Tightwad Tech

Synopsis:   This week Mark and Shawn discuss the Children's Internet Protection Act and other government mandates affecting public schools. Links: CIPA TIPS: Tech Tip of the Week: MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition - Windows-based partition tool (free for home use only) Teacher Tip of the Week: Africam.com

Synopsis:   This week Mark and Shawn are joined by listener Kevin Wisher for the 8th installment of their Listener Spotlight. TIPS: Tech Tip of the Week: Windows 7 USB installation creator Teacher Tip of the Week:  100 best Youtube videos for teachers

Synopsis:   This week Mark and Shawn discuss their typical summer maintenance routine and outline a few tricks they've learned over the years to extend the life of hardware and ease the staff transition issues that arise. TIPS: Tech Tip of the Week: Speccy- "an advanced System Information tool for your PC" (Windows only) Teacher Tip of the Week:  ShouldIChangeMyPassword.com - check to see if your email has been hacked.

Synopsis:    This week Mark and Shawn are joined by Steve Sokol, Marketing Director for Asterisk to talk about the open source telephony software. Links: Asterisk TIPS: Tech Tip of the Week: AbpMon- a resizable and dockable toolbar on your desktop for any Windows system that graphically shows the most popular system information in real time Teacher Tip of the Week: Froguts.com - Virtual dissection software

Synopsis:    This week Mark and Shawn are joined by Nat Robinson, V.P. Marketing and Business Development for Sliderocket to talk about one of their favorite web-based presentation tools. Links: Sliderocket TIPS: Tech Tip of the Week: HandyFile Find and Replace - find and replace text within entire directory structures Teacher Tip of the Week: Vocaroo - Record messages of any length through your browser and share them with others.

Synopsis:    This week Mark and Shawn are once again joined by Chuck Syperski and Jim Jang of the FOG Project to talk about what's new, and whats on the horizon for our favorite Open Source hard disk imaging tool. Links: WinInstall LE The FOG Project TIPS: Tech Tip of the Week: Plop Boot Manager Teacher Tip of the Week: LiveBinders

Synopsis:     This week Mark and Shawn are joined by Seth Anderson for the seventh installment of our Tightwad Tech Listener Spotlight. Links: StarBurn VLC Moodle Spiceworks TIPS:   Tech Tips of the Week: Barcode Tape Label Generator and Hiren's Boot CD   Teacher Tips of the Week: TeacherTube & Scratch       End-User Tip of this Week: Ninite

Synopsis:     This week Mark and Shawn discuss the hows and whys of running virtual platforms on the desktop. Links: VMWare Player VirtualBox VirtualPC TIPS:   Tech Tip of the Week: PCLoginNow - Reset Windows local passwords   Teacher Tip of the Week: LinoIt.com - Online corkboard with sticky notes

Synopsis:     This week Mark and Shawn are joined by Jacqueline Botterill, manager of the Skype in the Classroom proect. Links: PreyProject - A service to locating stolen laptops and smart phones. Skype in the Classroom Video from Brian Crosby about Skype in the Classroom TIPS:   Tech Tip of the Week: Giotto - A free Flash animation tool   Teacher Tip of the Week: InformationIsBeautiful.net - Cool info-graphics Web site

Synopsis:     This week Mark and Shawn are joined by Steven Campbell, the Director of Information Technology for the International School of Kabul, Afghanistan for our sixth installment of the Listener Spotlight. TIPS:   Tech Tip of the Week: Great article from The How-to Geek on locking down Ubuntu installations   Teacher Tip of the Week: dotsub.com - Online video hosting with language transcription options.