Welcome to TPN Weekly #47 – the DS:Life and WiiSpot Special Edition covering the big announcements from the Nintendo Media Summit.

First a little bit on my shows, I host the DS:Life and WiiSpot podcasts. I’m a fan of Nintendo and what they are doing in the industry, and based a couple shows around them and their products.

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Shownotes

The Nintendo DS

• Nintendo DSi XL coming stateside on March 28 for $189.99
• Picross 3D coming on May 3
• WarioWare DIY coming on March 28
• 100 Classic Books, $19.99 eBook collection
• Photo Dojo will be awesome, mark my words.

Nintendo Wii

• Super Mario Galaxy™ 2 launches May 23
• Metroid™: Other M launches June 27
• Capcom’s Monster Hunter® Tri launches April 20th

DS:Life Podcast
WiiSpot Podcast
VGPodcasts Network
@dasme on Twitter

Aloha

I wanted to take a few minutes in today’s TPN Weekly to introduce you to the Geek News Central Podcast, and encourage you to come over and check out my full length show. Geek News Central Podcast is produced twice weekly in both Audio and Video format. Subscribing is easy and I encourage audience participation so get involved with the show. Check out the podcast and all of the great content at GeekNewsCentral.com

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Our Feburary Rountable featured the following guest and presentations.

Joining us Today:

• Nuance – Dragon Naturally Speaking for the desktop and iPhone
• Andy McCaskey – Social Media Takeaways from Recent Conference
• Todd Cochrane - TechPodcasts.tv

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• Greatest recreational invention of all time?  Where would dirty hippies be without the Frisbee?

Show Outline

Broadband brought to you by Google

• Company to do small experiment offering fiber directly to households

Google Unveils Buzz

• A new social networking feature of Gmail

China vs. Google Update

• Who has said the dumbest thing yet?

Net Censorship in Australia

• Strong push back from citizens, large companies and Anonymous

Coolest iPhone App + Accessory EVER!

• Fly a helicopter with your phone

Laser Bites Mosquito?

• Use this and mosquitoes won’t be ants at a picnic at your next picnic

Show Notes

• Friendly banter

• Roxxxy reference

• More friendly banter

• FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, NO BEADING JOKES!

• Angry banter

Google to Shove Their Fiber in Your Backdoor

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8509110.stm

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html

• Wants to build a fiber-optic network with speeds up to 1 Gbps to an experimental group of 50,000 to 500,000 homes.

• Will do this in small test markets, go ahead and send in an application for Google to do this in your area… Irish need not apply.

• They want to see what kind of “killer apps” developers can come up with for use with ultra high-speed Internet.

• According to the official blog on the announcement, they will be sharing techniques that they learn in building fiber-optics networks with the world and operate an “open access” network.  Is this believable?

• Is Google looking to make ISPs better so that their content can get to consumers faster, or is Google looking to become your ISP?

What’s the Buzz All About?

Welcome to Buzz: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9154478/Google_Buzz_takes_the_fight_to_Facebook

Oops, sorry: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/15/technology/internet/15google.html

W@nT N0t t0 Be H@xed http://news.techworld.com/security/3212681/spam-hits-google-buzz-already/?intcmp=nws-hm-l

• “Google Buzz is a new tab in Gmail that enables users to connect with one another and pull in information from sites like Twitter, YouTube, Picasa and Flickr. Social updates and posts will appear in users’ Gmail in-boxes.”

• They’re going after a slice of the social networking pie.

• What crazy thing will they come up with to lure people away from Facebook, Twitter, etc?

• Two days after Buzz rolls out, Google makes changes to privacy settings after mucho criticism.

• An auto-follow feature that was supposed to make it easy for people to get started that made you and all of your contacts visible to the general Buzz public has been turned off.

• “…users feared that the names of their e-mail correspondents would be publicly exposed.”

• Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (and from the sound of this quote, douchebag extraordinaire): “Even with these changes, there is still the concern that Gmail users are being driven into a social networking service that they didn’t sign up for.”

• “Google also will no longer automatically connect public Picasa albums and items shared on Google Reader, another feature that had been widely criticized by some users and privacy advocates.”

