What we’ve already talked about, where we’re going to go, Macworld 2009, and our picks of the week!

Links

• Archives Page
• ModelBaker

Picks of the Week

• Feeder from John
• Synergy from Joey

Making music on your computer, audio interfaces, encoding for web, and more. Plus our picks of the week!

Links

• M-Audio USB Interfaces
• Microphones on Wikipedia
• Mixcraft 4
• Audacity
• Audio Processing on Geeks and God - Episode 54 & 55
• Sound Studio
• Surround Sound on Wikipedia
• Surround Sound on Lab Rats
• MP3 on Wikipedia
• DRM on Wikipedia

Picks of the Week

• Coda from John
• On-Stage Pop Filter in Joey’s Setup
• Aptana from Brandon

Contest

Send in an email to contact@techmonkeypodcast.com or leave a comment here to win a free copy of Flux! 10 chances to win, 1 copy per week for 10 weeks.

Macworld 2009 fiasco, failing hard drive sounds, WPA security, and our picks! Plus some special guests.

Picks of the Week

• YTPodcaster from Brandon and NichM
• CamStudio from Nick Patton
• Creative HQ-1400 Headphones from Joey
• Live Mesh and Live Skydrive from John

Contest

Send in an email to contact@techmonkeypodcast.com or leave a comment here to win a free copy of Flux! 10 chances to win, 1 copy per week for 10 weeks.

Well…thats not true. Due to the fact that Comcast in my opinion is the worse ISP around. Cant figure out how to get there internet connection back up, After a Storm.

So thats the reason for not having Tech Monkey on Friday

- Brandon Anderson

iTunes, boxee, Songbird, alternatives to iTunes, and our picks!

Picks of the Week

• Corripio from Joey
• FeedBurner from John
• Adobe Fireworks from Brandon
• Snatch from Joey

Contest

Send in an email to contact@techmonkeypodcast.com or leave a comment here to win a free copy of Flux! 10 chances to win, 1 copy per week for 10 weeks.

Methods of accessing the internet, securing your network, secure passwords, contest winners, and our picks of the week!

Show Notes

• Bulletin Board Systems
• Dial-Up Access
• Cable Access
• Routers
• ShieldsUp from GRC
• Wi-Fi
• DD-WRT
• Tomato Firmware
• Kismac
• 1Password
• GRC Perfect Passwords
• Power Line Networking
• 3G Networking
• Speedtest.net
• Speakeasy Speed Test
• IP Addresses
• iTunes Contest Winnner:Zach from myipc.wordpress.com!
• New Contest: Send in an email to flux@swinkle.net or leave a comment here to win a free copy of Flux! 10 chances to win, 1 copy per week for 10 weeks.

Picks of the Week

• CamTwist Studio from Joey
• VNC Lite from Joey
• socialmedian from John
• TechCrunch Crunchies from Brandon

Hardware and software for podcasting, a special guest, and our picks!

Links

• Levelator
• Audacity
• GarageBand
• WireTap Anywhere
• John’s Setup
• Joey’s Setup
• M-Audio
• Instant Rimshot
• Sad Trombone
• WordPress
• WordPress.com
• FeedBurner
• Feeder
• Apple Is a Netbook Maker

Picks of the Week

• Revolution Two WordPress Themes
• VLC

News Stories and Second Life…

Second Life

Links to news stories are at http://delicious.com/guitarplayr82/TM46

Picks of the Week

Brandon: Art Text, Disk Cover, and FlexTime

Joey: iHome iH4B and iH4P

New Apple displays and notebooks, unboxing from Cali Lewis, DisplayPort standard, and our picks!

Links:

• Apple
• GBTV #448 | GeekBrief.TV
• DisplayPort

Picks of the Week

• Windows Sysinternals from Brandon
• SMART Board from Joey
• Advanced IMAP Controls in Gmail from John

Brandon explains site promotion, Joey has a great podcast to listen to, virtual reality, inexpensive graphics tablet, and how to track your application usage.

