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Not Sure What iPhone You Want? It’s easy to compare…

While most people in the iPhone market dream to have the latest and greatest, sometimes going a year or so older is just more affordable. Because of this each year when there’s a new iPhone announced I find myself educating someone about the easiest way to compare models. Comparison articles always seem to be the…

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So You’re Afraid of Facebook Messenger Privacy? Look at these other app permissions…

Facebook has come under some intense scrutiny this past week with their drive to move their messaging component out of the main Facebook app. While I’m a firm believer that users should know what they’re getting into when they install apps, for many geeks such as myself it’s been clear all along that this recent…

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First Look: Gal Gadot As Wonder Woman

I like this! I want DC to do well with their films I really do.  Honestly I’m more excited for Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice than I am for Avengers: Age of Ultron.  What are your thoughts my fellow geeks?

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Thor and Captain America Recently Changed, Iron Man and Hulk Soon?

I must admit that I find myself a bit conflicted as of recent. While I love to indulge in my fair share of mainstream gossip sites, as a comic book fan I take issue when I see these outlets talking about major changes in the comics universe. I think it’s great that comic books are…

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Musings of a Blerd: Thorsday #3 The Worthy

I hope you had a wonderful Thorsday people of Midgard! Another week tis at an end and here again we give thanks to the god of thunder soon to be goddess of thunder? That’s right t’was announced that the man who wields mighty mjolnir would no longer be worthy of such a power and that…

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MXL 770 Condenser Microphone Unboxing and Review

I’m a strong advocate of using Dynamic microphones for podcasting; however, sometimes my geekiness gets the best of me and I don’t always practice what I preach. For a long time I’ve used a Shure SM58 for my podcasting and I’ve maintained good podcast quality using this mic by simply adding some post processing including…

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Musings of a Blerd: Sailor Moon Revisited-Episodes 1& 2

Welcome to Sailor Moon Revisited! Here is where I watch the original Sailor Moon anime episodes every Mondays on Hulu (2 episodes each week for free) which I recap on Tuesdays. For those of you who aren’t familiar, Sailor Moon aka by its original title Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon is a Japanese cartoon (anime) based…

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My Rant on the FF Casting

I recently saw a post on Facebook about this so I wanted to vent and rant. Unfortunately for you, brave reader, Stephen has given me a soapbox to do so. Blame him. Now, do I care whether Johnny Storm is black, purple, green, or white? No. I’m sure Michael B. Jordan will do great. Him…

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COSPLAY TRIAL AND ERROR

This past weekend at Dallas Comic Con, you couldn’t throw Mjolnir without hitting someone dressed as Thor. Or Black Widow. Or in one case, the wendigo from Hannibal. For some people, half the fun of going to conventions is looking at cosplay. It’s like bird-watching, only instead of collecting rare bird sightings it becomes a…

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My experience with the iMessage Not Delivered bug after switching from iOS to Android

As I have frequently mentioned on the GonnaGeek Podcast, back in December I made the switch from an iPhone 4S to a Nexus 5. I had heard (and seen first hand) about potential issues with iMessage so I did what I was supposed to and a couple days before switching I disabled iMessage on my iPhone. Shortly…

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