• Spammers hit Buzz within 48 hours of its launch.  Are spammers getting better at manipulating social networking?

Google v. China Smackdown Update

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/ted-2010-google-optimistic-it-can-remain-in-china/

• Quietly back to business as usual in China.

• Same censorship as before the much publicized uncensoring of search results.

• Google in no hurry to leave China.

• Google founder Sergey Brin: “Well perhaps people don’t believe this but all throughout the discussion of originally entering China in 2006 … and including the announcement last month, our focus has really been what’s best for the Chinese people, it’s not been about our particular revenue or profit or whatnot. And I think there are many potential answers there and it’s a really difficult question.”  I haven’t seen that much bullshit since I played cow-chip bingo!

Scary ass school system installs software on laptops that they give to students that allows school admins to turn on the webcams at any time

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/17/school-used-student.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

• “Your privacy is worthless and you shouldn’t try to protect it.”

Fighting Net Censorship in Australia

http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2784&blogid=10

http://delimiter.com.au/2010/02/12/anonymous-attacks-better-than-signing-a-petition/

http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/News/167294,alia-join-forces-with-inspire-foundation-google-and-yahoo-to-battle-senator-conroys-internet-filter.aspx

Your Window to the Women’s Locker-room

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/11/tuaw-attacks-san-francisco-with-the-parrot-ar-drone/

• This is possibly the first time I have ever wanted an iPhone.

• Is this how the military pilots drone aircraft in Afghanistan?

• Where would you fly this baby?

Is There Anything Lasers Can’t Do?

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/using-lasers-to-zap-mosquitoes/?hp

A Look Back at Some Particularly Funny Dead Tech

Because who wouldn’t want their baby in a cage? Extra boner points for the yodel twins:

http://www.life.com/image/3270485/in-gallery/25371/30-dumb-inventions

Join us today Saturday Feb 20th at 1:00PM Pacific – 4:00PM Eastern for the Tech Podcast Roundtable.

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• Nuance – Dragon Naturally Speaking for the desktop and iPhone
• Jeffrey Powers – Open Discsussion about Google Buzz.
• Andy McCaskey and Todd Cochrane talk about TechPodcasts.TV

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Welcome to the TPN Weekly Episode #44 for the week of February 15th, 2010.

Hello everyone, I’m Norbert Davis, host of the Totally Cool Tech Podcast. If you are not familiar with the Totally Cool Tech podcast let me give you a brief explanation of what you will find on my show. The best way I can describe the Totally Cool Tech Podcast is my tag line – “Bringing you the Hottest in Cool Tech. No matter if its Old School or New School, High Tech or Low Tech, its all still, Cool Tech”. And that is what I try to deliver every week. Something cool, new, or off the beaten path. Even old technologies that are being used to do something new is considered Cool Tech. So with that being said, let’s go!

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On Today’s Episode: Netgear’s Push2TV WiFi Adapter that lets you see on your TV what’s on your lapyop display in HD.

Platop System Component Requirements for Intel® Wireless Display:

• Processor - ONE of the following:
  • Intel® Core™ i7-620M processor
  • Intel Core i5-540M processor
  • Intel Core i5-520M processor
  • Intel Core i5-430M processor
  • Intel Core i3-350M processor
  • Intel Core i5-330M processor
• Chipset - ONE of the following:
  • Intel® HM57
  • Intel HM55
  • Intel QM57
  • Intel QS57
• Intel® HD Graphics Wireless – ONE of the following:
  • Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N 6200
  • Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250
  • Intel® Centrino® Ultimate-N 6300
• Software:
  • Intel® My WiFi Technology and Intel Wireless Display must be pre-installed and enabled
• OS:
  • Windows* 7 64-bit, Home Premium, Ultimate or Professional

