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Sites that I found interesting for January 10th 2009

• Slacker Personal Radio – Slacker Radio on Blackberry Mobile Devices – Listen to all of your favorite personalized Slacker stations on your BlackBerry for free! You can listen to over 100 stations programmed by music experts or create your own custom stations right from your Blackberry.
• Chrome 2.0 Preview Means Mac, Linux Versions Coming Soon – Google has rolled out an alpha preview of the next major revision for its Chrome web browser. Those undaunted by the current alpha status of 2.0 can get an early taste of what's to come in Chrome.
• Podiobooks – Serialized audiobooks – Serialized audiobooks which are distributed via RSS, much like a podcast. Listeners to Podiobooks.com can choose to receive the episodes of their books via an RSS feed or by listening to episodes by directly downloading episodes from this site.

Sites that I found interesting for January 6th 2009 through January 7th 2009:

• CSS-Tricks #41: WordPress as a CMS – In this screencast Chris Coyier attempts to show off a number of WordPress features that make it very “CMS-like” in my opinion. Including page templates, dynamic menus, parent-child relationship pages, and using posts as ancillary content.
• Leo Babauta Interviews Merlin Mann – Leo Babauta is releasing as a free audio download his recent interview with top productivity blogger and speaker Merlin Mann of the incredibly popular 43 Folders blog. Merlin is also known for his Inbox Zero series, his speeches on productivity, his video podcasts including the Merlin Show and MacBreak, and other creative work.
• DIY IKEA Digital Photo Frame – The simple mod doesn't take much doing, but the nice black frame goes a long way toward classing up a cheap digital frame.

Sites that I found interesting for November 13th 2008 through November 15th 2008:

• How Old Is Your Work Computer? – It used to be that every three years, workers would get brand new computers from their businesses' tech departments. But for many those days are over
• 8 Laptops Under $800 – MSI Wind – At A Glance – Reviews by PC Magazine – Out of all the UMPCs available in the market, the MSI Wind is the best deal.
• Silverlight: Live Mesh Integration, Surviving the Olympics and Future Expectations – Interview with Scott Guthrie – developerFusion podcast: Scott Guthrie and Craig Shoemaker take some time out of PDC 2008 to discuss Silverlight and highlights from the keynote address. Scott shares about current-day Silverlight integrations with Live Mesh, living through the Olympics and what might be expected from Silverlight in the future.

Sites that I found interesting for September 18th 2008 through September 22nd 2008:

• The Present and Future of Ruby and Rails – O'Reilly Broadcast – In this interview with O'Reilly, Chad and Rich discuss where Ruby and Rails have gone in the past year, whether RESTful composition obviates the need for ORM, what's interesting in the upcoming world of Ruby and Rails, and how Maglev, Rubinius, and other new Ruby implementations contribute to the world of dynamic languages.

  http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/09/the-present-and-future-of-ruby.html

• SanDisk, record labels announce new music format – Backed by four major music labels, SanDisk on Monday announced a new physical music format dubbed "SlotMusic" that's essentially an entire album on a MicroSD compact memory card. Wal-Mart and Best Buy are among the retailers that have already signed on to start selling the cards for the upcoming holiday season.
• Blu-ray Association: Wallet-Slaying Prices Here to Stay Because You're Not Buying Enough Blu-ray – Blu-ray Disc Association Chairman Andy Parsons says prices won't be deflating for a while. And it's precisely because you're not buying enough Blu-ray!

I really like the GIllmor Gang podcast. There are often audio issues and it can travel down many paths but there is brilliance in there that keeps me listening. Keeps me up to date on current tech topics beyond consumer level. Steve Gillmor also does a daily News Gang podcast which is similar in style to the Gillmor Gang and I like it as well.

The problem for me is that they are both included in the same feed. My podcatcher separates things into folders which I really like and have grown accustomed to listening that way. So I built two Yahoo! Pipes to separate the feed into two. One is called News Gang Only and the other is Gillmor Gang Only. The added benefit here is that my folders sort alphabetically so Gillmor Gang is now under ‘G’ instead of ‘T’ for The Gillmor Gang.

Subscribe here:

Gillmor Gang Only RSS Feed

News Gang Only RSS Feed

If you want to see the Pipes:

Gillmor Gang Only Pipe

News Gang Only Pipe

• Home Server Show
  New podcast about windows home server
  (tags: podcast whs windows home server)
• Security flaw turns Gmail into open-relay server
  A recently-discovered flaw in Gmail is capable of turning Google’s e-mail service into a highly effective spam machine. According to the Information Security Research Team (INSERT), Gmail is susceptible to a man-in-the-middle attack that allows a spammer
  (tags: google gmail security email)

Another excellent video in the ‘in plain English’ series. This time, Common Craft shows us Podcasting in Plain English

• “Podcasting 101″ on KCBS with Tim Coyne & Lance Anderson
  KCBS News segment on the fundamentals and history of podcasting, featuring Tim Coyne of The Hollywood Podcast and Lance Anderson of Verge of the Fringe.
  (tags: podcasting)
• How-To: 4 Camera Hacks You Can Do Today
  (tags: camera hacks)
• Command-line reference A-Z
  Microsoft Command Line Reference. Good for batch files.
  (tags: batch microsoft command cmd)
• Startup Drinks
  Startup culture in cities around the world gathers around a bar to have a pint and discuss what they are working on, what they need help with and what they can do for each other.
  (tags: Startup Web2.0)