GeekSpeak Banter with the Geeks

Geeks Lyle Troxell, Sean Cleveland, Drew Meyer, and Miles Elam take your calls and prove the age-old adage, “Keep your friends close and your geek friends even closer.”

! Phone Numbers for Real People
Where do you go to get the secret phone numbers and phone commands of companies to get a real, live operator on the line? There are two services available:

[GetHuman|http://gethuman.com/] has a database of numbers and commands that you can use.
[Bringo!|http://www.nophonetrees.com/] is a new service that lets you conquer phone trees. On their site, you find the company youíd like to call by category (credit cards, mortgages, loans, health care). You then enter your phone # (they claim they will never disclose your phone number to anyone, not even your mother!). You then wait a few seconds while the service navigates the phone tree, and then they call you back. You pick up your phone and youíre done

! Microsoft Photosynth

Microsoft is hard at work on a project it calls Photosynth. No release date has been announced. What makes this app so revolutionary and why will it change the way people view their photo colections or even the way they take photos? It incorporates new technology whereby it can take a collection of photos, analyze them, and model them into a 3D virtual scene, placing each photo in their perspective-correct position. This allows users to see where one photo was taken in relation to another photo!

Photosynth allows users to move around in the 3D world, viewing scenes from any angle