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  • Episode #48: 17th February 2014
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    Microsoft will craft XP patches after April '14, but not for you [Computerworld]
    Windows XP Haswell processors not supported [Page Start]
    Stop the torrents: Australian government eyes copyright crackdown [ZDNet]
    Digital copyright review recommends 'controversial' fair use provision [ZDNet]
    It's a lucrative game, as industry tops $2 billion in Aussie sales [iTWire]
    Self-scan fail: Supermarkets lose billions as thieving customers help themselves [The Age]
    Australian Police To Start Using Android-Powered Fingerprint Scanners [Gizmodo Australia]
    Calling All Dreamers: Disney Is Launching a Startup Accelerator Program [Entrepreneur]
    Apple brings its iTunes Radio music streaming service to Australia, its first market outside the US [The Next Web]
    Apple claims progress on underage employment and conflict materials [The Verge]
    Steve Jobs' lost time capsule found after 30 years [The Guardian]
    Shirley Temple Black dead at 85 [The Age]
    R.I.P. 'Muppets' Puppeteer John Henson [Deadline]
    Box Office: 'Lego Movie' Assembles Huge Fan Base with $60 Mil Holiday Weekend [Variety]
    Fox News Attacks The LEGO Movie [Gizmodo Australia]
    Netflix sets 'Orange Is the New Black' return date [Los Angeles Times]
    Billy Ray Cyrus' Updated Twerk-Filled Version Of 'Achey Breaky Heart' Is The Most Embarrassing Thing On The Internet Today [Junkee]
    Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact...
    2 hr 2 min
  • Episode #47: 10th February 2014
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    Website meltdown adds to Asos discomfort [The Age]
    Stop Tony Meow: A Chrome Extension That Replaces Pictures Of Tony Abbott With Adorable Cats [Junkee]
    Facebook Estimates Between 5.5% and 11.2% of Accounts are Fake [The Next Web]
    Microsoft Asks Windows XP Holdouts: Upgrade to Windows 8 Already [PCMag]
    Google's Latest Doodle Shows Support For LGBT Olympians Heading To Sochi [TechCrunch]
    It Gets Better: Apple Employees [YouTube]
    It Gets Better: Google Employees [YouTube]
    NYPD testing pairs of Google Glass for police use [ABC7NY]
    Toyota to exit Australia, 30,000 jobs could go [The Age]
    Breaking: EVERYTHING we know about the iPhone 6 [TUAW]
    'Flappy Bird' to be removed from app stores, developer tweets [LA Times]
    Apple currently plans to release iOS 7.1 in March [9to5Mac]
    Leonard Nimoy reveals he has lung disease [BBC News]
    Schapelle v INXS: who won the ratings war [The Age]
    Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.
    Songs We Played:
    Cyndi Lauper - "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" [iTunes]
    f(x) - "Hot Summer" [iTunes]
    Klaus Nomi - "Lightning Strikes" [YouTube]
    Free - "All Right Now" [iTunes]
    Icehouse - "Great Southern Land" [iTunes]
    INXS - "Suicide Blonde" [iTunes]
    Imani Coppola - "I'm a Tree" [YouTube]
    Que...
    2 hr 2 min
  • Episode #46: 3rd February 2014
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    Regional radio stations pull online streams due to licensing issues, metro stations might be next [TechGeek]
    Mischievous spam report sees YouTube take down Prime Minister's message [The Age]
    Facebook announces Paper: a 'distraction-free' news-reading app for iOS [Engadget]
    Facebook Tells Advertisers Where You Spend Money [NBC Bay Area]
    'Twitter Commerce' leak puts a buy button next to retweet and favorite [Engadget]
    How I lost my $50,000 Twitter username [Ars Technica]
    PayPal and GoDaddy respond to Twitter hacking controversy, sidestep blame [The Verge]
    Google sells Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion [The Verge]
    Google purchases Nest for $3.2 billion [The Verge]
    Philip Seymour Hoffman dead at 46 [The Age]
    Seven axes Today Tonight on east coast [The Age]
    Jesse Eisenberg cast as Lex Luthor in 'Batman/Superman' film [Entertainment Weekly]
    Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.
