Swine flu, Microsoft revenue drops, Apple poo-poos netbooks, The Pirate Bay, and more.

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Audible picks of the week: Earth Abides: The 60th Anniversary Edition and Blade Runner. To get two free audiobooks, visit Audible.com/twit2.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Patrick Norton, Jason Calacanis, Brian Brushwood, Dr. Kiki Sanford, and Catherine Hall

Combatting the RIAA over P2P using Web 2.0 resources, and more.

Host: Denise Howell

Guests: Ray Beckerman, Eric Goldman, Colette Vogele, and Evan Brown

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Audible picks: Battlestar Galactica: The Cylons' Secret, Abridged, By Craig Shaw Gardner, Narrated by Jonathan Davis. For a free audiobook, visit AudiblePodcast.com/twil.

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Bryan Berry, of Open Learning Exchange Nepal, the NGO implementing the OLPC project in Nepal.

Bryan Berry has served as IT manager for US embassies in Tel Aviv, Hong Kong, and Kathmandu. He has been a linux user for six years, and has lived in Asia for the last seven years. He began work on the Open Learning Exchange Nepal project in 2006, and as of June 2007 gained the support of the Nepali government to begin a pilot program of the OLPC project. He is also co-editor of OLPCnews.com.

Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte

Guest: Bryan Berry

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Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at [email protected].

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From the Gadget Warehouse: The Fujix P701 projector

For more details and a chance to win the Mad Magazine "What The Heck Is It?" contest, visit GizWiz.Biz.

Hosts: Dick DeBartolo and Leo Laporte

Windows 7 Release Candidate, Windows 8, Windows Live Wave 3, Oracle buys Sun Microsystems, and more.

• Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 is scheduled for release on May 5th.
• Julie Larson-Green, head of Windows user experience, confirms that Microsoft is looking ahead to the future of Windows, maybe Windows 8.
• Windows Live Wave 3 integrates messaging, social networking, contacts, and more.
• Oracle buys Sun Microsystems, could have a large effect on the fields of cloud computing and database software.

Software Picks of the Week: Real Player, allows you to download FLV flash files from Youtube and other video sites in HD, and Ubuntu: Jaunty Jackalope a new release of the free Linux Distribution from Canonical.

Audible picks of the week: Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories, Unabridged, By Ian Fleming, Narrated by Simon Vance. For a free credit toward the audiobook of your choice, visit Audible.com/windows.

Software tip of the week: If you purchase 4,000 Xbox live points on the Amazon Store before May 1st you will receive an additional $10.00 credit.

Check out Paul's blog at the SuperSite for Windows for more information.

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Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Travel in style with the Porter Case PCX.

Audible pick of the day: Old Time Radio Shows: Fibber McGee and Molly, Vol. 1, Unabridged, By Jim and Marian Jordan, Narrated by Jim and Marian Jordan. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/gizwiz.

For more details and a chance to win the Mad Magazine "What The Heck Is It?" contest, visit GizWiz.Biz.

Hosts: Dick DeBartolo and Leo Laporte

Steve analyzes Conficker, the sophisticated worm that has spread to more than 10 million PCs worldwide.

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For 16Kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written - Spinrite 6.

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Dina Kaplan chats about blip.tv, Amber on Google Profiles, Sarah on Dora.fm, and more.

Our guests are Dina Kaplan co-founder and CEO of blip.tv and Sarah Lane

• Blip.tv
• Dora.fm
• Google Profiles

Audible.com pick of the week: Earth Abides: The 60th Anniversary Edition , By Jonathan Davis and Connie Willis. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/night.

Hosts: Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte

Guests: Dina Kaplan and Sarah Lane

Get your laptop off the grid with the 15-watt Voltaic Generator Bag.

For more details and a chance to win the Mad Magazine "What The Heck Is It?" contest, visit GizWiz.Biz.

Hosts: Dick DeBartolo and Leo Laporte

App Store hits a billion, new Apple commercials, Fortune 100, Mac botnet theories, and more.

Audible pick of the week: The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music, Unabridged, By Steve Lopez, Narrated by William Hughes. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/macbreak.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Scott Bourne, and Andy Ihnatko

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