Geekly Update - 01 February 2012

The AskBobRankin Geekly Update

"Further proof that cat owners MUST put passwords on their screen savers." YouTube claims that it receives 4 billion views daily and that 60 hours of video is uploaded each minute.

"McDuh!" McDonald's #McDStories was created so customers could extol the virtues of fast food on Twitter, but the hash tag was withdrawn only hours later when a flood of negative and disgusting comments started pouring in.

Facebook users will soon be faced with the newly designed Timeline, which is pretty much what its title claims. List your best posts, photos and life experiences in chronological order, and let the data mining begin!

Chronic Dev has just released Absinthe 5, an untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2. Click here if you have updated to iOS 5.0.1 and just can't wait to void your iPhone or iPad warranty.

"Fortunately it's still okay for the Feds to listen in on your phone calls." On Monday the Supreme Court unanimously agreed that police must have a search warrant before using any GPS device to track suspects. The ruling came following a conviction of a man who was tracked with a GPS device with an expired warrant.

Trivia fans can save up to fifty cents off a DVD rental by playing Redbox's online trivia game. The company will issue a discount code after a 60 second game, with a one per day limit through February 5, 2012.

"And the winner of the 2012 Most Quickly Deleted App goes to..." Need a deterrent to using a cell phone while driving? Scoshe's $129.00 cellCONTROL can be plugged into a vehicle's OBD-Interface and paired with a phone app. The result is that all phone activities requiring your hands (i.e. texting, calls and email checking) are blocked when the car is in motion.

Epson has an app that lets an iPhone/iPad/touch connect to one of their projectors and display photos or documents. iProjection is free and can upload files from iTunes, email account or cloud storage.

"It was a dark and stormy night..." A new subscription service is aimed at those who prefer books being read to them. Audiobooks.com offers unlimited access to over 10,000 audiobooks for a monthly fee of $24.95, no apps needed.

"#Keyboard_FAIL!" New York City is upgrading the technology used in several municipal agencies, replacing over 1000 old-school typewriters with ummm... NEW typewriters! Wonder if they still have rotary phones...?