Techbyter Worldwide (formerly Technology Corner) With Bill Blinn
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TechByter Worldwide, once limited to the reach of WTVN Radio in Columbus, Ohio, as Technology Corner, is now available worldwide. Programs are listed by date (YYYY.MM.DD: Topic) so that you'll know the date the program was recorded.
Episodios
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TechByter Worldwide 2008.03.09: Vista: The New Me? Stupid Spam of the Week and Nerdly News
09/03/2008 Duración: 17minA feeling of deja vu continue to bother me whenever I use Vista. Could Microsoft's newest operating system be a replay of Millennium Edition and why did Microsoft favor Intel over its own customers? A spam offered me a free high-def television, but I didn't bite. In Nerdly News, the MPAA says piracy is killing the motion picture industry, but box office receipts hit another record high in 2007. If you bought an HD-DVD player from Circuit City and you want to exchange it for a Blu-ray device, you might be able to.
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TechByter Worldwide 2008.03.02: Zoho for Your SOHO, Stupid Spam of the Week, It's Time to Vote Again, and Nerdly News
02/03/2008 Duración: 18minZoho is another challenger facing off against Microsoft in an effort to bring office applications to the Internet. A new e-mail fraud variant is offering "free" cameras, computers, and other gear for you to "test", but I have a better idea: Send me $5000 and I'll send you a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Election day is here in Ohio. In Nerdly News, two instances of situations where the inmates seem to be running the asylum.
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TechByter Worldwide 2008.02.24: HD Radio: Is This the Salvation AM and FM Need? Stupid Spam of the Week; Which Computer Should I Buy? Nerdly News
24/02/2008 Duración: 26minHD radio is on the air, but will it save the medium? We examine both the medium and a receiver. The stupid spam of the week could be an effort to insert a "man in the middle" to steal your information. A look at options for a buying a computer when general specifications are available. In Nerdly News, the short life of HD-DVD and phishing doesn't affect just the big banks any more.
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TechByter Worldwide 2008.02.17: Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2: Easier and Less Expensive; Expired Domains as a Profit Center; The Bat 4; and Nerdly News
17/02/2008 Duración: 20minWhy Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 might be the right choice for you; how crooked registrars make a bundle on expired domains; a first look at version 4 of The Bat. In Nerdly News: HD-DVD turns to toast and the San Jose Mercury News looks at cybercrooks.
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TechByter Worldwide 2008.02.10: Yes, it's an entire program all about spam, along with a little Nerdly News
10/02/2008 Duración: 21minFrom Canadian pharmacies to Nigerian money messages, from pay-per-click frauds to spams in Russian, $12,000 from Apple, and more. It's all about spam this week. In Nerdly News: A new version of The Bat, the state of Internet video, and Best Buy dumps analog video in favor of digital.
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TechByter Worldwide 2008.02.03: Belts, suspenders, and duct tape; Beware All Predictions, Including This One; Vista to be replaced by Windows 7; Nerdly News
03/02/2008 Duración: 24minHow to set up a backup system that you'll actually use. Predictions from 1900 and 1998. Microsoft is apparently accelerating work on Windows 7, which will replace Vista. In Nerdly News, Microsoft wants Yahoo and the RIAA wants all your money.
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TechByter Worldwide 2008.01.27: Beyond Compare Is Its Name and a Good Description; Coping with Itunes Disasters; The Phoney Report: Sprint Tanks; and Nerdly News
27/01/2008 Duración: 22minBeyond Compare is a handy utility designed for power users that might appeal to regular users, too. After trying for weeks to fix Itunes, I've dumped Itunes in favor of Winamp. Has Sprint's lousy customer service finally caught up with it? In Nerdly News: Blu-Ray versus HD-DVD, bidding for spectrum, and another lost data tape with names and Social Security numbers.
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TechByter Worldwide 2008.01.20: Vista Annoyances, When Updates Go Goofy, The Day of the Killer Apple, and 2 Stupid Spams
20/01/2008 Duración: 27minI still can't decide whether I love or loathe Vista; many days, it's a little of each. I do know that I'm anxiously awaiting service pack 1. When an update fails because the updater can't find the program it's supposed to be updating, I wonder what the programmers were thinking. On the day Steve Jobs addressed the faithful at Macworld, Apple rendered an application on my Windows machine unusable and nearly killed my Apple Powerbook. This week's stupid spams include one that claims to come from the IRS.
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TechByter Worldwide 2008.01.13: Where Do You Want to Go Today? An Overload of Stuff and Nerdly News
13/01/2008 Duración: 23minGoogle Earth continues to evolve and it becomes an even better waster of time or maybe a better educator. Or both. Recently I deleted more old e-mail messages than would have fit on 80 original IBM PC hard drives; we are becoming a nation of digital pack rats. In Nerdly News, there's a series of short items from the CES keynote by Bill Gates to questions about electronic voting and why phone companies are shutting off FBI wiretaps.
