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April 2006

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Infinology the gift that keeps giving

Over a year ago I out grew a shared hosting account that at the time was being hosted by Infinology, I pulled all of the sites I host off their service and over onto GoDaddy servers. I did have 2 small domains that were left on their service as the contract did not expire until Tomorrow. So over a month

Tech Podcast Live Round Table Sat April 29th

Tech Podcast Round Table Live Event is April 29th, 2006 1:30 PM Pacific, 4:30 Eastern Agenda Remote Podcasting, Recording gear and Microphone reviews Parallels Workstation with the Mac Demonstration of converting an Application to be used on a Smart Drive To attend the event tomorrow follow the instructions below, please be aware that Windows is required, we encourage all Mac

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GNC-2006-04-28

Today is go under the knife day, new sponsor introduction Honda, Stream PCN content into Second Life, Neuros contest continues, Round Table Line up and much more Save Money with all our GoDaddy Codes see our Promo Code Page [Honda Fit] [Try GoToMeeting free for 30 days at GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts. No credit card needed.] Contest: Tech Podcast / U3 Developer Contest

Shoutcast Servers

Geek News Central is now streaming 24 hours a day. You can listen to the show by simply clicking on the audio stream link here on the website.

US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin

The latest weekly security bulletin is out from the United States Computer Security Emergency Readiness Team [CERT]

Podcast Legal Guide

The long awaited comprehensive Podcasting Legal Guide has been posted, I would highly recommend that every podcaster read thru this. I saw a draft of this last year, and it is an amazing document. Take your time to read it, as there is a lot to absorb. [wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide]

China has Blocked Technorati!

The list of Search Engines that China blocks continue to grow, it appears Technorati has joined a long list of sites to be blocked by the Red Chinese Communist Government. [Tom Raftery]

PERFORM Act, S. 2644 Restricts Consumer Media Fair Use!

Seems Congress has some more legislation in the pipeline that is going to effect your fair use rights. The recording home coalition says: PERFORM Act, S. 2644 would prevent satellite radio subscribers from recording and listening to programming that they have paid for – you could not choose the artists and playback order for anything you have recorded for your

U3 Smart Drive Coverage

As many of you that have been listening to the Podcast and read this Blog know, we are having a pretty awesome developer contest over at TechPodcasts.com, I saw a article on Robert Scobles Blog today where he was introduced to the technology. Needless to say he got it immediately and says that the U3 Smart Drive technology is a

Can we afford the Bandwidth Requirements of the next Year?

I think if you asked that question to videocasters and podcasters that question, most of them that have any sizable audience will quietly say they are really worried. With that the solution for many of these distribution issues already, but for some reason the developers have not integrated the solution and made is easy for the average content consumer. BitTorrent

New 17” MacBook Pro is the price worth it?

I asked in my show last night for some feedback on why the new 17'' MacBook Pro was so expensive ($2799.00). I received a couple of e-mail from both Apple users, and Windows users, with parties from both camps having various views. Tim and Greg both sent me the same link on a comparison that was put together. So in

Dvorak says Internet Explorer a dead Albatross

On the heels of the IE7 Beta 2 release, the very outspoken John Dvoark has come out and essentially called IE7 the multi-billion dollar money pit sucking Microsoft dry dead Albatross of a program. If you look at the all of the money Microsoft has had to pay out because of IE, then he may be on to something. But

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