Sorry we had to make way for Iowa basketball this weekend instead of bringing you our usual blend of trend, tips, and technology. But if you're looking for a quick fix, tune into my 2-minute tech tips from the last week:
- Cloud computing explained in 2 minutes
- Should you use online bill-management services?
We'll be back on the air this coming Saturday at 1.
On today's basketball-shortened show, we covered five big topics:
(1) Facebook's IPO (my advice: Don't get suckered in!)
(2) Saving a laptop with a broken screen (you can usually plug in an old monitor or a television screen with some inexpensive cables, allowing you to still see what's on the hard drive)
(3) What happens when a 9-year-old gets set loose on iTunes (among other things, they can rack up $400 in download charges)
(4) How to get a computer ready for sale (be sure to remove the physical hard drive from the computer before you give it away)
(5) What it means to put things on "the cloud" (basically, imagine all of the programs that you'd otherwise install on your computer instead sitting on computers at the server farm out by DMACC West -- so you can get to them from any computer in the world)
Every one of these deserves more attention than we could give them in today's shortened show, but I hope we were able to help out a few good listeners. Send your questions to us anytime by email at wiseguys@whoradio.com.
Thanks for listening!
- Brian Gongol
Here are the podcasts from yesterday's Wise Guys show:
Segment 1: How Twitter could be saving live television
Segment 2: Why you shouldn't use websites promising to fix your PC
Some links from today's show I think you'll enjoy:
- How Twitter saved live television
- The announcement that co-founder Jerry Yang has quit Yahoo
- Facebook knows your political opinions
- A correction to part of an answer I gave about MagicJack: It does require an existing broadband connection
We had a good discussion about using smartphones without a data plan, and also about how to keep your computer running smoothly. I can't recommend going to any of the "fix my computer/speed up my computer/quicken my PC" types of sites, since it's just too easy for crooks to set up those pages and take advantage of you. We've gone to great lengths to document our best advice for taking care of your computer so that you don't have to go elsewhere.
Questions? Send them anytime to wiseguys@whoradio.com.
Thanks for listening this week!
So, you didn't know I was on the air on Friday, filling in for Simon Conway? That's OK. You can listen on-demand anytime:
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