http://www.pcradioshow.org The Personal Computer Radio Show is on Wednesday nights at 8PM ET on WBAI in New York City. Our hosts are Joe King, Hank Kee, Alfred Poor and Michael Horowitz. http://pcradioshow.org/Images/joe.doing.show.144w.jpg http://www.pcradioshow.org 14474 en pcradio@pcradioshow.org (Joe King) michael@pcradioshow.org (Michael Horowitz) Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:12:13 EST Webmaster Michael Horowitz with a text editor http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Copyright 2009. All Rights Reserved. Joe King, Hank Kee, Alfred Poor, Michael Horowitz, WBAI No Joe King joe@pcradioshow.org http://www.pcradioshow2.org http://www.pcradioshow2.org/2009/pcrs_2009_july1_24k.mp3 If you are interested in the free antivirus program from Avira called AntiVir, be sure you get it from Avira. Microsoft is having a sale on Windows 7, if you pre-order it. China delayed the requirement for Internet filtering on new computers. Firefox version 3.5 was just released, we discussed the locator feature. Joe reviewed the beta of the new, free Microsoft Security Essentials, their upcoming antivirus program. Joe discussed TOR and Masksurf from Thanksoft Microsoft is shutting down Money and Soapbox. Listener phone calls. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST Computers If you are interested in the free antivirus program from Avira called AntiVir, be sure you get it from Avira. Microsoft is having a sale on Windows 7, if you pre-order it. China delayed the requirement for Internet filtering on new computers. Firefox version 3.5 was just released, we discussed the locator feature. Joe reviewed the beta of the new, free Microsoft Security Essentials, their upcoming antivirus program. Joe discussed TOR and Masksurf from Thanksoft. Listener phone calls. Joe King, Hank Kee, Alfred Poor WBAI No http://www.pcradioshow2.org http://www.pcradioshow2.org/2009/pcrs_2009_june24_24k.mp3 The beta of a new free Microsoft antivirus product sold out. You can still buy Windows XP on new computers for another two years. Some people don't like netbooks. Joe and Alfred reported from a trade show. Alfred's favorite toy was a pair of night vision goggles called eyeclops. 4TB hard disks are coming. Olivia liked two books: Creating a website - the missing manual (2nd edition) and Sexy Web Design which she felt was good for web developers to give to their clients. Listener phone calls. Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST Computers The beta of a new free Microsoft antivirus product sold out. You can still buy Windows XP on new computers for another two years. Joe and Alfred reported from a trade show. Alfred's favorite toy was a pair of night vision goggles called eyeclops. Olivia liked two books: Creating a website - the missing manual (2nd edition) and Sexy Web Design. Listener phone calls. Joe King, Hank Kee, Alfred Poor WBAI No http://www.pcradioshow2.org http://www.pcradioshow2.org/2009/pcrs_2009_june17_24k.mp3 More patches from Apple, this time for Java. Finally, after many months, Java users on Macs are as safe as Java users on Windows and Linux. Soon the Chinese government will require software on new personal computers that filters out offensive websites. At the moment, pornography is the only thing considered offensive. Symantec and McAfee paid a huge fine for automatically renewing their software without giving customers a simple way to not rent the software for another year. We discussed the free encryption program TrueCrypt, available at truecrypt.org. Joe's computer wouldn't boot after a power failure. Listener phone calls.. . Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST Computers More patches from Apple, this time for Java. Soon the Chinese government will require software on new personal computers that filters out offensive websites. Symantec and McAfee paid a huge fine for automatically renewing their software without giving customers a simple way to not rent the software for another year. TrueCrypt. Joe's computer wouldn't boot after a power failure. Listener phone calls. Joe King, Hank Kee WBAI No http://www.pcradioshow2.org http://www.pcradioshow2.org/2009/pcrs_2009_june10_24k.mp3 Yesterday was patch Tuesday with critical bugs fixed in both the Windows and Mac versions of Word and Excel. Friday the 12th is the end of analog TV broadcasts, many people are still not prepared. Alfred said there is not much difference between converter boxes and he explained about new LED TVs. Microsoft imposes limits on hardware used in netbooks and nettops that run Windows. Rants on computing devices that don't let the user replace the battery. Alfred told about a TV set that transmits data - it's three years out. Listener phone calls. . Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST Computers Yesterday was patch Tuesday. Friday the 12th is the end of analog TV broadcasts. About new LED TVs. Microsoft imposes limits on hardware used in netbooks that run Windows. Rants on computing devices that don't let the user replace the battery. A TV set that transmits data. Listener phone calls. . Joe King, Hank Kee, Alfred Poor WBAI No