The Techie Geek Podcast

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Email Russ at russ AT thetechiegeek DOT com
Email Tracy at tracy AT thetechiegeek DOT com
Leave us a voice mail at 1-206-339-1575

FreeLinuxBox.org helps your un-needed Linux box find a needy home

amazon.thetechiegeek.com
hostgator.thetechiegeek.com

Google Wins $35 Million U.S. Government Contract Over Microsoft
Big TV treats cord-cutting as a threat 
LinkedIn Investigating Password Leak That Could Affect 6.5 M
Target, Unhappy With Being an Amazon Showroom, Will Stop Selling Kindles
60 hours of video every minute
Floppy Drives Play The Doctor Who Theme Song
How to Use CCleaner Like a Pro
The 10 Best Free Tools to Analyze Hard Drive Space on Your Windows PC
How to Make Your Windows 7 or 8 Computer Logon Automatically
Microsoft forbids class actions in new Windows licence
Adobe Introduces the Paid Security Fix
Photobomber Trolls Tourists at Leaning Tower of Pisa
Google Chrome Just Passed Internet Explorer To Become The World’s Most Popular Web Browser

Check out these great podcast sites: Techpodcasts.com and BluBrry.com

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Email Russ at russ AT thetechiegeek DOT com
Email Tracy at tracy AT thetechiegeek DOT com
Leave us a voice mail at 1-206-339-1575

FreeLinuxBox.org helps your un-needed Linux box find a needy home

amazon.thetechiegeek.com
hostgator.thetechiegeek.com

Ubutu An Absolute Beginner’s Guide
Gparted Live
Lubuntu
Xubuntu
gPodder
FileZilla
SSD
Unity Desktop
OpenSUSE
One in Every Five Mac Computers Harbors Malware, Sophos Research Reveals
Mr Beer Homebrewing Kit
HeyTell
How LibreOffice Writer Tops MS Word: 12 Features
How I learned to say, ‘Hi, Google Docs; bye, MS Word’
How to Turn Your Windows 8 Laptop into a Wireless Access Point
Photographing Water Droplets — 51 Stunning Examples Of Water Droplet Refractions
Web could vanish for hordes of people in July, FBI warns
WeVideo
Google Drive
How To Backup Your Text Messages to Your Gmail Account
How to Install Windows 7 Without the Disc
How to Set a Custom Logon Screen Background on Windows 7
Netflix not buying Comcast excuse about Xfinity data
Amazon.com agrees to begin collecting Texas sales taxes
Revo Uninstaller
Linus Torvalds inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame
Redo Backup, Easy Backup, Recovery & Bare Metal Restore
Harvard and M.I.T. Team Up to Offer Free Online Courses
Glossary of RAM terms
Wal-Mart takes cash for online purchases
Penetration Testing and Shell Tossing with Metasploit
bacon & cheese muffins
Onion Ring Eggs
Easy High Quality Video Streaming without a PC
Geek News Central
Google Sync for BlackBerry swept away in spring cleaning
Mafia Wars
Pale Moon is FireFox that is highly optimized for Windows
Spotify may add Pandora-like radio service
Spotify
Pandora
Boxee
Roku
CrystalDiskInfo
Technibble
GsmartControl Hard Drive Testing Tool
GigaOM
Just how big is the Amazon cloud anyway?
Remastersys Linux Backup to Live Media Tool for Debian and Ubuntu
8 Tools for the Online Privacy Paranoid
Burn Note
How to Batch Rename Files in Windows
Testing for Successful Configuration of OpenDNS
ClearOS
Pa. High School Looks Like Star Wars Icon
7 Easy Ways to Speed Up Your Business Computers
Cloud Could Cut $12 Billion from US Government Annual Deficit
Access Google Drive Via Nautilus in Ubuntu
Ohio Linux Fest
Southeast Linux Fest
Texas Linux Fest

Check out these great podcast sites: Techpodcasts.com and BluBrry.com

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Email Russ at russ AT thetechiegeek DOT com
Email Tracy at tracy AT thetechiegeek DOT com
Leave us a voice mail at 1-206-339-1575

