Tech News Radio Podcast: May 2011

Sunday, May 08, 2011

Victor Cajiao's Typical Mac User Podcast has a great intereview by George Starcher with Scout Moulton discussing how hard drives work including a deep dive into the latest information about solid state drives (SSD).

Rusty Hodge at Groove Salad recently published a great soundscape and news report entitled "The Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery".

It is a great listen with excellent production. I highly recommend listening with a good set of headphones if possible.

The following is a summary of @technewsradio posts to Twitter:

ASIS Bookstore (security pro organization) has announced over 26 new books via their online store
SWFTools is a collection of open source utilities for working with Adobe Flash files (SWF files)
Amazon online cloud services has a bunch of demos available - including Travel Log (Sample Java Web Application)
Google has fixed a SketchUp 8 "dreaded shadow bug"
Franklin Covey's PlanPlus for Outlook (version 7) is now on sale for $80 (vice $100)
Looking for a open source mind mapping tool? Then check out Free Mind
Microsoft Press has announced 3 more books in their Step By Step series: Microsoft Word 2010, Excel 2010 & Project 2010
Wired.com has an interesting article "Wired—Geek Power: Steven Levy Revisits Tech Titans, Hackers, Idealists"
Listening to "A Witness to a the Egyptian Revolution" by Doug Kaye (Executive Director, The Conversations Network) via http://bit.ly/i35GC7Delete
Per Kevin Devin at FriendsInTech.com - A good tool for finding Creative Commons (CC) images on Flickr is here http://bit.ly/gOtgMPDelete
the Microsoft & Nokia deal seems to leave HP WebOS, BlackBerry, and Intel out of the loop with Apple (#2) & Android (#1) being top dogsDelete
red5 is an open source audio/video (FLV & MP3) server that also supports H.264
Steven Levy's classic "Heroes of the Computer Revolution" has a new 25th Anniversary Edition