Computer Help Show Podcast – 09-16-09

This month’s show was packed with information about the Google services that you may not know they offered. Have a listen or download it to your MP3 player or iPod to listen to later. Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Computer Help Show Podcast – 08-19-09

One of our most informative shows yet! This month’s topic was education and the web (watch for a story posted later with all the links we talked about today). If you love learning and/or you have a family member in school, this is a must listen! Article with all the links from today’s show is here…yes, click…now! Unless you are listening to the podcast now, then open this link in another tab or window....

Computer Help Show Podcast – 07-15-09

Great show today as we discussed Google Chrome OS, what computer users really do with their computers, and answered a lot of questions from callers. Have a listen. Computer Help Show Podcast -07-15-09 Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Computer Help Show Podcast – 06-17-09

Had a few calls during the first 15 minutes of the show this month, but then folks sat back and drank in all the tech talk goodness. Why don’t you do the same! Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Computer Help Show Podcast – 05-20-09

I forgot to post the podcast from yesterday, but here it is now! We had yet another fun and informative show. In this month’s episode, we talked about laptops for college students, the upcoming Palm Pre smartphone from Sprint, and of course many other topics. Have a listen! And more importantly, remember to listen next month. The next show will be Wednesday, June 17! Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Computer Help Show Podcast – 04-15-09

Our lead in music is pretty good this month as well…just keep the volume down for the first 30 seconds or so. We started out with a call right out of the chute today, but then zilch. But Adam and I do as we normally do and we yacked for the entire hour. Adam’s daughter, Beth, was a silent guest today, but it was fun having her there and watching her draw and smile. We talked about and explained RSS, security...

Computer Help Show Podcast – 03-18-09

A very busy day on the phones from callers asking some great questions. Plus, we had our first question through Twitter today as well. We waxed a little philosophical about politics and technology, but tried to stay on our designated topic this month: How to save money with technology. Great fun, great information, have a listen! Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Computer Help Show Podcast – 02-18-09

This month’s show centered on social networking. We had a special in-studio guest, Annie Payne (click here to reach her web site). Annie runs an extremely busy blog and writes for our local paper, The Daily Sentinel. Thanks for helping us talk about and answer questions about Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites Annie! In addition to the social networking chatter, we also answered a record amount of...

Castellini Empire

Adam and I work as much as we can to spread the word about our web site and call-in talk show, now on the web. In case you didn’t listen to last week’s podcast (shame on you if you didn’t), we announced that the Castellini on Computers Program now has a MySpace presence. Wow! Rick and Adam on MySpace. Yes, sad, but true. My thought process for starting a MySpace page was two fold: I read an article this...

Ubuntu – Day 4

I’m going to do a short written update to my Ubuntu trek, but record my first official “Shotgun Podcast” here shortly. After only three days, I gave up on Evolution email as my email program. I like the program a lot, but unfortunately, I get way too much spam not to have a better anti-spam solution. So, I downloaded and installed Thunderbird today which while not perfect and far from my Cloudmark Desktop...

Have you ever wondered what others are searching f...

I discovered this web site many years ago. Today, I visited it for the first time in a few months and thought that many of you would be interested in it as well. Like many cool technologies and web sites, this one comes from Google. It is called Zeitgeist (click here to visit the site) . According to m-w.com (Merriam Webster Online), zeitgeist is of German origin and means the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate...

Captcha?

Technology has spawned many strange new words from blog to podcast to spyware. Captcha is a new term that you will be seeing more of in the coming months. In fact, chances are good that you have already dealt with captchas. A captcha is a scrambled mess of characters (like the ones pictured in this article) that we have to reproduce in a box before submitting a web form. The purpose of captchas is to thwart bad guys from...