TechTalk appearance: Ep 401 – XFINITY Sports and Apps with Preston Smalley

SHOW SUMMARY – Preston Smalley takes a break from Comcast X1 app development to share what they are doing today, and how you can keep watching the Cubs (or Bears, or BlackHawks) WITHOUT risking your marriage!

News Items

• Holllly Cooowwwwww! Go Cubs!
• Back to the Future week is here!
• Twitter laying off folks

Jay “Geek Trivia” Garmon Trivia Answer

When did FORTRAN stop requiring all capital letters in it’s command structure?

Coolsites of the Week

• XFinity.com – Start here to find out what you’ve been missing!
• StudioXFinity.com – Get location and service information from the Chicago flagship, make an appointment, sign up for a demo, and more!

Podcast Only Song of the Week

My Roots by Sanchez

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TechTalk appearance: Ep 400 – Verizon’s Paul Ulreich

SHOW SUMMARY – Paul Ulreich from Verizon comes back on-air to discuss home automation, the new data plans, and more! IFTTT your lights? You got it!  Everything you never thought you could use your phone for, and then some

News Items

• Google drive is DOWN! (but find out why neither Mike nor Dave care)
• Have you backed up your data yet?
• Security chat

Jay “Geek Trivia” Garmon Trivia Answer

What Int’l treaty keeps our Mars rovers from exploring the newly discovered water areas?

Coolsite of the Week

• EBCD (Linux version, on USB) – You don’t realize how much you need this until you have it!

Podcast Only Song of the Week

New Dorp, New York by SBTRKT

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Twisdom from MykeCole, October 07, 2015 at 07:19PM

That thing you're waiting for someone else to do for you? They can't. Do it yourself.

— Myke Cole (@MykeCole) October 7, 2015

via Twitter https://twitter.com/MykeCole

October 07, 2015 at 07:19PM

TechTalk appearance: Ep 398 – Mike’s Got That Schadenfreude Funk

SHOW SUMMARY

News Items

•  VW intentional software code avoids EPA regulations
• Canadian Minister of Education loses student data – 3.5M records
• More WRLR app talk – giving Mike another reason to hate Apple …
• But Apple’s XCode issues gives Mike a major case of the Schadenfreude

Jay “Geek Trivia” Garmon Trivia Answer

Who are the only 4 authors have won both Hugo and Nebula awards in the same year?

 

Podcast Only Song of the Week

Midnight to Monaco – Suicide

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TechTalk appearance: Ep 397 – How to be a Jerk with Emoji

SHOW SUMMARY

News Items

• Emoji can be used for communicating good, evil, happiness, pain – or for streamlining the process of being a complete jerk. Guess which usage I’m best at?  
• Mark Zuckerberg, live (not) and in studio (also not)!  Discusses the need for a “not like” button …
• Dave and I want to start a support group for people that have actually changed their opinion on social media, because of facts and reason. We’re expecting the participants to be rather lonely …

Cool Sites of the Week

• IMGflip – Easy-to-use meme maker, so you can attach fake statistics and other falsehoods to pictures and share them on social media too!

Podcast Only Song of the Week

You and Me by Disclosure (Flume Remix)!

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