Tech Rag Tear Outs (TRTO) Podcast #034 [Gov. Computer News, Forbes, Federal Computer Week, Software Developer Times, Computer Reseller News, and SC Magazine. Plus a special summary report on Microsoft Vista from seven (7) sources]

September 16, 2005

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Show 34 has been finished and uploaded … HTML show notes are below … OPML is available via this link …

(00:00-03:47) Introduction

Feed back can be sent to technewsradio@gmail.com. If you have potential show content you can also send that to technewsradio@gmail.com.

Intro from Jeremy Wright @ www.ensight.com

Donations for Katrina relief recommended to American Red Cross @ Yahoo, and Rescue Task Force.

OmniOutliner on my new Apple iBook is being used to generate HTML and OPML show notes

Official Beer of the Show: Grand Teton Brewing’s Sweetgrass India Pale
Ale which has a very strong taste and rich aroma. Pop the bottle cap
off and you’ll smell the hops within seconds. Very nice.

(03:48-13:48) Primary Content

Government Computer News (www.gcn.com):
32" and 24" inches LCD displays are useful replacements for legacy
displays in conference rooms, training setups, and executive offices.
The article included pointers to solutions from: Apple, BenQ, Dell,
Formac, Gateway, HP, NEC, Samsung, and Sharp. [07.11.05, pg. 30]

Computer Reseller News (www.crn.com):

HP has a new 2.4 pound portable digital projector called the "mp2210"
with a list price of $1499. It offers 1500-lumens at a 2200:1 contrast
ratio, and DLP technology.

IBM has announced plans to offer an "open web-based" virtualization
system that can give a "portal" view of all system resources across an
enterprise. This Virtualization Engine 2.0 with Resource Dependency
Service.

SC Magazine (www.scmagazine.com): Review of 7 AntiVirus Management solutions, Recommend Award = AVG Anti-Virus; Best Buy = Kaspersky Administration Kit

Software Developer Times (www.sdtimes.com):
Yahoo purchased Konfabulator desktop enhancer, and is now releasing the
software for free download for Windows and Mac OS X. It will also be
integrated with support with Yahoo XML APIs.

Federal Computer Week (www.fcw.com):
There may be some problems with RFID within the DOD. It turns out that
massive-phased array radar systems using the 420-450-MHz frequency can
have unintended consequences when they come into contact with RFID
equipment. Right now there is a new 25-mile RFID protection zone for:
Beale AFB (CA), Cape Code AFS (MA), Cavalier AFS (ND), Clear AFS (AL),
and Eglin AFB (FL).

Forbes (www.forbes.com): In a recent Forbes FYI, Thomas Jackson looks at the Archos PMA430, Sony PSP, Palm LifeDrive, and Nokia 770 Internet Tablet.

(13:49-30:30) Vista Special Report (formerly Longhorn)

Content from: PC World, Network World, Information Week, InfoWorld, eWeek, PC Magazine, and Maximum PC

Overview

High-level Functional (or Focus) Areas:

Interface

Data

Security Model

System Administration

Enterprise

Internet Explorer (IE) 7

Miscellaneous Info

Things to Do:

Evaluate the new tools

Test applications and drivers

Check how GUI effects user training

Developer APIs should be studied (WinFX replaces Win32)

URLs For More Info:

Microsoft Vista: www.microsoft.com—default.mspx

InformationWeek on Vista: www.informationweek.com—vista.htm

PC Magazine on Vista: go.pcmag.com—vista

Microsoft Today: www.MicrosoftToday.com

(30:31-34:44) Ending The Show

Some Friends In Tech:

In The Trenches podcast

Technorama podcast

Typical PC podcast

Career Opportunities podcast

Music for the show from music.podshow.com

Song: Reel Dun (www.submerse.co.uk—reelDun.htm)

Artist: Submerse (www.submerse.co.uk www.submerse.co.uk)

Thanks to DarnPC podcast for bandwidth and hosting support

Listener comments: 206-337-1533

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Business of Football: The Patriots

September 16, 2005

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Forbes for 19Sep05 has an in-depth financial review of the National Football League (NFL) franchises and a "cover story" on the The Patriots owned by Robert Kraft.

