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A Geek Christmas Story

Administrator — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:50:16 +0000

“Mattie Stevens, a young boy of the early 80′s, dreams of owning a Commodore 64. He sets out to convince everyone this is the perfect gift. But, along the way runs into opposition from his parents and everyone around him including old Santa Claus”

Written By:
Kreg Steppe and Douglas E. Welch

Produced By:
George Starcher – Typical Mac User Podcast
Victor Cajiao – Typical Mac User Podcast - – Typical Shutterbug Podcast
Steve Holden – Tech News Radio - Jersey Boys Podcast – AztecMedia.net

Cast of Players:
Narrator: Kreg Steppe – Technorama
Harvey Stevens: Dad – Kevin Devin
Mandy Stevens: Mom – Susie Murph – How to Grow your Geek Podcast
Mattie Stevens: Son – Daniel Devin
Sandy Stevens: Little Brother – Spencer Holden
Curtz Eisenberg: Friend to Mattie – Harrison Steppe
General Beringer: General – Douglas E. Welch
Lieutenant: Steve Holden – Tech News Radio
Mrs. Little: Katie Floyd – Mac Power Users Podcast
Santa’s Helper: Chuck Tomasi – Chuckchat.com
Santa: Larry Pesce – Pauldotcom.com Podcast
Judge: Victor Cajiao – Typical Mac User Podcast – Typical Shutterbug Podcast
Andrew Carnagie: Andy Helsby – Absoblogginlutely!
J.P. Morgan: Grant Bichocco – Mr.Grant.com
UPS Guy: Paul Asadoorian- Pauldotcom.com Podcast
Skipper: Rylie Starcher

Tip of the Hat to the old Christmas Commodore 64 Demo

Previous FiT Holiday Specials:

This has been a Friends in Tech Production.

FiT’s 2009 Christmas Special Coming Dec 21st!

Administrator — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:19:55 +0000

Friends in Tech presents a new Christmas Special for 2009, A Geek Christmas Story.
“Mattie Stevens, a young boy of the early 80′s dreams of owning a Commodore 64. He sets out to convince everyone this is the perfect gift. But, along the way runs into opposition from his parents and everyone around him including old Santa Claus”

Watch for it at FriendsinTech.com December 21st.

Book Review – Information Technology (IT) Manager’s Handbook

Steve Holden — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:29:51 +0000

Here is a short audio review by Steve Holden @ TechNewsRadio.com of the 2nd Edition of the “IT Manager’s Handbook: Getting Your New Job Done

” (ISBN: 0-12-370488-X) by Bill Holtsnider & Brian Jaffee.”

Christmas Show 2008

George Starcher — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:55:21 +0000

Hi Everyone!

It has been a long time since you had audio on the the FiT feed. Well here we go again. This time around several of us got together and had a chat. We talked where we have been in 2008 tech wise. What we expected to get for Christmas and where we are going in 2009.

Join Us:

We Chat About:

Review – Belkin Mini Surge Protector

George Starcher — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:28:08 +0000

I had been waiting on Belkin to get this unit out since I heard of it. Finally on Monday I stumbled onto it at the Apple Store. It is a nice little three ac outlet travel surge strip with two additional USB charging ports. It will even charge Motorola phones which are notorious for only charging with units made just for them.

Belkin Mini Surge Protector

Update: You can find the Belkin unit at CDW for $22.

http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?edc=1440970

Review – ATP Photofinder for Geotagging Photos

George Starcher — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:02:08 +0000

Victor and I each ordered an ATP Photofinder. Our experiences were definitely different. Give our review discussion a listen and hear the good, bad and ugly about the ATP Photofinder.

You can get it at a good deal from Costco. Just click here to find it for $79.99 till June 30th. Buy at your own risk.

Mingling Miis on your Nintendo Wii

George Starcher — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:18:44 +0000

Many of us have or are new owners of the Nintendo Wii. A wonderfully fun gaming console. Even my wife loves it. Well loves to kick my butt in bowling anyway.

We like to see our friend’s Miis next to us when we bowl rather than randomly generated Miis. I talk about how to setup your Miis to Mingle on your friends Wii consoles without having to actually send them your Mii itself.

CERT Online IT Training

George Starcher — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:21:18 +0000

Looking for some great online training content for IT related topics? Check out the CERT Virtual Training Environment. There is a ton of free content. Those of you in the DoD environment can take advantage of the sponsored account agreement with DISA and get access to the full library of online training.

They have topics for all sorts of computer security and forensics tasks. Here are just a few!

Advanced dd Usage

Application Filtering and Network Access Controls

Automated Collection of Process Information (FRUC)

Avoiding Routing Loops

Basics of Dynamic Routing

Nintendo Fan Network

Kevin Devin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:59:05 +0000

This past weekend my son and I were able to take in a Mariners game as part of Little League Weekend. Knowing about the Nintendo Fan Network, we made sure to bring along my son’s DS Lite.

I believe the NFN is only available at Safeco Field in Seattle, but I’m sure there must be similar geeky offerings at other stadiums throughout the country.

If you know of any geeky-goodness like this offered at other ballparks, let us know. Drop us a line or post to the forums about it.

Nintendo Fan Network
Seattle Mariners

Review – Eye-Fi Wireless SD card for Cameras

George Starcher — Tue, 27 May 2008 01:37:04 +0000

Victor Cajiao and George Starcher review the Eye-Fi SD Card. The Eye-Fi is a 802.11G wireless memory card. It lets you upload your photos to your computer and even sharing sites like Flickr straight from your camera as you take photos.

Links Mentioned:

Eye-Fi

Eye-Fi on Flickr

ATP Photo Finder – GPS Tagger