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Finally! Details on the Nikon D90. Same D-Movie footage is here.
Microsoft releases IE8 Beta 2.
Ubiquity is my latest favorite Firefox plug-in.
The Space Cube is the worlds smallest PC.
MXW1 wireless earphones from Sennheiser offer uncompressed CD-quality audio using Kleer wireless audio technology.
The new logo is by Prescott Perez-Fox. More info coming soon.
UPDATE: David Pogue reviews the D90 here.
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August 28th, 2008 at 12:50 am
Hi Cali and Neal,
Great episode again! Loving the new logo used in the desktop wallpaper and lower thirds.
Just off to get the Ubiquity plugin now!
Stuart
August 28th, 2008 at 1:11 am
Hmm, a new logo eh where did that one come from? I like it from what I can tell from the lower thirds and wallpaper usage.
August 28th, 2008 at 4:24 am
Hey Cali, Thanks for the great episode – informative as always, however I notice the audio on this one was a bit down and a there’s a slight low hum underneath, anything different in your setup?
August 28th, 2008 at 5:54 am
I got no audio at all on this one via my iTunes on the Extra Large Format.
August 28th, 2008 at 7:15 am
Hey Guys,
Loved this episode. Ubiquity sounds cool, I’ll have to check it out. Not sure I love the logo. The typeface alone looks cool, but adding a gradient to the part that makes the logo look 3D looks terrible. The logo used in the lower thirds is much better. I kept getting distracted by the bright logo on the computer screens, and the gradient makes it extremely difficult to read.
August 28th, 2008 at 9:34 am
I haven’t been getting the GB feed in my Bloglines for almost two weeks now :( Any reason why?
August 28th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Great show, cant believe I’ve been following geekbrief for almost a year now! Just something I notice though…what’s the buzzing sound thats always in the background?
August 28th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Very Nice!
I want a space cube! I can’t afford it right now, but I want it just the same. I would get a custom paint job on mine to make it look like a Rubik’s Cube and mount it on a lighted crystal pedestal. The blue light, like in the movie Tron. That would be so totally awesome!
The show was great. Cali, you looked like you were in a really good / funny mood. I like the new background logo’s. And as for the audio buzz.. it was a very low freq. You probably checked already, but just in case look at your grounds? maybe you have a ground loop or something. :)
l8r, <3 GeekBrief.tv
August 28th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Sorry about the buzz, guys! We’ll get it worked out.
August 28th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
I actually have Sennheiser in-ears, but well, they aren’t that price! :o) Yikes Scoob! But they do rock considerably more than any others I’ve used. Not sure these wireless ones are worth it, because of the huge transmitter. It would be cool if the earphones were a tad smaller too.
I like the new logo actually. mayyyybe tone down the drop shadowy thing a little.
Nice brief.
August 28th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
I actually have Sennheiser in-ears, but well, they aren’t that price! :o) Yikes Scoob! But they do rock considerably more than any others I’ve used. Not sure these wireless ones are worth it, because of the huge transmitter. It would be cool if the earphones were a tad smaller too.
I like the new logo actually. mayyyybe tone down the drop shadowy thing a little.
As for IE8, it will be interesting when it get released into the wild and us developers get see if MS actually come good on their promise of making it the first standards compliant browser they have released.
Nice Brief. Purdy top too .
August 28th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Sorry about the double post! I hit escape, honest!
August 28th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
The latest episodes have an awful audible 60(?)Hz hum noise in WMV-format, except for the intro and outro. :( Please, please fix that, my ears are hurting! ;)
August 28th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Oh, just realized the problem was already commented on by Cali. Big THX :D (note to self: read comments more thoroughly…)
August 28th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
I don’t like the new logo. It looks like it’s been stuck in the 90ies.
August 28th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
The Drobo code didn’t work.
August 28th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
I completely agree with Zach LeBar over the new logo. And Cali, I’ve enjoyed watching this show get better and better with every episode.
August 28th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Thanks for all the feedback on the logo!
August 28th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Thanks for all the commentary on the logo. Cali, Neal, and I are gonna work a bit more on the colour, shapes and other usage. But I was pleasantly surprised to see it rolled out in this episode.
August 28th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
In this show you say what steps you must go through in OSX to look up the definition of a word. It’s actually much simpler than you laid it out as. Just highlight the word and control-click and you are the presented menu includes the option to look up the work in the dictionary.
August 28th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
@John: I wasn’t specifying OS X. I was going through the steps that most people go through, all OSs.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:41 am
One correction/clarification: the price you quote on the D90 ($1299) is for the package with the “new AF-S DX Zoom-NIKKOR 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR” lens. Body-only price is $999.
August 29th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Seriously… 2000$ for a computer with 16mb of ram and 1GB storage??? NO WAY!
Nice show as always.
JF
August 29th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Hi, Cant download this one gives me error on the feed on itunes for the small ipod version, and even the GBTV415 download fine but cant the GBTV414 :(
August 29th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Hmm…I’m not getting an error. What does it say?