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Emily Hay, of Hay There Social Media has developed a program to help parents deal with the social media and their tweens.  Emily is also our Internet Advisor Media Expert.

Sheri Kam: Mother of tweens and PR Director for both Parcells Middle School in Grosse Pointe, MI. Sheri was our guest along with  with her husband, Eric Kam in June . Sheri shares tips for parents.

Survive the Spike: Seth Samuels returned from the 2012 Olympics with a dream of preserving the excitement and connections through his website. Seth uses storytelling to preserve the energy of events through the model of Survive the Spike.

The Mac Minute with Erik Anderson Topics: Apple wins a $1 Billion+ verdict against Samsung. What are the implications for rest of smartphone market and tech in general?

Internet Advisor Takeaway: Downcast $1.99 on the App Store for iPhones.  Much better than free Podcast App.

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Weaving the Wind: John Barrie, Executive Director Appropriate Technology Collaborative A creative international volunteer project that combines advanced technology and the skills of native women weavers who make the blades for windmills that bring power to remote Guatemalan villages.

Tina Watson, Senior Infrstrastructure Manager at GE, and board member of ATC. Tina Watson’s Guatemala Trip.

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College Hook Up: Once your student gets to college, what happens when they first hook up to the network? Foster’s adventure at Central Michigan University and tech dads Gary Baker and Ed Rudel add their experiences.

Internet Advisor Takeaway: Museums on Us – Save some money on a short getaway to a museum. Bank of America is offering free admission to lots of museums on selected weekends through out the year. Just present your Bank of America ATM card for one free admission per cardholder.

The Mac Minute with Erik Anderson: All the Apple rumors fit to spread at the start of hour 2.

Darik’s Boot and Nuke Software for complete erasure of a hard drive.

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Rick Broid, Cheapskate

Gadget Guy Back-to-School Special

C Net Blogger and Internet Advisor Gadget Guy Rick Broida has a backpack full of advice for students heading to college and high school…or rather for the folks who will pay the bill, the parents! Laptops (Ultrabooks?), Tablets, Flash Drives, Printers, Software and even Backpacks will be considered.

Rick’s Check List

Audiolio:  iPad app for taking lecture notes.

Gadget Guy Deal of the Week: Republic Wireless and its $19/month smartphone service.

The Mac Minute with Erik Anderson at the start of the second hour of our show.

Internet Advisor Takeaway:(Cal)  WinX DVD to iPad Ripper for Mac or PC is a freebee for a limited time.   This is a program you can download from Digiarty Software. For a limited time you can download the $29.95 app for free and receive the key code to have unlimited use of the product. The download is for a limited time only as it is a “Back to School” promotion. This allows you to convert you DVD’s to an iPad, iPhone, format for viewing on the go. They also offer the same program for Windows users.

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Shane Hamelin is not only a great computer tech, but also a dedicated gamer.  Gamers have the reputation of being weird people who stay up all night playing video games in their mom’s basement.  Shane has a whole new perspective.

Zach Wigal, founder of  Gamers Outreach will join us in studio. Gamers Outreach Foundation is a video-game industry charity organization that works to use interactive entertainment in ways that improve the lives of others. Simply put, they use video games to help people out!

The Mac Minute: Erik Anderson brings you all the rumors/news about Apple at the start of the second hour.

Internet Advisor Takeaway:

Trackmania Nations Forever (PC)

It is the most popular online PC racing game. It fuels 7 different racing environments; hundreds of thousands of tracks and millions of players to compete with. You can download the car you are dreaming of, paint it, drive it through insane tracks made of loopings, ramps and off roads. It is all about you, your driving skills and the track in front of you.

League of Legends (PC)

League of Legends (LoL) is a multiplayer online battle arena video game. Players are formed into 2 even teams …

Show Notes:

Rick Broida

The Gadget Guy, Rick Broida reviews: Bluetooth Speakers DBest duo Bluetooth Speakers and Edifier Primsa BT speakers.

