TechTalk on WRLR 98.3 FM

 

 Storm2 talk [62:27m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (35)

TOPIC:  This week it’s just Mike hanging out and chatting with himself about how great his new Storm2 is – well, before one of the other DJ’s comes in and decides to show off his droid!

We also get a healthy dose of Jay “Geek Trivia” Garmon and then finish it up with more cool sites than you can shake a cantenna at:

• Symphony of Science – One of the better and more geeky tone changing tune maker sites, includes clips from Bill Nye and Carl Sagan.  It’s where our podcast only song of the day came from!
• Free Sci-Fi and Fantasy books – Really, honestly, and legitimately free books that are either past their copyright prime or released under creative commons or the like … and a lot of them are in PDF or ereader format for grabbing onto!
• Bones In Motion Active – Do you jog/bike/hike?  Do you have a smartphone?  Are you OCD and want every last tidbit of info about your efforts?  If so your name is either Mike or you’re at least a lot like me and will LOVE this app – check out the free GPS, weather, route tracking, elevation check and pace recording … awesomely good!

Podcast only song of the week this week is “We Are All Connected” off of our coolsite of the week Symphony of Science – go there and check out their other Sagan-based tune!

 

 Simon Haynes on Halloween [64:25m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (50)

TOPIC:  Though there’s no Dave “Spooky” Saganaki this time, “Malicious” Mike Kastler has a blast doing an interview of his favorite author from down under – Simon Haynes!  Not only does Simon talk to us about his Hal Spacejock books – and Clunk, Hal’s robot sidekick – but also shares his take on new technology, programming vs. authorship, and a ton of other great stuff!

We’re always in the mood for Jay “Ghoulish” Garmon’s geek trivia (check out http://jaygarmon.net for more), and Mike rambles about current happenings in the tech world today.

Now, normally we’d have some cool sites to share – but with how interesting the talk was with Simon (and how unrestrained the time was without Dave), we just didn’t get a chance.  However … early on in the show Mike brings up an oldie but a goodie:

• Sharepod – Ever have a machine blow up on you and the only record of your music collection is on that iPod, but if you link it to a new machine you know it’ll only bring over the stuff you bought in the iTunes store and you’ll lose everything else and you’re really freaking out because that’s, like, your TUNES man, and omg what the heck is wrong with those Apple guys anyways that they won’t let you get your music off?  I mean, it’s YOUR music, right?  And you can’t get it off your iPod?  Well, calm down, stop freaking out, and just go get Sharepod – you may never go back to iTunes again!

Had to have some Halloween fun this week, so we started the show off with a little Ministry, and then tried to end with Johnathon Coulton’s RE: Your Brains!

 

 jay garmon on social media [61:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (53)

TOPIC:  You’d think twittering, facebook, myspace, and other internet “timewasters” would have no place in the business world – well, you might be right!  Jay Garmon sticks around for an extended Geek Trivia talk to discuss his recent presentations in Louisville and tells you the hits – and misses – on the road to awesomeness in your quest for business popularity on the social media scene!

That’s in addition to awesome new geek trivia (check out http://jaygarmon.net for more) Dave and Mike babbling about random news stories and the usual inanity you’ve come to associate with us weekly.

Wouldn’t really be a show without some great cool sites of the week either!

• Using Google Voice to call from your cell phone for FREE – We love free stuff, and though this might not be a free website per se, it tells you exactly how to enable Google Voice to make free phone calls all day and all night using the ‘fave 5′ and ‘friends and family’ options that most carriers have.  If you’re looking to shave a few bucks off your cell bill this is the way!  Via our good friends at lifehacker.com
• Microsoft SharedView – Like the idea of ‘GoToMeeting’ but don’t like the sky high cost?  Believe it or not, Microsoft has a perfectly serviceable (up to 15 attendees) and even more perfectly FREE option called SharedView.  Like netmeeting but on steroids. Free steroids, that is!

Feeling a little down and slow this week, so we capped it all off with Rufus Wainright’s “Going to a Town” from his album Release The Stars.

February 28, 2009 … sorry to say, we blew it again.  And by “we” of course I mean “I” blew it again. That’s right, as you’ve probably already noticed, the audio for this podcast is missing, just like the one for a couple weeks ago.

During this episode, I talked about the Amazon Kindle fight with the authors guild, revealed the first winner of our TokBox $50 webcam giveaway (Customer Jones, naturally), and fed out 2 of the coolest of cool sites of the week that I’ve done in a long time.

But you’re going to miss all that, because a new – and unrevealed to this host – IT policy meant that all audio saved on WRLR servers is summarily deleted on a regular basis.  More regularly than I remembered to go grab it offline it seems.

So please stick with us, come back  next week, and we’ll have more great stuff.  Plus… sign up for the techtalk newsletter and I’ll  automatically put you in the running for next week’s TokBox webcam giveaway! 

And I promise you, now that we know the reason for our audio dissapearing into that great bitbucket in the sky, we WON’T let it happen again!

TOPIC: February 7th – This week we really screwed up … for the first time in TechTalk history technical issues resulted in our completely losing a recording   Too bad too, because it was a really great interview with Eric Griffith of PC Magazine.  We went over some of the coolest and best listing of the top 100 free software out there, discussed GTD implementation, the changing nature of app dev and how companies are trying to monetize, and more!

We can’t give you the audio, but you should definitely head over to http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2338803,00.asp to directly view Eric’s most excellent rundown, and browse around the rest of www.pcmag.com too!

Sorry folks – we’ll be back next week for sure though!  Have a great, albeit TechTalk-less week this week and we’ll see you in 7!