Steve Holden's Blog

  • Tech Tidbits Daily for Mar. 18, 2005

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    This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Friday, Mar. 18th 2005. This is Steve Holden and I am back from the recent Etech "Remix" Conference.  Over the next week or so, I’ll share some of the emerging technology items that caught my eye.  The first really neat thing was from CarBot.  This very small foot print PC has been designed from the start to be integrated into your car’s power system and controls.  It supports Wi-Fi, broadband wireless, GPS, multimedia (DVD, MP3s, etc), touch screens, and includes a very customizable user-interface. If you are in your car a great deal, this looks like an excellent all-in-one solution for an immersive mobile environment. For more information about the links mentioned in this podcast, or
    for more details on how to subscribe to this podcast check out www.technewsradio.com. You can also send audio or email feedback to technewsradio@gmail.com. Have a great day.

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  • Tech Tidbits Daily for Mar. 17, 2005

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    This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Thursday, Mar. 17th 2005. I’m Kreg Steppe in for Steve Holden. From Wired Magazine:

    "Most consumers are already overjoyed with the photo quality of an 8-megapixel camera. But when it comes to the high resolution images a 144-megapixel camera brings, they can prepare to be astounded.

    "New York photographer Tom Watson and his business partner, Rob Howard, make a living by creating large-format digital photographs. They believe the technology they are using is "pushing the limits of location photography."

    "Each image is at least 140 MB — a massive file size. By contrast, a typical high-resolution JPEG file taken with a 5-megapixel camera is around 4 MB."

    For more information about the links mentioned in this podcast, or for more details on how to subscribe to this podcast check out www.technewsradio.com. You can also send audio or email feedback to technewsradio@gmail.com. Have a great day.

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  • Tech Podcasts Site Launch

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    The Tech Podcasts website (at www.techpodcasts.com) is a hybrid directory of technology podcasts that was recently officially re-launched with new features. The Tech Podcasts site launch comes with renewed dedication by those participating to solidify the Tech Podcast community.

    Tech Podcasters wishing to join the Tech Podcasts site must first submit a request to be a member to tech@techpodcasts.com the common goal of those involved with techpodcasts.com is to build a community of podcasters that have agreed to some common goals.

    Tech Podcasters have made steady progress towards common ideals
    and goals, and while respecting each others brand have agreed in part
    to work together to the best of their ability.

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  • Tech Podcasts Site Launch

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    The Tech Podcasts website (at www.techpodcasts.com) is a hybrid directory of technology podcasts that was recently officially re-launched with new features. The Tech Podcasts site launch comes with renewed dedication by those participating to solidify the Tech Podcast community.

    Tech Podcasters wishing to join the Tech Podcasts site must first submit a request to be a member to tech@techpodcasts.com the common goal of those involved with techpodcasts.com is to build a community of podcasters that have agreed to some common goals.

    Tech Podcasters have made steady progress towards common ideals and goals, and while respecting each others brand have agreed in part to work together to the best of their ability.

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  • Tech Tidbits Daily for Mar. 16, 2005

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    This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Wednesday, Mar. 16th 2005  Hack-A-Day has an interesting article on how to use a standard hard drive with your Apple iPod, that with some customization could give you an option for a 300-GB music warehouse. [Thanks Kreg Steppe for filling in!]

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  • More Details On Mobile Podcast Recording Setup

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    The gear I am using for mobile podcasts is via recommendations from Craig Patchett @ Godcast’s:

    I am still learning how to tweak the setup but I am very impressed. I may even use this setup for my full podcasts (Tech Rag Tear Outs and Tech Tidbits Daily) versions also since the quality is pretty good.

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  • ETech Update – Tuesday Night

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    Over on Tech News Radio I posted a short morning podcast that I produced during lunch about what happened in the morning at the Emerging Technology Conference.

    Over the course of the day I got to speak with a bunch of neat people: Doc Searls, Jeff Bezos, Phillip Torrone, Phil Windley, Greg Reinacker @ Newsgator, and Bill Kearney (who I knew in a before life as an amazing Newton hacker that puts iPod hacking to shame).

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  • eTech Morning Update (substitute for Tech Tidbit Daily)

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    This is an update from the Emerging Technology Conference (etech) with the theme of "Remix."  Here is short list of references covered in this podcast:

    NOTE: Recorded using my new mobile system.  More details to follow.

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  • Best Programs For The Windows XP?

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    Below is a list of tools that I had to restore on my "temp" Compaq nw8000 to get me back up to tech speed while I "WAIT" for HP to send me a replacement drive for my tc1100 that went belly up (I do think that God planned for it to happen before going on vacation to prove a point that I could go on vacation without a computer and still have fun … probably worth another blog post …):

    1. Firefox + Flash plug-in (probably more of these to come)
    2. Symantec Anti-Virus + Firewall
    3. Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook); Visio; Project; & FrontPage
    4. ActiveSync
    5. Newsgator {thanks John C @ Newsgator for the Tech Support 😉 }
    6. Clipmate
    7. Plantronics USB drivers
    8. MindManager
    9. Verizon Wireless drivers
    10. TextPad

    Busy day … now to burn the mid-night oil and get some work done so I can try to enjoy the next three days at O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference.

    P.S. Also having my RSS feeds sync’d to Newsgator Online really helped a great deal also.  I am still in denial about losing my podcast links from Doppler.  I highly recommend that you do a complete backup and then poke around to make sure that 1% you didn’t back up had greater value then some of the stuff you did.

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  • Disappointing Virgin Radio Podcast

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    I managed to download a copy of the podcast outlined in this news story before we left for Yosemite: "Virgin
    Radio Debuts 30-Minute Podcast    ."

    I wasn’ that impressed … mostly because they cut out all the music. 😦

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