    Songs We Played:
    Weezer - "Pork and Beans" [iTunes]
    Davey Lane - "You're The Cops. I'm The Crime" [iTunes]
    Cut Copy - "We Are Explorers" [iTunes]
    Dana Lyons - "Cows With Guns" [iTunes]
    Blancmange - "Blind Vision" [iTunes]
    Paramore - "Misery Business" [iTunes]
    Lorde - "Everybody Wants To Rule The Wor...
    2 hr 2 min
  • Episode #45: 27th January 2014
    Phil Edwards and Andy Blume are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Special Guest: Rob Lloyd.
    Show Notes:
    'Exceptionally fast': Vodafone 'comfortably' trumps Telstra, Optus in 4G mobile speed tests [SMH]
    Monash University first to get its own domain name [The Age]
    South Korea bans unremovable mobile bloatware [Ars Technica]
    Uber employees spammed competing car service with fake orders [The Verge]
    Microsoft reports 3.9 million Xbox One shipments in 2013 [Ars Technica]
    Unlimited 76Mbps for $38: BT's awesome FTTN prices [Delimiter]
    Apple reportedly planning to let you buy physical goods through your iTunes account [9to5Mac]
    Apple reflects on 30 years of Macintosh [The Verge]
    Greg Kinnear is winning as loser in Rake [SMH]
    56th Annual Grammy Awards Winners & Nominees [GRAMMY.com]
    Triple J Hottest 100 - 2013 [Triple J]
    Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.
    Songs We Played:
    Men At Work - "Down Under" [iTunes]
    Mental As Anything - "If You Leave Me Can I Come Too?" [iTunes]
    Nikki Webster - "Strawberry Kisses" [YouTube]
    The Screaming Jets - "Better" [iTunes]
    Daddy Cool - "Eagle Rock" [iTunes]
    Things of Stone and Wood - "Happy Birthday Helen" [iTunes]
    Vance Joy - "Riptide" [iTunes]
    Questions, Comments, Feedback and Suggestions are all welcome.
    Website - http://geeksinterrupted.fm
    Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/GeeksInterrupted
    T...
    2 hr 2 min
  • Special Episode - Episode #3: Summer Edition 2013/14
    We're enjoying a break over the Christmas season, but we haven't forgotten our podcast listeners! Enjoy this look back to Episode 9 when we were joined by Anthony Agius.
    Questions, Comments, Feedback and Suggestions are all welcome.
    Website - http://geeksinterrupted.fm
    Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/GeeksInterrupted
    Twitter - https://twitter.com/GeeksOnAir
    Voicemail - http://www.speakpipe.com/GeeksInterrupted
    If you enjoyed this episode head on over to iTunes and kindly leave us a rating, a review and subscribe.
    31 min
  • Special Episode - Episode #2: Summer Edition 2013/14
    We're enjoying a break over the Christmas season, but we haven't forgotten our podcast listeners! Enjoy this look back to Episode 3 when we were joined by Rob Amos.
    Questions, Comments, Feedback and Suggestions are all welcome.
    Website - http://geeksinterrupted.fm
    Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/GeeksInterrupted
    Twitter - https://twitter.com/GeeksOnAir
    Voicemail - http://www.speakpipe.com/GeeksInterrupted
    If you enjoyed this episode head on over to iTunes and kindly leave us a rating, a review and subscribe.
    23 min
  • Special Episode - Episode #1: Summer Edition 2013/14
    We're enjoying a break over the Christmas season, but we haven't forgotten our podcast listeners! Enjoy this look back to Episode 1 when we were joined by Katherine Back.
    Questions, Comments, Feedback and Suggestions are all welcome.
    Website - http://geeksinterrupted.fm
    Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/GeeksInterrupted
    Twitter - https://twitter.com/GeeksOnAir
    Voicemail - http://www.speakpipe.com/GeeksInterrupted
    If you enjoyed this episode head on over to iTunes and kindly leave us a rating, a review and subscribe.