Picks of the Week

• Second Life from Brandon
• Aiptek HyperPen 8000U Pro Graphics Tablet from Joey
• Wakoopa from John

Brandon gets his Dell Vostro, the faxing Brandon woes are solved, and lots of Tech Monkey News. Plus a contest!

Picks

• WordPress from John
• Alice and Jashaka from Joey
• WOT and the WOT Firefox Add-on from Brandon

Digg us! http://digg.com/podcasts/Tech_Talk

Random Number Generator

We talk to NichM of Blastr and share our thoughts of this new media revolution!

Picks:

• 15 Images You Won’t Believe Aren’t Photoshopped from Nich
• Reference Tracker from Nich
• CafePress from Brandon
• Oosah from Brandon
• Ubuntu Studio from Brandon
• Google Reader from John
• WireTap Anywhere from Joey

Securing your keychain, encrypting your home folder, don’t use Safari, and don’t download suspicious codecs…

One year of podcasting… our new monkey plan… and bananas!

Belkin N Wireless Router
Joey’s Podcasting Gear

Web hosting… Bluehost… Siteground… analytics… and our picks!

Brandon’s faxing issues, muting audio for one application, Fast Track Pro woes, and our picks!

Links

• eFax
• Metacafe - Turn Your Pc To Fax Machine(without Sofwares)
• Hear

Picks

• QuickShareIt
• Overflow
• Meebo
• Darik’s Boot And Nuke (dban)

Leo’s Six Rules for Safe Computing… Malware… Firefox Extensions… and our picks!

Leo’s Six Rules for Safe Computing

Leo’s Six Rules for Safe Computing

1. Don’t open email attachments; even if it’s from someone you know. If you do get something from someone you know, make sure that they really sent it to you. Email attachments are the number one way viruses and trojan horses get into your email. You might also want to turn off HTML email in Outlook and other programs. HTML emails are just as dangerous as rogue web sites, and can spread infections just by previewing them.

2. Don’t click links in email. That link could lead you to a phishing site, or the link may lead you to install malicious software. Copy and paste links into your browser, or type them in by hand instead. Another reason to disable HTML email - the HTML hides the real destination of that seemingly innocuous link.

3. Don’t download files from places you aren’t absolutely sure are safe. Stick with the well known sites. Teeneagers who use filesharing software like BitTorrent, Azureus, Kazaa, Morpheus, Grokster, and Limewire, often unwittingly download spyware and trojans. If you must, quarantine all downloads then scan them a few days later with an updated anti-virus.

4. Update your OS regularly! Turn on automatic updates in OS X and Windows. Apply all critical updates immediately. Criminals often create hacks within 24 hours of Microsoft’s patches (these are called zero day exploits), so you need to protect yourself the day the patches appear.

5. Use a firewall. The best firewall is a hardware router - the kind you use to share an internet connection. Even if they’re not billed as firewalls, they are, and they’re quite effective. I also recommend turning on your operating system’s firewall - even if you have a router - but I don’t recommend third-party software firewalls. They cause more problems than they solve.

6. Never run as an administrator in any operating system. Administrators have way too many priveleges that malicious people/code can take advantage of. Run as a limited user as much as possible. Windows Vista, Linux, and Mac OSX allow you to run a majority of features, but with some additional safety, as a limited user.

Actors… Makeup… Mood… Editing… Distribution… Tech Talk Video Show…

Our Show Notes for Filmmaking: https://docs.google.com/View?docid=dd4dppg5_83p57wgf6
Brandon’s Secret Code: 42 72 61 6e 64 6f 6e
Ben Gordon’s (Camp Ioka counselor) Fox imitation: http://johngrinde.com/~dropbox/files/bgordon_fox.mp3

Scripting… Casting… Story boarding… planning… mics… lights… cameras…

Cybercrimes… IP address controversy… picks… TechTV trivia… iPhone 2.0…