Tech News Radio

This podcast highlights some items of potential interesting items from MaximumPC magazine published either in April or May 2006.  Here are the links mentioned:

• Artic-Cooling's Accelero VGA Cooler works great with ATI X1800 XT
• mplayer2 vs. Windows Media Player
• Windows Media Drivers: DIV Movies Software, AC3Filter, and Videra
• VLC Media Player with support for Windows, BeOS, BSD, Linux, and Mac OS X (no support for REAL Player)
• Free PDF authoring for Windows via: www.foxitsoftware.com or PDF Creator
• WinDirStat overs a great way to visualize file/folder data
  
• THE MOVIES Game looks like a cool game
• Shop @ MaximumPC

This podcast is sponsored by O'Reilly and Associates Safari Bookshelf online technical library.

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This podcast examines life hacks, a bluetooth-enabled MP3 player, protecting your display systems from eavesdropping, and buying-and-selling computer network attacks.

The links mentioned in this podcast includes:

• Gina Trapani @ LifeHacker.com
• Invisibility Cloak
• Yahoo Calendar
• Quicktext for Thunderbird
• Textpander
• RsyncX
• Windows TabletPC
• Microsoft's SyncToy
• 43folders.com
• MAKE Magazine
• Cool Tools via KK.org
• TradeTricks
• Wired
• Oakley and Motorola's "O ROKR" with Bluetooth
• 3M Privacy Filters
• Starbucks
• Dan Kaplan @ SC Magazine on "Zero Day Vulnerabilities"
• Zero Day Initiative
• Symantec Security Response
• Kaspersky Labs
• Verisign's iDefense
• Microsoft Security Response Center
• 3Com's TippingPoint

This podcast is sponsored by O'Reilly and Associates Safari Bookshelf online technical library.

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TechNewsRadio.com continues to be very impressed with the "technology podcast" space.  The quality and the depth is really amazing.   Here is a quick sample:

• Mobile Tech Roundup looks at Palm, OQO, and Sony technologies.
• On The Run with TabletPC has a great "story" of merging tech and music
• CNET News.com podcast for May 19, 2006 looks at Dell's AMD deal
• Make Magazine has a great research project highlight (video)
• IGN Wireless Podcast examines E3
• Help Net Security (HNS) chats with Nortel on security topics
• GameShout has the latest and greatest from E3 on the Sony PS3.  The also have the latest on Nintendo and Xbox.
• PowerPage looks at the latest in Apple notebooks.

This podcast discusses the following topics:

• Newsgator Technologies provides the backend for USATODAY.com's new "My USA TODAY"
  
• Wired examines the current state of the stock photography marketplace.
• GFi's End Point Security product locks out mobile devices, networking interfaces, and portable storage devices for Windows networks.

The links mentioned in this podcast include:

• Newsgator Inbox (Microsoft Outlook)
  
• NetNewsWire (Macintosh)
• iStockPhoto
• iStockers
• ShutterStock
• Dreamstime
• Getty Images
• Corbis
• Flickr
• Creative Commons

This podcast is sponsored by O'Reilly and Associates Safari Bookshelf online technical library.

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Mike Grehan posted his audio files of his recent interview with Google's Matt Cutts on clickz.com.  I thought this was interesting for two reasons:

• It is neat when traditional writers/bloggers release their research that is used to build written reports.
• Some of the stuff that Matt discusses about Google's ranking and search technology is very compelling.

In this podcast we give away some more stuff in our April 2006 give-a-way.  Get yourself on the TechNewsRadio.com's Frappr Map and get in on the free stuff. Choices over the next three months include: INIT's iPod Black Leather Case or Video 30-MB Silicon Skin, or Dynex Headphone Splitter.

Links mentioned in this podcast include:

• Security Briefings
• ExtraLabs.net's Feed Mix 4.4 (They also offer: Feed Editor 3.75, RSS Wizard 2.65, RSS Publisher 1.2, Image Assistant 2.8, and Feed2Html PHP Script 1.2)

And the conferences we discuss includes:

• Techni-Tool, Weller, and 3M are offer a Lead-Free Soldering and Static Control Essentials course in San Diego on June 6, 2006.
• OSCON (Open Source Convention) will be held July 24-28, 2006 in Portland, Oregon.
• Eclipse World - Enterprise Development Conference will be in Boston, MA from Sept. 6-8, 2006.
• Better Software Conference and Expo will be June 26-29, 2006 in Las Vegas, NV.
• The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) Seminar Series on Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing will be in San Francisco, CA from June 26-29, 2006.
• CIO 100 Symposium and Awards will be at the Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego, CA from August 20-22, 2006.

