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Show Notes 1/31/09

Posted on 31. Jan, 2009 by Jordan in Show Notes

Episode 17  – 1/31/09

Hosted by Jordan Drake and Jake Brown

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In This Episode:

Tech News:

• Jake talks about new holographic discs that hold up to 1000 gigabytes of data. Current Blueray technology only allows up to 50 gigs. Jordan is skeptical of it’s practicality beyond archival purposes, but it’s still an incredible piece of technology.
• Mac upgrades their low-end Macbooks. $999 with everything upgraded; graphics card, RAM, etc.
• Google goes haywire! Google flags the entire internet as malware for about 15 minutes. Google will tell you if a site might harm your computer, a glitch caused every site to be flagged as potentially dangerous.
• Google offers an offline service for their mail.
  

Tech Discussion – Google Labs

Jordan and Jake talk about Gmail Labs, a service from Gmail that gives you many extra options. One of the draws of Gmail is the huge amounts of free storage.

Jordan talks about several labs, including:

SMS text messaging from your Google chat.You can send texts to US phones for free! (Note: it may not be free for the person receiving the texts)

Gmail goggles. Gmail goggles lets you to set your email to not allow you to send emails at certain times of the day unless you’re coherent or sober enough to answer some simple math questions.

Tech discussion – Web 2.0, Mobile web, and Twitter:

Jordan and Jake discuss how things that have traditionally been offline applications are moving to the web. Things like photo-editing, word-processing, etc.

Businesses, celebrities, and even politicians are starting to Twitter, allowing them to be connected to their fans wherever they are

Give it a try in 2009 – Twitter:

Jordan explains how Twitter and similar sites are changing how people interact on the internet. Twitter is a micro-blogging service for you to communicate with your friends. You can post anything and your friends will be able to see your posts. Twitter also allows you to “Twitter-out” from your mobile phone, so you can connect with people wherever you are, posting notes, thoughts, picture, etc.

Get a twitter and try it out!

Twitter.com/Jdrake90

Twitter.com/Jkbrwn

Tech roundup – iPod games:

Jake reviews some top-of-the-line ipod games. Rolando and Chess.

Podcast – Jake’s new podcast:

Jake has a podcast where he talks about movies, games, tech, and anything that fascinates him. You can tune in at JakeBrown.TV

Give it a try in 2009 – Start a blog:

Jordans friend Joel, a 10 year old sports nut started his own blog to talk about sports. Joels sports blog is gorillagrudge.wordpress.com

Anyone can start a blog. Starting a blog is a great way to talk about what you want to talk about and get feedback. You post your thoughts and people can post comments. A blog is one of the easiest ways to get your thoughts and name out there.

Tech Discussion – 8mm analogue film to digital :

Jordan explains how to convert analogue film to digital using a camera and a computer. Jordan recommends Pinnacle, a company that sells analogue/digital conversion tools and software.

Tech review – Headphone and headphone amp review:

Jordan talks about a pair of headphones, DT235, from headphone.com. Jordan moves into an explanation of a headphone amp from the same company. This device is USB compatible, has two headphone outs, and can run on three AAA batteries.

Tech Discussion – FYI – Snopes: Don’t let urban legends get the best of you:

Jordan talks about Snopes.com, a web service that allows you to look up urban legends and internet stories to check their validity. This is a great way to check an email before you forward it on to friends and family. Swiffer will not kill your dog.

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