On the morning show of Z100 in New York they do a bit called Phone Taps. It’s basically prank phone calls, but they get callers to participate in trying to make their friends/relatives, freak out on the phone. Trust me, it’s funnier than it sounds in this description.
Check out their site at http://www.z100.com/pages/zoo/index.html
Then subscribe to http://www.z100.com/podcast/PhoneTaps.xml
While the blog part of my site was down, Michael’s Guide was growing. I’ve created 2 new guides.
Michael’s Guide to Wireless Security will help you learn how to better secure your wireless networks. It’s amazing how many people just plug in their router and never set up any security.
Michael’s Guide to Choosing Passwords is a short guide on how to pick better passwords. Your passwords is are the keys to your life. Don’t leave doors unlocked because you chose a weak password.
Check them out today in Michael’s Guides
You may or may not have noticed that my blog was down for the past few days. Apparently my webhost (Vizaweb) was having some sort of MySQL database issues again. I like them as a host over all, and the price is sure right. However, I hope they get over these “growing pains” that they’ve been going through.
I don’t check my site every minute of every day, so the only way I realized it was down was that several of my scheduled entries never showed up in the RSS feed.
If you ever notice any part of the site isn’t working, please feel free to e-mail me.
Eric & Kathy is the morning show on WTMX 101.9 The Mix in Chicago. They post a podcast of hihlights from their show each day. I think they are pretty funny. It’s mostly a call in show with some celbrity interviews mixed in. Eric’s voice and personality almost reminds me of my favorite talk show host who’s no longer on the air, Casey Bartholemew.
Their site is at http://www.wtmx.com/ek.php.
The feed address is http://www.wtmx.com/podcast.php
The Dawn & Drew Show is one of the most popular podcasts out there. This husband and wife live on an old farm in Wisconsin and post a few hour long shows each week. You never know what they’ll talk about, but they usually wind up being pretty funny.
Check out there site at www.dawnanddrew.com
The feed is at http://dawnanddrew.podshow.com/wp-rss2.php
Moving on to other members of the old ZDTV/TechTV cast, here’s a podcast from Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht. I stopped watching what was left of The Screen Savers after TechTV became G4 so I never saw Alex on the show, but he’s pretty entertaining.
The guys spend about 30 mins each week drinking beer and going over the most “dug” stories on Kevin’s site Digg.com.
Their site is at www.diggnation.com.
The feed is at http://revision3.com/diggnation/feed/high.mp3.xml.
They also have a video feed at http://revision3.com/diggnation/feed/small.mov.xml.
Donating online is probably still the easiest way to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina, but if you live in the Philadelphia area you also have another option.
NBC10 and Wawa are sponsoring a program where you can print out a ccoupon that you can have the cashier at Wawa scan and the donation will be charged to your purchase.
Unless you’ve spent the past few days in a cave, you know that the City of New Orleans has basically been wiped out by the flooding that has followed Hurricane Katrina. I just added a llink to the American Red Cross to the homepage. Please use it to donate to the massive relief effort in New Orleans and the surrounding areas, including Mississippi and Alabama.
So, I said the last one was the last podcast featuring Leo Laporte. Well, I just realized there was one more. It’s a brand new one and there’s only been one episode so far. We’ll see how good it is as time goes one.
This podcast is about computer security. It features Leo along with Steve Gibson from grc.com. I’ve mentioned Steve’s site in previous posts.
Their feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/securitynow
OK, this is the last podcast in the series that stars Leo Laporte. The Laporte Report is just a catch all of random radio interviews that Leo does. You never know what’s going to pop up on this. Anything from Canadian radio shows to podcast interviews can be found here.
The feed is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/tlr