July 2008

Domain Names
http://www.icann.org
http://blog.icann.org/?m=200807
http://www.icann.org/en/policy

Newest Intel chip
http://www.intel.com/products/centrino/index.htm
http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/16/stories/2008071656091900.htm
http://news.cnet.com/intel-centrino-2-chips-hit-with-problems-delays

Products
http://www.eye.fi/products/explore

1.5 TB HD
http://tinyurl.com/5j8nrx

Miscellaneous
http://tinyurl.com
http://twit.tv/ww67
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/ie8_security.asp
http://tinyurl.com/6fwvmo
http://www.truecrypt.org
http://www.lifehackerbook.com

Social Networking
http://www.posterous.com
https://privnote.com

Search
http://www.searchme.com
https://www.chacha.com
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/chacha_human-powered_search.php

Science
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/experienceIt/ExperienceIt.aspx

Technology
http://arstechnica.com/index.ars
http://www.readwriteweb.com
http://tinyurl.com/5zrpwv

TV
http://www.piclens.com

Virtual PC 2007
http://tinyurl.com/387goe

Virtual world update
http://tinyurl.com/58qbdb
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/08/google-launches-virtual-world-called-lively
http://www.lively.com/html/landing.html
http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.there.com

June 2008

Web Applications:
http://280slides.com
http://beema.com
http://wordle.net

Web Browsers:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox
http://flock.com

Science:
http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime-images.html
http://www.spaceweather.com/

Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/default.aspx

Other stuff:
http://www.rozsavage.com/
http://www.rozsavage.com/blog
http://twit.tv/roz
http://promotions.newegg.com/NVIDIA/GTX200/index.html
http://revision3.com/tekzilla
http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/iphone-3g-is-finally-official

May 2008

Free services, wake up & reminders
http://iwantsandy.com/
http://www.wakerupper.com/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/

Social networking
http://www.stumbleupon.com
http://www.mento.info
http://friendfeed.com
http://www.killerstartups.com/Comm/Firefly---Live-Chat-Portal
http://twistori.com/#i_believe

Windows Live Mesh (waiting list for beta signup)
https://www.mesh.com/Welcome/Welcome.aspx
http://dev.live.com/blogs/devlive/archive/2008/04/22/279.aspx

Ubuntu new release:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Music
http://muxtape.com
http://www.pandora.com

TV
http://revision3.com
http://www.moblogic.tv
http://www.channelflip.com

South Carolina
http://http://www.swampfox.ws/

More sites I found interesting this month
http://www.dipity.com
http://www.nasa.gov (Phoenix landing on Mars Sunday evening)
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200806/asteroids
http://youtomb.mit.edu
http://geni.com
http://tineye.com
http://www.cnet.com/8300-11455_1-10.html
http://www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com/blog

April 2008 Meeting

Links this month:

XP SP3
http://www.crn.com/software/207401004
http://www.winsupersite.com/faq/xp_sp3.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=114F3599-12AF-42B2-AAB1-B969A62C68A7&displaylang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=68c48dad-bc34-40be-8d85-6bb4f56f5110&displaylang=en

Microsoft Silverlight
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Silverlight
http://silverlight.net
http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/04/15/introducing-microsoft-silverlight.aspx


Adobe Photshop Express
https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html

Build stuff
http://makezine.com/magazine

Windows Live Writer
http://get.live.com/writer/overview
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/08/13/windows-live-writer/

Windows SkyDrive (5gig free)
http://skydrive.live.com/

On-line free screen sharing
http://showmypc.com/

Symantec products
http://www.norton-security-store.com/norton-us-canada/internet-security-us-canada.html?mv1=a340&gclid=COTzsbmw7ZICFRkXkgodjSIqww

http://www.norton-security-store.com/norton-us-canada/internet-security-comparison-us-canada.html?mv1=a340&mv2=symantec&mv3=05&gclid=COTzsbmw7ZICFRkXkgodjSIqww

http://www.symantec.com/business/products/overview.jsp?pcid=2241&pvid=endpt_prot_1
http://www.symantec.com/business/products/allproducts.jsp

Open DNS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDNS

Stickam
http://www.stickam.com/liveStreams.do

UStream
http://www.ustream.tv/

Redmond Radio
http://redmondmag.com/radio

Technet Radio
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb510143.aspx

RSA Conference
http://www.rsaconference.com/Conference_Info/Conference_Blog.aspx?month=3&year=2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsa

Intel & WiMax
http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/wifiwimax/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207401065&subSection=News

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080326-google-intel-and-cable-companies-ponder-nationwide-wimax-jv.html

March 2008 Meeting

This month we discuss building a PC again (power supplies, cases and video cards)

http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=58&name=Power-Supplies

http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=48&name=Video-Cards



Links this month:

Another free file sharing site, drop.io http://www.drop.io/

Tech gossip at Valleywag: http://valleywag.com/

CBS launches its new online news show: http://www.moblogic.tv/

Microsoft webcasts: http://mcpmag.com/webcasts/mcpradio/radio.asp?id=284

Vista SP1: http://redmondmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=9668 434.5mb

DO NOT CLICK DOWNLOAD IF YOU ARE UPDATING JUST ONE COMPUTER: A smaller, more appropriate download is available on Windows Update.

Rocketboom more online TV, sort of: http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/

Mahalo Daily: http://daily.mahalo.com/2008/01/16/md038-the-steve-jobs-90-minute-keynote-in-60-seconds/

Secrity Now Iron Key episode: http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm

https://www.ironkey.com/


SPAM news: http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20080317/tc_infoworld/96019

Arthur Clarke tribute: http://www.planetary.org/radio/show/00000281/

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Sir Arthur Clarke

The Portal song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVJlMYsiJEk&feature=related

February 2008 Meeting

Build a PC

This month we discuss Motherboards and Processors

Here is the Gigabyte M61P-S3 AMD Socket AMD2 that I purchased from NewEgg last November for $77. It now sells for $60. Using it now.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128034R

I put an AMD 4800 Brisbane in it for $100 also purchased last November which now sells for $85.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103212

Wikipedia has a nice list of socket choices for AMD and Intel with pictures/descriptions of each:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_socket

Hard to find reviews of this board, I usually always start with Tom's Hardware:

http://www.tomshardware.com/find_by_topic/reviews.html

Here is one from PC World:

http://www.pcworld.com/product/userreviews/prtprdid,32944378/gam61ps3_motherboard.html#

I usually end up spending several weeks looking at boards and processors before making a decision. This is my first dual core, the board I replaced was an ASUS A7N8X that would occasionally lock up but I never isolated why. I have two more of these still going strong.

Linux Corner

Got a copy of MiniMe running from flash we will take a look at.

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2008/02/06/usb-minime-2008-install-from-windows/

Security

Episode # 130 of Security Now has an interesting mention of a class of Trojan called Banking Trojans we will spend a few minutes discussing.

http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm

You can open the transcript in a pdf and search for banking if you want to read it, or, just listen to the episode.

Other News:

The other things that got my attention lately were the BlueRay/DVD announcement recently, and Microsoft's new Server to be released on Wednesday.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19174580
http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/paramount-officially-blu-ray-again/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23204819/

http://weblog.infoworld.com/daily/archives/2008/02/product_review.html
http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2008/022108-windows-2008-server-test.html