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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.

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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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Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast examines news from Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on EMC, and an article from eWeek on IBM's new OmniFind Personal Email Search application called IOPES.  Following the news is an interview with PacketTrap about their network monitoring tool PT360. 

After the interview there are several conference pointers:

• SANS 2008
• AJAX World Conference and Expo
  
• CompuMaster
• The Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum
• The AIIM International Expo and Conference

Links mentioned in this podcast include:

• STEC
• Samsung Electronics
• Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA)
• Google Desktop Search
• Viviosimo
• Yahoo Desktop Search
• Microsoft Search
• Ask.com Desktop Search
• IBM's AlphaWorks
• PacketTrap Blog
• PacketTrap Forum
• SNMP
• MRTG
• CACTI

Our sponsor SCOTTEVEST has some new gear that you should check out:

• Evolution Jacket
• Essentials Jacket for Men
• Essentials Jacket for Women

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Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast covers the major topics of: mobile Linux Phone Standards Forum (LiPS) news related to Google Android, open source news from Adobe, and details on the new Wireless High-Def specification.  We also have a couple of pointers related to the getting DVD content down to your iPod, and high-performance 802.11n chips from Marvell.

Links mentioned in this podcast include:

• TechWorld, Linux Journal, & TechRepublic on LiPS & Google Android
• Software Developer Times
• Adobe's Blaze Data Services
• Adobe's PDF 1.7 ISO standards
• Wireless High-Definition (HD) v1.0 specification [Digg, MyBroadband, TechPowerUp]
• How To PDF Guide for DVD to iPod Conversion
• Reuters on Marvell's TopDog 802.11n 450-Mbps chip

And the conferences mentioned in the podcast include:

1. SANS Silicon Valley 2008 security conference
2. The AFCEA West 2008 conference
3. Buying & Selling Content
4. O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference (eTech)
5. FutureTest 2008
6. Software Development Conference and Expo

Half-way through the show is a promo for fellow FriendsInTech.com member Technorama's Intro CDs.

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Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast examines a couple of miscellaneous technology items that caught my eye, and an interview from eTech 2007 with RSS solution provider Attensa that was made posible by Zimbra.

Links mentioned in this podcast include:

• MaximumPC's pointer to HP Drive Key Boot Utility
  
• PC Magazine review of Microsoft Office Accounting Express [Discuss @ Forums.FriendsInTech.com]
• Dacor Kitchen Entertainment Center

I also have a microbrew recommendation with Port Brewing Wipe Out India Pale Ale.

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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

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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 "mini" Tech Rag Tear Outs examines nine top things to consider checking out and a great interview with FileMaker expert John Mark Osborne from Databasepros.com.  During the interview we discuss: history of FileMaker, John's expertise, hands-on training options for FileMaker Pro, and online training tools.

Links mentioned in this podcast include:

#9.) Attensa Enterprise 2.0 Feed Readers

#8.) Alltel's new Where

#7.) Vlingo Mobile

#6.) Mark/Space Missing Sync for Windows Mobile 4.0

#5.) Thornsoft's ClipMate 7.2.05 for Windows

#4.) Mindomo online mind mapping tool

#3.) DivX Author 1.5 editing tool

#2.) Freebase 'open source data' database

#1.) Newsgator - NetNewsWire - FeedDemon

We also recommend checking out Paso Robles, CA based Steinhaus Brewing Co's Mission Street Pale Ale microbrew.

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Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast examines some pretty mainstream tech news from the San Diego Union-Tribune and the Wall Street Journal, and why it might matter to IT Professionals. 

We also have a quick run down of three upcoming conference pointers that might be of interest:

• Knowledge Management World 2007
• Real-Time & Embedded Computing Conference
• OpenOffice Annual Conf. (OOoCon) 2007

If you have a comment about any of these items please post to: Forums.FriendsInTech.com.

Additional links mentioned in this podcast includes:

• Skype
• VMWARE
• EMC
• Microsoft
• Citrix
• XenSource
• Virtual Iron Software
• Wall Street Journal
• Manager Tools
  
• PanoLogic
• ClearCube
• IBM
• Sony eBook Reader

We also recommend checking out Chicago's Stockyard Brewing Company's Oatmeal Stockyard Stout microbrew.

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Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast includes some pointers to some upcoming conferences, hardware & software news related to mobile smart phones, and a list of potentially helpful graphics card recommendations to help out your future or current Vista installation.

It includes content from the following sources: PC Magazine, Maximum PC, Software Developer Times, PC World, Mobile Enterprise, Federal Computer Week, and Computer Reseller News.

Links mentioned in this podcast included:

• Conferences:
  • The IDC Security Forum
  • CSI Executive Retreat for Information Security Professionals
  • Enterprise Search Summit West
  • Gartner's Identity and Access Management Summit 2007
• Windows Mobile 6 Smartphones:
  • Cingular 8525
  • T-Mobile Wing
  • T-Mobile DASH
  • Motorola Q9 
• T-Mobile Hotspot@home
• Nokia N95 camera smartphone
• Microsoft Vista Graphics Cards:
• Diamond Viper x1650
• GeForce 8500 GT
• ATI Radeon HD 2400
• ATI Radeon X1950 Pro
• EVGA e-GEFORCE 8800 GT
• XFX GeForce 7900 GTX Edition
• EVGA e-GeForce 7950 GX2

We also had a microbrew recommendation from the Lake Tippecanoe area of Northern Indiana with the Warbird Brewing Company's Warbird T-6 Red Amber Ale.

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