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TechByter Worldwide 2008.01.06: TechByter's New Look, Plug and What? Spoiling your Fun, Stupid Spam of the Week, and Nerdly News
06/01/2008 Duración: 19minA new look for the website and improved technology behind the scenes. USB no longer means "Plug and Pray." An explanation of how a website can "guess" your number. Does Microsoft send prize messages from a Yahoo account? In Nerdly News, the end of the Netscape era and plans by the RIAA to make it illegal for you to use music you've purchased.
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TechByter Worldwide 2007.12.23: It will never crash! Still having trouble picking an operating system? Movies online; It's the last show of the year: Happy Holidays; and Nerdly News: No News is Good News
23/12/2007 Duración: 21minThe dreaded double negative: No operating system will ever not crash. I have an updated version of operating systems as airlines. NetFlix has movies available online, but I won't be using the service. Instead of Nerdly News this week, a look at spam. And happy holidays.
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TechByter Worldwide 2007.12.16: Working when the power goes out; Questions and Answers (well, 1 question & 1 answer); and Nerdly News
16/12/2007 Duración: 18minIf you live in an area where power outages are common, some planning will mitigate the problem. Moving e-mail from one provider to another. I have a comparison of applications available to users of Windows, OS X, and Linux. In Nerdly News, thoughts about libraries and a challenge to Microsoft from Opera.
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TechByter Worldwide 2007.12.09: Ubuntu Linux continues to surprise, Windows Vista security, Stupid spam of the week and one that's not so stupid, and Nerdly News
09/12/2007 Duración: 24minUbuntu Linux was easy enough to set up that even under the influence of Percocet, it went OK. Vista's new security annoys some, but I like it. The fake inheritance scammers have learned how not to type in ALL CAPS. And in Nerdly News, problems for Facebook, another spammer goes to prison, and a killer online game kills computers.
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TechByter Worldwide 2007.12.02: A Corel Draw fan casts an eye on Adobe Illustrator CS3, “I want an operating system”, thoughts of a first-time poll worker, and Nerdly News
02/12/2007 Duración: 24minThe CS3 update for Adobe Illustrator brings powerful new features. Operating systems are increasingly hard to tell apart. I'll recount a bit about my day as an election worker. In Nerdly News, Google purges tens of thousands of bad websites and the FBI puts 8 techno-crooks away.
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TechByter Worldwide 2007.11.18: It's November, so it must be time to like Vista again; stupid spam of the week killer; and Nerdly News
18/11/2007 Duración: 21minProblems that once seemed to be Vista related turn out to be hardware defects, PayPay offers a quiz, and in Nerdly News Seagate ships infected Maxtor drives and hacked sites on MySpace send unwitting victims to China.
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TechByter Worldwide 2007.11.11: Ubuntu: Linux for the rest of us, Storm continues to mutate and annoy, Stupid spam of the week, and Nerdly News
11/11/2007 Duración: 19minThe latest version of Ubuntu is the easiest Linux ever to install and might be the one that attracts a wider group of users. The Storm worm is new again, but certainly not improved. Now spammers are trying some direct marketing tricks. In Nerdly News, the Iphone invades Europe and Nigerians have a new twist on an old scam.
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TechByter Worldwide 2007.11.04: Update the changes to your modifications, the Maxtoring of Seagate, don't forget to vote, and Nerdly News
04/11/2007 Duración: 21minYou know they're important, but updates still get in the way. Seagate's latest "bargain" drives may not be such a bargain, after all. This is election week, so please remember to vote. In Nerdly News, I have information about a Mac attack and an operating system that's not Microsoft or Apple.
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TechByter Worldwide 2007.10.28: An unexpected hiatus this week
27/10/2007 Duración: 04minI hadn't planned to take the week "off", but that seems to be what's happening, so it's a very short program.
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TechByter Worldwide 2007.10.21: A belt, suspenders, and duc(k/t) tape; the leopard prepares to spring; Greenpeace bites the Apple Iphone; Stupid spam of the week; and Nerdly News
21/10/2007 Duración: 18minIf a picture is worth 1000 words, it seems that we should protect the picture. And the word. I'll explain how I protected pictures from a wedding I photographed last week. I have a quick preview of Apple's Leopard, criticism of Apple by Greenpeace, a stupid spam, and (in Nerdly News) MP3 spam and Google's continued success on Wall Street.
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TechByter Worldwide 2007.10.14: Questions and answers (possibly related) and Nerdly News
12/10/2007 Duración: 19minQuestions range from backup problems to missing power supplies, from plugged-in laptops to shut down problems In Nerdly News, an Internet Explorer free for all and another suit for Apple.