Tech Talk Radio Podcast

Eye-Fi wireless SD card, JAWS screen reader for 508 compliance, Photoshop vs Lightroom, Profiles in IT (Matthew Charles Mullenweg, creator Wordpress blogging platform), unlocking iPhone for international travel (Verizon and Sprint will, ATT will not even for phones off contract, WiGoClinic.com for unauthorized unlock), QWERTY keyboard vs Dvorak keyboard, CTO Aneesh Chopra resigns(Nations first CTO, helped streamline government with technology, he will be missed), Obama is wrong about manufacturing (technology not manufacturing will create an economy built to last, software is Americas strength, need policy favorable to software developers), Software piracy bills delayed after grassroots protest (overreach of governmental authority would undermine the power of the Internet, other solutions may be better). This show originally aired on Saturday, January 28, 2012, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Best of Tech Talk replaying segments from previous shows. This show originally aired on Saturday, January 21, 2012, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Best of Tech Talk replaying segments from previous shows. This show originally aired on Saturday, January 14, 2012, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Logitech Squeezebox, password management software, Windows Live Mail, Profiles in IT (Mark Russinovich, co-founder Winternals and Sysinternals), IT salary survey (salaries on the rise, up to 2008 levels), Product of the Week (Logitech Keyboard Case for iPad2), 2012 Tech Resolutions (from file back up to get a tablet), and iPhone4S data usage (twice as much as iPhone4 and three times as much as iPhone3, demand forcing telecoms to upgrade networks and throttle some users). This show originally aired on Saturday, January 7, 2012, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Best of Tech Talk replaying segments from previous shows. This show originally aired on Saturday, December 31, 2011, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Best of Tech Talk replaying segments from previous shows. This show originally aired on Saturday, December 24, 2011, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Hijacked Yahoo account, IT career options, complete erasure of hard drive data, sending email with POP client while on the road, Profiles in IT (Salman Amin Khan, founder of the Khan Academy), Iran claims to have hijacked drone (jammed control signal, spoofed GPS signal for misguided landing), Product of the Week (Logitech Harmony Link, Wi-Fi connection to controller, IR blaster to connect with components, iPhone or Android controller app), and Tip of the Week (archiving photos, burn to CD-R, use a regular backup schedule). This show originally aired on Saturday, December 17, 2011, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

WebEx vs Live Meeting, Wi-Fi options for renters, failed hard drive recovery, Profiles in IT (Charles Kuen Kao, father of fiber optics), big trend of 2011 (bring your own device, employee smartphones, tablets, laptops, reduced IT support), Kepler confirms first planet in habitable zone (one step closer to finding another Earth-like planet), XXX domains now available to general public (not much excitement, most sales are defensive in nature), and Website of the Week (Khan Academy, free online lessons in math and science, transforming our view of education). This show originally aired on Saturday, December 10, 2011, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Best of Tech Talk replaying segments from previous shows. This show originally aired on Saturday, December 3, 2011, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Best of Tech Talk replaying segments from previous shows. This show originally aired on Saturday, November 26, 2011, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Windows Live errors, Transfering MS Office license to new computer, response to DDOS attacks, Profiles in IT (Robert William Taylor, Internet pioneer and founder Xerox PARC), cyber attack on water systems (used SCADA passwords to take control of pump, two systems penetrated, serious security implications), GSP system at risk (Lightsquared mobile broadband may swamp GPS signals, consumer GPS jammers proliferating, solar activity), politics of spectrum (auctioned spectrum raises funds but limits open bandwidth for innovation, government must balance competing demands), and turkey physics (white meats is done at 155F, dark meat at 180F, need to use thermodynamics to achieve this result, ice down the breasts before cooking). This show originally aired on Saturday, November 19, 2011, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Best of Tech Talk replaying segments from previous shows. This show originally aired on Saturday, November 12, 2011, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Windows registry cleanup, keeping Facebook away from your contacts, setting up a blog (free versus self-hosting with Wordpress), selecting a professional digital camera, Profiles in IT (John McCarthy, artificial intelligence pioneer), Groupon goes public ($16.7B market cap), Anonymous to mount attack (in support of occupy Wall Street movement), Duqu virus update (carried by MS Word documents, can send back info via proxies if not connected to Internet, exploits zero day vulnerabilities, MS patch not available yet), and Google does barrel roll. This show originally aired on Saturday, November 5, 2011, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

