It’s a holiday gift edition featuring Dave Sawyer, Technical Director, Microsoft Technology Center Heartland District who loaded up his sleigh with a bag full of tech toys from tablets to Windowns 7 Phones for the geek in your lives, even if that’s you! Dave also talked about the changes in Microsoft’s recently released MS Office 2010. We are also delighted that Kurt Hines from VC Webdesign joined us again to help answer your tech questions.

Show Notes:

• Rishi Jaitly: Co-founder of  Michigan Corps, a national philanthropy providing financial, intellectual, and human capital from across the country to outstanding social entrepreneurs and non-profits enriching Michigan.
• Randy Dobbs: Author of Transformational Leadership, talks about the leadership that Michigan needs to get our state growing again.

Podcast: December 4, 2010 – Hour 1
Podcast: December 4, 2010 – Hour 2
Podcast: December 4, 2010 – Hour 3
Podcast: Rishi Jaitly
Podcast: Randy Dobbs
Link: The Mac Minute

No this isn’t just about finding the right store in the city where they sell what you want.  This is about arriving at select stores and having an iPhone app that will tell you the precise shelf in the store where the product is located.  This is be a boon for late shopping husbands and boyfriends who HAVE to get a certain gift.  Full Story

This year has seen a boom in browser changes and innovations.  My favorite is still Chrome browser from Google on the Mac.  It screams most of the time although it does choke on some websites and then I have to step back to Safari which still hasn’t “gotten it” that having just one window in which to enter search or url’s is the way to go.  Foster Braun