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Tech Tidbits Daily for Mar. 14, 2005

March 14, 2005

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This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Monday, Mar. 14th 2005. BetaNews reports that Research In Motion (RIM) has "linked" a new deal to bring AOL and Yahoo instant messaging to their Blackberry wireless communication platform. Yet another way to reach and collaborate with someone when you need them. The future continues to move to 7/24 operations (52 weeks out of the year), are you ready and willing to play? 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. 11, 2005

March 11, 2005

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Kreg Steppe steps in again and gives you more great information from a Wired article on the new "Apple I Replica Creation by Tom Owad" book (from Syngress).

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Tech Tidbits Daily for Mar. 10, 2005

March 10, 2005

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Kreg Steppe steps in and tells you more about Google Map Hacks via Engadget.

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Help A Brother Out?!?

March 9, 2005

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Update on my Tablet PC woes … 99% sure the drive just failed. HP is shipping me out a new one ASAP. Bummer I gotta build the system again from scratch though.

Can you do me a favor? Can you check out this item at www.technewsradio.com and click on the link (or this one) to provide some comments on Podcast Alley for the podcasts? A vote would be appreciated also. I know a lot of podcasts are asking for this, and I can only imagine it is a pain. So, this is the one and only time I am going to ask.

I know there is a growing number of listeners and I think that having public comments over at Podcast Alley will help people to make a decision to tune in if they are looking for a technology related podcast like the one’s I am doing.

Thanks!

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Tech Woes – Busy Schedule

March 9, 2005

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My primary computer – HP TC1100 Tablet PC – went blue screen then "OS not found" last night. So, after doing some troubleshooting with Kevin Devin via SKYPE I decided to move to a backup test laptop I had. But that is going to take some configuration time to get operational. The really good news is I did a 99% data backup yesterday during lunch (the 1% is going to be annoying – Doppler OPML, Firefox Bookmarks, stuff on my Desktop, 18 hours of email/RSS feeds, …)

I haven’t had any problems with the TC1100 so it is pretty strange. I’ll keep folks posted as I can. Hopefully I can recover the disk but my first couple of attempts didn’t turn up anything positive.

To make matters slightly worse, my schedule is really busy. I have an off-site for "real" work all day today, tomorrow the family leaves for a short 4 day trip to Yosemite, I am back in the office for one day on Monday, and then I plan to attend O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference in town Tue-Thurs. Whew …

I think posting will be sporatic at best …

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Offline Until Monday [UPDATE]

March 9, 2005

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Tech News Radio is going to be offline (no new posts) until next Monday (March 14, 2005). Thank you for your support and enjoy the break.

[UPDATE: A special guest will be filling in on Thursday and Friday! Thanks!]

Check out www.techpodcasts.com for other great technology related podcasts.

You can also check out this collection of Google Alerts on "podcasting" if you are interested:
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Tech Tidbits Daily for Mar. 8, 2005

March 8, 2005

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This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Tuesday, Mar. 8th 2005. Today’s news comes from Apple. If you are a system administrator who either has their users or personally uses Apple Remote Desktop 2, then you’ll want to check out an online resource article entitled "Providing Application Access to SQL Data in Apple Remote Desktop 2". I found this a particularly well organized, written, and detailed article on the topic of collecting remote access metrics, especially when compared to the lack of similar data and capability when using Windows XP Professional’s Remote Desktop Connection. Maybe another reason to consider switching? 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
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Ranking Podcasts By Numbers? Or Value?

March 7, 2005

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Dave Slusher over at the Evil Genius Chronicles talked about a topic that is near and dear to some of my own thinking on why I am podcasting and blogging: "provide a service to my audience."

It is in his show "EGC Clambake Episode for March 3, 2005" were he talks about the value of the connection to his readers vice just the shear numbers found in server logs and rankings on sites.

What he sees looking at his audience via personal emails and comments on his weblog is much more important to him than numbers, and how it is very hard to categorize these intangible but very relevant information.

He points out in a great example the "influence" factor of the IT Conversation’s Gillmor Gang show via narrowcast to the "right, perfect, and best case" audience.

Great deep thinking work Dave … I have many of the very same feelings for my own readers and listeners.

Here is the actual part of his podcast (just under 6 minutes long) that I grabbed via Audacity … Download egc-snippet-from-20050303.mp3 (2741.4K) .

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Co-Worker Starts Blogging

March 7, 2005

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A co-worker Tom Lawless has started to blog "Views and Rants from the Darkside" … I expect that when he get’s his blog voice you’ll learn a great deal about: computer network security, law enforcement, and medical stuff.

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TRTO Podcast Beer Discogrpahy

March 7, 2005

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A lot of the Tech Rag Tear Out podcasts had an "official" beer of the show. Here is the list (reverse order):

21 – Hopzilla India Pale Ale (IPA) from
Bert Grant Brewery
20 – Dead Guy Ale from Rogue
19 – Sleigher Double IPA from Reaper Ale
18 – Stone Pale Ale
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Australia’s Fosters
16 – Guinness Stout
15 –
Shiner Hefewizen
14 –
Sierra Nevada’s Celebration Ale

13 –
Belhaven Best Cream of Scottish
Beer Draught)
12 –
Sam Adams Old Fezziwig Ale

10 – Samuel Adams Cranberry
Iambic
09 – Samuel Adams Holiday
Porter

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