Internet Advisor

Show Notes:

Meet Todd Girdis of Intelli Home Systems Todd’s company has excellent systems to provide peace of mind for caregivers and security for seniors that give them the opportunity to live independently and safely.  Excellent services for aging parents or other for whom  you have the responsibility of care.

Thinking of starting your own website?  Vince Chmielewski of VC Web Design is the man we called on and has a bag full of tips on making your site excellent.  The ABC’s of site building.

Podcast: Todd Girdis

Podcast: April 16, 2011 – Hour 1

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Ed Rudel Special Search Tips (Click on link to hear the segment of our 4/09/11 program where we discuss the tips and the new addition to the Toolkit)

Can you imagine the internet without web search capabilities?   We would have to know specific web site addresses for every web site we visit.  A simple comparison would be memorizing all of the phone numbers we use on a daily basis and if we needed to find a new business or person we would have to look the information using the yellow or white pages.

Internet search portals provide the ability to type in a simple name, phase, or question and display a list of web site links that contain the words you provided.  These search results can be overwhelmingly huge and may or may not pertain to the information you were looking for.

The more specific the information you provide (the search criteria) the better the results.  Internet sites like “Google, Bing, Yahoo, or About.com are continuously refining and improving but there are a number of tips you can use to improve your Search results on your favorite Internet search site.

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The first hour of our show is dedicated to an organization that has been around for 35 years supporting PC enthusiasts.  Guests: Steve Yuhasz, Jim Rarus, Bob Clyne and Warner Mach. (See our Internet Advisor Facebook page for a complete photo gallery.)  We’ll not only talk about the history of computing but discuss “The Future is Now”. Ed Rudel will have a special segment on “Successful Searching”, tips to help you find exactly what  you’re looking for on the Internet.

SEMCO Special Interview

Ed Rudel Special Search Tips

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Gary Baker, Ed Rudel, Cal Carson, Foster Braun, Erik Anderson

Show Notes: (Hour 1)

Focus on Stop, Think, Connect Forum, Walsh College, Tues. 5-7 PM Troy Campus

* Bruce McConnell, Dept. of Homeland Security Senior Counselor for Cybersecurity, part of  National Initiative for Cybersecurity Awareness

* Nan Poulios, Director of the Information Assurance Center and assistant professor, Business Information Technology at Walsh College

Michelle Hackman, a blind senior at Great Neck High School, New York won second place in the Intel Talent Search and $75,000 for a science test that involved separating teens from their cell phones and measuring their anxiety.

The Flying Anderson Brothers (Erik and Scott) hold their official weigh-in to determine which one of them has lost the biggest percent of body weight over the past year and wins a brand new iPad 2.

Link: Restoring your computer with an external hard drive: Crash Plan

Hours 2 and 3: Don’t forget that we will also have two solid hours to answer all your computer and internet questions.

Walsh College-Stop, Think, Connect Forum

Podcast: April 2, 2011 – Hour 1

Podcast: April 2, 2011 – Hour 2

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Gary Baker, Ed Rudel, Cal Carson, Foster Braun, Erik Anderson

Show Notes

 

Special return guest Josh Linkner outlines the kind of thinking and acting that will put America back on its feet again as a creative hotbed.  Josh is a serial entrepreneur who founded ePrize and a handful of other successful ventures.  During our interview Josh will share a five step process to getting the most creativity out of your life and/or organization.  Among other things Josh is an accomplished jazz musician and writes an insightful blog

We will also be hearing about Apple’s latest moves from Erik Anderson’s Mac Minute report and Cal Carson will give us the highlights of the upcoming MacGroup Detroit Meeting this coming Sunday.

Then we will have TWO FULL HOURS of taking your phone calls and finding answers to your computer questions with Gary, Ed, Cal and Foster.  Call us toll free between 5-7 PM at 800-859-0957.

TeachParentsTech.org

Disappearing DVD/CD Drive Solution

Podcast: March 26, 2011 – Hour 1

Podcast: March 26, 2011 – Hour 2

Podcast: March 26. 2011 – Hour 3

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Eric Abbot, Microsoft Online Solution Specialist, talks about Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, encouraging next generation of computing geniuses

Alumni of LifeCode Team, Steve Markovitch and Kun Wang from Wayne State University hope to compete in  July 8-13th in New York City for the Imagine Cup with their new project  Moov .

A brand new service from Google to help kids explain the Internet and computing to their parents and grandparents:TeachParentsTech.org

Podcast: March 19, 2011 – Hour 1

Podcast: March 19, 2011 – Hour 2

Podcast: March 19, 2011 – Hour 3

Link: The Mac Minute

 

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Foster Braun, Ed Rudel, Kurt Hines, Erik Anderson

You’re going to have to get your questions in quickly this week because we have just one hour to find answers for your computer problems.  MSU Basketball starts at 3:00PM as the Spartans keep marching on to the big dance.  So we will put everything else on hold to make sure you get an hour of answers for your questions.

 

Don’t forget to turn the clocks ahead one hour this Sunday

when we switch to Daylight Savings Time for 2011!

Remember or you’ll be an hour late for church or breakfast at very least!  😉

Podcast: March 12, 2011 …

Show Notes:

Groupon:     Kelsey O’Neill will explain how this great group discount site can help you shop till you drop for less!

Links From The Show

Hotmail Help Hotline – 1-866-672-4551

Podcast: March 5, 2011 – Hour 1

Podcast: March 5, 2011 – Hour 2

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Gary Baker, Foster Braun, Kurt Hines, Erik Anderson

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Dr. Tim Elmore author of Gen iY, a generation of young people we need to understand and guide .  Also examining the youth movements that have driven the revolutions throughout the Middle East through Facebook and Twitter.

Rejeana R. Heinrich, one of three enterprising sisters who created www.michigan-made.com out of their homes in Standish, MI

Suggested links from show: Track your computer start up time with Soluto

Podcast: February 24, 2011 – Hour 1

Michigan-made website interview

Podcast: February 24, 2011 – Hour 2

Podcast: February 24, 2011 – Hour 3

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Nathan Bomey, Business Reporter, www.Annarbor.com state on online newspapers and www.groupon.com what it is and how it works.

Marvin Toll, Agile and Beyond Conference, March 12 in Dearborn, MI (Gary Baker one of speakers.)

Charlie Hopper, www.pasty.com and www.pasty.net Rural Broadband Initiative

Hour 2 is dedicated to taking your calls about problems with your computers,  getting around the Internet and related topics.

Podcast: February 19, 2011 – Hour 1

Podcast: February 19, 2011 – Hour 2

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