Is everyone ready for their weekly dose of geek? Good. This week we cover a lot of stuff. Also, there’s a bit of post production, let me know what you think of it (it’s a work in progress). So here is what we cover.

• Target Exclusive Jazz
• Transformers is setting records.
• Cloverfield, WTF?
• StarTrek XI - no Shatner? Nimoy is in?
• Amazon Unbox - TiVo buy on TV.
• Zudacomics.com
• PGR4 Now has Motorcycles
• Nights looking cool on Wii
• PS3 Price Cut and backward compatiblity woes
• Mogul Minute

Lots of fun stuff and as always, let us know what you think.

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Boy, it seem like we just did one of these a couple of days ago, oh wait, we did. Well we’re back on our Tuesday schedule with this special Transformers centric episode. Here’s what we cover.

• Bill Gates ain’t the richest
• MS Apologizes for slow Ultimate content
• 18 mile BT range
• 2K Games has an answer for Madden
• Transformers Review

Doesn’t seem like a lot but looks can be deceiving and as usual Jeff and I manage to turn it into almost an hour long podcast. Lots of geeking out going on here despite the lack of tech news out there.

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Maximum Geek 10 is up and running. Last weeks pathetic little episode has been canned completely. This week Jeff and I cover a lot. We talk about where we stand on the iPhone (I think it’s lacking and there are some unforgiveable f-ups, but there will certainly be a market and a next-gen iPhone, Jeff on the other hand calls it the Apple Edsel). We break down the biggest problems with the iPhone in the second half of the show, so if you’re sick of hearing Jeff and I talk about the iPhone, the first half is iPhone free.

• Live Free or Die Hard mini review
• Next Bond Film gets a director - Marc Foster of Stranger Than Fiction and Finding Neverland
• R2D2 Projector Link
• WiiWare
• MizPee Link
• Dell’s new Laptops
• DX10 Video Hits laptops - Alienware opts out.
• Shadowrun on XP
• Vista Start Menu in XP Link
• Next Gen Zune going into production at the end of July? 80 Gig and that’s about all we know.
• iPhone
  • -No voice Dialing
  • -No 64 Bit Windows
  • -Interface Issues
  • -Very little BT support
  • -Headphone Jack - $10 adapter available
  • -Activation Problems
• Funny shiznit Link

As always we want to know what you think so drop us a line in the comments section and tune in next week for more geeky goodness.

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Well we did record an MG tonight. There were technical issues and I’ll be posting a partial cast tomorrow, but it’s very short and we didn’t hit our main topics. But I’ll have the cast up tomorrow with notes.

Update: Too much going on today and some editing involved in getting this one up. So it looks like tomorrow for this Half Geek. Depending on how things fall out next weeks MG may be delayed, as soon as I know I’ll give you guys an update.

Alright, we had Alan back this week and we managed to barely talk about Palm or Apple. Here is what we did cover.

•  Genesis Tour
• Seadragon and Photosynth
  http://www.break.com/index/ridiculously-cool-technology-from-microsoft.html
  http://labs.live.com/photosynth/
• Wireless electricity
  http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/
• Pac Man 2
  http://www.joystiq.com/2007/06/06/pac-man-championship-edition-hands-on/
• Shannara and Thundercat movies
• Constructible Card Games Pirates and Transformers
•  The New Star Wars Constructible Card Game (which is indeed awesome now that I have a few things from it).
• Mobile Minute
  • Initiate
  • The Palm Gandolph

Lots of good stuff int his episode, let us know what you think.

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Maximum Geek Vol. 2 Ep. 8 is live and ready for your downloading pleasure. This is an episode with some really great content (and really poor sound quality, Blog Talk Radio has its down side). As a result of the poor sound quality and various technical issues which Blog Talk Radio has caused the last two weeks we’re going to stop doing it live every week. Every so often we’ll do a special live show (which we will announce on the website). Anyway, down to the show notes. Most of the show is dominated by talk of the Foleo and its two recently announced competitors.

• Speed Racer details
• Starwars, the force unleashed
• Canon 50 megapixel CCD
• Pico ITX
• Dells new uber slim laptop Link
• Foleo
  • Eee PC - Link
  • Via Nanobook Link    
• What Palm, Apple and Microsoft have in common

I’d like to say thank you to our guests Alan Grassia (host of the 1src podcast and Foleo Fanatic and JAmerican (from the 1src chat). Alan will be returning next week to talk about something completely different, constructible card games. Again, next week we move back to our tried and true Teamspeak recorded podcasts.

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Week 3 of the Maximum Geek live cast and while Jeff and I had fun we had a disappointing drop in live listeners. So is there interest in the live show? Well Jeff and I are enjoying so we’ll keep doing it, but we would like to hear what you guys think of the live format.

OK, now for the show notes. Things were a little scattered this week, it started with technical difficulties and a bit of disorginization on my part, but we recovered nicely I think. So here are the notes as I remember them.

• Cyborgs are coming
  http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32230/118/
• ModBook 
  http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ModBook
• Fab PC
  http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/fujitsu-shows-off-fab-pc-laptop-concept/
• Script Frenzy
  http://www.scriptfrenzy.org
• Mobile Minute
  • The Hawk - Update: Here are Jeff’s thoughts on The Hawk http://www.jeffkirvin.net/2007/05/30/foleo-are-you-freaking-kidding-me/
• Shadow of Legend 
• Pirates 3 review

We cover a lot about Script Frenzy and script writing in general

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This week was the second week of our live cast and I gotta say, we’re digging doing this live. We cover a lot but we didn’t have very many live listeners. So if you’re interested in listening in on a live show but Tuesday night doesn’t work for you let us know and maybe we can find a better night where we can get more live listeners. Anyway, here’s what we covered last night.

• Shrek 3 mini-review
• 80 Gig PS3
• Starcraft 2
• Nintendo Tops Hardware Sales Chart
• Vista, bad rap or bad software?
• Why PC games aren’t going anywhere.
  • JAmerican from the 1src chat joins us for this one.
• Mobile Minute
• Q lust

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This week we did something new. We recorded Max Geek live using Blog Talk Radio. It was a bit of an experiment and so it was a bit rough. We’ve got a much better handle on things now and are seriously considering doing the cast live from now on. So let us know if you would rather we stick with “studio” recording. We’re especially interested in what you think of the sound quality. It’s definitly lower than our normal cast, but maybe I think it’s manageable. So take a listen and let us know what you think. Anyway, here’s what we cover, minus all the side tracks of course.

• iRobot Create
• Kind of new Macbooks, sort of.
• HP 20inch laptop of doom.
• Dark Days Are Coming
• Blizzard hiring mobile programmers
  • “Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a highly organized individual with outstanding communication abilities to manage the process of bringing Blizzard-IP-related functions into the mobile space.”
• Blizzard has a big announcement next week
• Treo 755p and the “Hawk”

Along the way we talk about comics and weight and all kinds of random topics. As always we’d love to know what you think.

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Tuesday Jeff and I will be doing our first Maximum Geek Live Cast. We’re using Blog Talk Radio so it’s definitly going to be a bit of an experiment. So if you’re interested here are the details.

Tuesday May 15th at 8pm Central

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/maxgeek is the site to listen

(347) 996-3771 is the number to call to tell us that we’re full of crap.

I’ll post the topics monday night, just let us know if there are any questions.