Tech News Radio

The following items were recently posted on @technewsradio:

• USB hub allows simultaneous syncing of 49 iPads http://t.co/OO9H7HW
• DEFCON 19 Podcast Review #security #news #research #hacker #conference http://t.co/rbCr7hK
• SpokenWord.org gets about 1000 new programs every day & they are looking for curators of categories to make the content more organized
• BigBlueButton is a open source collaboration and training system that integrates a bunch of open source projects http://t.co/mEL5dDS  
• PC World has more details on the recent news from Qualcomm about their planned updated Snapdragon mobile processor http://t.co/lQQO8y4  
• YouTube has a great overview presentation on how "Prezi for iPad" works http://t.co/sHFJBSo  
• Amazon EC2 is now supporting Virtual Machine (VM) Import to Amazon EC2 instances http://t.co/35n2UtJ  
• IObit has announced a freeware version of Game Booster v2 for Windows that is geared for improving game performance http://t.co/Q0lWB4D  
• Via Box.net ... you can get e-signatures features via DocuSign services integrated with documents stored on Box.net  
• Getting started with project management? - "scope, time & "cost" - a good reference at Wikipedia http://t.co/oVIzQIX  
• "Heroes of the Computer Revolution" original book looked at hackers & nerds from the late 1950s to the early 1980s http://t.co/H4Vz2kM   
• arborjs.org - a graph visualization library using web workers and jQuery http://t.co/Zao0gyv

Looking through my listened to podcast list for this past week, I'm going to recommend the following as potentially interesting:

• MacCast 2011-07-26: Review of Apple Mac OS X Lion Release (News, Tips & Tricks)
• Author Debriefing (August 16, 2011) - The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA
• Southern Fried Security Podcast: Interview with Andy Ellis @CSOAndy [#58] & Interview with Rich Mogull [#57]
• IT Pro Show by Same3Guys: Detailed look at OpenStack
• KPBS Midday Edition: Social Media - Can It Keep You From Getting A Job? 
• This Week In Google (TWIG) #108: Excellent coverage of the Google & Motorola News

Here is a pointer to some recent technology related podcasts that might be of interest:

• Windows Weekly 221: Mango, Windows 7 security, Hotmail, etc.
• MobileTechRoundup 245: tablet news, new phones, latest mobile updates
• Security Now 313: How The Internet Works: ICMP & UDP
• Marketplace Tech Report: 911, eBooks, riots, fantasy footboll, Wikipedia
• Typical Mac User Podcast 237: Lion FDE, Dropbox, PadPivot And Denoising Audio
• Wall Street Journal Tech News Briefing: All the latest business tech news fro WSJ.com

If you have a suggestion or a link to a good technology podcast to let others know about then drop us an email, message @technewsradio, or leave a comment below.

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).

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Today's podcast examines the latest version 3.1 of VMware Fusion for the Apple Mac OS X. 

Feel free to follow along with Steve Holden at: Twitter and/or Google+.  For technology news only updates follow TechNewsRadio @ Twitter.

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Today's podcast examines portable audio recording options and some podcast production and distribution technologies.  Links mentioned in this podcast include:

• Yahoo's Podcasters Mailing  
• Zoom H4n
• Zoom H2
• Edirol R-09
• Zoom H1
• Marantz 660
• Apple iPad
• WordPress Audio Player
• Google Player
• Playtagger from Yahoo
• Amazon CloudFront
• Encoding's Apple & Amazon Streaming

Feel free to follow along with Steve Holden at: Twitter, FriendFeed, and/or Delicious.  For tech news only updates follow TechNewsRadio on Twitter.

This podcast is sponsored by SCOTTEVEST and Amazon.

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Today's podcast is a quick review of the Apple iPad and a pointer to a new book "iPad: The Missing Manual" [ISBN: 978-1-4493-8784-6] by J.D Biersdorfer with David Pogue. Links mentioned in this podcast include:

• Steve Holden's iPad Review (Part 1)
• Steve Holden's iPad Review (Part 2)
• How to automatically load PDFs into iBooks
• Steve Holden's Newton & iPad Unboxing Video
• David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD)
• Answers@O'Reilly
• Missing Manuals Series
• Apple iTunes

Feel free to follow along with Steve Holden at: Twitter, FriendFeed, and/or Delicious.  For tech news only updates follow TechNewsRadio on Twitter.

This podcast is sponsored by SCOTTEVEST and Amazon.

