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Stephen is a west coast Canadian who enjoys pretty much all things geeky. Whether it's podcasting, playing with tech or just watching a great re-run of Star Trek, Stephen is probably interested in it. GonnaGeek is the brain child of Stephen. You see, for years he has helped run a variety of specific genre websites (such as comics, Star Trek, etc) but sometimes he found himself needing to talk more than just comics... that's why he created GonnaGeek. Stephen is currently the Producer, Editor and a Co-Host of the Official GonnaGeek.com Show (www.gonnageek.com/show/) and Better Podcasting (www.betterpodcasting.com). He also runs www.thepodcastforum.com

Why the Facebook Apps Irritate Me…

As you may know I now regularly use both iOS and Android and one thing that irritates me is no matter how big the company is their apps always seem to offer different experiences – even Facebook. What really bugs me is that Facebook itself operates so differently between Android vs iOS that the actual…

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From the pages of Geek-Girl… Mr. Mash-Up!

The mysterious Mr. Mash-Up gets his own Zero issue, collecting all of his appearances outside of Geek-Girl #0, from Actuality Press! The product of his father’s dalliance with a cold but beautiful alien goddess, Arin Zahne a.k.a. Mr. Mash-Up is the ‘black sheep’ of his demonic other-dimensional family; living on a ‘granite hell hole,’ eking…

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Google Unveils Touchscreen Laptop – Chromebook Pixel

With its ever increasing-in-popularity Nexus line of touch devices, Google has been gaining more traction than ever in the line of consumer electronics; it appears they want more. On Thursday Google unveiled their first touch screen laptop which is powered by the Google Chrome operating system. The Chromebook Pixel will cost $1299 for a Wi-Fi…

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Windows 8 after two months of use….

I’ve now been using Windows 8 on my primary desktop computer for close to two months and contrary to my initial reaction – I don’t regret it one bit. I admit that when I first downloaded the consumer preview I was convinced that I would never make the jump; however, their upgrade deal at the…

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Google Nexus 7 Review

For quite some time I’ve become very aggravated with my first generation iPad. Not only does the screen look terrible compared to anything current, but my iPad has become slow and very unstable with modern apps. I also had the opportunity to play with a 7 inch tablet and I found that for my use…

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Mysms, By far the best messaging app I’ve ever used.

For years I’ve been a heavy iOS user. Not only do my wife and I both have iPhones, we also have had an iPad since the first generation. Being that the majority of my contacts have also been iPhone users, iMessage has really allowed me to send/receive message to a lot of my contact using…

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Best Buy Closes Several Canadian Locations

I was only a couple hours into work today when I received a text claiming that Best Buy had been shut down in my city. After hearing the news I quickly searched the local news sites only to find articles about other locations being closed through the country. Given that there were two locations within…

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J.J. Abrams Proves It’s Not Always Star Wars vs Star Trek

Since Disney acquired Lucasfilm and announced that 2015 will feature Star Wars Episode VII, the rumour mill has been churning about likely directors for the film. From Fight Club’s David Fincher to Iron Man’s Jon Favreau, the pool of names has been a deep one. This all changed on Friday when Disney announced that the…

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Cakewalk FA-66, A Tasty 6-Channel Recording Device

For years I’ve enjoyed podcasting doing a variety of shows including some locally with friends, and others online mostly via Skype. Although I do enjoy doing the production side of the shows (editing) at the end of the day I am lazy. While a lot of people choose to manually insert splitters, bumps and music…

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THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW YOU NEEDED: Synergy Edition

I’m the first to admit that considering I only podcast once a week on a recreational basis, I have an overly complicated setup. My “Podcast Arena” (as I call it) consists of four monitors, two desktop computers, one laptop, one audio mixer, one six-channel firewire input device, a microphone, an iPad and a bunch of…

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