Show #2 - 11.05.2006

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News

• The History of iPod
• Mozilla Foundation / Firefox Unphazed by Release of IE7

Software / Hardware

• Internet Explorer 7
  • It's out
  • Auto download
  • Ask to install
    
• Windows Vista (7 versions) -
  
  • Versions
    
    • $99 from XP - Windows Vista Home Basic
      • Cannot make a copy of it to your hard drive
        
    • Windows Vista Home Premium
    • Windows Vista Ultimate
  • Install once and move to new computer, ONCE, that's it.
    • UPDATE: Microsoft has removed this! You can move it as many times as you like, the people have spoken and Microsoft listened (to angry customers).
      
• E3 is back
  • Sony, Microsoft, and the big ones left
    
  • More meetings, less show
  • Less party

• Quad-Core Processors [Intel - Clovertown / Tigertron (server)] - early 2007 - four processors on one die, and works with the existing motherboards
  • AMD - Ours is the "true" quad-core

What Is?

• Blogging
  • Define
    
  • Newspapers & Websites
    
  • Technorati
  • Blogger
  • Two Different Kinds of Free Blogging Sites
    
    • LiveJournal
    • Wordpress.com
    • wBloggar
    • Roll Your Own - This means making your own website and requires the technical know-how to achieve this goal (blogging tools are wayyy easier!)
      

• Podcasting / Netcasting (Next Week)
  

Penny Pinchers

• Google Adsense
  
• ProBloggar.Net
• Blogger
• Two Different Kinds of Free Blogging Sites
  
  • LiveJournal
  • Wordpress.com

Gaming Corner

• World of Warcraft - It doesn't have to ruin your life.
  

Security & Privacy

• Kinds of Things Not to Post
  • Personal Whereabouts
  • Keep Some things Private
  • Remember it is the internet and Google remembers all
    

Tech Forum Talk Back / Editorial

• Next week Digital Photography tips and tricks