Exclusive Internet Advisor Gadget Guy Deal (visit our Facebook page for details.)

Richard Stiennon

Richard Stiennon: Security Expert, frequent IA guest discusses his newest, self-published book Up and to the RIGHT: Strategy and Tactics of Analyst Influence

Comments on Intel buying MacAfee,

Twitter for Authors, Artists and Musicians ($.99 on Amazon)

Richard’s proven formula for boosting your Twitter followers overnight.

Internet Advisor Weekly Takeaway: Currently.…a free Chrome browser extension that shows your local time, temp and forecast when you open a new tab.

Erik

 

The Mac Minute with Erik Anderson: Apple launches Mountain Lion, major OS change

 

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Emily Hay

Women and Social Media Power: Social Media Team Member Emily Hay joins Cal Carson, Shane Hamelin and Foster Braun to talk about how to encourage pre-teen and teen girls to stick with technology interests through social media.

Summer Technology Camp: A panel of talented teen girls talk about their recent participation in GM Foundation Camp Infinity presented by Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation and Systems Technology Group. The young women in our studios are:

TiAja Perry, entering 6th grade from Detroit

Caitlynn Rogers, entering 7th grade from Detroit

Yaa Tondo, entering 7th grade from Southfield

They are accompanied by Julie Patterson, Camp Infinity Director

Don’t miss this week’s Internet Advisor Takeaway: Blisscontrol a free, one-touch website that allows you to adjust all your social media sites (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc.) from one place.

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Keeping and Eye on Baby: Bill Collins, COO of Child Care Daily App explains how an Ann Arbor couple developed software to enable childcare centers to let parents keep an eye on their children while they are at work. Child Care Daily App is the result and it is creating a whole new category of web services.

 

Grandma’s IT on a Stick: Ambitious startup Jumpshot aims to make life easier for all the family IT people out there.  Co-founders Pedram Amini and David Endler claim their software can fix your PC without you ever doing a thing…other than plugging their USB stick in your PC.  Working together they have found the cure for PTSD (Persistent Tech Support Disease)  Watch Jumpshot Video

 

IA Takeaway

This week’s Internet Advisor Takeaway: Do Not Track Plus a free plug-in for your browser that stops 1) social networks 2) ad networks 3) third party companies. Compatible with major browsers.

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Mobile Moves Michigan Event

Guests: Joelle Shandler, Mobile Technology Association of Michigan Ambassador &  Elaina Farnsworth, MTAM Board Member and CEO, Mobile Comply

MTAM is producing the first ever ‘Mobile Moves Michigan’ conference event at Motor City Casino in Detroit on July 30th and 31st., aimed at a wide range of audiences from throughout Michigan and the Midwest.

Fixing the DNS Changer Trojan: Marcin Kleczynski Malwarebytes Founder & CEO

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All Gadget Show with Internet Advisor Gadget Guy  and CNET blogger Rick Broida.

Show Notes:

No contract iPhones Cricket and Virgin Mobile

Google 7 Nexus Tablet, Q, Glasses, Chrome for iOS

Microsoft Tablets and WP8

Gadget Guy Exclusive Bargain of the Week: TruConnect MiFi, which will be $74 with coupon code CNET2012. That’s $25 off. This is cool because there’s no contract, and you pay for data as you use it.

Internet Advisor Takeaway: Kingsoft Office Free, MS Office Alternative (Rick Broida)

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PC Mike

Tablet Breaks the Surface: Mike Wendland, NBC Tech commentator, better known as PC Mike and our long time friend, gives his analysis of Microsoft’s big annnouncement this week in Los Angeles of their new line of tablets called Surface.

 

Dug Song

Battling Internet Fraud and Online Account Takeover: Dug Song Dug is co-founder & CEO at Duo Security, a startup solving online fraud and account takeover. Dug is also a co-founder of Tech Brewery a grassroots tech incubator based in Ann Arbor, MI

 

 

Internet Advisor Takeaway: Songza a free music streaming service first mentioned by our Gadget Guy Rick Broida.

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