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Beijing cracks down on hacker ring. Google Superbowl commercial gets kudos. Gmail to go social. Why? It’s dumb. IBM rolls out Power 7 chip. Win7 NOT killing batteries. I repeat NOT killing batteries. iPOD prices to get “nimble?” The Nook is now out finally. iPad losing buzz. Canon shows new gear. Beer is good for you.

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Apple Sticks it to Android

People are dubious over Apple iPad. Kindle taking a beating by publishers. Apple bans any mention of Android from app store. 80,000 Nexus phones sold in 30 days. 3G Slingplayer for iPhone. Huge MSFT patch Tuesday coming. Xbox Live dead. At least for old Xbox. Jon Schwartz is a character. Symbian now officially Open Source. And teenagers are odd, check out why.

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iPad Solicits Textbooks

4/5ths of young adults use wireless Internet rather than the old-fashioned ways. HTML 5.0 getting into the news. Nexus One gets the edge over other Droid phones. Amazon getting more and more into tech. Bit-Torrent passwords hacked? The Devour phone arrives. iPad to be used for textbooks? Video games sales sliding. Fake update installing Trojans. Sprint to do Wi-Max phone. Bans on cellphones in school fails. Italy to screw web vids.

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Google Says Screw You Apple

I give you a timeline of the growing Apple versus Google feud. Look for a G-Tablet. Meanwhile a webcam coming to iPad. Why already? Controversy over iMac production. Activision out, Chegg in. Woz says that the Toyota pedel problem is a software issue. Windows Mobile not as bad as you think. Facebook craze a problem.

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No Moon for You

NASA Moon program dumped. Google business app store coming. iPad still in the news. Yahoo back in bed with AP. Bots are different. MSFT screws US customers. Flash memory improved. Attacks on Facebook and Twitter triples. Windows 7 is a winner.

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CopCAST Episode 159 – Bite The Cop

For the second time this year, the digital command center got hammered with a foot of snow. Somehow we got the show out despite having to shovel tons of snow.

Again this week, I was able to get together with our very own Two Girls From Utah to get their perspective on last week’s show. This week Shell wanted to talk about our Mommy Dearest story – you know the one where the mom made her kid kill his pet hamster because he made bad grades. And naturally Suz could not pass up the nipple biting bad guy.

It is Miller time in New Zealand. Time for the Crocodile Dundee technique. Complaints from neighbours, a postman and a woman taking her child to school. The SC doper gets smoked. NOTE: The last 4 idiots who broke in here and stole from us are at the martin county correctional facility getting acquainted with Bubba. Our keynote story tell us to encourage your kids to “bite the officers’ faces off?” Paying for love from all the wrong places. Looks like this guy nailed it. Another fatality chalked up to porn. Drunk says, “take me to Orient.”

This week we have another installment of the Tales From George’s Pocketbook, our audio segment from our brother officers Great Britain. Are there times when you feel like work is just something you do? Sometimes it helps just to see the same things that you do but from a fresh perspective to remind you just how much you really enjoy your job.

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If you are like 70% of the United States you have snow on the ground. So heat up a cup of tea, download the show and fire up the iPod or iPad. Remember to stay safe, always wear your vest and have a great week.

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iPad Mania Wanes

Windows 7 driving record profits for MSFT. iPad all over the news again, but people are complaining. Also the iPad moniker trademarked by others. AT&T boosting network investment. Nintendo profits dropped while DS still sells like crazy. Obama may privatize the space shots. What? Google social search reaching beta. McGraw-Hill snubbed? Or not? Digital books under renewed attack.

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iPad Mania

All the news surrounds the iPad. Will it succeed? Probably. It’s still a giant iPhone. Oracle laid out plans for Sun and nobody noticed. China joining with philosopher Bill Gates. In science news: running barefoot is better. Dinosaurs were colorful. Space Shuttle ready to go. Mouse cells can be turned into nerve cells. AT&T owns the iPad connectivity. Yikes. Samsung making a mistake methinks. Listen to find out why!

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If You Want To Find It – Futz It

You know the internet is a huge sink hole for time. What is even worse is when you come across a great site but you don’t have time to review it and then you can’t find it later.

I know you can bookmark it but that gets to be a pain after a while when you have so many bookmarks you still can’t find what you want.

The solution? Set up a Futz.me account. That’s Futz!!

