Keith Shaw’s Cool Tools Alert
* LATEST FROM COOL TOOLS VIDEO LIBRARY:
Think wardriving is passe? Keith rides around with AirDefense CTO Amit Sinha and sees enough wireless holes to make him want to go back to the manual typewriter.
* MORE FROM THE VIDEO LIBRARY:
At the DEMOFall conference, Michael Callahan of the University of Illionis gave a demonstration of technology that translates brain signals to speech.
iPhone ad spoof: Jason “No Wireless”
If you watch any TV in prime time, you can’t miss the “real world” Apple iPhone commercials. Well, the real world is not always that easy. Check out Jason’s video, then get yourself 30 seconds of fame by uploading your own spoof now.
* LATEST TWISTED PAIR PODCAST:
Apple’s not all lollipops and puppy dogs
Keith and Jason discuss Google opening up its social network, the fast-selling Apple Leopard OS, and the biggest pet peeves they have about co-workers’ office habits.
* LATEST FROM NETWORK WORLD PANORAMA:
5 myths about 802.11n wireless
The emergence of 802.11n wireless technology has lots of people and vendors excited, but there are several misconceptions out there regarding this new technology. Bill Kish, co-founder of Ruckus Wireless, talks with Keith Shaw about the five myths surrounding 802.11n, and potential pitfalls for enterprises looking to deploy the technology (19:54).
* LATEST VOICES FROM IT ROADMAP:
Better patient care through wireless
Delivering patient date where its needed is key for any hospital. For Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, the company rolled out multi-campus wireless project to help get medical records to clinicians at the point of care. Steve Horsley, director of information technology at Swedish Medical Center, explains the challenges involved in his group’s ambitious project. (8:12)
* LATEST FROM RON NUTTER’S HELP DESK TOOL CHEST
Knoppix = Swiss Army Knife ?; How to book Linux from a flash drive
Join Ron Nutter for the next installment of Ron Nutter’s Help Desk Tool Chest. On this edition of Help Desk Tool Chest is Mail Call where listeners questions are answered. This weeks Tools of the Trade is Knoppix. In the How To To Corner, you will find out how to boot Knoppix from a USB Flash Drive. (42:50)
* LATEST COOL TOOL BLOGS:
I now pronounce you man and robotCheck it out.
I’m a certified sci-fi geek and fan of future technology, but this next piece of news even creeps me out a bit. Plus: The slide show boys have put together a list of the 10 Robots We’d Like to Marry.
This week’s sign podcasting has hit the mainstream
Headline on a press release coming across the transom today: Podcasting is the New Wave of Vacation Planning for Disney Cruise Line – The folks down in Celebration, Florida (they must be a fun bunch working in town named “Celebration”) are launching the new series to help promote the adventures that can be had on the Disney cruises around the Caribbean.
SNL iPhone spoof
Not sure when this aired exactly, so I can’t officially claim the Saturday Night Live writers got the idea from me ;-), but they did an excellent spoof of the iPhone ads.
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