Special show this week everyone! This is the one where we formally welcome an addition to the Geek Machine, and we couldn’t be more excited about it. Rich Coonelly is a fellow geek with quite the decent pedigree. He spent a long time writing movie reviews online back in the day and will be bringing that talent to the PGM ship where he’ll be a rotating regular on the podcast and offer up his finely honed insights all over the place. Welcome aboard!

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Dan’s pretty happy about this week’s break song, but to see what it is you’ll have to listen or at least follow along for some show notes! (more…)

If you listened to Show #00027 you heard me go over some of this already but I wanted to dedicate an entire post to comparing the two current cloud-based music services, Amazon’s Cloud Player and Music by Google. Amazon’s is ready and available for everyone and Google’s is still in an invite-only beta. In this four-part write-up I’ll walk you through setting everything up (Part I), using the browser-based players (Part II), the Android apps (Part III) and lastly I’ll wrap up my opinions and look ahead at Apple’s iCloud service (Part IV).

Get your music library ready, check your ISP data cap and let’s get started!

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One of the coolest aspects to owning the iPad is that companies are increasingly looking to it to recreate the board game experience digitally. The hardcore purists are probably up in arms at that statement, but really there are more than a few upsides to it. The digital versions are usually significantly cheaper, scoring and setup is handled for you, and my favorite is always having a willing opponent be it online or AI. While this is all good news though I don’t think it’s ready to replace the analog version quite yet.

As companies look to bridge the gap between digital and analog gaming things should get really interesting for consumers and gamers. Case in point is the Duo and it’s accompanying game Yoomi (You, Me) from Discovery Bay Games. It’s a two part system of both analog and digital components and does a good job of connecting the two. But let’s explain what Yoomi with Duo is.

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After seven previous films and boatloads of money, the Harry Potter films have come to an end with “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.” This film follows Harry and his friends as they race to stop the evil Lord Voldemort from killing them and taking over the world. In similar style to the previous movies, this entry boasts great special effects, a unique universe, and, for better or worse, memorable performances. However for all that this film does right, it still suffers many of the pitfalls of previous Harry Potter films.

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