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The great team at FriendsInTech have released another Halloween special podcast called "It's The Great Server Chuck and Kreg." 

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This podcast is sponsored by SCOTTEVEST (SeV) - makers of fine tech clothing.

Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs examines the latest from MaximumPC on the Zalman CPU cooling technologies, and some reviews of MP3 players. Plus we review the different Microsoft Vista options using a reference guide from PC World, and there are some additional Vista related posts that may be of interest at: sholden.typepad.com/vista.

In addition, we have an eTech 2007 recorded interview with Linspire that discusses the following items:

• CNR.com
• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
• Virtualization
• Ubuntu
• OpenOffice
• SageTV
• Adobe Apollo

Links mentioned in TECH NEWS RADIO PODCAST #325 published for March 30, 2007 that covered the topic "Overview of eTech 2007":

• MakerFaire.com
• Where 2.0 Conference
• O'Reilly Release 2.0 Magazine
• Bill Moggridge's "Designing Interactions"
• Rael Dornfest
• Tim O'Reilly
  
• O'Reilly Radar
• Arthur Benjamin's "Secrets of Mental Math"
• DIY & Hacker Ethic: MAKE magazine, CRAFT magazine
• Ubiqutious WI-FI: Chumby platform, Threadless.com
• Collaboration & Attention:  Twitter, Facebook, Jaiku, AttentionTrust
• Web 2.0 business applications: wesabe.com, Open Planning Project, TradeStation, SwiftTrade
• New solutions: freebase - semantic database, Adobe's Apollo
• Jeff Hawkins at Numenta
• Jeff Jonas at IBM on "Advanced Analytics"
• "Incantations of Muggles" by Danah Boyd

Our topic eight technologies that we thought had potential to help IT professionals in the near-term:

1. Amazon's S3 (Storage), EC2 (Processors), and SQS (Messaging) technologies 
2. Sun Microsystems Project Blackbox
   
3. Yahoo! Pipes
4. RSS Tools like Attensa Feed Server, RSS Bus, and Newsgator
5. Zimbra new offline email client
6. Adobe's Apollo
7. Scott Berkun new book "The Myths of Innovation" [NOTE: His previous book "The Art of Project Management" is also highly recommend.]
8. Microsoft's Deepfish
   

Also don't forget to check out our eTech 2007 OPML format conference notes posted to Grazr.com.

We also conducted four interviews at eTech 2007: Attensia, ThinkFree, Zimbra, and Linspire.