Sunday, September 14, 2008

GBTV #400 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

About 35 people joined us at the Emergency BBQ Meetup at Bluegrass Restaurant in Highland Park, IL. Thanks to Jim Lederer and Dave Teichman for their hospitality. John Pozadzides was also in town for Hosting Con. John Stopped by and let us know Woopra 1.2 RC2 is now available for download. Here are the links:

Windows Version
Mac Version
Linux Version

Google has been the top search engine for years. Some new kids are challenging the search giant. We looked at Viewzi a while back and I still think it's the most interesting search alternative. Cuil (unfortunately pronounced cool) launched Sunday night. They're new, so I want to give them a shot, but so far some of the results are a little odd. Rafe Needleman wrote about the Cuil launch on Webware.

d-VISION is an internship program for product development and industrial designers. Flowlight is one of their current projects and it promises the ability to write on the air.

At the meetup, I unboxed, or really I re-unboxed, the Beats by Dr. Dre headphones. I'm impressed and encourage you to try out a pair after they go on display in Apple Stores. I'm impressed, but I'm no audiophile. Here is what 3 reviewers had to say about the Beats:

Charlie White, Dvice
John Biggs, CrunchGear
Josh Quittner, Time.com Read More

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