Eric Rice, a well-known podcaster and founder of the popular AudioBlog.Com is going on a (global?) Roadshow to demonstrate the use of both podcasting and VideoBlogging (kinda like blogging but with a video camera).
And of course, he was very smart to pick Hawaii as the launching pad for his journey. Check out what he produced and you’ll get a feel for what VideoBlogging is.
If you didn’t catch our previous post that introduces you to podcasting, you better do it soon because it’s gonna be huge-right-now.
I just caught on Podcasting News that at the D3: All things Digital Conference, Steve Jobs announced that the next release of iTunes 4.9 will have podcasting features built-in. This is GIANT news as it will effectively add an audience of about 27 million of users to the podcast community.
It will probably also mean that subscribing and downloading to podcasts will become dramatically easier as well if this follows Apple’s typically intuitive user interfaces.
I’m certain that Microsoft will soon follow with a similar addition to its Windows Media Player.
Folks, this is a tremendous yet natural development in podcasting. We are about to see an explosion of this new media.
Whatever you were going to do about Podcasting, you better do it now.
You heard it here first. YourComputerMinute.Com broke the story!
I just love reviewing Hawaii success stories. Ryan Ozawa’s Hawaii Up podcast is being broadcast over San Francisco’s KYOU podcast-only format radio station. Way to go Ryan!
Now if you’re wondering what’s going on over here, KYOU is taking select podcast programming and broadcasting it over their airwaves. They have way more podcast content to deal with than they do airtime, so it’s pretty safe to say that whatever they are broadcasting is what they think is really good stuff.
This is one of those “only with the magic of the Internet” kind of things. Imagine, our local boy Ryan records a podcast in his home, uploads it to a server, and then a radio station in San Francisco downloads it, and broadcasts it across the city. Here’s the link to the specific show audio file if you want to hear it yourself. Amazing!
Way to go Ryan! If the Hawaii Geek Patrol keeps this up I’m going to need more space on the server to keep up with all the posts!
We are oh-so-proud of Todd Cochrane of Geek News Central. Todd has just announced his book, Podcasting: Do It Yourself Guide which will soon be on shelves everywhere and of course including Amazon.com.
Ryan Ozawa over at HawaiiPodcasting.com (where yours truly is also a member) put out a great press release. Go check him out.
What’s very cool about this is that a local guy becomes the first to write a book on podcasting. Podcasting is a really, really new thing, just over 6 months old. It’s quickly taking the country by storm and essentially creating a new media. We’re so proud to have a fellow Geek (hey, what’s your Geek score anyway Todd?) right in our backyard be one of the pioneers of a new industry.
Way to go Todd! We’ll be rooting for you man! š
Aloha, Iām Peter Kay with Your Computer Minute. When was the last time you backed up your computer? Fairly recent, Iāll bet, at least I hope. But, when was the last time you tested restoring from a backup. Iāll bet that youāve never done that, right? Folks, youāre flirting with disaster. Most of us feel real good about making backups but very few, if any of us have ever tested restoring from backup. Too many times Iāve seen people be very diligent about backups only to find out that when they really needed to restore it didnāt work and the result was a disaster. Donāt let this happen to you! If youāve never tested restoring then youāve never really backed up. Make sure you thoroughly test both your backups and your restores and only then can you rest easy. Iām Peter Kay with Your better safe than sorry Computer Minute, Aloha!
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Iāll bet youāre not making the most out of your cellphoneās speeddial feature. Now Iām sure that youāve stored your most commonly called numbers in your phone. Thatās good, but lets go beyond that. You can add pauses and special keys into those phone numbers to do more than just dial a number. For example, you can program your phone to dial into your office voicemail, enter the right password, and then retrieve all your new messages. Combine this with one touch speedialing and you are really hot. Iāve done this with my phone and the push of one button saves me 24 keystrokes, and gets me into my voicemail faster and more accurately than ever before possible. Not only does this save all kinds of time but it really makes for safe driving too. You can also program your phone to automatically dial in your long distance phone card information. Check it out!
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If you have to make powerpoint presentations that include displaying Web pages, Iāve got a great tip for you. Anyone thatās made a presentation that involved a live net connection knows how unreliable that can be. The best way around that is to save the Web page to your local drive instead. I believe that Microsoftās Internet Explorer version 5 gives you the best way to do that. Bring up the Web page you want to save, then go to the Save As menu. Thereās a choice there to save as an mht file. Mht files are very cool because they store all the graphics and html into one file. Save each Web page you intend to include in your presentation as an mht file and then link to it from within your powerpoint slides. The result is a great presentation that works perfectly every time. If you make presentations youāll love this awesome tip.
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. Does this sound familiar? You need to get a quick message to someone, so you call them on their cell phone, only to find you’ve interrupted them in a meeting. So they tell you to hang up, call back and leave a message. So you call, and then you wait for the voicemail greeting to end, and finally leave your message. Then your friend has to call into their voicemail, and listen to your message, then call you back, and of course by then you’re not available. So your friend gets thrown into your voicemail, and over the course of a few days you realize the two of you are spending more time talking to voicemail than to each other. Now if you’re between the ages of 15 and 29, you probably are laughing about this because you use text messages instead. So here’s a word to the rest of us caught up in voicemail tag: learn how to send text messages from your phone. Once you get the hang of it, it’s fast, easy, and really effective.
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Lots of Web sites require you to register with a login ID and password to access valuable features or content. And if youāre like me youāve registered yourself at who-knows-how-many Web sites. The problem is that itās impossible to remember all those logins and passwords. Hereās a simple solution if you use Microsoft Outlook. Youāll notice that Outlook has a little notes folder that kinda works like an electronic postit note. Every time you create a new login and password, copy that information into a new note along with the Web site address and a brief comment. If you ever forget that login and password combination just right click on the notes icon and do a search. Outlook will quickly find the answer for you and off you go. Save those valuable brain cells for remembering important things like your anniversary, not your Yahoo password.
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Have you ever wanted to quickly capture a shot of your computer screen? Itās really easy when you use the printscreen key. In todayās digital world, we all run into situations when we really need to show someone what our computer screen looks like. This is really handy for things like getting technical support, writing training manuals, and giving presentations. If you want to capture an image of your current screen, hereās all you have to do: Click on the window of the application you want to get a screen shot of, then hold down your ALT key and press on the āprint screenā button on your keyboard. Then click into your favorite application and simply do a āpasteā operation. Youāll magically see the screen image appear and then you can manipulate it as needed. This is a really handy feature Iāve used countless times and Iām sure youāll love it.
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