FreeLinuxBox.org helps your un-needed Linux box find a needy home

amazon.thetechiegeek.com
hostgator.thetechiegeek.com

Working Point
PC Repair Tracker
Puppy Linux
Knoppix
Linux Mint
FreeNAS
Google Apps
SimpleSysInfo

Check out these great podcast sites: Techpodcasts.com and BluBrry.com

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Email Russ at russ AT thetechiegeek DOT com
Email Tracy at tracy AT thetechiegeek DOT com
Leave us a voice mail at 1-206-339-1575

FreeLinuxBox.org helps your un-needed Linux box find a needy home

amazon.thetechiegeek.com
hostgator.thetechiegeek.com

Congratulations to Kevin S. winner of the 32GB Flash Drive and to Richard G. winner of the 500GB ClickFree USB Hard Drive

Tracy’s BBB Rant
Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards
EchoLink allows Hams to communicate over the web using streaming-audio technology
Canon Rebel T3i camera
ArtistX Linux
AV Linux
CQiNet combines Ham Radio with the Internet using VoIP
WINE
OpenShot
WOUXUN KG-UVD1P 144 / 440 Mhz Two-way Portable Transceiver
Avidemux
HamTest.org
Mr Beer Home Brewing Kit
Try Ruby Programming
HamTesting.com
CloseTheDoor – Port Scanning and Information Tool
Technibble
Nmap
Ham Radio Exam Courses
How to Multitask in the Linux Terminal: 3 Ways to Use Multiple Shells at Once
Coffee Jelly
ZyXEL GS1100-16 16 Port Gigabit Rackmount Switch
Ubuntu Linux
Printing on Linux
Google Apps Desktop exe
LibreOffice
Prism brings web applications to your desktop

Check out these great podcast sites: Techpodcasts.com and BluBrry.com

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Email Russ at russ AT thetechiegeek DOT com
Email Tracy at tracy AT thetechiegeek DOT com
Leave us a voice mail at 1-206-339-1575

FreeLinuxBox.org helps your un-needed Linux box find a needy home

amazon.thetechiegeek.com
hostgator.thetechiegeek.com

The contest drawing was at 7PM Eastern on 4/16/12
Show 100 Grand Prize – ClickFree 500GB Portable Backup Drive
Show 100 First Prize – SanDisk Cruzer 32GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive
Coat Hanger HDTV Antenna!
Tivo Premiere
Roku
Acer Revo
Cord Cutters
Boxee Box
Netflix
The Scale of the Universe 2
Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive
Subscribe to Astronomy Picture of the Day and get it delivered to your email
SimpleSysInfo retrieve information from your computer
SIW – System Information for Windows
Geo IP Tool
Ubuntu Kernel?
16 Linux Server Monitoring Commands You Really Need To Know
LinuxBasix Podcast
Nmon – a nice monitoring tool for Linux
Miro cross-platform video and music player
Tech News Today
Buzz Out Load coming to an end
TWiT
PirateBox Takes File-Sharing Off The Radar and Offline
No joke: YouTube gets its first live comedy show
MyDamnChannel
8 Microsoft Word Shortcuts You Probably Don’t Know
How Linus Torvalds Helped Bust a Microsoft Patent
Team Viewer
NTR Free Cloud
FBI Can’t Crack Android Pattern-Screen Lock
Lost Phone app
Audacity 2.0
Triplog GPS Mileage Tracker
Mike Tech Show
Support Details
TaskManager.xls is a simple taskmanager implemented in Excel
Run and RunOnce Registry Keys
msconfig
New Tabs At End Chrome Extension
Totally Cool Tech
MP3tag
MP3tag under Wine
Monitor your Website’s Uptime with Google Docs
treeprint (download for Windows XP and older)
Karen’s Directory Print
Build A CFL Based Continuous Light Source
Russ’s camera is a Canon T3i
Mr. Beer Home Brewing Kit
Gmail Adds Follow-up Tags for Outgoing Mail
How to Remotely Shut Down or Restart Windows PCs
Ultra Virus Killer – Malware Removal and System Repair Multi-Tool
Roll Your Own Flexi-Ties to Secure and Store Frequently Used Cables
How to Create a Custom Ubuntu Live CD or USB the Easy Way
Popcorn Contains More Antioxidants Than Fruits and Vegetables

