SHOW SUMMARY:  Radiothon this week! News Update Salesforce backs off of Twitter FAA issues emergency Note 7 alert! Much love for WordPress, PHP and some Pi Cutting the cord with Jay Living la vida cloud-a? Geek Trivia Answer This week, we provide the answer to: What happens if the name Hurricane Matthew if it gets retired? Podcast Only Song o…

SHOW SUMMARY: Â What’s scarier? Evil clowns, politics these days, or exploding phones? We cast our vote in this rather disorganized show … listen in to find out! News Update Cubs win number 1! Â 3 more to go … Galaxy Note 7 explodes on the scene! (No, really – it literally. Explodes. Flames and all.) First word on the Google Pixel (interview with V…

SHOW SUMMARY: Â Robbie “Science FTW” Rigel joins us today for a great tech/science cross-over! News Update All things old are new again – even Commodore 64 in Poland! Go commando with Google, and get rid of those folders! Exchange server makes us cry, but most new MS products are pretty OK. Hackers are attacking our voting machines! Review of The T…

SHOW SUMMARY: Cool sites of the Week KeeWeb - An online and downloadable password management app for you KeePass users!  Just as deliciously free and open source as KeePass – but it works on anything with a web browser! OneTab browser extension – Creates an easy to manage extra browser tab you can send your open tabs to for later use … saves ood…

SHOW SUMMARY: News Update Google has a lot of info on you Jay’s words of wisdom: “Don’t pass out business cards at a funeral” Conglomeration recap – it’s not tabletop Diablo! Cool sites of the Week Conglomeration – It’s never too early to start planning for next year! Roll for the Galaxy -Â If you love tabletop gaming and are looking for something …

SHOW SUMMARY: Gearing up for Conglomeration convention, sharing vacation tales, and talking tech … just another typical Saturday here on the TechTalk show! News Update April Fools day recap – and how Google can get you fired Conglomeration is NEXT WEEKEND!  Live action frogger, cosplay, board gaming … it’s not too late to join us! Writing, write…

SHOW SUMMARY: Along with a great review of the new Deadpool movie by Jay “Geek Trivia” Garmon (hint: DON’T take your kids!), we get a tiny taste of the Conglomeration 2016 convention in Louisville, KY this April – with more detail promised in shows to come. It’s not too late to sign up, but you may want to lock in those hotel spots quick! Go to…

SHOW SUMMARY: The longest, most intense Kids Talk Tech … ‘evah! Listen to Olivia as she discusses history, video games, spelling bees, spelling apps (look out for the big SBC!), and more! News Update Superbowl weekend coming up, and there’s lots of ways for us cord cutters to watch … Don’t brick that iPhone! Bernie’s Tinder supporter crowd is gett…

SHOW SUMMARY: News Items Spanish speakers make up nearly 10% of our app users, and we think that’s muy bien! Old school gaming discussion, plus consoles, PC and mobile – which one is winning? We discover that a Balalaika sounds better than a balaclava, but neither of them swim faster than your bass guitar  Homeless guys can take Visa now too Ja…

SHOW SUMMARY: News Items CM8 stole some movies, but now they’d like to apologize. Stream NFL on Google or Apple? It might happen yet … If the lottery is a big deal for you, math probably isn’t! Jay “Geek Trivia” Garmon Trivia Answer What were the rest of the items suggested in the original space transportation system proposal that ultimately resu…

SHOW SUMMARY: News Items Google Voice FTW! Steam (Valve) down for users over XMas due to a security issue Netflix streaming gets better and faster Major movies hacked - Go to the dark side and watch them now! Jay “Geek Trivia” Garmon Trivia Answer What numerically based film was so influential on George Lucas that references to it have been in …

SHOW SUMMARY - Coding adventures, using Google to get what you want, and lots and lots of Star Wars Episode 7 talk with Dave and Jay!  Special bonus feature – Kids Talk Tech is back this week with Olivia discussing best sites for free (and fun) math games to play online! News Items Samsung ordered to pay Apple $548M WordPress embraces the dark s…

SHOW SUMMARY - Pedro Domingos joins us for a fascinating discussion on machine learning and his new book “The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World.”  Tune in to hear us rap about self-programming computers, David Hume, reverse engineering the human brain, and more as we dig deep into what’s been…

