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Be sure to sign up for a live interactive TechPodcasts.com Roundtable on August 13th. Our  team will highlight tips, tricks and best practices of podcasting, using GoToMeeting, a web conferencing  application  that  enables you to  instantly hold Web conferences, meetings, presentations, training sessions  and collaborations. As a special offer, you can try GoToMeeting Free. Just visit GoToMeeting.com, click the Try It Free button and enter the promo code "techpodcasts" to receive your special 30-Day Free Trial!

Tech Tidbits Daily for July 29, 2005

Maximum PC published for July 2005 gives the Hitachi 7K500 Deskstar 500-GB 7200-rpm hard drive a KICK ASS Product award with a 9 out of 10 rating. The author of the article is Josh Norem.

A special thanks goes out also to Kreg Steppe, Victor Cajiao, Shelly Brisbin, Charlie George, Joe Burgess, Jennifer Snoddy, and Kevin Devin for filling in for me with Tech Tidbits Dailies while I am on vacation.

Tech Tidbits Daily for July 28, 2005

Kreg Steppe examines the PocketPC software Sidewindow tool that enables your PDA to act as an extension to your PC system desktop for displaying pictures, media player, or other applications.

Tech Tidbits Daily for July 27, 2005

Shelly Brisbin examines IEEE 802.11s future standards. More info from Wi-Mesh Alliance and Wi-Fi Planet (on Wi-Mesh and SEEMesh).

Tech Tidbits Daily for July 26, 2005

Victo Cajiao @ Typical PC User Podcast examines InformationWeek.com's recent story "Poker-Playing Robots Battle For $100,000 Pot".

System Administrator Appreciation Day - July 29th (Friday)

Kevin H. Devin @ In the Trenches notes that July 29th (this Friday) is System Administrator Appreciation Day.  Attached is a quick reminder blurb from the founder Ted Kakatos.

Tech Tidbits Daily for July 25, 2005

Kreg Steppe examines news from Space.com about the upcoming space shuttle return to flight.

Tech Rag Tear Outs (TRTO) #031 [Computer Reseller News, PC Magazine Government Computer News, and SC Magazine]

The 31st podcast of Tech Rag Tear Outs (TRTO) has been posted.  Here are the detailed show notes:

• (00:00-03:27) Introduction
  • TechPodcast.com announces advertising deal with GotoMeeting.com (a Citrix company)
  • Official Beer Of The Show: BridgePort India Pale Ale brewed out of Oregon
• (03:28-12:49) Primary Content
  • Computer Reseller News (www.crn.com):
    • Converged Access offers network compression appliances
  • PC Magazine (www.pcmag.com)
    • Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Tablet (formerly from IBM) gets PC Magazine Editor's Choice Award
  • Government Computer News (www.gcn.com):
    • Product Reviews of PDAs and SmartPhones: BlackBerry 7250 and the Dell Axim X50v are GCN Lab Reviewer Choice award winners.
  • SC Magazine (www.scmagazine.com):
    • Christopher Moody has an in-depth GROUPTEST: Intrusion Prevention that looked at 12 solutions with TopLayer Networks' IPS 5500 Attack Mitigator getting a "recommend" rating and SourceFire's 3D System getting a "best buy" rating.
• (12:50-20:52) Closing
  • Normally I play a Billy Watson  song at the end but today we listen to Minus Vince from Podsafe Music Network
  • Special thanks to DarnPC for the extra bandwidth
  • To leave audio comments call: 206-337-1533
  • Have a great day!

TechPodcasts.com Signs Major Multi-Podcast Sponsorship!

TechPodCasts.com, the top technical audio podcast resource worldwide, announced today a first of its kind sponsorship deal with GotoMeeting.com, a Citrix Online product

Spokesperson Todd Cochrane says, what is significant is that this is the very first multi-podcast sponsorship deal. This agreement is a large win for our members and the techpodcasts.com network. A significant amount of work lead to getting to this day, with the network barely being 6 months old it is evident that when like minded podcasters come together and build a branded network, along with developing a legal marketable framework, with the necessary statistics reporting, then by presenting a well laid out marketing plan, we were able to sign this sponsorship deal. This solidifies our ideals that "podcasters do the work, and indeed podcasters get paid".

TechPodcasts.com is uniquely positioned to deliver the GoToMeeting.com message. More impressive in June the network reached 135,000 unique listeners, and saw record traffic of over 750,000 unique downloads among the 20 reporting affiliates.

This sponsorship is the perfect marketing fit, we have the technical audience, and we will be able to directly reach decision makers in the technical community. We look forward to a successful campaign and a long term relationship with GotoMeeting.com.

TechPodcasts.com is a network of independent audio content producers who have agreed to create child safe, educational content as well as work collectively to build the best collection of Technical Podcast available on the Internet.

Tech Tidbits Daily for July 21, 2005

Intel has announced two new Intel Itanium 2 processors both running at 1.66-GHz but now with 667 megahertz (MHz) front side bus (FSB) compared to current offerings of 400-MHz FSB.  The other difference between the two new processors is that one offers 9-MB of cache and the other comes with 6-MB.

The new FSB speed will enable according to Intel up to 10.6 gigabits of data per second to pass from the processor to other system components. In contrast, the current generation 400 MHz FSB transfers 6.4 gigabits of data per second.