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Today's podcast examines some recent news from OpenOffice.org that Petroleo Brasileiro SA is rolling out a big BrOffice.org deployment to over 90,000 systems; and that v3.21 of Open Office has been release with v3.3 expected this Fall 2010.  Two additional links mentioned in this podcast include: Open Document Format (ODF) and Oracle.

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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.

• 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

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

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

Today's show covers: #1.) RIM's latest enterprise news; #2.) eWeek on 2008 technologies you should check out; #3.) a pointer to DOD conferences in the Washington DC area; and #4.) news about the very popular blogging tool WordPress.  Once we get through the news, there is an interview I recently recorded with President/CEO Eric Basu about how his company Sentek Consulting uses the latest technologies to enable effective virtual teams.

Links mentioned during the news portion of the podcast include:

• Download Squad on RIM News
• BlackBerry on Lotus Connections
• Download Squad on RIM News
• eWeek's 2008 Technologies To Not Ignore
• AFCEA's DOD Spring & Fall 2008 Course Schedule
• Automattic's WordPress $29 million venture funding (from The New York Times, True Ventures, Radar Ventures, and Polaris Venture Partners)

Links mentioned during the interview on virtual teams includes:

• RIM Blackberry
• WebEx
• Skype
• Palm Treo Smartphones
• Jott
• GrandCentral

Our microbrew recommendation of the show is the Widmer Broken Halo IPA. And if you have any tech questions post them to: forums.friendsintech.com.

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

Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast discusses a variety of topics including: Internet VoIP, electronic books, new media content, mobile tools, a Firefox plugin for protecting children's web access, and an enterprise data warehouse conference pointer. 

The sources for these topics includes: eWeek, San Diego Union-Tribune, Forbes, New York Times News Service, and PC Magazine.

Additional links mentioned in this article:

• Promo for Pauldotcom.com
• Skype
• Tina Engler
• Mobipocket
• Microsoft Reader
• Fictionwise
• Plucker
• Connect's eBooks
• Plustek OpticSlim M12 Corporate portable scanner
• Glubble
• The Data Warehousing Institue's World Conference 2007
• "Getting Started with Audacity" @ New Media Expo

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Today's Tech Tidbit podcast examines ServerLift. If you have a comment or thought about this product, please post it to FriendsInTech.com.

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

Today's podcast takes a tangent from the traditional Tech Rag Tear Outs format to examine attendees of the April 2007 Effective Manager's Conference thoughts on why they listen to the Manager-Tools.com podcast.

Additional links mentioned in this podcast includes:

• Controlling Chaos Podcast
• Chuck Tomasi's Kick-A-Thon
• Friends In Tech
• Podcast and New Media Conference
• Forums @ Manager-Tools.com
• Podcast Awards

You can also get connected via: Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, & LinkedIn. More information about my Audacity session at the Podcast and New Media Expo can be found via on the Podcast Expo Forums.

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

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Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast looks at some Hi-Def (HD) compatible PC card pointers from Wired and Maximum PC.  We are also bring you an eTech 2007 related interview with Jonathan Crow @ ThinkFree.com.

Links mentioned in this podcast include:

• Artec USB T14A
  
• Autumn Wave OnAir USB HDTV-GT
  
• Stone Imperial Russian Stout
• FriendsInTech.com

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

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Today's podcast brings listeners some great audio interviews of attendees at the recent Manager-Tools Effective Manager Conference. 

The collective wisdom of this podcast is based on the answers to the question: "What is your biggest take away from attending this conference?"

You can also get my complete personal impressions of the conference via an interview I did with Douglas E. Welch on his Career Opportunities podcast.

This podcast is sponsored by: SCOTTEVEST (SeV) - makers of fine tech clothing. And thanks to Zimbra for sponsoring our recent attendance at eTech 2007 (podcast review).

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