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Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 36

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Welcome to Episode 36 of the Observed Tech PODCAST as we kick off the coverage of CES 2012. In this show we discuss the Tech Podcasts Network live coverage of this years Consumer Electronics Show and our partnership with them to simulcast the show from the site which you will find embedded on our main page. Amongst the subjects we cover in this show are Windows Phone and updates; Kinect for Windows robots; turning your Windows PC into a Windows Media Center machine; new photo sharing service from Warner Brothers; bouncing lottery checks in Illinois; meet your spouse while playing Word with Friends; Facebook Timeline scams; Ramnit worm swipes 45,000 Facebook passwords; NASA Shuttle program announced 40 years ago; independent devs get some increases for XBL Arcade titles; Microsoft and Nokia spending $200 million in US for marketing Windows Phone; Choplifter HD out this week; everything about passwords is wrong; refresh and reset your Windows 8 PC; storage in Windows 8; Chrome gets punished by Google; identity theft protection tips; Comet making and selling forged Windows CDs; 1 million Kindle Fires sold; Windows 7 will take over Windows XP usage in four months; Commodore 64 turns 30; partitioning your hard drives; Windows Phone Metro Design Series; Meet Ask Ziggy and the top 10 spam, malware and cyber security stories of 2011. As usual we wrap up with a look at the past week on WindowsObserver.com. . . .

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Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 22

Welcome to our 22nd Episode of the Observed Tech PODCAST! After letting you listen in on the crowd at Space View Park in Titusville, Florida during the final shuttle launch in the history of Human Space Flight for NASA we get down to business talking planet based technology. Items we discuss include 60% of Adobe users which use vulnerable versions of the software; Microsoft banning common passwords and introducing a new hacking alert system; Using a Microsoft FixIt to address power consumption problems on your laptop; the final 1,000 days of Windows XP; Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins; Versace’s censoring of comments on their Facebook page; websites to check if your credit card is stolen (not); Harley Davidson Museum and technology; Dropbox and Skydrive Terms of Service; Spam dropped by 82% in the past year; Office XP and Windows Vista SP1 retired. We then wrap up with a review of what we have been discussing on WindowsObserver.com. . . .

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NASA Posts HD Video of Endeavour and ISS Docked On Orbit

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Well yesterday we were treated to the superb on orbit photography by Italian Astronaut Paolo Nespoli which showed Space Shuttle Endeavour docked to the International Space Station (ISS) during the STS-134 mission.

Today we get an additional treat from NASA which is a 7 1/2 minute High Definition (720p) video of . . .

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Windows 7 Theme: Shuttle Endeavour Docked at ISS

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It is a rare occurrence that photographs are available which show a Space Shuttle docked at the International Space Station (ISS).  This is typically because there is no overlap between the arrival and docking of the shuttle at the same time another manned spacecraft is coming and going.

Well the recently completed . . .

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Windows Phone 7 Backgrounds: NASA Shuttle Launches

I recently purchased a LG Quantum Windows Phone 7 and will soon post about my First 24 Hours with the handset.  In the meantime I decided to do some experimentation regarding backgrounds for the devices Lock Screen and have eight images, courtesy of NASA, of Shuttle launches.

In order to grab these . . .

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NASATweetup and Launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis with Windows Live Movie Maker

Shuttle Atlantis – Lift Off! (Edited and adjusted with Windows Live Photo Gallery).

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If you have been following my tweets over the last two days you know I have been at Kennedy Space Center participating in the NASA Tweetup.

Well our two days culminated this afternoon with . . .

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