RAW vs JPEG Images, GMail spam filters, Apple iCloud and Photostream, Profiles in IT (Christopher Poole, aka moot, founder 4chan), rise of Anonymous hacktivism (created out of 4chan culture of anonymity and protest), iPhone 4S battery excessive drain (may be caused by iCloud authentication error), ARM enters server market (ARM vs AMD vs Intel, low power chips available with 64 bit, 3GHz multicore processor, good news for consumers), and high tech Halloween (carve pumpkin online, geotracking kids with Trick or Tracker, Google Latitude, Find My Friends, games like Plants vs Zombies, Make a Zombie, Fright Factory). This show originally aired on Saturday, October 29, 2011, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Phone authentication on Craigslist, burning an ISO file, Profiles in IT (Umar Saif, Pakistani IT entrepreneur), Great Tech War of 2012 (Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, who will control advertising and content delivery, who will be the next Jobs), Stratford to open campus in Baltimore (Baltimore City Council offers support), Ask Siri anything (Apples new voice recognition program Siri, sexy and smart, ask her anything), Google and Facebook lobby to replace Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (new law needs to address cloud storage and smart phone position tracking), battle of the bots (latest botnet TDL4 loads before OS, very sophisticated rootkit, antivirus companies take note), and Jobs criticized Obama at Silicon Valley dinner (complained about teachers unions and Obama anti-business attitude). This show originally aired on Saturday, October 22, 2011, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Defragmentation basics, persistent cookies, Profiles in IT (Dennis MacAlistair Richie, creator of C Programming Language and co-developer of Unix), Microsoft completes Skype purchase, judge allows cell phone position tracking without warrant, Blackberry email outage worst in company history, record iPhone 4S sales, Apple iMessage bypasses carrier text messaging, Nobel prize for physics (discovering accelerated expansion of universe, explained by anti-gravity black energy), Large Hadron Collider Android application (track experiments, tutorials, Higgs Boson game), and India sells tablet for less than $50 (Android OS, 7 inch touch screen, WiFi, 2.0 USB, 2GB storage, 256MB RAM, 366 MHz processor). This show originally aired on Saturday, October 15, 2011, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Windows Live Mail, tips for entering a tech field, Profiles in IT (Steven Paul Jobs, Apple Co-founder and CEO), Impact Steve Jobs (technology for everyman, technology driven by art and beauty, computer displays with stunning calligraphy), Apple iPhone 4S (dual mode CDMA/GSM world phone, 3G networks, 8MP camera, 1080p video, voice activated, dual-core processor), computer virus infects military drones (drones controlled from Nevada, persistent keylogger file found in drone cockpits, discovered two weeks ago), Ada Lovelace Day (Ada wrote first computer program, recognizing Geek girls of today, goal is to encourage more women to go into science, technlogy, enginnering, or math), Facebook hits new milestone (800 million active users, bigger than entire Internet in 2004) and Verizon sues FCC to overturn Net Neutrality (supports NN principles, believes that FCC overstepped bounds). This show originally aired on Saturday, October 8, 2011, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Tablet shoot off (iPad2 vs Amazon Fire vs Samsung Galaxy), thumb drives (limitations, data recovery), Profiles in IT (Michael Ralph Stonebraker, database pioneer and serial entrepreneur), backup options for your computer (Carbonite, Mozy, SugarSync), wireless carriers retain personal data (call logs, text logs, IP connections, location through tower connections), digital due process (Electronic Communications Privacy Act needs revision, online data storage must be protected via warrant requirement), and Solar Decathlon 2011 (20 collegiate teams compete to produce the best solar house, Maryland leads the pack). This show originally aired on Saturday, October 1, 2011, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Certificate authority function defined, Squeezebox will not play Flash media streams, restoring deleted hard drive, Profiles in It (David Friend, co-founder and CEO of Carbonite), NASA releases Space Exploration Roadmap (Moon or Astroid, then Mars), FCC finalizes net neutrality regulations (transparency, no blocking, no unreasonable discrimination), Javascript dilemma (improve or replace, Google proposes Dart as replacement and continues to improved JS engine, Intel proposes revision which supports multi-core parallel processing), NASA UARS satellite enters Earth atmosphere without incident, and DigiNotar Certificate Authority declares bankruptcy (failed to notify customers when 500 digital certificates were stolen in security breach). This show originally aired on Saturday, September 24, 2011, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Best of Tech Talk replaying segments from previous shows. This show originally aired on Saturday, September 17, 2011, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).