There is some serious money to be made. For instance the project revenues for this ‘year’ (hard to define the start and the stop of the business calendar from the article) for just The Patriots stadium operations:

$107 million on Media (TV and Radio) [I recommend that you don’t think of podcasting a live NFL event unless you like to give your lawyer lots of money.]
$41 million on Premium Seating [80 posh suites generate $165K a year + 6000 club seats and 2 club rooms]
$40million on General Tickets [‘for the little people?’]
$38 million on Sponsorship & Merchandising [includes signage + naming rights]
$19 million on Stadium [concessions, parking, etc…]

NOTE: At the end of the article there is a funny story where Kraft was in Russia with Citigroup’s Weill and News Corp’s Murdoch, and he showed off his 2005 Super Bowl Ring to Russian President Putin who admired it (124 diamonds) and then put it in his pocket thinking it was a present for himself The ring is now on display in the Kremlin Museum. 😉

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Where To Go For China Business?

September 16, 2005

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Russell Flannery at Forbes for 19Sep05 has his top ten recommendations:

Hangzhou: Capital of Zheijang providence; home of Internet firm Alibaba that Yahoo just invested 40% into the company; plus a textile powerhouse; Marco Polo favorite
Wuxi: Industrial hub near Shanghai
Shanghai: China’s international business center; massive travel expo in 2006
Dalian: Popular amoung Japanese investors
Beijing: Hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics
Suzhou: Mutlinational manufacturing mecca
Ningbo: Big port rivals nearby Shanghai
Nanjing: Military city finds new success
Guangzhou: New airport boosts appeal
Shenzhen: Booming Hong Kong border city

The ranking process looked at: market size, transportation infrastructure, success in attracting private investment, and "other factors."

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New Potential Camcorder?!?

September 16, 2005

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The old Sony Hi-8 system we bought before Conrad was born six years ago isn’t focusing anymore. And I am on the hunt for a new video camcorder – we have two good digital cameras that offer medium quality video capture, but we still haven’t completely ironed out our digital video concept of operations.

The JVC Everio GZ-MG50 with 30-GB HD for $999 retail is pretty interesting move in the right direction I think. Records 7 hours of DVD/miniDV quality video to HD. USB 2.0 to download (FIRWIRE?). And an SD card slot for taking digital pictures or for data upload. More details from JVC.

More digging required of course … what does Google Blog Search say?

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Mobile Workstation Desk?!?

September 16, 2005

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CompUSA ran an ad over the weekend for a TableTote Stand for Notebooks, Workstations, and Projectors. The list price is $49.99 but they are selling the units for $10 off.

As anyone tried one before? I looks useful for just setting up a laptop in a temporary space to do some work.

I’ve tried in the past several mobile workstation stands that worked to some degree but the additional weight of carrying them around on travel didn’t make them practical.

THOUGHTS?!? Post a comment …

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Tech Tidbits Daily Podcast for September 13, 14, & 15, 2005

September 15, 2005

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Today’s news is from MindJet whose flagship product is Mind Manager. The latest version 6 was released on Tuesday and will be shipping on the 20th of September 2005.

Why (?) use this product in the first place you might ask:

I have been using it (Mind Manger 5) for the last year as a great way to: conceptualize new ideas, start projects, and hold meetings.
It also a pretty good tool for capturing and planning to-do list items and high-level project schedules.
In addition, it works well with Windows and Microsoft Office, especially linking data from Outlook into MindMaps.