Check out these great podcast sites: Techpodcasts.com and BluBrry.com

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Email Russ at russ AT thetechiegeek DOT com
Email Tracy at tracy AT thetechiegeek DOT com
Leave us a voice mail at 1-206-339-1575

FreeLinuxBox.org helps your un-needed Linux box find a needy home

NorthEast GNU/Linux Fest
KDE
Gnome
Unity
Cinnamon
XFCE
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
“Scroogle.org Is Gone Forever” Says Site Owner
DuckDuckGo
Start Page
AT&T’s mad, mad plan to charge wireless app developers
Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO files
VirtualBox
Zorin Linux OS
Zorin PC
Pear Linux
PDF to Word online converter
BullZip PDF Printer
Chess.com for the web and smartphones add Holzster & thetechiegeek
Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy
Ten Things I Wish I Knew When Becoming A Linux Admin
System76
Find Your IP and DNS Addresses in Ubuntu
Pulse RSS reader
Soapbox #793 Jonathan Nadeau
How to Use Fdisk to Manage Partitions on Linux
PhotoNetCast.com Photography Podcast
AdvavncedPhotography.Net
Windows 95 with Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry
Advanced Composition and the Golden Ratio
Wikipedia “Golden Ratio”
Wikipedia “Golden Spiral”
Five ways to protect yourself from Wi-Fi honeypots
Army Warns Of Danger Of Geotagging
HeyTell
HOWTO make onion-ring eggs
Cory Doctorow
When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth
Clyde Butcher’s photographs
Cut a Glass Bottle Using Nail Polish, String, and Fire
sightsmap.com Sightseeing Heatmaps
Major Google Chrome vulnerability fixed in 24 hours
Image Optimizer
Hak5
time.gov
time.is
Wine 1.4 Sports a Redesigned Audio Stack, Improved Graphics Rendering
FCC to Verizon Wireless

Check out these great podcast sites: Techpodcasts.com and BluBrry.com

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Email Russ at russ AT thetechiegeek DOT com
Email Tracy at tracy AT thetechiegeek DOT com
Leave us a voice mail at 1-206-339-1575

FreeLinuxBox.org helps your un-needed Linux box find a needy home

NorthEast GNU/Linux Fest
Ohio Linux Fest
ipconfig /all
ping
Google DNS servers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
OpenDNS DNS servers 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220
DD-WRT Linux based firmware for routers
OpenDNS Anti-Censorship Policy
OpenDNS DNSCrypt for Linux
D7 is a tool for PC technicians to aid in many tasks
Intel distributes LibreOffice
Boxee gets MVP on Superbowl Sunday
CloudMagic
Unix/Linux Command Reference
Sending Texts from Email:
AT&T – cellnumber@txt.att.net
Verizon – cellnumber@vtext.com
T-Mobile – cellnumber@tmomail.net
Sprint PCS – cellnumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Virgin Mobile – cellnumber@vmobl.com
US Cellular – cellnumber@email.uscc.net
Nextel – cellnumber@messaging.nextel.com
Boost – cellnumber@myboostmobile.com
Alltel – cellnumber@message.alltel.com
Google Talk
“Failed to retrieve share list from server” error when browsing a share with Nautilus
GNOME
KDE
Cinnamon Linux Desktop
Bootdisk.com
Pear Linux
Box.net free 50GB for life
Dropbox
You need a budget
WordGrinder: Good, Old-Fashioned Text Editing Power
AbiWord is a free word processing program
VA could give MS Office the boot
LibreOffice
Ubuntu: An Absolute Beginners Guide
Meet Ubuntu for Android: The Next Step in Ubuntu’s Multi-Device Plan
How to install Microsoft Office 2010 on Linux with Wine
FOSDEM Videos
SELF Videos
2010 OLF Talks, still waiting for 2011 talks
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player
Canonical remixes Ubuntu for business
Hidden Bookshelf Light Switch
We can do no Moore: a transistor from a single atom
Make an iPad or Kindle case from an old book and sugru
Blazonary Tutorials and Stuff
Cavalry 2 Bay eSATA + USB 2.0 RAID External Enclosure
ClearOS

Check out these great podcast sites: Techpodcasts.com and BluBrry.com

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Email Russ at russ AT thetechiegeek DOT com
Email Tracy at tracy AT thetechiegeek DOT com
Leave us a voice mail at 1-206-339-1575

