Monthly Archives February 2016

1608 Choosing Your Next Laptop

1608 Choosing Your Next Laptop

February 27, 2016 | Comments Off on 1608 Choosing Your Next Laptop

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Show Notes:

Hour 1

[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”black” border_width=”3″][vc_column_text]On this show we tackle one of our most frequently asked questions: What do you recommend we buy for our next laptop?  Each member of our team chimed in with helpful tips about everything from CPU speed to display size.

To make the discussion a little more practical, we chose a recent laptop sold on Amazon and displayed above.  We don’t want everyone to run out and buy this Lenovo laptop but we do want you to see that there are some very capable laptop computers for under $400, depending on your computing needs.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”12036″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Click Here to Listen to Computer Tips

  • CPU (dual core, i3, AMD)
  • Screen Size (13″ vs 15 or 17 “)
  • To touch or not to Touch Screen
  • Hard Drive : SATA (mechanical), SSD (Solid State Drive), Hybrid (combination of SSD and SATA gives speed and max storage for less $)
  • RAM (4 GB base but 8GB preferred. May be added later.
  • OS -PC: Windows 10 64 bit Home
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1607 Job Hunting, Macprofessionals and The Nain Rouge

1607 Job Hunting, Macprofessionals and The Nain Rouge

February 19, 2016 | Comments Off on 1607 Job Hunting, Macprofessionals and The Nain Rouge

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Show Notes:

This week’s program is a three hour special featuring

  • important insights about getting a job during Hour 1
  • a vigorous debate in Hour 2 about Apple giving the FBI what it wants
  • and finally Hour 3 with listener question and answers

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Hour 1: The Job Search Process and the Nain Rouge

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Todd w BookTodd Palmer author of Job Search Process is a renowned thought leader and top staffing and recruiting executive who is committed to improving lives. Todd is founder and President of Diversified Industrial Staffing, and has helped over 4,300 people get jobs, bettering their lives and the lives of their families.
In his new book, The Job Search Process, Palmer provides a practical, targeted guide to landing a new job in only 30 days. His latest work has already been nominated for both the Axiom
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1606 18th Anniversary Special

1606 18th Anniversary Special

February 12, 2016 | Comments Off on 1606 18th Anniversary Special

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Show Notes:

Hour 1

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”10824″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Yan NessYan Ness is the CEO of Online Technologies, a company with long connection to Gary Baker and the Internet Advisor.  Once upon a time, Online Tech was the ISP that Gary Baker ran and was the way that he and Foster Braun met.  Foster called to get help with his connection to the then fledgling Internet and Gary was happy to pitch in. The rest, as they say, is history.

Click Here to Listen to Yan Ness[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Kay and RonRon and Kay Wilmers of Lapeer, MI are the founders of The Disabled Traveler, a website dedicated to helping people with disabilities and/or age related challenges enjoy traveling. Ron’s experience began in 1977 when he was confined to a wheelchair but never let it keep him and his family from enjoying camping.

The Disabled Traveler is Ron and Kay’s personal crusade to help people facing disabilities and/or age related challenges to enjoy America’s …


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1605 Hello World and the eBay Lady

1605 Hello World and the eBay Lady

February 6, 2016 | Comments Off on 1605 Hello World and the eBay Lady

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Show Notes:

Hour 1

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Michigan Student Honored

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Christina Li a senior at Utica Community Schools was  among nine people from across the country recognized Tuesday in Washington, D.C. as “White House Champions of Change for Computer Science Education.” She was nominated by Debbie Taylor, assistant director of the engineering school and director of Women in Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, for the weeklong computer science camp she hosted last summer. The camp, called Hello World, taught 30 middle school girls how to code websites, games, apps and robots.

Click Here to Listen to Christina Li

Christina was our guest exactly one year ago when she was leading a group of fellow high school students on a robotics team named the Thunder Chickens.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]DonnalogoshirtDonna MacMurray Klein was crowned the “eBay Lady” when she first visited our …


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