Here are the shownotes for episode #45 for the Global Geek News Podcast.

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Stories:

• Smoking near Apple computers creates biohazard, voids warranty
• Netbooks have higher failure rates than laptops
• Google’s Chrome OS, the next big thing or Google’s great blunder?
• Microsoft: Azure to go live in January, for pay in February
• Bing captures 10% of the search market in the US
• Banned Xbox 360 modders unite with a class action lawsuit against Microsoft
• New York tests Xbox-based alert system
• Sony to expand the PlayStation Network into Sony Online Service, sell music, books and videos
• “Unfriend” declared word of the year
• Digg CEO Adelson:  “I don’t think people expect to pay for news anymore”

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Host:  Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner

Special Guest:  Randall Bennett from TechVi.com

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Greetings readers!

While I know that there aren’t very many Google Docs users out there (I do use it and like it for simple tasks), there is now even more reason to live Google Docs.  Google has released some holiday themed templates to bring you and those around you some holiday cheer.  With holiday postcards, mailing lables and gift tags, the new templates is a great excuse for anybody to use Google Docs!  What better way is there to tell your family and friends just how much you love cloud computing than to use it to send them some holiday greeting cards?

Here are some small (almost too small) pictures to show you just a taste of what holiday goodness that Google Docs has to offer:

A snowflake post card

Santa Mailing Lables

Holiday gift tags

Make sure you check these out in the holiday templates section of Google Docs.

Do you use Google Docs?  If so, what do you think of it?  If not, does something like this make you more interested in trying it out?

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-Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray

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