Digital Life Radio

Episode 7  – 11/09/08

Hosted by Jordan Drake and Jake Brown

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In this episode:

Tech News:

• We always encourage installing system updates to protect your computer, and PC World reminds us that applications are becoming a much greater risk for attack. The moral of the story – keep your programs (not just your operating system) up to date. Source – PC World
• Whether you like it or not, Barrack Obama is going to be our next president. Our hosts explore some of the tech policies and changes we might see under the new president. How will a refresh to the executive branch affect your digital life?  Source – TG Daily
  

Time Magazine has released the 50 best innventions of 2008. Here are some of our favorites:

#47 – Google’s floating datacenter – Link

#42 – Disemvoling – Link

#30 – The Internet Of Things - Link

#24 – Bionic contacts – Link

#13 – Memristor – Link

#6 – Blobal seed vault – Link

#4 – Hulu.com – Link

#1 – Personal DNA tester (reminds Jordan of the movie Gattaca) – Link

Holiday Shopping Guide – Starting our guide:

We kicked off this years holiday shopping guide. Our guide will be a compilation of tech reviews on the show and helping callers with their tech gift questions. Jordan and Jake enjoyed some of the products featured in Time Magazines Gadget of the Year nominations. They also listed some great websites for finding gift deals and ideas (found in this great article from Obsessable.com)

Jake and Jordan are both pleased with the Flip Mino. This customizable – inexpensive – budget priced – and tiny sized video camcorder has stolen our hearts and could make the perfect Christmas gift. Our only gripe: the built in editing software is terrible… so make sure you already have a video editing solution. Listen to the full review on the recorded episode or check out the product website.

Jordan was wearing the product he will review next week…. a Technology-Enabled hoodie… is it a geeky clothing item or a wearable extension of your digital life. Find out next week!

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