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Today's podcast is a pointer to an O'Reilly webcast entitled "Five Ways The iPad Can Entertain You" with J.D. Biersdorfer the author of the book "iPad: The Missing Manual." The webcast is going to focus on: Books,  Photos, Movies, Music, and Maps; plus offer time for Q&A.  The webcast is currently scheduled for 10 - 11 am on Friday, June 9, 2010. You can sign up via: REGISTER >

We also play a short promo for Chuck Tomasi and Kreg Stepp's companion podcast called "Teach Yourself WordPress in 10 Minutes ... in 10 Minutes" that is a great supplement to their book "Teach Yourself WordPress in 10 Minutes".

Feel free to follow along with Steve Holden at: Twitter, FriendFeed, and/or Delicious.  For tech news only updates follow TechNewsRadio on Twitter.

This podcast is sponsored by SCOTTEVEST and Amazon.

• OpenBook Specification for ePub (xhtml, css, etc) - some tools: Calibre & Adobe InDesign http://bit.ly/bGryk8
• TurboCASH has released the 4301 Update (5/5/2010) - this is an interesting open source financial mgmt application http://bit.ly/cwBVEP
• Just posted on my personal blog "An Apple iPad ~2 Month Later Review & Update" http://bit.ly/dAl3ml
• MacWorld has good references on on ePub & iPad http://bit.ly/ckDgSy
• Celina Jacobson has an interesting post examining "100 Excellent Lifehacks for Your Long Commute" http://bit.ly/bjsLuS
• Mark Minasi's TechNewsletter#89 Secrets of Creating Default User in Windows 7, Cleaning Up Setup's Little Security Hole http://bit.ly/cQBbEV
• Box.net is now beta testing drag-n-drop functions to the cloud using HTML5, Firefox 3.6, and Google Chrome
• Possible Evernote User Group Meeting in San Diego being discussed http://bit.ly/ble1sk

The following is a summary of tweets posted to TechNewsRadio@Twitter over the last week:

• This WEEK in GOOGLE42 bit.ly/9SYkfL Check out: Ribbit, Android Kindle app, Google Reader Play, Diaspora, Google Wave open to all
• Per @LeviathanChrons the podcast novel "Leviathan Chronicles" has a big update on 5/26 http://bit.ly/8ZzfDq
• Amazon has announced a Asia Pacific Region AWS datacenter in Singapore (EC2 S3 SimpleDB RDS SNS CloudWatch Cloudfront) http://bit.ly/9NMCNc
• TechPodcast.com Roundtable is today - Sat. May 22nd at 1pm PT / 4pm ET - Stitcher Radio, Green Screen HowTo, 5 Top Windows Utilities
• standardizing all my computers with Google Chrome as the default browser - it seems to be faster, more reliable, etc than Firefox
• TweetDeck 0.3.4.1 seems like a nice upgrade: more meaningful icons, location, scheduled updates, translations, etc
• OpenOffice.org is looking for proposals their 10th year conference in Budapest, Hungary from 08/31- 09/03/2010 http://bit.ly/b6d6cQ
• Checking out Apple's "iPad : The Missing Manual—New from O'Reilly" - new book $25 - http://oreil.ly/90aNZO
• Mark/Space has announced Android Calendar Sync Version 1.4 Beta bit.ly/aDLSrX
• The new Apple OS X Snow Leopard Security Guide is now available online http://bit.ly/9Rm19H via PDF http://bit.ly/cSanMT
• Slysoft.com has released AnyDVD6.6.4.2 with support for Avatar, more encryption updates & other fixes http://bit.ly/c0tub1
• Willow Garage has a new open-source initiative for institutions and universities to build upon a robot platform bit.ly/9muTgs
• OpenBook Specification for ePub (xhtml, css, etc) - some tools: Calibre & Adobe InDesign http://bit.ly/bGryk8
• Just installed the new VMWARE 3.1 for Mac -- reports about Bootcamp VMs being faster seem true - more info: http://bit.ly/vmware31
• PhatWare has announced WritePad for iPad - an advanced handwriting recognition software http://bit.ly/aSuNXT
• Checking out Tweekdeck v0.34.2 (upgrade from v0.34.1) --- I wonder what is new?
• Checking out PersonalBrain 5.5 (visual information management) for Mac, Windows, Linux http://bit.ly/bpWZ7Y [free 30 day demo]
• AppleCentral.com is now the new "centralized" home for MacTech, Now Software, MacNews, MacsimumNews, MacMinute, etc
• Manager Tools Effective Manager Conference at Denver Marriott City Center has been announced for June 7, 2010 http://bit.ly/akUuI3
• SitePoint's newest book "Create Stunning HTML Email That Just Works!" looks like a good HTML intro: http://bit.ly/cs7ZCk
• How to Upgrade Your MacBook's Hard Drive bit.ly/benw4m -- Is a good reference!
• Anyone interest in an Apple iPad meetup in San Diego, CA - Wednesday, June 9, 2010 http://bit.ly/985fSY