Here are some of the things from my perspective (as a beta tester) that really makes this a powerful product upgrade worth considering:

Editable outline view ("This was my number one feature request!")
Better output options for Microsoft Visio & Powerpoint; and native "linking" support to Microsoft Excel spreadsheets & web pages via Microsoft Internet Explorer
Capture data directly in new charts or spreadsheets data elements
New organizational chart layout generator and improved map formatting
Action tracking via topic alerts and topic numbering
Improvements to Windows XP TabletPC interfaces

Definitely worth taking a look at as a core tool in your tech software bag of tricks. I hightly recommend the product. It should easily pay for itself just by improving meeting notes and brainstorming.

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Technical Woes

September 12, 2005

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Sept. 12, 2005:

OK … we are making some progress. Some great guys at Craig @ Godcast.org, the Adam @ The MacCast Podcast, Kevin & George @ InTheTrenches, and Tim @ MacReviewCast have gotten me to about 50% on the "recording" part of podcasting on my iBook.

And I finally figured out that Firefox is much better than Safari with TypePad, so I got the Sept. 7th show posted. Please download and let me know if things are working via the Web and/or your podcatching client. If things are working for folks, then I’ll bust out the 8th and 9th shows; and finish recording the 12th and 13th show. Maybe tomorrow we can get caught up! Thanks for the kind emails of encouragement. – Steve

Sept. 9, 2005:

We are having some minor troubles in our grand plan to move from Windows XP desktop to Apple OS X via a new iBook as our podcast workstation.

I have the 7th, 8th, and 9th of Sept. 2005 podcasts complete. But there are some quality and production issues we are working through … mostly with Audacity … that have caused us to fall behind.

We should be back very soon. Sorry for the delay. — Steve (sholden@pobox.com)

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Tech Tidbits Daily Podcast for Sept. 12, 2005

September 12, 2005

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Today’s podcast looks at news from The-Gadgeteer.com, XstreamRadio, and Newsgator.

The-Gadgeteer.com has a hands-on review of a USB 2.0 to IDE cable that was sent to them by USBGeek.com. It turns out that this cable is probably a very useful tool for system administrators supporting laptop users, power users who move a lot a data back and forth between multiple devices, and anyone doing digital cyber-forensic work on evaluating contents of an IDE drive.

XstreamRadio is a Windows desktop radio application which links into over 700 international streaming radio stations. It also has a unique feature of allowing easy recording to MP3 format for future time-shifted listening.

NewsGator (the RSS reader, RSS enterprise server, and hosting company) has made a major step forward and opened up their NewsGator Online API for both commercial and non-commercial use. They are going have a competition to see who can use the APIs to build new innovative solutions.

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Sept 24th TechPodcasts.com RoundTable

September 12, 2005

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The lineup for the Sept 24th TechPodcasts.com RoundTable is shaping up very nicely. We want to make sure you mark your calendars now, we will send full details next week with the agenda. For interim details visit http://www.techpodcasts.com. In addition the video’s of the last 2 presentations are online now. Links are available from the main website.

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Tech Tidbits Daily Podcast for September 9, 2005

September 9, 2005

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Today’s podcast is "TabletPC" Friday! We examine news from:

PCWorld

eWeek

Network World (including Keith Shaw’s Cool Tool column)

Government Computer News

MobileEnterpriseMag.com (via Tim Barjarin Corporate Nomad column).

Devices mentioned include {TabletPC @ Amazon}:

Fujitsu LifeBook P1510D

ACER TravelMate C314XMi

Fujitsu Lifebook T4000

HP’s tc4200

Motion LE 1600

Toshiba Tecra M4

Lenovo’s ThinkPad X41 Tablet

OQO

Vulcan

Also kudos to Stone Brewery of San Diego County
for their amazingly good Stone 9th Aniversary Ale with a 7.8% alc. vol.
in a 1 Pt. 6 FL Oz bottle. Not only is it a spectaularly good tasting
ale but the bottle is big enough to generously share with a friend,
loved one, or significant other.

NOTE: The above outline came from OmniOutliner Professional (opml).

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