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Computers are generally designed for the sighted user, but there are tools to enable almost anyone to use a computer. Learn about adaptive computing with Calais Ingel who runs the Assistive Technology Lab at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California.

Ben's Birthday, Miles gets into UCSC as a literature major and Sean and Lyle keep working hard.

The week in Geek News followed by your questions and comments about technology.

John offers gear to the Geeks; Ben and Drew want the same items; A thumb wrestling match is proposed to settle the conflict; Drew leaves the state in fear. What do we do now?

John Tracy, Miles Elam and Sean Cleveland join host Lyle Troxell for a discussion of technology in the news.

Apple's new laptops are awesome! They're also horrible. Contradiction? You decide.

Climate Savers Computing Initiative is a nonprofit group of consumers, businesses and conservation organizations who hope to promote development, deployment and adoption of technologies that improve the efficiency and reduce the energy consumed by computers. Erik Teetzel from Google will join the Geeks to talk about the amount of energy that will be saved, and the design and implementation of the technology that Climate Savers is recommending. MP3 of Show

A full gaggle of Geeks come together for a technical peek at the GeekNews of the week. MP3 of Show

Are you fascinated by polls and survey data? As the Internet becomes more ingrained in our lives, from reading the news, to communicating through email and social networks, to transacting online, the byproduct of our aggregate movements provides an even deeper insight into who we are. Join the geeks as they welcome Bill Tancer to discuss his book Click: What Millions of People do Online and Why it Matters . MP3 of Show

This week we had some fun with Apple's voice "Alex" reading some of the station business. We also covered a bunch of news and took some calls. This is one of those episodes where we focused on having fun and secondarily informed listeners. MP3 of Show

In our on-going GeekSpeak Science Fiction Author Series, we dive deep into fantasy with author Terry Brooks. Terry won instant acclaim with his New York Times bestseller The Sword of Shannara. In his latest book, The Gypsy Morph, the world is in flux as the mortal realm yields to a magical one; as the champions of the Word and the Void clash for the last time to decide what will be and what must cease; and as, from the remnants of a doomed age, something altogether extraordinary rises. MP3 of Show

Saving the planet is not an easy thing to do; James Glave did his part by making his eco-shed. And in his recently released book "Almost Green" James shows the lighter side of trying to be green in America. We'll chat about the technical difficulties and plain humor in Glace's personal story. MP3 of Show

Critiques of Comcast internet service, magic reading wands, NASA cancer sniffers, and a memorial for Steve Jobs. These stories, your calls, and more on this episode of Geek Speak. MP3 of Show

Joe Stewart from SecureWorks chats with the Geeks about malware and online crime. Joe's report on Coreflood shows how complicated and cleaver internet criminals have become. MP3 of Show

The Olympics experienced a blue screen of death, the fireworks show was partly computer-generated, and Speedo owns swimming. The Geeks discuss the changes in the Olympic Games since the early days where all athletes competed in their birthday suits. MP3 of Show

The Geeks take calls and cover the Week in Geek News covering a new giant virus, iPhone waste of money and much more. MP3 of Show

The Geeks welcome writer David Weber, author of the popular and bestselling Honor Harrington novels. Weber joins the geeks to discuss his latest novel 'By Schism Rent Asunder', the sequel to last year's bestseller 'Off Armageddon Reef'. These novels form a new series that sees a nearly destroyed humanity driven from home to a new colony, where they are forced to give up scientific inquiry, technology, and higher mathematics in an attempt to avoid detection by a an aggressive alien race known as the Gbaba. Weber is a master of science fiction, and has deftly handled future technologies and physi

Charles Stross' most recent book "Saturn's Children, a Space Opera" explores a human-lacking future society inhabited solely by emotionally complex robots. Rick Kleffel invited Geeks Sean Cleveland and Lyle Troxell to chat with Charles Stross on KUSP's Talk of the Bay, and we thought it would make a great bonus-episode of GeekSpeak. MP3 of Show

The Geeks discuss poor Internet connectivity in rural areas, magic tricks helping user interface design, the latest Craigslist debacle, Goodlepedia, and breaking the new iPhone 2.0. The geeks also take calls from listeners. MP3 of Show

Tommy Olsson, co-Author of The Ultimate CSS Reference joins the Geeks to chat about web development. We will also cover the Week in Geek News and take your calls with questions and comments about technology. MP3 of Show

The Geeks speak with Jay Lake in the studio about his new book 'Escapement', the sequel to his hit 'Mainspring'. These books envision a steampunk-esque alternative 19th century Earth complete with gears and a mainspring hidden at its center. You see, Lake's universe is actually an enormous clockwork. The Geeks, joined by Rick Kleffel of The Agony Column, discuss this unique universe and the science behind it. (picture ? 2006 M. Lake) MP3 of Show

There are pictures of water ice on Mars, Ben has a new bike, breach notification laws are not so effective, and maybe we can stop telecom immunity. MP3 of Show

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NASA is launching a probe to the Sun and a satellite to probe the secrets of super-massive black holes outside our own galaxy. This and more including rootkit woes and supercomputers on this week's episode of Geek Speak. MP3 of Show