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This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for March 23nd, 2005.  We continue to review items of potential interest from eTech 2005 conference. One of the neater things is something that everyone listening can actually experience.  It is the new MAKE magazine (homepage) that is "181 pages of Do It Yourself (D.I.Y.) technology."  Some topics covered: build your own aerial photography using kites, put together your own magnetic stripe card reader, XM Radio hacks, iPod tricks, and a 5-in-1 network cable. There is also a great companion MAKE blog and a MAKE podcast ( is expected in the near future. For more information about the links mentioned in this podcast, or for more details on how to subscribe to this podcast check out www.technewsradio.com. You can also send audio or email feedback to [email protected]. Have a great day.

This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for March 22nd, 2005.  We continue to review items of potential interest from eTech 2005 conference. Mark Fletcher the founder and CEO of Bloglines had a host of technical and business suggestions in his session "From The Garage: Lessons Learning Birthing and Building Web Start-ups."  One of them that had a great deal of endorsement from Mark was Berkeley DB from SleepyCat for doing all back-end database solutions for web-based interfaces. Things he liked about this solution: quick, reliable, and great support. Sounds like good reasons to check them out. For more information about the links mentioned in this podcast, or for more details on how to subscribe to this podcast check out www.technewsradio.com. You can also send audio or email feedback to [email protected]. Have a great day.

Tidbits has a great article by Glenn Fleishman entitled "Road Warrior Scramble" that outlines the protections used by Glenn while attending the recent South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) digital media conference:

What I didn't do is expose my passwords, my browsing habits, my email, or my FTP transfers to anyone who might have been watching my traffic. I used a variety of encryption methods to make sure that nothing I did was easily snoopable, because all of the networks I used were public.

It looks like the very popular Engadget podcast (03-21-05) is back online.  The host is Eric Rice.

Topics of potential interest: Motorola i930, The Treo, HP iPaq h6315, Playstation Portable, CTIA Wireless Expo, and Home Backup Solutions.

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This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Monday, Mar. 21th 2005. This week we are going to continue to highlight potentially interesting tidbits from the recent eTech "Remix" Conference.  Today's item comes from Dennis Crowley at Ubiquity Labs in New York City.  At the conference they showed a project called Dodgeball that links people together via their mobile devices to the locations they are either currently visiting or planning to visit.  The service is now available in 22 cities. For more information about the links mentioned in this podcast, or for more details on how to subscribe to this podcast check out www.technewsradio.com. You can also send audio or email feedback to [email protected]. Have a great day.

This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Friday, Mar. 18th 2005. This is Steve Holden and I am back from the recent Etech "Remix" Conference.  Over the next week or so, I'll share some of the emerging technology items that caught my eye.  The first really neat thing was from CarBot.  This very small foot print PC has been designed from the start to be integrated into your car's power system and controls.  It supports Wi-Fi, broadband wireless, GPS, multimedia (DVD, MP3s, etc), touch screens, and includes a very customizable user-interface. If you are in your car a great deal, this looks like an excellent all-in-one solution for an immersive mobile environment. For more information about the links mentioned in this podcast, or for more details on how to subscribe to this podcast check out www.technewsradio.com. You can also send audio or email feedback to [email protected]. Have a great day.

This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Thursday, Mar. 17th 2005. I'm Kreg Steppe in for Steve Holden. From Wired Magazine:

"Most consumers are already overjoyed with the photo quality of an 8-megapixel camera. But when it comes to the high resolution images a 144-megapixel camera brings, they can prepare to be astounded.

"New York photographer Tom Watson and his business partner, Rob Howard, make a living by creating large-format digital photographs. They believe the technology they are using is "pushing the limits of location photography."

"Each image is at least 140 MB -- a massive file size. By contrast, a typical high-resolution JPEG file taken with a 5-megapixel camera is around 4 MB."

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