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Dr. Bill Podcast – 56 – (09/30/06)
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The “Shamelessly Commercial Edition” of Dr. Bill! Since we did the podcast earlier this week (on Tuesday.) SciFi Friday and Dr. Bill’s discovery that EvokeTV.com is GONE! Venture Capitalists and Kevin Rose (a true geek!) How about giving the EvokeTV folks some money?!?! A new version of Wine is out… what it is and why we care! Why Wine is not an emulator… but it is… well, OK, it is not… OK, well never mind! Dr. Bill says, “Dewd” again! Sigh. Batteries keep exploding! Toshiba and Lenova recall their Sony batteries. Sony batteries must really STINK! Leo Laporte wants to trademark “netacast” and then release it to the world for the term to cover “podcasts” since Apple wants to claim the term “podcast.” Check it out and tell me what you think! IPTV… hummm? Let me know if it really IS “geeky” enough! And, NOW, ThriftyWare.com! Check it out… and spread the word!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 55 – (09/26/06)
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Better late than never! The podcast was delayed because Dr. Bill had a wild and geeky weekend that made it impossible to do the podcast on Saturday! Weird Al Yankovik’s “White and Nerdy” song… and how the allusions in it are familiar to Dr. Bill! A quick scan of the tech news that occurred last week. Laser beams to replace wires? Light emitting T-Shirt! (Watch the Video at the link in the blog!) Two VERY serious Windows security problems – ALERT! Get Linux/UNIX text manipulation on Windows! Our Geek Software of the Week… and optimizer for the Windows Registry! Our winner in the Dr. Bill Contest! Congratulations to Bob Kessler from California! Stay tuned for Saturday’s REGULAR podcast!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 54 – (09/16/06)
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Show Notes:
Great Heights in Tech! A promo for “The Darn PC Podcast!” Computers are just glorified sand! Deep cleansing breaths will help with those darn PCs! The Dr. Bill Contest continues ONE MORE WEEK! Click the link at the top right hand side of the main web page for Dr. Bill – The Computer Curmudgeon to enter the contest! Defining the term “dewd!” A listener tells me to cut out the “dewds!” New NEWS: Gary Brolsma is back! With newnuma.com – watch the new Gary video and let me know if you think it is lamer than the old one… I think so. News items of the week: a geek cartoon! If you “get it” then you are a geek! You can get the T-Shirt! Geek Software of the Week: DeepRipper! It will rip audio files into various formats, check it out! A hint for the week: Scan your Files! Info on Andrew’s complaint about the “prefetch cache” tip from last week! How to use the little known “sfc” command. Foxit Reader Version 2.0 is OUT! YMMV is a handy phrase! The new Foxit icon is cooler! And opinion item on the Blog. The lack of geekiness of “the masses!” Vista Release Candidate 1 is available for download for a limited time! Download it and try it! A listener goes Linux and wants to know about winmodems. Bottom line: winmodems are EVIL! They eat up your CPU even when they work under Windows! Don’t use them! Buy a REAL modem… hang it off a REAL serial port, and life will be good! Or, check out linmodems.org and see if your winmodem chipset will work. Until next week the Doctor is out!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 53 – (09/09/06)
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A Dr. Bill Contest for you to enter! Win a 512 meg USB thumbdrive! This week Dr. Bill “feels the Groove!” We will ship it any on the planet… off planet is a problem… sigh! Mouse Potato, Ringtone, Spyware have been added to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary! All of Dr. Bill’s Podcasts are now part of Blubrry, a community for podcasters. The Spirit of Faith Podcast, The Traditional Naturopath, and Dr. Bill – The Computer Curmudgeon, are all available at www.blubrry.com – check them out! Our Geek Software of the Week: The GIMP for Windows! Also, info on GIMPshop, the “Photoshop-y” version! Speed up your Windows boot time by tweaking the Windows Prefetch Cache! A “How To” Geek Project for you! Net Neutrality “Gets Religious?!?” Trekkers, rejoice and shout! Friday, September 8th was the 40th Anniversary of Star Trek! Live long and prosper my friends! And, a “Peace and Long Life!” The Dr. is out for now!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 52 – (09/02/06)