SHOW SUMMARY – It’s Halloween! News Items Apple does well this year – as in best. Year. EVAH!!! Still no WRLR Apple app, but only because Apple store (coming soon!) Getting the debate, getting weird Jay “Geek Trivia” Garmon Trivia Answer What was the first “survival horror” game for PC? Coolsites of the Week Sex offender search mobile Halloween dri…

SHOW SUMMARY - Preston Smalley takes a break from Comcast X1 app development to share what they are doing today, and how you can keep watching the Cubs (or Bears, or BlackHawks) WITHOUT risking your marriage! News Items Holllly Cooowwwwww! Go Cubs! Back to the Future week is here! Twitter laying off folks Jay “Geek Trivia” Garmon Trivia Answer W…

SHOW SUMMARY -Â Paul Ulreich from Verizon comes back on-air to discuss home automation, the new data plans, and more! IFTTT your lights? You got it! Â Everything you never thought you could use your phone for, and then some News Items Google drive is DOWN! (but find out why neither Mike nor Dave care) Have you backed up your data yet? Security chat…

SHOW SUMMARY News Items  VW intentional software code avoids EPA regulations Canadian Minister of Education loses student data – 3.5M records More WRLR app talk - giving Mike another reason to hate Apple … But Apple’s XCode issues gives Mike a major case of the Schadenfreude Jay “Geek Trivia” Garmon Trivia Answer Who are the only 4 authors hav…

SHOW SUMMARY News Items Emoji can be used for communicating good, evil, happiness, pain – or for streamlining the process of being a complete jerk. Guess which usage I’m best at?  Mark Zuckerberg, live (not) and in studio (also not)!  Discusses the need for a “not like” button … Dave and I want to start a support group for people that have ac…

SHOW SUMMARY GEO awards high leads to tons of nostalgia and great memories about the origin of WRLR and TechTalk. Stack and Di. News Items Fake women! (… on the Ashley Madison site, that is) Sad Puppies lose, Hugo Awards FTW! Lots of nostalgia and good vibes from the recent GEO’s! Geek Trivia Answer What were the only 3 websites linked to from th…

SHOW SUMMARY Returning guest Mike Miller joins us to break down the good, the bad, and the ugly of Windows 10.  Mike also tells us that if you’ve been waiting, it’s OK to upgrade now, but listen to the caveats he mentions first! News Items Ashley Madison hack news and update Mike tries to say “problems with Spotify privacy policies” 5 times fast…

SHOW SUMMARY Special guest JD Pirtle from the Catherine Cook School in Chicago talks robotics, 3-D printing, robotics, using Raspberry Pi and playing with Minecraft – introducing innovative technologies in education from Pre-K on up!  Mike tries REALLY hard not to get too wonky, and JD keeps us on topic with great insights into how technolog…

SHOW SUMMARY News Items: How to get your politics on when you’re a cord cutter (and a little bit on the GOP debates) Friend of the show Greg gets us interested in Google Fi Cheap laptops and Chromebooks Ubuntu vs. Windows 10 and how I learned to love my Vaio all over again Geek Trivia Answer from Jay Garmon: What components were IBM branded on …

SHOW SUMMARY That’s right, Dave “Sparky” Saganaki is IN DA HOUSE! He makes a special trip down from the beautiful Canadian hinterland to get on air with us and discuss these tasty topics: News Items: CCTV vs Drones It was tough to watch the Donald – and not just because of who he is Ashley Madison hacked, Torontonians are the main ones worried …

SHOW SUMMARY The show so good, we named it twice! News Items: Craigslist recollections and updates, as EBay drops out. Sharepoint woes with Mike and Jay. Major android apps open to man-in-the-middle attacks! Government hack impact expanded. Lastpass, 1Password, and Keychain secure password services also hacked. Geek Trivia with Jay Garmon: What w…

SHOW SUMMARY News Items: Ookla the Mok at Aw, Yeah Comix! RIP Christopher Lee Net Neutrality is in force, starting this week ChoeTech Links: Stadium Qi wireless charger 6 port Rapid USB charger ChoeTech homepage Geek Trivia with Jay Garmon: What was the actual communications device installed on the red hotline, between the coldwar era US and So…