Monday, October 08, 2007

Week In Review

In case you missed any of last weeks posts, here's a quick review:

 

  • Brent Evans Geek Tonic Blog Hits 100,000 Views!

    I don't spend much time on this blog talking about blogging because I know that's not why you're here.  Still, I wanted to mention a milestone reached today for the blog.  Today, we achieved over 100,000 views in just over one year.  In addition we're getting about 200 links in…

  • Home Theater PC News:

    Some HTPC Recent News Links: Has Dave Zatz discovered the Replay TV PC Hardware Edition Tuner? Gizmodo's Story on The Release of Beyond TV 4.7.1 with  focus on the new iTunes Integration - Link is to Digg Chris Lanier Reports: Sony Is Not Out of the Media Center Market Floppyhead.com asks: Can…

  • The College Football Geek - Tools For The Fans

    In honor of the upcoming College Football Weekend I'm bringing you a compilation of great College Football Tools for the Techie Fans - you know like me.  These are all useful and pretty cool as well.  I plan to be in attendance when Missouri beats Nebraska this weekend (I hope at least...) and…

  • Getting Gouged by Geeks?

    CBC News Ran This Expose Story on Getting Gouged By Geeks.  It highlights the quality (or lack thereof) of the various in-home geek services such as Geek Squad, Firedog and others and how they can take advantage of those less-then-tech-savvy people who call on them to help them with tech help at…

  • Search Nearby Libraries for Materials With One Simple Search - WorldCat

    My local library has an online site where I can search for books, CD's, DVD's etc.  It's a decent way of finding materials, but sometimes they don't have what I'm looking for.  So then I have to go to another library's site (there are more then one library networks in my…

  • Stay Up To Date With BrentEvans GeekTonic Blog

    Hopefully you are enjoying your time reading this blog.  If you are and you would like to keep up with the posts I have many great ways to do that. SUBSCRIBE 1. Subscribe to the RSS Feed 2. Subscribe to the E-mail Feed - This is simple to do.  Just enter your e-mail address in the…

  • Get a Free Cushion Remote Jacket for Your Wii Remote

    Do You own a Nintendo Wii Game Machine?  Nintendo is giving away free Wii Remote Jackets for anyone who owns a wii remote.  Why you might ask?  Well I'm thinking it has something to do with lawyers worrying about people being still not attaching the wrist strap to their arm and not holding…

  • Photo Slider Game for Flickr

    Just last week I highlighted a bunch of great games using flickr , a photo sharing site.  Well today I bring you another neat flickr game - this one is a photo slider game.  The game created by noviKorisnik is simple yet fun and works by taking any photo on flickr and then scrambling the photo…

  • RSS Feeds For Beyond TV 4.7

    A new, lesser-publicized feature of the most recent Beyond TV 4.7 that was just released is RSS Feeds.  With this latest version of BeyondTV , the webadmin provides access to RSS feeds of your upcoming recordings, recent recordings, disk space remaining and recent showsqueezed (compressed)…

  • Census Data By Zip Maps Mashup

    ZipSkinny is a site where you enter a zip code and it presents you with detailed data from the 2000 census report as well as a map of the area.   It's another good way to scope out a neighborhood or even check out things you might not have known about your neighborhood.   Check it out at…

  • Top Tech Sites: Techmeme Leaderboard

    Techmeme , a technology news aggregator launched their top tech sites page they are calling the Techmeme Leaderboard .  People are calling it a direct competitor to Technorati's Top 100 as it ranks the top 100 "sources" of Techmeme.  My opinion:  I love techmeme and it is in my….

  • Jericho Season 1 DVD Get it Tuesday!

    On Tuesday, October 2nd, Season One of the excellent, Jericho Television show will be released to DVD....