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Dr. Bill celebrates his 52nd Podcast by having to do it twice in a row (because he forgot to save the first one), but maybe it was a good thing because he was not “in the groove!” What IS the groove? We celebrate by having a cool contest, click on the “Click HERE to enter the Contest” link at the top of the right hand column! We play a NEW (to us) version of “Every OS Sucks” by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie! Other Geek Culture classics, and a Net Neutrality refresher from the experts! Our Tech News of the week: Intel has a HOT New “Merom” Chip for Laptops… AOL is Dissed Again! They are now officially “Badware!” Ubuntu is voted the most popular Linux Desktop! And, our Geek Software of the Week: SpamBayes! Remember, “You can’t tell SPAM from HAM without a program!” And we have (the program, that is) SpamBayes! Also remember our contest… win a 512 meg thumbdrive! How cool is that??!?!!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 51 – (08/26/06)
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The “File Sharing Edition” of the Dr. Bill Podcast! We share a promo for Lance Heath’s Digital Experience Podcast… The RIAA and file sharing and the issues around that… if you are gonna do the crime, ya gotta do the time! And, for our Geek Culture… “I’ve Been Sharing Files and Files” – The Song! Our Geek Software of the Week – PSpad! A truly rocking text and programmer’s editor! Totally free – and totally cool! Check out the Flash animation on the link in the Blog to see the “Kickoff” KDE Taskbar and Menu interface… very neat! Linux isn’t just for Geeks anymore… the 98% of the market that is clueless may finally “get” Linux! We have to be willing to “dumb down” the Linux interface for “the masses!” Spyware and virus infection costs to PC users are $7.8 Billion per year! Microsoft puts up the first IE7 release candidate – we are close to the final release… if you know folks that just MUST have M$, then get them to use IE7! (Otherwise use Firefox instead!)

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 50 – (08/19/06)
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A podcast promo for the Mac Attack Podcast from the Techpodcasts Network, and a follow-up Mac advertisement parody that shows that even Mac users have problems with their systems! Show your Linux pride: FREE “Powered By Ubuntu” stickers for your computer case, Gamers, rejoice! Now YOU can build your own Xbox games, Microsoft has a plan to get “Open Source”-like collaboration working to build Xbox 360 games, Warning: DLink router security hole! Make sure that your Dlink Router is WPA secured! Test your bandwidth speed with a cool, graphical “speedometer” interface on the web! The fallout of the explosive Dell laptop batteries… Old comic books… available for download in RAR compressed archives! The real meanings of (old) computer acronyms! Star Trek: BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) A frustrated Data deals with an Enterprise running off of Windows! Spyware on the rise due to Social Networking sites according to new study by Webroot. A NEW Geek Software of the Week: K9 Web Protection Software! Help your kids and family “surf safe!” And finally… Microsoft Office for Linux?!?!? Are you kidding!?!?!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 49 – (08/12/06)
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The “Geeky Anniversary Edition” of Dr. Bill – The Computer Curmudgeon Podcast! Why? Because this week marked the 25th Anniversary of the IBM Personal Computer, as well as the 15th Anniversary of the World Wide Web, AND the 18th Anniversary of the marriage of Dr. Bill and Belinda Bailey! Wow! Total geekiness! A promo for the Mac Tips Podcast! Also, tech news items: A New Blog Pops Into Existance Every Half-Second!, AOL Apologizes to Customers for posting private search engine searches from their own customers!, Freespire is at Version 1.0! Hooray!, How many people do you call regularly on your cellphone? A new study says most people only call four people, U.S. Homeland Security is Asking Us to Keep Windows Patched! So do your patriotic duty and keep Windows safe! Sa-lute!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 48 – (08/06/06)
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I’ve been on vacation… so the Blog hasn’t been active… sorry! A promo for the Caffination Podcast… and I play my own for fun! Firefox has been downloaded 200,000,000 times… salute! First Ubuntu Linux billboard seen in the U.S.! Why Ubuntu is cool… and why Freespire is better for total Linux noobs! (Sorry, but it is true!) A C++ Tutorial so you can up your Geek Cred! A short podcast (did I mention I was on vacation last week?)

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 47 – (07/29/06)
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We celebrate “SysAdmin Day” (Friday) with a song by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie. AMD is acquiring ATI, Response from Representative Brad Miller on “Net Neutrality,” Geek Software of the Week: Freespire Linux! A “Mirror” of Google. PC Programs I recommend to keep everyone safe on the net! Only 4% of all e-mail moving across the Internet is real? That’s insane! eBay and PayPal are still the top targets for “Phishing!” Friday was “SysAdmin Day!” Hooray for SysAdmins! Two Firefox Extensions for HTML Coders! “Yet Another Window Resizer,” and “Codetch.” Very nice! Letters from listeners with great advice based on last week’s show!