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Chelfyn picks up MsBehaviour’s topic from last week by explaining personal fabrication and a 3D revolution called Makerbot. As Chelfyn explains, it is extraordinary how the present really is starting to look like the future… Check out more audio and video over at theG33kShow.com.

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The Guardian Science section reports that a team of US scientists have engineered bacteria that could solve complex mathematical problems faster than anything made from silicon. Chelfyn gives a summary of what all this means. Check out more audio and video over at theG33kShow.com.

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Chelfyn has some great tips to improve productivity when doing repetitive tasks in front of your computer. He has found some nifty ways to employ gear that is traditionally used in a musical context to take care of those computer keyboard “shortcuts”. Indulge in more over at theG33kShow.com or follow Chelfyn on Twitter

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Chelfyn tells us about Opera Unite which allows you to easily share your data: photos, music, notes and other files. You can run chat rooms and host entire Web sites. It puts the power of a Web server in your browser and using your own computer and internet connection. Indulge in more over at theG33kShow.com or follow Chelfyn on Twitter

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Chelfyn has been giving the next generation of Microsoft’s operating system a spin. Windows 7 is released in October but a downloadable release candidate means anyone can give it a go now. So does he think it is an improvement on the disastrous Vista? Indulge in more over at theG33kShow.com or follow Chelfyn on Twitter

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Chelfyn is back to tell us about Singularity University. From their website: “based on the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley, is an interdisciplinary university whose mission is to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies (bio, nano, info, AI, etc.), and apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanity’s grand challenges.” Indulge in more over at theG33kShow.com or follow Chelfyn on Twitter.

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Chelfyn is building his ultimate PC and he is detailing how he put it together. Last week he looked at the hard drive. In this final episode of the series he gives us his picks for graphic card options including the many uses for a new piece of tech called CUDA. Indulge in more over at theG33kShow.com.

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Chelfyn is building his ultimate PC and over the next 2 weeks he’ll be detailing how he has put it together. Last week we looked at the core of the system. In this edition Chelfyn concentrates on the hard drive including the benefits and negatives of using new solid state drives. Indulge in more over at theG33kShow.com.

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Chelfyn has created a neat little “see tune, hear tune” search hack by Chelfyn using Firefox, Diigo & Fizy to find almost any tune you read about instantly. Just highlight, search, click and the song is playing within seconds. Check out the wee instructional video over at theG33kShow.com.

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This week Chelfyn is quite taken with a new RSS reader interface called Feedly. It works by taking content from your Google Reader account and presenting the information in a magazine like format. It also has plenty of tricks and social media integration. Find more tech goodness over at theG33kshow.com

Listen/Download Chelfyn on Feedly