Halloween hack with LED for Pumpkins. Bored at work on a locked down computer, watch a movie with Excel. Xbox One TV tuner in UK. China will mend your pants for your new iPhone 6 Plus. Oppo One Plus One smartphone invite only. Microsoft announce first quarter sales, and Surface Pro 3 is selling well and a great option. Apple is selling iPhones like crazy, but not iPads. We get into some Phone talk again. Stitcher has been purchased by Deezer. Twitter purchased TwitPic at last minute before closing.

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This show is run by Kyle Button(@techbutton), Senior Editor and social media director of MissingRemote.com and Co-founder of Geekinated and is joined this week by Eric Hall (@wxrocks), and John McMahon (@JohnMcMahon_), and Paul Belser (@interwebtactics) , all Co-founders of Geekinated. Check out the show notes and links below. We record each week, and you can follow us on the Geekinated YouTube Channel for Video Podcast, we are also on iTunes. Most weeks we have live shows and chat available during the recording 8am-9am Central Time. Each podcast is powered by Geekinated. Check out the Geekinated Podcast that happens right after this podcast every week posted on Geekinated.com. Where we branch out and talk about everything Geek.

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SHOW NOTES:

LED Hack for Halloween

http://hackaday.com/2014/10/26/simple-led-project-to-spice-up-your-halloween-party/

 

Using Excel to watch a movie at work

http://hackaday.com/2014/10/24/using-excel-to-watch-movies-at-work/

 

Xbox One TV Tuner

http://thedigitallifestyle.com/w/index.php/2014/10/24/review-of-the-new-xbox-one-digital-tv-tuner-almost-windows-media-center/

 

China wants to make sure the iPhone 6 Plus fits in your pants.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/20/why/

 

Oppo One Plus One smartphone by invite only.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technology/meet-the-dollar299-smartphone-you-can-only-get-by-invite/ar-BBaKsfA

 

Microsoft announces 1st quarter Sales

http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/23/microsoft-q1-2015-earnings/

 

Surface Pro 3 is a great option.

 

And Apple is selling phones like crazy – iPads not so much – http://www.cnbc.com/id/102103560

 

Phone talk

 

Stitcher purchased

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/24/deezer-buys-stitcher-to-add-talk-radio-and-podcasts-to-its-music-platform/i

 

Twitter purchased TwitPic