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• OpenOffice.org
• NoteBookReview.com's review of OpenOffice vs. Microsoft Office
• Wizard Media Receiver
• Microsoft Zune Marketplace
• Nine Ball Media blog on One Click Zune Links
• The Conversations Network's The Levelator
• Audacity 1.3.9 (Beta) for Windows, Mac, & Linux
• APC InRow SC Systems
• APC NetShelter SX rack enclosure
• APC NetShelter CX cabinets
• Technology Training Corp's  "Information Assurance" course with Dr. Drew Hamilton on "Information Assurance" is in Washington DC from Oct. 22-23, 2009 and then again Nov. 9-10, 2009.
• VoiceCon San Francisco 2009 is Nov. 2-5, 2009
• Manager Tools ONE DAY Effective Manager Conference will be in Santa Clara, California on Nov. 3, 2009.
• FileMaker Training Series will be in San Jose, CA from January 25-29, 2010.

The beer recommendation for this podcast is Maui Brewing Company's CoCoNut PorTer.  And the podcast recommendation is the Typical Shutterbug Podcast.

We are giving away a Tom Bihn Checkpoint Flyer in the Black/Steel color pattern with a 15" laptop compartment to celebrate the start of our 5th year of podcasting.  Listen to the podcast for directions.

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

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Today's traditional Tech Rag Tear Outs show covers: a Time Warner Telcom name change; PDF is now an ISO standard; IBM's Jazz collaboration tools; two mobile gadgets one from CradlePoint and the other from Better Engergy Systems look interesting; and a warning on industry technology research reports they might not be as transparent as you think.  Some of the sources mentioned in this podcast include: Software Developer Times, Forbes, and Wall Street Journa.

Links mentioned in this podcast includes:

• MacObserver on PDF ISO Standard
• The Register on PDF ISO Standard
• Lee Gomes
• Aberdeen Group
• Audacity @ AztecMedia.net
• David Allen GTD

Conferences mentioned in this podcast includes:

• LandWarNet 2008 from AFCEA (August 19-21, 2008 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL)
• CIO 100 Symposium (August 24-28, 2008 in Colorado Springs, CO)
• Office 2.0 (September 4-5, 2008 in San Francisco, CA) with $100 registration discount
• Digital ID World (September 8-10, 2008 in Anaheim, CA)
• Manager-Tools Effective Communications Conference (September 9-10, 2008 in San Antonio, TX)
• New Media Expo 2008 (September 14-16, 2008 in Las Vegas, NV)
• Enterprise Architecture Conference and Expo (September 9-10, 2008 in Washington DC)
• UCLA Extensions' Technical Management (September 14-19, 2008 in Los Angeles, CA)
• Knowledge Management World 2008 (September 23-25, 2008 in San Jose, CA)
• Taxonomy Boot Camp (September 25-26, 2008 in San Jose, CA)
• Enterprise Search Summit West (September 23-24, 2008 in San Jose, CA)
• Software Test & Performance Conference Fall 2008 (September 24-26, 2008 in Boston, MA)
• SANS Network Security 2008 (September 28 - October 6, 2008 in Las Vegas, NV)

The microbrew recommendation for this show is Widmer Brothers' Drop Top Amber Ale.

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Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast examines: the recent release of Audacity 1.3.5; new services for XTuple an open source ERP solution; introduction to Cisco's 'new brain' for your network called Nexus (NX-OS); pointer to zBoost YX300 & YX510 devices which aims to help you expand your cell phone coverage; and two links to PC World articles on VoIP hacks (Link#1 and Link#2).

Additional links mentioned in this podcast includes:

• Defense Acquisition University (DAU) eLearning 2008 conference at George Mason University in Washington DC
• New Media Expo in Las Vegas, NV from August 14-16, 2008
• VoIP Hopper
• SIPtap
• HSM Group's World Business Forum will be at Radio City Music Hall in NYC from Sept. 23-24, 2008.  Speakers include Colin Powell, Jack Welch, and Marcus Buckingham to name a few.  Sponsors include: WSJ, Business Week, Adecco, Novell, Nokia, and Delta.

Our microbrew recommendation of the show is the Red Hook Long Hammer IPA. And if you have any tech questions post them to: forums.friendsintech.com.

I will be at the New Media Expo 2007 this weekend (Sept. 27-30).  I am giving a presentation on 'Getting Started With Audacity' in the Podcaster 101 track:

Session 8 - 3:15pm to 4:15pm
Ballroom B
Saturday, Sept. 30, 2007
http://www.newmediaexpo.com/saturday2007.htm#Audacity

If folks are bringing their laptops to the session, then it is highly recommend that the come with Audacity pre-loaded ... http://audacity.sourceforge.net.  I also have upload some demo audio files in zip format that I will be using if folks are interested in working hands-on with the same material: http://www.newmediaexpo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1634.

If you'd like to meet-up at the Expo please drop me an email or post a message to me on Twitter.

Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast includes pointers to the following topic areas: Mobile Gear, Software Development, Enterprise Solutions, and New Media.

The content is from the following sources: MaximumPC, Software Developer Times, Computer World, eWeek, PC Magazine, Information Week, Network World, PC World, and Mobile Enterprise Magazine.

Technology links mentioned in this podcast include:

• Antec MX-1 hard drive enclosure
• Visioneer OneTouch RoadWarrior Scanner
• Toshiba TDP-FF1AU 1-pound mini-projector
• Spracht.com's Aura Mobile Bluetooth conference call unit
• Arcwireless.net Freedom Antenna
• Ubuntu's Launchpad
• Microsoft's Silverlight
• Google MySQL enhancements
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v3.0
• Sun M8000 servers
• Fujitsu's SPARC64 VI chip
• OpenSolaris.org new storage technology releases
• IPSwtich's new WhatsUp Gold v11 network monitoring system
• Vixy.net online video conversion tool
  

Some administrivia links mentioned in the podcast include:

• Steve @ Twitter
• Steve @ Jaiku
• Steve @ Pownce
• Steve @ LinkedIn
• Podcast and New Media Expo
• Audacity
  
• Podcast Expo Audacity Session Forums

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Here are my Audacity 101 slides (PDF) [2.3-MBs] that I used for my presentation at Podcast Academy 3.  The feedback was positive and my the time I got back to my computer I already had three requests for the slides, so that is encouraging.  I do think there is defintiely room for improvement and any feedback is appreciate.

Thanks also to David Ducassou and Nicolas Perego for letting me use an upcoming pre-release how-to guide that should be coming out soon on improving recorded voice audio in Audacity.  Also thanks to the great team at FriendsInTech.com for encouragment.

I would love to do this session in a 2 to 3 hour class room setting were everyone had a copy of Audacity loaded up on laptops, and we could walk through all the concepts hands on.  By the end of the class at least everyone who have completed all the steps to build a generic podcast.  Maybe something around the Sep. 29-30, 2006 Podcast & Portable Media Expo.

Kudos to Doug Kaye for letting me present and to Yahoo! for being awesome hosts.