Recorded April14, 2009

Topics:

1)Windows 7 update

a.Release Candidate next month with release following later (when?)
b.Bitlocker to go
c.Aero peek, snap to edge, shake

2)Google Trends

3)Conficker - getting past the hype
a.What to look for
b.How to stay protected

4)Solid State Disks's - are they worth the money?

5) XP, Word 2003 and Exchange 2003 enter Extended Support on April 14th

6)iPhone application of the Month - Kindle 2 for iPhone

7)Outlook organizers -
a.www.Xobni.com
b.Thread Compressor (Microsoft)
c.www.ClearContext.com

Host:
Brent Goodfellow, CPA.CITP, MCSA, MCSE, MCT, MCITP
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Host:
Brent Goodfellow, CPA.CITP, MCSA, MCSE, MCT, MCITP
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I choose to live in my home state, South Dakota. It’s a wonderful place full of smart, courteous, hard working people that produce an economy that, compared to the rest of the US, is almost recession-proof. I have no complaints about my income-tax free home state but I do wish that AT&T would hurry and add primary coverage so we could get the Apple iPhone! I’ve seen it, often --- in fact, I actually own an iTouch, the cellular-less first cousin of the iPhone. But, alas, no iPhone for us.

But, as I tweeted two weeks ago I DO have a brand-new shiny Palm Pre that I’m pretty impressed with, so far. It’s been out only 15 days and has only a paltry 30 or so applications in its store. That said it’s interesting to note that Pre owners have downloaded over 750,000 applications in those 15 days. I know I certainly did my part!