Lordy, Lordy, look who's 40! It's our "over the hill" podcast and we spared no expense with this one.....on sound effects. Because they're free.

From Meghan's sister's wedding, an almost finished book, owning the term "girl" to about two seconds of a Styx song, this podcast is full of reasons to celebrate. Happy holidays!

When you do a Google search for "Celine Dion"+"Steve Jobs"+"Pop Tarts", 1,630 sites pop up. Here's number 1,631.

Wondering how our book is coming along? Interested in hearing about our weekend at AIGA's Design Camp? Curious as to why Steve Jobs, Celine Dion and Pop Tarts are somehow all mentioned in a 30 minute podcast? Well then, this podcast is for YOU!

After one final Summer trip to the lovely Geek Girls private island, this week's podcast focuses on ways to customize your online world for privacy or for fun. 

Examples:

Pregnant but haven't told the fam yet? 

-Turn your Facebook wall off so your dad doesn't find out about his first grandchild via the son-in-law that he doesn't really like posting a picture of Harley Davidson baby clothes.

On a friend's computer and stumble upon a long article about some body abnormality that you'd rather not discuss? 

-Set up a Google+ circle with no friends, co-workers or relatives so you can share things with yourself for later. (Depending on what you search for, you might want to delete the browser's history after you've successfully posted it to your page.)

There are plenty of small ways to think outside the box when it comes to social media sites. Any other quick and easy suggestions for customizing your social media spaces?

Have you heard?! Facebook is taking all of your contact numbers from your phone, posting them all over the internet and selling them to terrorist organizations around the world! Okay, so that's not entirely true, but with all of the posts on Facebook the past few weeks, you'd think Gaddafi was about to call everyone in your phone to see if he could crash with them for a few days until things settle down at home while Mark Zuckerberg laughs maniacally in his giant bed that's stuffed with $100 bills. We'll give you the rundown on the newest thing to panic Facebook users. 

We also discuss a few ways to back up your facebook profile and a site that lets you look back through the years of your online posts.

It's the music episode and the request line is open, so give us a call and dedicate a song to that special someone in your life.

Now that everyone (including commoners like Nancy) has been given access to Google Plus and has been playing around with it for a while, we look at it again with a different perspective than last time to see what benefits it could have for us. We also have an announcement that we, uh, already announced a day or two ago, so it probably won't come as much of a surprise, but we're excited anyway so we're going to announce it again. But you have to listen to find out, because we're not going to type it here. Pretty sneaky, huh? 

PS - To keep the announcement a surprise, you probably shouldn't look at the links below until after you listen to the podcast. Deal?

Is Google Plus our new social media savior or just another site for us to bide our time until the next one comes along?

You may have been asking yourself, "Where are Nancy and Meghan? Are they okay? Have they forgotten about us?" It's been a busy couple of months in the Geek Girls' world, but we finally had a chance to hop back into the podcast studio and fill you in on what's been going on in our lives. We've been traveling from coast to coast, attending conferences and spotting celebs (well, 1 celeb and a few Law & Order extras). 

Oh, by the way, who could take a home computer set-up and make it sound dirty? Nancy, that's who.

Home entertainment guru Kyle DeLaHunt is this week's Geek of the Week. Kyle, a second generation A/V geek, has been nerding out about home entertainment since the age of 8. We asked him to come down to the studio and discuss how to make simple digital home entertainment systems to fit your needs.