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Gary Baker, Foster Braun and Cal Carson are in house this weekend to spend a full two hours answering your technology related questions. Also, Mr. Baker has a special announcement regarding a new product he received this week. Hint: Gary is being drawn deeper into the “Dark Side”.
Erik Anderson will also join us with The Mac Minute to enlighten us about the latest news from Apple.
Podcast: July 3, 2010 – Hour 1
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Summer is a summer camp time… so why not a tech camp? This Saturday we preview: Camp Infiniti, a summer camp designed specifically for Metro-Detroit girls by the Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation. The girls will be challenged to design websites and conduct a robot sumo competition this coming week.
Join Foster Braun, Gary Baker and Kurt Hines, our special guest tech expert, as we interview Julie Patterson, Camp Director of Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation’s Camp Infinity for the past 5 years, and Marina Reyna who can talk about the camp and speak to why technology is so important for young females.
We also focus on high tech security with Jason Yaeger, from Online Tech and Adam Goslin one of the co-founders of High Bit Security, a company that specializes in helping companies keep their information safe from intruders. These are the folks who make sure that your information stays safe in other peoples’ hands.
Erik Anderson joins us in studio with The Mac Minute.
Don’t forget, the second hour of the show is all yours. Call us with your tech questions and we’ll find answers for you. In …
Recently one of the guys noted that we haven’t heard women’s perspectives on tech themes in a while and this weekend we intend to take a step toward remedying that oversight. This week, Gary Baker, Ed Rudel and Cal Carson welcome Rachel Kelly, a specialist in Social Networking and Meaghan McCann who is an expert in AdWords/AdSense. Both of these ladies are associates of Vince Chmielewski, our frequent tech contributor and web site designer. Rachel shows us how to use tools like Facebook and Linked-in to increase your outreach while Meaghan talks about the nuts and bolts of making a website work for you.
Also with us this week is Ron Stefanski, Captain of Tres Joli, a 38’ Beneteau sailboat. Ron tells how he used Facebook to keep his friends informed, in real time, of his adventures last week as he sailed from Lake Charlevoix around the mitten of Michigan to Toledo Beach in Lake Erie. He describes it as seeing Michigan at five miles per hour. Some friends even got on harbor webcams for a live view of the skipper and his crew as they prepare to disembark on the next segment of this journey. …
Ed Rudel and Cal Carson host this week as they take your technology related calls during open lines for a full two hours. Don’t miss Erik Anderson’s Mac Minute for commentary on the new iPhone 4.0 released just this week. Gary Baker has the night off to celebrate the graduation from high school of his lovely daughter Lauren who is also our Teen Tech Advisor (new title coming soon) Congratulations Lauren Baker!
Podcast: June 12, 2010 – Hour 1
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Foster Braun, Gary Baker, Ed Rudel and Cal Carson start their regular Saturday schedule following Dr. Dean Krauskopf and the WJR Garden Show.
The Blind Leading the Blind
This week we are joined by John Whitacre and Ted Lennox to talk about how the blind are helping other visually handicapped individuals learn to use their computers. There have been some big changes in this field that will amaze you; don’t miss this great segment with these two experts in the field who have been our guests frequently during the last 13 years.
Since this is Foster’s last show for a while as he is undergoing Stem Cell Transplant therapy for the next three months, we will talk about www.caringbridge.org. This organization provides free blogs to families facing critical health issues that allow them to keep everyone informed on their loved one’s condition. You are invited to visit Foster’s CaringBridge blog to follow his treatment until he returns later this summer.
Erik Anderson is also be back with his The Mac Minute report on all things Apple and there will be plenty of time for your questions and some answers.
Links & Phone Numbers From The Show
Optometric Institute of Michigan…
Foster Braun, Gary (birthday boy) Baker, Ed Rudel and Cal Carson have another three hour show this week. This is our last chance to offer you this big block of time to answer your questions about your computers and the Internet because, like the swallows returning to Capistrano, we look forward to Dr. Dean Krauskopf and the WJR Garden Show returning next week.
The guys help answer your computer questions on the show that has been pointing you in the right direction longer than any other locally produced computer program in Detroit for the last 12 years. Where else would you find that kind of dependable expert help but on the , WJR 760 AM, The Great Voice of the Great Lakes!
Podcast: April 17, 2010 – Hour 1
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Gary Baker, Ed Rudel and Cal Carson have cleared the decks to give you even more time to ask your questions about your computers and getting around the Internet. Erik Anderson also is on hand with his Mac Minute report on all things Apple, in other words, reactions to the iPad as well as new iPhone software announcements! Time for a little spring cleaning on our computers to get them tuned up for a busy summer of editing family pictures. Join us for lots of interesting conversation about the latest computer news and solutions to your computer problems.
Podcast: April 10, 2010 – Hour 1
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Gary Baker, Ed Rudel and Cal Carson host a special “Late Edition” of the Internet Advisor show.
Angela Kujava, Marketing Director for Logic Solutions talks to us about the iPad which Apple just released and the applications market. We also talk about the other smart mobile devices available by Microsoft, Apple, Google and Palm. Erik Anderson also has The Mac Minute chock-a-block full of more news about…what else? The iPad!
We have plenty of time to answer our WJR listener questions. Get your jammies on and get ready for a great show podcast to listen at your leisure.
Have a Happy Easter!
Podcast: April 3, 2010 – Hour 1
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Economics is the focus of this week’s super-sized Internet Advisor show. BetterInvesting.org, (a venerable, long-established, Michigan-based non-profit) is making significant headway in the face of the recent economic “tsunami” by assisting “main street investors” and investment clubs to stabilize and manage/grow their assets, using current technology tools. This Saturday Gary Baker and Ed Rudel interview Suzi Artzberger, Director of Information Technology and Product Development and an old friend, Kathleen Norton-Shock, about the way BetterInvesting.org uses new technology.
Also joining the crew to help answer your computer and Internet questions is Jason Yaeger from Online Technologies and Erik Anderson contributes The Mac Minute to keep us up to date on the latest in Apple news from the Dark Side. This week, we have a full two hours and plenty of expert help to get your questions answered.
Podcast: March 27, 2010 – Hour 1
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To Google or not to Google…a whole city, that is the question. Google Networks has created a bidding war among cities across the country including, of course, Ann Arbor, Michigan, to be one of the test sites for their super fast network. This week, the crew interviews a number of people who are trying to get Google to place their next generation fiber optic network in the home of University of Michigan and a host of high tech companies. Among our guests is: Chris Taylor, City Council person for City of Ann Arbor, Laura Patterson, CIO for the University of Michigan and Derek Mehraban, the CEO of Ingenex Digital Marketing whose company is sponsoring some of the local A2 Fiber events.
Of course we also have our full panel of experts: Gary Baker, Ed Rudel and Cal Carson to answer your questions along with co-host Foster Braun. Erik Anderson will also bring us his weekly Mac Minute highlight all things Apple in the news.
Links From The Show
Ann Arbor Fiber Project
UStream Video Streaming
Podcast: March 20, 2010 – Hour 1
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