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About this episode

I'm back from the staycation and have a lot to cover! Nokia announced their Booklet 3G. It's a beautifully designed netbook with WiFi, built in 3G and GPS, plus an HDMI port. Sirius announced the XM SkyDock, which turns an iPhone or iPod Touch into a Sirius XM Radio tuner. It'll charge your phone and broadcast audio from it, either stored or streaming for $120. The newest PocketDock from SendStation adds line out and a mini USB port to you iPhone or iPod. I'm loving my latest WordPress install called Pretty Link Pro. I would say this is the best plug-in I've ever installed because it allows you to control your brand better throughout the Internet. We've all become accustomed to shortened URLs and using services like bit.ly and tinyurl.com. They're great services, but unfortunately you're giving away those links to another brand other than your own. Pretty Link Pro allows you to create shortened URLs using your own domain name. My normal posts for GeekBrief.TV look something like this: www.geekbrief.tv/brief-616-slimmer-ps3-glass-dualview-st225-st220-logitech-mice. I have to shorten that if I want to tweet it, but with Pretty Link Pro I can turn it into www.geekbrief.tv/616 (the episode of that particular Brief). Or, I can turn www.calilewis.me/12-days-of-twitter-wrapped-up into www.calilewis.me/12days. There are tons of features, all of which you can find at www.geekbrief.tv/prettylink. John P. is the one who turned me on to this plugin, and he wrote a full review on his blog, www.onemansblog.com/plp. Snailmailr.com will let you send snail mail with color pictures to the unconnected members in your family just by going to their website and filling in the address, and typing the letter. It's as easy as sending an email. You can sign up at Angieslist.com/geek and save 25% and find service providers you can trust when you use promo code GEEK.

• Release Date

  Sep 2, 2009

• Runtime

  03:43