    24 min
  • Episode #44: 9th December 2013
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    One gigabit available on NBN this month [SMH]
    Australia's last remaining analogue TV transmitters switched off [ABC]
    New USB Type-C connector is smaller, reversible, supports USB 3.1 [Ars Technica]
    Meltdown: Bitcoin Crashes To $US576 [Business Insider]
    Delivery drones are coming: Jeff Bezos promises half-hour shipping with Amazon Prime Air [The Verge]
    Facebook Considers Adding a 'Sympathize' Button [The Atlantic]
    Apple's App Store Hits One Million Apps in the United States [Mac Rumors]
    Apple begins using iBeacons at all its 254 US retail stores [AppleInsider]
    Chekov returns in this trailer for 'Star Trek: Renegades' fan project [The Verge]
    Chris Lilley confirms the return of Jonah as BBC leaks details first [The Drum]
    'Fast & Furious' actress Gal Gadot cast as Wonder Woman in 'Man Of Steel 2' [NME]
    Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.
    Songs We Played:
    George Michael - "Careless Whisper" [iTunes]
    Bloc Party - "Ratchet" [iTunes]
    Cake - "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" [iTunes]
    The KLF - "Justified And Ancient" [YouTube]
    Beck - "Loser" [iTunes]
    The Beatles - "Rocky Raccoon" [iTunes]
    Rebecca Black - "Saturday" [iTunes]
    Bill Nighy - "Christmas Is All Around" [iTunes]
    Questions, Comments, Feedback and Suggestions...
    2 hr 6 min
  • Episode #43: 2nd December 2013
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    Ziggy Switkowski warns of more NBN cost blowouts as services of the future in doubt [The Age]
    Switkowski earns AU$50K per month extra as NBN Co CEO [ZDNet]
    Confidential briefing: NBN unlikely to meet Coalition's deadline [The Age]
    Telstra's copper is 'nearly beyond repair' and 'an absolute disgrace': union [The Age]
    GST on internet sales: State and territories to decide on online shopping changes next year [ABC]
    Government Still Wants to Look Into Collecting GST on Sub-$1000 Imports [Reckoner]
    Bitcoin Crosses The $1,000 Mark On The Mt.Gox Exchange [TechCrunch]
    Classic Tamagotchi returns with new virtual pet keychain [The Verge]
    MSN messenger: The end of an era [The New Daily]
    Apple retail stores go (RED) for World AIDS Day on Dec. 1 [9to5Mac]
    Apple Australia Black Friday Sale: It's All About Gift Cards [Lifehacker Australia]
    Eric Schmidt writes a guide for switching from iPhone to Android [The Verge]
    Paul Walker Dead at 40 [Variety]
    All The Winners From Last Night's 27th ARIA Awards [Pedestrian TV]
    While You Were Sleeping, Hardly Anyone Watched The ARIAs [Junkee]
    Foxtel deals Netflix Australia body blow [iTWire]
    Victoria Police Want To Ban Contactless Card Payments [Gizmodo Australia]
    Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.
    Songs We Played:
    2 hr 11 min
  • Episode #42: 25th November 2013
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    CEO admits Optus milked customers [The Age]
    No need for 100Mbps NBN, Switkowski tells Senate [Delimiter]
    Victoria Police to increase fines for motorists who use mobile phones behind the wheel [The Age]
    End of an era: Once-popular media player Winamp closing down on December 20 [The Next Web]
    Source: Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL [TechCrunch]
    Report: Spotify Is Now a $4 Billion Company [Mashable]
    Last man streaming: Spotify's $250 million war chest makes it the music company to beat [The Verge]
    Two Million! [Raspberry Pi]
    Photographer wins $1.2 million from companies that took pictures off Twitter [Reuters]
    Switch to e-books was 'an unmitigated disaster', says school principal [Independent.ie]
    Apple will now pay you for a water-damaged iPhone or iPad | Apple [CNET]
    iWork for iOS and Mac Updated, Keynote Gains New Transitions [Mac Rumors]
    Genius Bar reservation page now suggests online support solutions for quick troubleshooting [9to5Mac]
    Apple Co-Developed Next Generation Hearing Aid Device Coming to Market in Q1 2014 [Patently Apple]
    Monty Python's surviving members to reunite for stage show [ABC]
    Blur Big Day Out cancellation leaves promoter 'devastated and confused' [SMH]
    Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion [Wikipedia]
    World tunes in to Doctor Who for 50th-anniversary episode [The...
    2 hr 3 min

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Geeks Interrupted is a weekly 2-hour tech show broadcasting live from the studios of 94.1FM 3WBC in Box Hill near Melbourne, Australia. Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Mark Macdowell discuss the latest…