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Smartphone Viruses, Social Media Dangers, Ghosts in bottles, and more…

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Stories:

HTC Android phones with pre-installed malware

Man sells bottled ghosts in online auction

Hundreds of Twitter accounts hacked

McKinney,TX wants to be a “Google Test Community”

MP3 players for less than $100

How To: Tips to using Dropbox

• shares between your computers (and the cloud)
• 2 GB “free” storage
• You may need to manually enter proxy settings
• Can share specific folders with others
• Remember which folders are share with whom
• Check the ownership on their website

PHOTO Tips:

• Talking RAW–HDR Redoux

Picks of the Week:

Steve: ZAGG Screen Protector.

Tony: Aerospace 303 Protectant - Armor All on Steroids

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Motorola Droid, United Airlines breaks Guitars, The future of Tivo….

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Stories:

The Motorola Droid – one user’s view.

“United Broke my Guitar” – how Viral can Change and airline.

Apple/AT&T allow sling player streaming via 3G on iPhone

Is TiVO dead? (Or should it be?)

Photo Highlight HDR:

• What is HDR? High Dynamic Range
• A tutorial is at http://www.thewindypixel.com/?page_id=887
• How can I do it?
• Various tools. A free one is: Qtpfsgui http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/
• Photomatix

Picks of the Week:

Steve: Photomatix

Tony: Ustream Viewer

Josh: Last Pass http://lastpass.com

Past Picks of the Week now available at: http://tinyurl.com/RTPicks

websites to visit:

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Show Voicemail: 814.808-JOE1  (814.808.5631)

Tony is: tony.pittman@gmail.com  or twitter.com/tonypittman

Steve is: scmprofessor@gmail.com or twitter.com/scmprofessor and he blogs at http://theprofessornotes.com

Alternative power options. Schools spying on kids, and more…

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NEWS:

THON: $7.8 million raised–and the CV THON is this weekend.

Stories:

Bloom Box– Clean Energy’s “Holy Grail”?

• Ideally one in every home (Backyard or basement)
• Google has already “gone there”

Google spokeswoman Niki Fenwick said in an e-mail to Computerworld that an undisclosed number of Bloom Boxes installed at the company are already supplying a “portion” of the energy needs at its Mountain View campus.

“This is just another on-site renewable energy source that we’re exploring to help power our facilities,” she added. “We have a 400 kilowatt [Bloom Box] installation on Google’s main campus that delivers clean and affordable power. Over the first 18 months, the project has had 98% availability and delivered 3.8 million kilowatts of electricity.”

MORE ENERGY NEWS: Google to become an Energy Company

• The move lets them become “carbon neutral”
• May be move to give away power management services, in exchange for buying their “green” energy.
• Worth watching.

Spying on Students? (time for Steve to talk like “No Agenda”)

• Talk about creepy–right here in PA.
• They say they only acfivated 42 times–for lost or missing computers. Hmmm….
• Worried? Some simple protective measures:
• Use tape
• Check the light. According to one article from Slate ‘That said, almost all laptops have a light that turns on whenever the camera is on—a feature that hackers can’t disable since it’s controlled electronically, not programmatically.”
• Disconnect it, or turn it (if not built in)
• http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/23/2030207/Federal-Judge-Orders-Schools-To-Stop-Laptop-Spying?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

BlueAnt S1 Visor Speaker Phone review:

• Entry-level unit
• Good quality audio
• Can “voice answer” (say “answer call”)
• price is competitive

Upgrade Updates

• (Steve) Helped my in-laws upgrade
• Key points: always check your connection types/sizes/compatibility
• Be sure to ground yourself. Touch something to release static charge.

PICKS of the WEEK:

Steve: Cumberland Valley THON

Tony: CyberPower Battery Backup

Past Picks of the Week now available at: http://tinyurl.com/RTPicks

websites to visit:

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Show Voicemail: 814.808-JOE1  (814.808.5631)

Tony is: tony.pittman@gmail.com  or twitter.com/tonypittman

Steve is: scmprofessor@gmail.com or twitter.com/scmprofessor and he blogs at http://theprofessornotes.com