This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Wednesday, March 30th, 2005. Today’s item is going to be a great resource if you are a user of Microsoft Visio.  If you go to Visio Cafe (www.visiocafe.com) you’ll find a site dedicated to sharing and advocating the "free" release of Visio related stencils, icons, and drawing templates.  There have been recent editions to Symantec security devices, HP’s very in-depth collection, some cabling overlays, and several other smaller company updates. So, please check out the site, and if you are utilizing a vendor who isn’t submitting their diagramming resources to this site, please urge them to do so.  For more
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This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Monday, March 28th, 2005. This is our last reviewed interest item from eTech 2005 conference. The usage of wiki’s was a growing theme. In a nutshell, wiki’s are a collaborative website where all the authors of the site can work together on creating the content. There is a new commercial solution in the works called JotSpot that is in beta testing.  But there is also a long list of other solutions you can build on your own.  One of the easier ones was demoed by  Tom
Hoffman & Tim Lauer in their presentation "From the Classroom:
Remixing Wikis with Rendevous, Web Services, and School Tool".  During the conference, and in less than 10 minutes, I was even able to follow their directions to get my own wiki up and running.  In summary, you download and install One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows (more info in general via Ruby On Rails), you then install instiki 0.9.2., and then in Windows you go to the install directory for "instiki", and you right mouse click on the file "instiki" and open with "Ruby interpreter." Then the instiki 0.9.2 wiki is running on your local port "http://localhost:2500" and you can access it via Firefox or another browser on your own system. Pretty neat. For more
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The 22nd Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast has been posted to Tech News Radio. This edition include content from: PC World, KM World, Wired, Mobile Enterprise, Maximum PC, PC Magazine, Network World, and InfoWorld.

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The 22nd podcast of Tech Rag Tear Outs has been posted.  Here are the detailed show notes:

• (00:00-04:26) Introduction
  • Thanks to Doc Searls, Kevin Devin @ In The Trenches, & Amber DJ for the intro material.
  • Review my technical errors with mobile recording tools: Sony ECM-MS907 & iRiver iFP-799
  • Tech Podcasts and Bradcast promo
  • The theme of the stories covered in this podcast is primarily mobile, handheld, and gadgets.
  • Official Beer Of This Show: Mendocino Brewing Company’s Red Tail Ale
• (04:27-19:44) Primary Content
  • PC World:
    • New iRiver H10 & MobiBlue DAH-1500 MP3 players
    • New Oxyride disposable batteries coming from Panasonic & Rayovac
  • Mobile Enterprise:
    • HP 450wbt mobile color printer
  • PC Magazine:
    • DVD to a PocketPC from Makayama
    • Toshiba Protégé R100
    • Verizon Wireless EV-DO
    • Philips DGX320 speakers for MP3 players
    • Interlink’s GoSpeak! PA system
    • GPS: TomTom Go, Thaels Magellan Roadmate 700, Navman iCN 650
  • KM World:
    • Olympus DS-2000 digital audio recorder
    • iDictate.com
    • eScriptionist.com
  • Wired:
    • iPod Photo did the best (4 out of 5) in comparison to Olympus m:robe 500 (2.5 out of 5), Gateway MP3 Photo Jukebox (2 out of 5), and the iRiver H20 (1.5 out of 5)
  • Maximum PC:
    • Ogio Boss “bike messenger” laptop bag
    • Kodak EasyShare-One digital camera
    • Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook card
  • Network World:
    • Plustek OpticSlim M12 color USB scanner
    • Sony Ericsson Walkman W800
  • InfoWorld:
    • HP TC1100 TabletPC
    • Siemens SX66 Pocket PC
    • T-Mobile Sidekick II
• (19:45-22:35) Closing
  • Close out with awesome blues harmonica music called “Simmer-Down-Baby” from Billy Watson
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  • Have a great day!

I was chatting with a guy from work today who has done a lot of audio and electrical engineering and the topic of a small mixer came up.  This topic has been something I have been wanting for a while.  It is a lot like the small mixers that Adam Curry has been talking about on the Daily Source Code.

I told him, I hadn’t seen anything that I thought had the good mix of inputs (4-ish), outputs (two; one to record and one to listen); and battery powered.  He laughed and said that there probably was if you knew where to look …

Here is his recommendation: the Rolls MX56S.