FreeLinuxBox.org helps your un-needed Linux box find a needy home

Northeast Linux Fest
VMware
Virtual Box
Xen
iSCSI SAN
Jumbo Frame Ethernet
PC Repair Tracker
ClearOS
Ubuntu Server
Dropbox
NIST time sync app
OpenSUSE
Puppy Linux
Xenu Link Sleuth
webcheck
LibreOffice
Canon T3i
Photography101 Video Cast
10 of the Best Articles for Learning More About Photography
Unofficial Google Image Search by Drawing
DraftSight
SolidWorks
AutoCAD
MailStore
Backupify
Slackware
OpenBSD
Knoppix
Linuxtopia
O’Reilly
IP Neighborhoods
You Get Signal IP Lookup
“Ultimate guide to cleaning PC infections and the post repair” by Mike Smith
The Philadelphia Area Computer Society
Podnutz
Tweaking.com
UVK – Ultra Virus Killer
Complete Internet Repair
TDSSKiller
SUPERAntiSpyware Portable Scanner
Malwarebytes
ComboFix
GUI For Managing Ubuntu PPAs
how to manage software repositories from the command line
XP theme makes it look Windows7-ish
LinuxCrazy
Linux Basement (Chad made The Techie Geek intro music)
Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code
How to Schedule Tasks on Linux: An Introduction to Crontab Files
Webmin
TheNewRadio.Net
Drupal
PodBrewers.Net
TLLTS
Hydrometer
Beer measurement – Bitterness
Natural Carbonation Vs. Forced Carbonation

Check out these great podcast sites: Techpodcasts.com and BluBrry.com

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Email Russ at russ AT thetechiegeek DOT com
Email Tracy at tracy AT thetechiegeek DOT com
Leave us a voice mail at 1-206-339-1575

FreeLinuxBox.org helps your un-needed Linux box find a needy home

System76 Lemur Laptop Ultra
$100 extra income for Amazon for each Kindle Fire sold
Woz admits Android does things better than iPhone
PC-BSD (desktop version of Free BSD) Book
Cuff links – USB & Wifi Hotspot
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang resigns after 16 years as “Chief Yahoo”
92 Open Source Apps That Replace Everyday Software
A Beginner’s Guide to Editing Text Files With Vi
Beer Update: Blackberry Wit & Vanilla Caramel Cream Ale
BrewTarget – Open source cross platform

Check out these great podcast sites: Techpodcasts.com and BluBrry.com

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Email Russ at russ AT thetechiegeek DOT com
Email Tracy at tracy AT thetechiegeek DOT com
Leave us a voice mail at 1-206-339-1575

FreeLinuxBox.org helps your un-needed Linux box find a needy home

Amazon Kindle Fire
Rooting the Kindle Fire with CM7
Hard Drive Shortage
Barnes & Nobel Nook Color
Rooting the Barnes & Nobel Nook Color
Canon T3i Russ hopes to find under the tree this Christmas
B&H Photo and Video
Allan Metzler, from TLLTS recommended the Canon T3i to Russ
Wildlife Photography Circle on Google+
OpenTeacher
Most Popular Photography Tips, Tricks, and Hacks of 2011
Nuvola Music Player
ArtistX is an amazing Ubuntu based Linux distro for artistic projects
How To Build A Tin Can Waveguide WiFi Antenna
HP Open Sources WebOS
Water Drops Colliding at 5000 FPS
PuTTY
SSH Tunnel on Windows with PuTTY to Surf Securely
7 Free VPN Services Compared
TunnelBear
Zentyal Linux Small Business Server
ClearOS
Get a better command line with Gnu on Windows
Cygwin
Portable Linux
How To Make an Incredibly Easy Panoramic Photograph With Any Camera
10 Custom Linux Distros That Ease IT Administrators` Workload
How to Cancel or Delete a Stuck Print Job in the Windows Print Queue
How To Install Additional Software On Your Home Router (DD-WRT)
Hack an IKEA Lack Table into a Component Rack
Turn any image file into ASCII art
DNSCrypt Encrypts Your DNS Traffic

Check out these great podcast sites: Techpodcasts.com and BluBrry.com