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- Geek
- A technically oriented person. It has typically implied a "nerdy" or "weird" personality, someone with limited social skills who likes to tinker with scientific or high-tech projects. The...
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- Weekend stuff: geeks who love to help
- Earlier today I was speaking with an Adobe Flex geek. I needed some help with a wee project and he's an Adobe rockstar. It was a real pleasure to have someone solve a problem in 10 seconds flat with which I'd been scratching my head for several hours. That's what...
- Tags: Geek, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Photos: Technologizer Tweetup
- Last night, uber geek and massively popular entrepreneur Harry McCracken hosted a tweetup for his site Technologizer in Burlingame, Calif. at the Nectar Wine Lounge. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Entrepreneur, Photograph, Geek, Entrepreneurship, Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- How to be less stupid in 2009
- The title of this post was going to be 'How to be more smart in 2009' but three things changed my mind. First up several of my Twitter followers 'voted' for the 'less stupid' title, second several posts I saw in catching up on New Year reading had me groaning...
- Tags: Information Technology, Geek, Tool, Mike, Production Deployment, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-01-06
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Geek gifts ideas
- Lists ... if there's one thing that people seem to what at this time of year it's lists. In the run up to the Holidays I've planned on posting several kit lists for the Holiday season covering a wide variety of different kit. Today allow me to...
- Tags: Hardware, Geek, Find, Gameplay, Corporate Governance, Games, Security, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-12-08
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Geek gifts ideas
- Lists ... if there's one thing that people seem to what at this time of year it's lists. In the run up to the Holidays I've planned on posting several kit lists for the Holiday season covering a wide variety of different kit. Today allow me to...
- Tags: Kit, gifts, geek, holidays, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Image galleries 2008-12-08
- TechRepublic's Geek Gift Guide 2008
- Even when economic times are tough, technology geeks love to give and receive gadgets. And despite budget constraints, geeks still want the best gadgets. TechRepublic has brought together reviews and photos of some of the best geek gifts on the market for the 2008 holiday shopping season. From...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Geek, Cloud Computing
- Download resources 2008-11-19
- Geek Gifts 2008: Flip Mino
- Pure Digital Technologies latest entrant into the world of pocket-sized camcorders, the Flip Mino, is light, easy to use and a seemingly perfect gift from geeks to grandmas. If you're looking for production-quality clips to wow the film critics, this isn't it; however, if you're want is to shoot a...
- Tags: Video, Geek, Mandy Wolf Detwiler, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Download resources 2008-11-10
- SAP TechEd: what do geeks get out of conferences?
- Technical conferences are always interesting but what do geeks get out of them? This was the question I put to 22 attendees at SAP TechEd Berlin. I restricted them to answering with a single word - well mostly. by Dennis Howlett
- Tags: SAP AG, Geek, Conference, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- The Boss' Guide to Geek Speak: Do You Speak Geek?
- This paper aims to decipher the jargon, converting it to real business contexts, enabling one to not only understand what is being asked for, and how much it will all cost, but fully comprehend why it is needed. Simply, it will give one the power to communicate with the Geeks.
- Tags: Geek, CREDANT Technologies
- White papers 2008-09-11
- The tribes of open source gather at OSCON
- If every show is a trial, users are the jury. You make your decisions signing support contracts, ordering online, in stores, in what you tell your friends. Without you there's no show. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Geek, OSCON, Wannabes, Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Geeks in the wild [cartoon]
- Something to lighten your Saturday morning from Geek and Poke. If you don't get the joke...well, it probably means you have a life, so here's a hint. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Hint, Geek, Cartoon, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-31
- Photos: Taking apart the robot guitar
- Self-professed "teardown geek" David Carey takes apart Gibson's self-tuning guitar to see what makes the instrument rock. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Instrument, Photograph, Geek, Robots, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-04-15
- A geek's trip to Capitol Hill on Network Management
- I appeared before congressional and government staffers on Capitol Hill for a panel on Network Management sponsored by iGrowthGlobal. This was my first time in Washington DC and while it was a little cold for my Californian bones, it was a beautiful city and seeing the capitol of the nation...
- Tags: BitTorrent, Broadband Internet, Cable, Comcast Corp., Corporate Communications, DOCSIS, Geek, George Ou, Internet, Japan, Marketing, Network, Network Management, Networking, P2P, Peer To Peer (P2P), Personal Technology, Presentation, Richard Bennett, Telecommunications, Video, Wireless Network
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- SoftReset 1 (Mobile)
- SoftReset is a program that allows you to easily soft reset the BlackBerry Pearl without having to take the battery out. Here's how it works: Install SoftReset and to reset, run the application and click the big Reset button. Then, choose Reset Now when prompted. This version is the first...
- Tags: Mobile, Geek, SoftReset, Engineering, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-02-26
- AutoLock 1 (Mobile)
- AutoLock automatically locks the BlackBerry keyboard after the backlight turns off, optionally waiting a configurable delay after the backlight shuts before locking the keys. To enable/disable or set the delay, go to Options->AutoLock. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Mobile, Delay, Geek, Keyboards, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Peripherals, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-02-26
- Are those Macs I see?
- As I wander around the Worcester Polytech campus between classes (even sub-zero wind chills can't keep me inside after 90 minutes of stats lectures), I've noticed an interesting shift since I started my master's degree about a year and a half ago. I'm actually seeing Macs. ...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Geek, WPI, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- You know what? Software's not sexy. Get used to it.
- I see Robert Scoble has kicked up a storm over the weekend by wondering why the vast majority of people are more interested in Web widgets than enterprise software (see Techmeme discussion and Michael Krigsman's post with a list of responses from fellow Enterprise Irregulars). The scale of the storm...
- Tags: Software, Web, Middleware, Fact, Geek, Tools & Techniques, Channel Management, Management, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Building PCs vs. buying: Flex those geek muscles
- There are geeks. And then there are geek's geeks. George Ou falls in the latter category. For someone who just has worked himself up to the point where he isn't handy--up from ridiculously incompetent--I can't help but marvel at George's weekend projects. His latest build it yourself feature...
- Tags: PC, Geek, George, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-27
- Vintage Computer Festival: The rare, historic, and bizarre
- Blow off the dust and get ready to dig through boxes. News.com's Kara Tsuboi takes a tour of the biggest garage sale for antique computers, vintage video games, and discarded gadgets--the Vintage Computer Festival at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. And for the first time in decades,...
- Tags: Productivity, Games, Personal Technology, vintage, computer, geek, collector, hardware, linc, synthesizer, history, kara tsuboi
- Videos 2007-11-06
- A big untapped social network opportunity
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk investigates the soft underbelly of Web culture. As Hillary Clinton and Michael Moore will tell you, there is no greater potential money-spinner in the US today than health. We all get sick. So there's always some sicko who wants to make a...
- Tags: Network, Health Care, Geek, FatGeeks.com, Chris, Vertical Industries, Social Networking, Benefits, Healthcare, Channel Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Management, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
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