Plug ‘N Play
HDMI or Composite (Yellow, Red & White RCA cables)
Security Code during setup
Ability to name the Adapters, i.e. Bedroom, Living room, Conference room, etc.
Signal strength shown on Laptop Display
Adapter may have issues of too far from laptop, too close to other electronics, or adapter too hot. Not meant to be used for more that 4 hours at a time
Laptop not meant to have lid closed as it might go into “sleep” or “Hibernation” mode and stop broadcasting to adapter. You would have to modify the laptop configuration to avoid this.
Wi-Fi is an unprotected output so some copy protected DVDs or BluRay discs will not go over the wireless.
Works on 2.4 ghz not 5ghz
1280 x 720p
Easy setup and to use
No cables between laptop and Adapter, just adapter to TV
You can view non-copy protected content, pictures, youtube, music on your large display
Surf the web, view pictures with family, or even give presentations.
Showcased at CES 2010.
$900 for cheapest unit and $100 for adapter alone
Mixed review, Techies want a bit more and non-techies love it.
Possible alternative to the Roku, great for presentations

http://www.netgear.com/Products/Entertainment/DigitalMediaPlayers/ptv1000.aspx

http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2010-01/more-on-netgears-push2tv-100-wifi-direct/

Best Buy Blue Label Laptops & Netgear Push2TV
CNet Article – Netgear Wi-Di (Wireless Display)

Please send an email or audio comment to tctpodcast@gmail.com and let me know what you thought of the Netgear Push2TV WiDi Adapter.

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One heck of a lineup of guest for the January Round Table

• Mark Smith – CEO of iPadio.com -We provided TPN updates from CES by phone right from the show floor, in audio podcast form. Learn how the technology from the UK Company spearheaded coverage of the disaster from Haiti a few days after CES.
• Rob May BackUpify.com - offering a way to safely back up all of the data that you have stored in the cloud – such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and Gmail.
• Jeffrey Powers will be talking about ways to Podcast via your Mobile

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Ben Fryxell here from MacMania.

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Today’s News:

New Facebook Design

Google Patents New Web App Technology

YouTube HTML 5 Players

Microsoft Patches Bug After 17 Years

Greetings, everyone! I’m Rick Savoia, host of The Force Field, a podcast about the business of tech.

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In this episode I will introduce myself and give you some inside information about the computer repair business you need to know as a well informed consumer.

Topics of discussion:

I will tell you a little about my experiences starting small tech businesses that were too far ahead of their time.

We will find out how and why I created The Force Field podcast and portal.

Most importantly, we will talk about the field service technician who shows up at your door to fix your PC, who he really works for, how much money he really makes when he shows up to service your computer, whether or not he is even qualified to perform the work and your rights to such disclosure as a consumer.

If you want to know more about starting and managing a computer or IT service business, give The Force Field podcast a listen. Questions, comments or feedback? Visit us at http://www.theforcefield.net, visit our forums or email comments(at)theforcefield.net.

Join us today Saturday January 30th at 1:00PM Pacific – 4:00PM Eastern for the Tech Podcast Roundtable.

Joining us Today is

• Mark Smith – CEO of iPadio.com -We provided TPN updates from CES by phone right from the show floor, in audio podcast form. Learn how the technology from the UK Company spearheaded coverage of the disaster from Haiti a few days after CES.
• Rob May BackUpify.com - offering a way to safely back up all of the data that you have stored in the cloud – such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and Gmail.
• Jeffrey Powers will be talking about ways to Podcast via your Mobile

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Hello! Mike Dell here, from Geek of The North and The Ham Radio Podclass.

Today I talk about a few tech subjects in an informal way (which is the way I do it).

Subjects covered today are:

My experience with 2 months on the Android OS for my phone. (the Motorola Droid) and how I think it’s not so much an iphone killer as it is a blackberry killer.

I talked about the Boing 787 dreamliner reaching the 2nd phase of flight testing and it’s issues with a dirty fuel tank.

And of course, what would a tech show this week be without talking about the yet to be announced “Apple God Machine” or whatever their tablet computer is going to be called.

IF you have questions or comments about today’s show. Feel free to contact me directly at mike@mikedell.com or leave your comment here.

Have a great week and we will see you next week here on TPN Weekly!
-Mike

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Hey everyone! This is your Drive-time Tech Diva, JC Lamkin from the Technically Speaking Radio program.

This week’s TPN Weekly is a look at job search, tech tips, tools, and tricks for organizing and getting the best results  from your online job search efforts.

