Observed Tech PODCAST

Welcome to Episode 29 of the Observed Tech PODCAST. We are coming at you one day later than normal because of the NAS Jacksonville Airshow which I worked for three days and then I had jury duty yesterday. After catching up I just could not get the show recorded so you have it now for your listening pleasure. I started the show off talking about today being Patch Tuesday for your Windows based clients and server systems. So after you fire up Windows Update you can continue to listen to the show where we talk about Andy Rooney’s death; pinning the Control Panel icon to your taskbar for quick access in Windows 8; possibility of Windows 8 becoming a base OS for Microsoft’s consumer products; 2005 YU55 Asteroid passed by Earth while recording the show; Google+ Pages launch; Amazon Prime users borrowing Kindle books now; Netflix on the new Nook Color; watching for Confirm Your Account scams; DuQu Security Advisory and workaround solution and fix; Spotify for Windows Phone 7 Hands on; relaxed hardware requirements for Windows Phone 7 devices; ChevronWP7 Unlock Tool for Windows Phone 7; AP Guidelines for Journalists and RT’s; Twitter features for Top News, Top People and Activity tabs; Commodore 64 Revived by Intel; share your printer on the Internet; hard drive prices going up due to flooding in Thailand; United and Continental adding Wi-Fi to flights next year; speed of USB 3.0 compared to USB 2.0; Wi-Fi Do’s and Don’ts; Samsung Focus S review; tips for creating great content; and our first appearance in the PC Pitstop newsletter. As usual we wrap up with a look at the past week on WindowsObserver.com.

Welcome to Episode 28 of the Observed Tech PODCAST. It was a busy week on the site and in the tech world. In this episode we talk Facebook security both vulnerabilities and new features to improve on it; Nokia World 11; an online safety survey/self test; fake antivirus attacks are decreasing; Windows Phone 7.7 rollout goes 100%; Microsoft Security Essentials in 33 languages; HP sticking with PC’s; New York Times praise for Windows Phone 7; the FeedBeater service; deleting Promoted Tweets from your timeline; stats on ownership of tablet computers; Spammers creating their own short URL services to hide their wares; Facebook’s gamers outnumber Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo combined; tools to protect small businesses from cyber attacks; BMW allowing cars talk to each other; Kinect Fun Labs Air band Module for free; Windows Phone Inner Circle Tour; Webcams live from Statue of Liberty; a Nikon D300S heads to orbit and returns; Windows Phone Marketplace over 35,000 apps; Netflix launching in UK next year as its stock drops and users flee in droves this year and why you should give up Windows XP for good. As usual we wrap up with a look at the past week on WindowsObserver.com

Welcome to Episode 27 of the Observed Tech PODCAST. This week we make a couple of big announcements for the site on the show including welcoming Isaac Steinberg as the new Editor in Chief and Contributor, our new partnership with PC Pitstop and the winners of our PerfectDisk12 giveaway. In the show we covered some interesting news including a new homebrew app for windows Phone 7 that will let you take screenshots on the phone; How To Geek’s LastPass tutorial; how tablets are cutting into PC sales; the astounding amount of bandwidth used online during 2010; the Windows Phone 7.5 tour; an update on the Windows Phone 7.5 roll out; WordPress.com users getting ads for their sites soon; Debt Collectors banned from using Twitter and Facebook in the UK; a shocker of a cell phone bill; the latest social network Chime.in; Building Windows 8 Start menu; and renaming a user account on a Windows system properly. That last article resulted in an extended discussion on the best way to assume the use of a computer you get from a friend and create your own identity on it, take over theirs or reformat the entire machine. We closed the show with our normal week in review on WindowsObserver.com

In this week’s show we talk about the Building Windows 8 Blog; Google+ traffic stats trend; Kinect winning another award; Windows Live Writer; Sony’s latest security and user account issues; Windows 7 passing Windows XP in global use; Security Intelligence Report version 11 and users role in malware distribution; registering your website with the copyright office; Siri and lack of international use; Online gaming passes; Play Xbox Live Arcade official website; Online game trading risks; how to repair a malware damaged computer and a contest with the chance to win a free copy of PerfectDisk12.

We close out by taking a look at the last week on WindowsObserver.com and cover some of the news we covered last week.

Welcome to our quarter-century episode of the Observed Tech PODCAST! OK – it is really our 25th episode but unfortunately it has taken us two years to get here!
However, this is our third week in a row recording a weekly episode so we are tracking very nicely in seeing that number climb on a weekly basis. As always thanks for listening!
In this episode we discuss October being National Cyber Security Month; update everyone on the Windows Phone 7.5 Mango roll out; the European Union’s approval of the Microsoft
Skype acquisition; an opportunity for you to submit your photography to be included at the Windows Personalization Gallery; the new marketing videos for Windows Phone 7.5;
Twitter looking for your 140 characters of feedback; FIFA-12 knocking Gears of War 3 off its pedestal with a soccer ball; the latest updates to Hotmail; Zune’s hardware status; and
a Wi-Fi security survey results. We wrap up as we typically do with the week in review for WindowsObserver.com.