Geeks Interrupted

By 94.1FM 3WBC

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 n... more

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How many episodes does Geeks Interrupted have?

The podcast currently has 344 episodes available.

Geeks Interrupted episodes:

February 24, 2014 Episode #49: 24th 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:
New Telstra Plans: The Full Leaked Pricing [Gizmodo Australia]
BPR price change Mar 2014 [Australia Post]
Turnbull launches broadband tracker website [ZDNet]
Fitbit stops selling the Force, recalls all product and offers customers a full refund [Mobile Syrup]
Facebook to buy WhatsApp for $19 billion in deal shocker [Reuters]
Facebook will no longer change your privacy settings when you die [The Verge]
Apple releases iOS 7.0.6, iOS 6.1.6, & Apple TV 6.0.2 with fixes [9to5Mac]
Steve Jobs will appear on a US postage stamp in 2015 [The Verge]
Breathe easy - now all train stations, tram shelters and platforms, and bus shelters are smoke free [Public Transport Victoria]
Devo guitarist Bob Casale dead aged 61 [SMH]
Charlotte Dawson, former model and television personality, found dead in Sydney apartment [ABC News]
'Space Jam 2' could be happening, with LeBron James in tow [The Verge]
NBC resurrecting 'Heroes' for miniseries in 2015 [The Verge]
A Farscape movie is in the works [io9]
Why 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Is the Riskiest Marvel Film Since 'Iron Man' [The Hollywood Reporter]
Our Robocop Remake - Scene 27 [Vimeo]
Microsoft combats Chromebooks by cutting Windows licensing fees by 70 percent [The Verge]
Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.
Songs We Played:
The Time - "Jungle Love" [iTunes]
Nirvana - ...
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1h 60min
February 17, 2014 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...
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2h 2min
February 10, 2014 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...
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2h 2min
February 03, 2014 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...
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2h 2min
January 27, 2014 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
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2h 2min
December 30, 2013 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.
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31min
December 23, 2013 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.
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23min
December 16, 2013 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.
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24min
December 09, 2013 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...
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2h 6min
December 02, 2013 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:
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2h 11min

FAQs about Geeks Interrupted:

How many episodes does Geeks Interrupted have?

The podcast currently has 344 episodes available.