindle are a pretty unsatisfying experience. But books that do not rely on illustrations translate very well. And the ability to carry a bunch of books around with me in one small reader is the real strength. It has a much bigger screen than the average smart phone (which many people use to read ebooks), and text can be displayed in a variety of sizes without necessitating too-frequent page changes.
   All that said, I completely understand people holding back for now. The first gen Kindle is the very definition of an early adopter device, appealing in a narrow venue now, but more so in what the second or third generation may be. I didn’t buy an iPod until the 5th gen, when video became the functionality that sold it to me. I think the Kindle has a good future ahead of it if its developers can keep adding new features with regularly deployed successive generations.

9. Haseeb Says:
   June 30th, 2008 at 3:48 am

   Hey cali,
   So you are giving away 2 drobos!! Why not one for a far a away… ummm, like lets say Pakistan?? (or more specifically me?) We need some taste of technology too! lols

10. Jonathan Naundrup Says:
    July 4th, 2008 at 12:12 pm

    iPhones prices here in Denmark are crazy!

    iPhone 8gb: 300$ + 130$/month (including only 300mb of data and 300 minutes)!

    300mb of data?! I just decided that i don’t want it that much.. Or at least I’m going to buy it else where :(

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