This podcast is sponsored by O'Reilly and Associates Safari Bookshelf online technical library.

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This Tech Rag Tear Outs analysis segment from TechNewsRadio.com is sponsored by  O'Reilly and Associates Safari Bookshelf online technical library. 

In summary this podcast is focused on: some upcoming conferences, a new KVM that supports dual-head video, wireless routers, some open source and freeware news & tools, and some integration info about Apple and Oracle.

The technical links mentioned in this podcast include:

• Project Management Fundamentals will be in Anaheim, California from June 21-23, 2006.
• VoiceCON Fall 2006 -- The Forum for Business IP Telephone  will be in San Franciso, CA from August 21-24
• Hall Research Model MC4-H2 "Dual-Head" KVM Switch
• Junxion now has official support for Cingular Wireless and Sprint using these technologies: EVDO, EDGE, WIFI, HSDPA, GPRS
• Trilogy Equity Partners
• OpenDocument Format ISO 26300 available via OpenOffice.org and NeoOffice
• Network Notepad v4.4.9  vs. Visio or NetViz or SmartDraw
• Apple FED-TALK mailing list
  
• Apple and Rotech utilize: Oracle Database 10g RAC, OS X Server, and Xserve RAID

Also I highly recommend the following beers:

• Rogue Kell Irish Style Lager
• Ridgeway Brewing Very Bad Elf Special Reserve Ale
• Weisse Hacker-Pschorr Traditioinal Wheat Ale

Lastly, I also have to recommend Theodore Roosevelt Island which is part of the George Washington Memorial Parkway that is operated by the Virgina Turkey Run Park for a run or walk if you are in the Washington DC area.  It was fun and relaxing.

It should also be noted that at the end of the podcast is a fun song from The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd called "One Meatball!" By Dr. Steve & Fidgert.

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There is a lot of stuff going on not just on TechNewsRadio.com but also with FriendsInTech.com:

• Kreg Steppe has a new podcast called Valid Syntax
• Chuck Tomasi has been doing a great job with the Gmail Podcast
• And if you are interesting in computer network security, then you need to check out Pauldotcom.com

In addition, the rest of the technology podcast space is very busy. Here is a quick "link fest" summary:

• Podcast Academy 3 in Santa Clara, California will be June 15-16, 2006
• Phil Windley is taking over some key functions from Doug Kaye at IT Conversations
• Podcasting Legal Guide
• Salesforce.com has an AppExchange podcast (registration required)
• MacWorld Podcasts and Inside Mac Games are good for Mac fans [best one is still MacCast, followed by the Typical Mac User Podcast, and then Mac Review Cast]
• IBM's Investor Podcasts
• InfoWorld has a lot of podcasts referenced in their search engine
• Wired has been offering podcasts since Feb06
• MakeZine on "Podcasting"

Lastly there are some actual "new" technologies that are improving the podcast experience (from both listener and production standpoints) they include:

• Pickle Player
• Yahoo! Publisher Network
• Podcaster 1.1.3 (Macintosh)
• Podcast Monkey 1.0 (Macintosh)
• FeedForAll 2.0b2 (Macintosh)
• Wink [via SearchWinSystems]

Amber and Leo hit a virtual home run with Inside the Net 20: ReGenesis TV podcast.

This is a very powerful podcast that outlines what the TV show ReGenesis is doing to merge TV and the Internet into a single, seamless but still integrated marketing and promotional message.  Plus it adds signficant value to the viewer/participant.  Kudos!

Just to keep everyone in the loop, I am having some web-hosting issues with TypePad and with the MP3 server at Geekon.com.  I am trying to resolve them as quickly as possible.

UPDATE (Thursday, 5/4/06): Geekon.com is back up thanks to Harold Reed at DarnPC Podcast.  TypePad was down because of DDoS, and then I moved some files to Libsyn and then they went down.  Isn't technology fun!