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 paul mcfedries windows 7 unleashed [60:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (50)

TOPIC:  Wondering about all this Windows 7 hype you’re hearing?  Not sure how you’ll figure all the new stuff out, or if it’s worth it?  Well, Paul McFedries joins us and provides answers from his 800+ page tome Windows 7; Unleashed!  We have a great time and get around to at least a few of those burning questions!

Jay Garmon does his usual Jay thing again, but we’re once again without Dave “Sparky” Saganaki.  If you’re missing Dave, send him some love at techtalk@wrlr.fm and see if we can’t beg, con, guilt or otherwise convince him to come back in the studio sometime soon!

We don’t have a huge amount of time for cool sites, but I did pick a real good one – with multiple areas – anyways:

• Aviary - With a whole host of online, free, and very cool products to check out you’ll definitely want to fly up to the aviary sometime soon.  I’ve played with the audio creator (named Myna), but you’ll have fun looking at everything if you’re more graphically inclined than me!  They’ve got flash image editors, fun color and vector editors, and more … this may be just one site, but it’s got tons of great stuff on it!

And finally, the podcast only song of the week is the totally rocking “Elvis” by These New Puritans!

 

 Mike and Jay stand alone [61:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (66)

TOPIC:  If it weren’t for Jay Garmon and his usual stand-up job with Geek Trivia, things might have been pretty quiet around the studio, as Mike is forced to do a stand-alone show! Fortunately, there’s a lot of ground to cover this week with the FCC getting involved in net neutrality, the Apple vs. Google voice debate, and things to watch out for security-wise on both Facebook and Twitter!

We finish up as usual with some awesome coolsites of the week:

• How to Use Prey – Heard stories about folks getting their iPhones and laptops back … and nailing the crooks in the process?  Now you can too (at least for your laptop or desktop), with this free and opensource product called ‘Prey!’  It’s a little confusing to set up for first-time users though, so I’m linking you to this awesome TechRepublic site how-to.
• SuperCook – The the name of this site is hyperbole?  Maybe not once you check it out!  Similar to RecipePuppy.com, SuperCook lets you list what’s in your pantry and come up with some great new recipes … that you know you’ve got the ingredients to make!

We finish it out with a song that’s a lot of fun to listen to, Fun for Me by Moloko!