With a close to 10% unemployment rate, many are looking for job. If this is your first time looking for a job for a while, you may find that the employment search process has changed drastically.

Historically, one might look in the Sunday newspaper for job openings.  Now, one posts a resume on Jobcircle.com, Dice, or Monster.  Because the job market is particularly competitive, it’s important to make the most out of your online job search time.

Tools like Google’s Autofill will help you complete online employment forms that ask for redundant information such as your name, address, phone number and email address.

This tool will save you time while keeping your data safe.

After creating your AutoFill profile, click the AutoFill button to automatically fill forms with the information you’ve provided. If you’ve
set up multiple profiles, click the down arrow next to the AutoFill button to choose which profile you’d like to use.

When using AutoFill, be mindful of the information you’re providing. It’s important that you use this feature only on websites you trust, as certain websites might try to capture your information in hidden or hard-to-see fields.

If you’re unsure about what information you’re providing, you can see a preview of your data before it’s entered in the form by hovering your cursor over the AutoFill button or one of your profiles.

Many professionals have found that proper use of social networking sites such as Linkedin.com and Plaxo.com help to quickly identify and market to hiring managers and recruiters.  By properly completing your Linkedin.com profile, you will instantly connect with people you have gone to school with, worked with and associated with.

For example, if you have your heart set on working at the University of Pennsylvania, the largest employer in Philadelphia, after logging into Linkedin.com, you can search on “University of Pennsylvania” , find and connect with several people who work there.  More importantly, you will be able to quickly identify if there are people who work for the University of Pennsylvania that are already in your network.

Additionally, once you’ve joined a Linkedin.com group, you will see the job postings listed in that group.  Groups are online cafes where people of similar interests connect.  Job recruiters and job seekers are often found discussing news and information in their respective industries.

Remember to use your Facebook network effectively.  Change your Facebook privacy settings to make certain personal pictures and information can only be viewed by family members.

Utilizing Summarize, http://search.twitter.com/, will help you find recruiters who are seeking candidates with your skill set.

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Check out the Technically Speaking Radio program live every Tuesday at 7:00 a.m. on WPEB 88.1 FM in Philadelphia or listen online.  Remember to checkout our previous shows

Hello everyone and Happy New Year! I’m Simon Calder from SimonSezIT.com and host of the Simon Sez IT Tech Show at www.SimonSezIT.com/tips

During this week’s edition of the TPN Weekly, we’re going to start the New Year by providing practical tips for overcoming email overload. We’ve reached a tipping point where the deluge of email is making us less productive instead of more productive. While still a great communication tool, we need to get things under control. I’ll provide 10 practical tips to help you start the New Year on solid footing.

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Overcoming Email Overload

• Focus on CPT – critical productivity time
• Turn new email notifications off
• Use rules to organize your email
• Resort to “traditional” methods of communication
• Use newer methods of communication
• Be less formal
• Read the email, then reply
• Use search tools
• Don’t be emotional
• Set aside time each day or 1 day each week to organize your email

I hope you enjoyed the show. Be sure to stop by SimonSezIT.com/tips for all of our previous shows, SimonSezIT.com for software video training tutorials, and my other tech blog, HotButteredIT.com.

Wishing you a successful and prosperous 2010!

Warmly,
Simon

In the coming days a team of 9 supporting three show host from the Tech Podcast Network will be traveling to Las Vegas for our 5th year of covering the Consumer Electronics Show.

Like years in the past, we will have our daily wrap up show that will cover the best of CES. Each year the team from the Tech Podcast Network publish over 150 interviews focusing on the hottest consumer electronics and services to be found at the show.

New this year Our good friends over at NBC Universal have allotted us time to stream live from their main stage on Saturday January 9th at 5pm Pacific and Sunday January 10th at 12pm Pacific. We will be introducing a variety of companies and products. We hope that you will tune in here at TechPodcasts.com for not only the live events but also our full breadth of coverage.

Your 2010 Team include Andy McCaskey from SDRNews, Jeffrey Powers from Geekazine, and Todd Cochrane from Geek News Central

Mark your calendars today!

