Student Geek Live at Gadget Show Live

Proud to announce that Student Geek will be photographing, typing, playing and breaking at The Gadget Show Live!

Tickets for Gadget Show Live 2012, the UK’s biggest and best consumer tech event, are now on sale at www.gadgetshowlive.net/tickets. Taking place at Birmingham’s NEC from 11 – 15 April, the five-day event is the perfect place to see, try and buy the very latest tech – with many products being shown in the UK for the very first time.

Gadget Show Live 2011 sold out over six weeks before the doors opened last April, with close to 105,000 attendees. For 2012 the event has been further extended to include an additional hall packed with new features and exhibitors. To make sure as many gadget
fans as possible get to indulge their passion, an additional 10,000 tickets have also been released.

Based on the popular Five TV show, Gadget Show Live 2012 will see over 280 companies exhibit thousands of the coolest products on the market. Exhibitors already confirmed for the event include: Samsung, JVC, Sennheiser, Kenwood, Packard Bell & Acer.

Let us know if you are going? or have you been last year what did you think? What would you like to see? If you are exhibiting at this years show – give us a shout we may just write about you. Comment, Share or Poke below…

STUDENT GEEK BLOG PROTESTS THE PROTECT IP ACT

Student Geek is aimed and created in the UK but the content is for the world, it is important to understand the internet at the moment can be accessed across the world that values an open, secure, and free Internet. It does need protecting but that’s when education, common sense like not allowing minors, prevention of copying content using digital technology like DRM and making it easier and better to go legal should all help to improve piracy. Even though this legislation is being created in the US it affects us all and will set a president for other countries to follow.

A lot has improved for example Music buying has changed it has become easier to buy music easier and cheaper without the fluff of CD cases from Zune, iTunes and even listen to it for Free with Spotify or Last.fm so it has helped a lot and change attitudes but with Movies services are slowly becoming popular in like Flixster, LoveFilm, or BlinkBox. More TV’s get connected to the Internet the easier it will become.

Student Geek values open, secure, and free Internet.

Publishing freedom is a right we must protect.

Many websites are blacked out today to protest proposed U.S. legislation that threatens internet freedom: the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). From personal blogs to giants like WordPress and Wikipedia, sites all over the web — including this one — are asking you to help stop this dangerous legislation from being passed.

New Year! = New Password!

Passwords are used everywhere especially online to allow you to gain access to your emails, contacts, documents, spreadsheets, pictures and more.

Happy New Year! By now the hangover from the previous night has got over with… now it’s time to change your passwords with following tips in mind. Why I say this I hear you ask? Well how many times have you changed your password in 2010? once or never… not good enough so beef up the security with the following tips.

404 days… of Student Geek 2010/11

The winter season and holiday has arrived and fast going. The Student Geek blogging project has passed well over  one year and now 404 days old being a web developer (you might have seen a 404 error code when you went to a page that does not exists, get it…) it would be a nice touch to mark this day with a post on highlights of the best posts since 2010/11 so far on the Student Geek Blog proudly powered by WordPress.com

Cookies… Nom Nom Nom

Long gone are the days where advert and TV programs kept distinct and separate but now in the world of TV from past few years in the US and recently in UK there is product placement.

Inspired to write this article as I was recently watching a repeat of The Big Bang Theory on (Good old E4) where Sheldon fills in an online dating profile for penny to find her a date to get her away from the  online mass participation game she was glued too. Apart from this i noticed… Sheldon using a Dell XPS with stickers  stuck around the logo to make it look customized while penny is using Dell that is pink. Not forgetting the carefully arranged ‘Red Bull’ cans that penny might have drunk to fuel her game play. All tactically designed to drop brand names  on to the screens. To target the type of audience they think would like or buy the product.

The point of this article to let you into secrete if you have not noticed it before on the use of cookies… Read on to find out more.

Give a special tech gift that no one else does…

or thought of… It’s the time of the year where people celebrating or not the festivities are getting gifts for each other. Though it can be difficult at times on what to get or it is a last-minute panic for shopping for a gift that is unique. Well here at Student Geek we got some great suggestions for you.

Give a gift that’s personal

Domain Name aka Website Address

Domain name are great gifts, as they can be personalised to suite the person so you got a family member or mate fanatic about comics, than why not buy him/her a domain name with their name + with ‘Hero’ at the end. E.G. CJHERO.com/.co.uk or whatever you prefer.

Just make sure when you register the name you inform the company it will be a gift so they will arrange things properly.

Cloud power…

During the summer break I had the opportunity to teach a bunch of young people about becoming a webmaster and its basic skills of html and design concepts. The venue was new ex youth centre building that had an IT lab with a mix of mac’s and Windows laptops. There was wi-fi and excellent internet connection to all computer systems so that was not the problem.

“Panic or maybe not…”

There were number of things that made me nervous there was no room to project inside the IT lab, no web design software on any of the computers for me to use so it helps them in the process. I decided to see if i could use the web (cloud power) as my huge software bank to do everything online without installing or downloading anything to reduce the hassle of students finding it difficult move from one system to another.

Summer Break Coming to End

Let the words flood this blog, this year has been planned out to be bigger and better for Student Geek. This academic year will be more connected with campus events! Lots more articles all in the aid of helping you to maximise your learning, time and partying!

Shortly returning from the extended break. Like our Facebook Page to keep in the know.

The summer months have not been quiet and we got lots to share with you from us and others around the UK.

Unleashing the power of the mobile camera

The idea behind this article came when I was taking picture in a car park at the airport, you will understand why a lot more clearly below but I wanted to share how I use the mobile camera as a tool to effectively make my life easier, which many of you would appreciate and gain from.

The title says it all for this article, as the mobile camera is quite a powerful tool but we all need to know what we use it for other than taking standard photographs.

Car Parking

Don’t forget where you have parked car ever again instead take picture of the sign indicating what level or zone you parked at  and you will never forget.

Handheld scanner in your pocket

Take a photograph of the document rather than waiting to get home to scan. You don’t need an app just use the inbuilt camera and take a snap this is especially true if you have 5 or more megapixel camera with auto focus on. If you’re using windows phone 7 device then the photograph will automatically  sync and update the Windows Live  SkyDrive service, saving you the hassle of transferring from device to PC/MAC.

Student Geek Savings!

I thought I’d compile a list of student geek saving tips! I have spent few days wondering how I was going to present to all my legends…. and decided to do it in stages where this is just start of many updates or follow up articles, tweets or suggestions on the Student Geek page on Facebook or the site.

The  sales are all gone and the summer is fast approaching, the pockets might be tight as bills as pile up and i know the job market is tight wad at the moment so keeping everyone of those hard earned pennys will become useful especially if you are a student now going to university…