The Geekcast #120 Show Notes: Contact info: | Feed: feeds.feedburner.com/geekcast | TheGeekcast.com | geekcast@gmail.com | Skype & Gizmo: Geekcast | Show notes: send blank e-mail to geekcastpodcast-subscribe@yahoogroups.com | Frappr Map: Frappr.com/thegeekcast ************** Items of Note: There are currently no items of note. ************** Tech news: Apple rumored to be working on iWeb Pro. According to an unconfirmed report via macrumors.com, Apple is working on a higher end web authoring application to complement iWeb. "iWeb Pro" is said to offer an easy to use web authoring interface for small to mid sized companies. While the current version of iWeb is more of a complementary tool to .Mac, "iWeb Pro" is said to be a complete stand alone product. Vista sales propel Microsoft's profit to $4.93 billion. Microsoft Corp. posted a 65 percent rise in quarterly profit, topping Wall Street estimates from better than expected demand for the Windows Vista operating system. "The strength of Vista is really driving this," said Kim Caughey, analyst at Fort Pitt Capital Group. She added that the company had set "manageable expectations for the full year 2008, which generally allows them some headroom." March NPD sales data shows Nintendo beating competition. The Wii has dominated hardware sales in January and then performed a repeat performance in February. Nintendo has gone three in a row, as they dominated the competition for a third straight month with both the DS and Wii. The hardware sales break down to the DS selling 508,000 units and the Wii selling 259,000 units. This brings the Wii to a total of 2.1 million consoles. In comparison, the PS3 sold only 130,000 during the month and its total is almost half of Nintendo's at 1.2 million consoles. The Xbox 360 sold 199,000 during the month, for anyone keeping track. ************** Test a geek: Enjoy 3 more trivia questions. ************** How To: Get Vista Taskbar Thumbnail Previews in Windows XP It was only a matter of time before people started cloning Windows Vista features and adding them into Windows XP. One of the more favorite Vista features is the thumbnails that popup when you mouse over the taskbar. And now you can use them in XP as well. The utility used for this is called Visual Tooltip, which is a hybrid dock / thumbnail applicaton. With a few tweaks to the settings, we can make it work just like Vista thumbnails. To make your thumbnails look the same as mine, just follow these couple of steps. Download and start the application, and open up the options from the tray icon.Increase the size of the sliders to make the thumbnail bigger, and then uncheck the option for “Size proportional to the target window”. Click on the Display tab, and then uncheck the “Show window title” That’s all there is to it.Download Visual Tooltip 2.1 at http://chsalmon.club.fr/index.php?en/Visual-tooltip-about ************** Ask A Geek: This segment will return on a future episode of The Geekcast. ************** Hack: MAC: Make Skype video larger, for free. Skype video is great but if you want to get a bigger picture, it's not so easy. Luckily with a few small changes to configuration files, you can make your video instantly bigger. You need to upgrade to the latest Skype release (2.5.0.85 or later for mac and 3.0.0.216 for PC), quit Skype, and then edit the config.xml file in your settings directory ("~/Library/Application Support/Skype/[skypeusername]/" in OS X).You should see an entry that looks similar to:??   Built-in iSight? Modify that to read:??   640?   480?   Built-in iSight? When you've finished, your contacts will be seeing you in glorious 640x480 instead of the standard 320x240. PC: Install the latest public version of Skype 3.0 or newer for Windows.Open config.xml in Skype settings directory. Find the section under /. Add the following additional parameters in it. (It probably already has some other settings in , just leave those there.) 480 640 ATI T200 AVStream Analog Capture 25 https://developer.skype.com/SkypeGarage/SkypeForWindowsExperimental/HighQualityVideoCalls ************** The geek's view: This segment will return on a future episode of The Geekcast. ************** Less