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Guest hosting TechTidbits Daily!

Tech Tidbits Daily is part of Steven Holden’s podcast at Technewsradio.com. He does a 20min or so podcast called Tech Rag Tearouts and shorter versions through out the week called Tech Tidbits Daily which are about 1-3 minutes each. Tech Rag Tearouts is just that, as Steven reads articles he tears them out to keep and he uses that as material for his podcasts.

Steven Holden is taking a vacation, and asked for volunteers to guest host while he is out so I am doing 3, Today July 25th, July 28th, and August 2nd. There are a lot of others also doing the Tech Tidbits Daily too so give it a go, and subscribe over here.

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Dueling iPods! Alright!

I use to DJ back in the Dark Ages. I loved matching beats, and mixing up songs. There is this great satisfaction that you get when people are dancing and partying to what you are playing…

I haven’t mixed in a while, but it is still an interest to me. Anyway, look at what showed up over at Engadget! Set up a mixing stack with iPods!

Oh how I wish that I had MP3’s back then. I could have saved my back hauling around all those records.

Numark busts out iDJ dueling iPod mixer – Engadget – www.engadget.com

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Holy Cow! Google has Earth in beta!

I just downloaded Google’s Earth program, it is awesome! It is like Google Maps on Steroids. You can place pins on your map, notes, print, zoom (fly in) and tilt the image to your liking.

Very cool.

Google Earth – Home
Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in — Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips.

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Linux is likely the big loser in Apple’s Shift?

In this article John Dvorak says that Linux has the most to loose from this apple shift aside from the likes of IBM and Microsoft.

He mentions OSS licensing issues, and people being more prone to switch to a machine that can basically run OSx and Windows as being factors that could detract from Linux’s development. But I don’t exactly agree. I mean, you will still have to purchase an Apple machine, just like today to get to OSX. If that will be the case, then why isn’t it happening now?

Now if OSX was stand alone, like Windows is and ran on Intel for everyone….That would be another story. I could see a mass exodus from MS and Linux for that matter.

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PHP is how old?

It seems that PHP is now 10 years old. I can’t seem to grasp that it has been that long but here is the original post via google groups of the availability of PHP 1.0.

I started a new job as a web developer in 2000 and I was going to be in charge of re-developing our intranet, and external web sites. It was originally written in Cold Fusion, which I really didn’t know much about, or really like. PHP was starting to make some noise with version 3, and I did a lot of reading on it, and there was plenty to be had. It seemed very interesting. Opensource, so there is no cost for upgrades. Easy to learn, but very flexible.

With the open nature of PHP there were a lot of open projects written in PHP. I downloaded a ton of them. Dissecting and learning from others projects really shortened the learning curve. I love to learn, and I was hooked. Sure, I probably learned a few bad habits, but there was a goldmine of great information.

So I was asked to make a recommendation of what direction to go with as far as development went, and I went out on a limb and choose PHP. What a great choice that was because it has lived up to it’s promises, and more. Now, there have been times when I have beat my head against the wall with it…but that goes with the territory.

I am glad PHP has been so much a part of my career these last 5 years for me. And here’s to another 10 years for PHP!

Thanks Rasmus! Cheers!

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Here is really what happened to Apple.

Marty McFly: What about all that talk about screwing up future events, the space-time continuum?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Well, I figured, what the hell.

Looks like Apple is doing it. They do make great machines…but if I can run OSX on a standard PC why buy a premium Mac x86? Maybe the only hardware they care about is the iPods…and selling software.

I hope this works out for them.

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If a geek falls at CON does he make a sound?

About a month ago, I started co-hosting a podcast with Chuck Tomasi over at ChuckChat.com. I don’t know why I am just now posting something about it…but I am.

We talk about Tech, geek, and anything in between. In the last few shows, Chuck and I talked about 10 things you can do with your old pc…and I did a Sound Seeing tour of my Midnight experience seeing Revenge of the Sith, and I also had a nice interview with one of the drivers of the Oscar Mayer Wiener Mobile.

On this Wednesdays show we are talking about Firefox, and our favorite extensions and tricks. Coming up, in the next few episodes…Wiki’s (not Wookies) and later in June I will be visiting Hero’s Comic Book convention in Charlotte, NC.

So come on over and release your inner geek!