Here is how it works. When you find something you want to read later, just use your address bar to Futz it. Just type “futz.me/username” (without the quotes) before the url and Futz.me will send you an email with a link to the page.

Not cool enough for you? Well Futz.me lets you send yourself a reminder via the address bar. Even cooler, you can also send reminders to your phone. Check it out.

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Google BACK to China? Already?

Apple tablet details leaked.  It will be a giant iPhone. Google Voice moved to the iPhone. Google may also be back in China sooner than later. Texting banned in KY. Rover still stuck on Mars. Bill Gates dancing? So what? FCC cracking down on early termination fees. Google fixing 3G problems. Win 7 needs updates already. Zune phone a sure thing. Does the Pope blog? ITC looking at Apple on behalf of Nokia.

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Google Founders to Dump Stock

Apple tablet computer has every chatting. Apparently Apple has 50 versions? What? Bill Gates has become an economist it seems. Pope says to blog! AMD has a slew of new chips. Google voice recognition catches cursing and blocks it. WebCam in Bears den show bear giving birth. HP getting into digital music service in Europe. Zune down for a day for maintenance. Google founders to dump stock.

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CopCAST Episode 158 – Lead Foot

Well it was a rainy weekend but that didn’t dampen our spirits for this week’s show. It will be the the Colts and the Saints in the Super Bowl. We had a ton of email this week. Remember, 20 days until Valentines Day on February 14th – don’t mess it up this year.

I was able to tap into the vast redneck wisdom of our very own Two Girls From Utah to get their perspective on last week’s show. This week Shell had a little problem making up her mind on her favorite article so we had to let her comment on three while Suz talks about round holes and diesel fuel.

Our keynote story involves a heavy fine for a heavy foot. It is easy to miss things lying around a crash site. If at first you don’t succeed – just quit. Bad grades? Kill the pet. Love can be a heavy burden. Looking for love in all the wrong places. These guys made a big withdraw from the bank. Our record setter pleaded guilty. Guns save lives – or at least one life. You know that is going to leave a mark.

In this week’s installment of the Tales From George’s Pocketbook, we need to be kind to the British, they’re not used to getting snow and apparently four inches of the stuff is enough to pretty much stop the UK dead in its tracks. Some people still have to carry on as normal though, even if in some cases this means acting like a bunch of kids themselves.

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If you are in Virginia, dock your boat, wait for the flood waters to recede while you listen to this week’s show. The rest of you should just download the show, load up the iPod and listen to it while you sweat your way toward accomplishing that New Year’s resolution. Remember to stay safe, always wear your vest and have a great week!

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Why Didn’t I Think Of This?

Every now and then someone comes up with an idea that is “simply” beautiful. Usually, it is some new product that makes you think, “Why didn’t I think of that?” My neighbor, Roy Terkelsen, recently came up with just such an idea.

Salem, Virginia is not known for its snowfall but a few weeks ago we got dumped on to the tune of 18 – 24 inches in just over a 24 hour period. On the bright side, I finally got to try out my Honda Pilot in the snow and it performed wonderfully. Unfortunately, with that much snow, when the city trucks plow the streets they deposit a pretty substantial pile of packed snow in front of your driveway and mailbox. It took me two days to dig out the driveway and an area in front of my mailbox so my letter carrier could get close enough to deliver my mail.

After I finished my hours of shoveling, I was driving past Roy’s house when I spied his simple brilliance. Instead of using his back to shovel the huge snowbank in front of his mailbox, he used his head. He simply mounted a spare mailbox on a 2 x 4 and pushed it into the snowbank where the letter carrier could reach it to deliver the mail.

My plan is to take it a step further and mount a cheap mailbox on a 2 x 4 with a freestanding base so I can just set it out in front of the snow after the plow passes. So let me go ahead and say it, “I wish I would have thought of that.”

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Get A Handle On Your Google Services

I don’t know about you but I find myself getting more and more connected to the big G for my online services. Although I guess we shouldn’t complain about free services, opening a browser tab or window to access the Google services is sometimes a pain. That is why I like the GoogSysTray.

It is a neat little tool for use with the Google services. It monitors your Google Calendar, Reader, Voice, Wave and Gmail. If you get any activity in your accounts, you get a pop up notification in your system tray. If you are a Google user this is a must have. Unfortunately, us Mac users will have to wait since it only works with Windows XP, Vista and 7. Check it out.

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