Hey everyone! Jeffrey Powers from the Geekazine Podcasts and Day in Tech History.

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This week’s TPN Weekly is a look back at 2009 and what has happened at the Tech Podcast Network. Some of the events I talk about:

- CES 2009
- Bwana on TWiT
- Start of TPN Weekly
- Podcast Awards
- Summer of Podcasts Contest
- Ewan from Bagel Tech News

- Blubrry Powerpress (since it ties in with TPN)
- Andy McCaskey talks about TPN Roundtables
- State of the Podcast Sphere
- Blogworld / NME
- HPTF
- Todd’s 500th show
- TCT Podcast 400 show
- TPN on Roku and TiVO

- TPN in 2010

I also created a video version of the event on ustream. Check out the new Geek Bar.

Holiday Tech Preparedness, being prepared isn’t just for Boy Scouts anymore

Hello, I’m Paul Rj Muller host of the CaffiNation Podcast,over at www.caffination.com. My Show focuses on the high octane world of Technology News and Caffeinated Culture. We’re all geeks at heart, I just happen to geek out on coffee and tech news both at the same time.

On Today’s edition of the TPN Weekly I’ll be giving you a quick and dirty rundown of some lightweight applications you can download and tools you can bring on your holiday excursions. As Techs we know that family are going to ask for help with shiny presents during the holiday season. So now that the shiny has been bought and the shipping has been paid you have just enough time to prepare for the questions.

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Prepare for the questions

• Family Tech Questions: A comic distills the very essence of our plight
• USB PC Repair System (32mb isn’t much to ask)
• How do I Uninstall u3? Make sure you move your personal files off first!
• The Ultimate Boot CD: the name says it all
• Portable Apps: Take your experience on the road
• How to set up an SSH Tunnel through Putty
• Ubuntu for Data Recovery, Make sure you grab the Live CD version
• Never Leave Home without it. Leatherman Wave

Today’s Coffee: Chock Full o Nuts

• 5 quick tips: Coffee for Company

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

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TPN Weekly #35 with Ben Straw and Ward Miller Talking about, Buying your first Mac

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Intro
About Hosts
Benjamin Straw – MacTipPodcast.com
Ward Miller – Macs In Life – iBoughtAMac.com

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Retail Buying

Online

• Apple.com
• Amazon.com

Retail Stores

• Apple Store
• Best Buy
• MicroCenter
• Frys Electronics
• Apple Authorized Reseller

Discounts

• Apple.com
• Apple Store for Education – $50 to $300 discount depending on what your looking for.
• Apple Store for Government – $50 to $300 discount depending on what your looking for.
• Apple Stores
• Student Discounts.
• Trick: Go to a local Collage and sign up for a free class, And make sure you get a student ID.
• Retail Stores:
• MicroCenter.
• Online Stores:
• Amazon Apple Store

Buying Used

• Apple.com – Refurbished section, hard to find but is at the bottom of the store. You get up to 25% off Apple products, but you have to watch for the deals because they come and go very fast.
• PowerMax.com
• UsedMac.com
• MacOfAllTrades.com
• DVWarehouse.com
• Ebay.com*
• Craigslist.com*
• * Great but buyers beware! PowerMax.com/stolen
• * Buy a used Mac (without getting burned)

Apple Care & Mobile Me
About Apple Care.

• Every Mac comes with 90 days of telephone support and one year of service coverage at an Apple-authorized repair center.
• About Mobile Me.
• Buy Apple Care a month before warranty runs out.
• You dont want to buy Apple Care 1 month in because you might spill something in your mac and waste money.
• Amazon.com – Cheaper than Apple.com or in stores .
• Make sure you buy the right Apple Care for your Mac.

Upgrading

• Other World Computing
• iFixit.com
• NewEgg.com – Hard Drive, Ram Accessorys
• Crucial – Ram

Recycle

• Recycling your old Mac Or PC
• Recycle Mac batteries free – Bring your old Mac batteries to a local Apple Retail Store they will recycle them free.

Closing

• Ward Miller – Macs In Life – iBoughtAMac.com
• Ben Straw – MacTipPodcast.com
• Blog.TechPodcasts.com

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