Observed Tech PODCAST

Welcome to Episode 23 of the Observed Tech PODCAST and the first since my retirement from the US Navy after 29 years of active duty. I have spent the last few weeks going through a pretty significant life change as I retired from the Navy in August and have been settling into a new routine. I plan to run this site full time now and the goal is to produce an episode of the Observed Tech PODCAST each week. My daily schedule is pretty much my own now I will be able to set aside time each week for recording and producing new episodes. I get to start that goal by having Miguel Carrasco, a fellow Microsoft MVP and the Director of Imaginet Interactive as a guest to talk about his experience last week at the Microsoft Build Conference in Anaheim, CA. Miguel has a great user experience perspective on the information that was shared during the Build conference and discusses it with us on the show.

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.

In this Fourth of July Episode, installment 21 of the PODCAST, we talk about Twitter being in hot water with the Federal trade Commission (FTC) over their recent treatment of developers, we introduce 4th and Mayor a FourSquare Client as our Windows Phone 7 app of the week, highlight the Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) availability on Patch Tuesday, and mention all the new official apps in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. We then wrap up with a review of the week on WindowsObserver.com.

In this episode, our 20th, we talk about how much happens on the Internet in just 60 seconds; Google’s new Online Reputation Manager; Important Legal Issues for Bloggers; Q&A for the June 2011 Microsoft Security Updates; Fake Tech Support and Phone Scams; Online Safety Tips for Twitter, Facebook and YouTube; Microsoft Security Essentials is most used antivirus worldwide; Tumblr Turns Off RSS Feeds; EA Says No Move Controllers For FIFA; New Windows Live SkyDrive Update; Windows Home Server 2011 Learning Bites; Windows Phone 7 Add-In For Windows Home Server 2011; Evernote on Windows Phone 7; NBC Nightly News Joins Windows Phone 7 Marketplace; and Smartphone Data Usage Is Increasing. We wrap up with a review of recent stories on WindowsObserver.com.