Teckcasts

Michael Plasmeier, Michael Gdovin, Reed Dame, and special guest JD Dorfman look back at the history of Tecker 911 and give some troubleshooting tips to help you after we go dark. (58:30)

Michael Plasmeier and Michael Gdovin show you Picnik, an online image editor that lets you quickly edit photos. (13:13)

Michael Plasmeier and Reed Dame round up Google, Bing, Yahoo and Mapquest's mapping service. (21:53)

Michael Plasmeier and Reed Dame introduce you to OpenID, a federated authentication system that might be in your future. (12:31)

Michael Gdovin and Reed Dame show you Basecamp, a collaboration site we use to put the show together. (8:45)

Michael Gdovin and Reed Dame introduce you to eBooks, on both computers and devices. (8:39)

Michael Gdovin and Jordan Berman show off Netflix, an online movie rental site that offers both DVDs by mail and online streaming. (13:06)

Michael Plasmeier and Reed Dame introduce you to several things you can do to get started programming a computer. (13:27)

Michael Plasmeier and Reed Dame show you Windows Live Sync, a program that keeps your computers in sync. (13:26)

Michael Plasmeier and Reed Dame show you Mint, an online money tracking system, similar to Microsoft Money or Quicken. (12:10)

Reed Dame and Jordan Berman give you a few tips to save power on your computers and portable devices to get better battery life or save the environment. (9:36)

Michael Gdovin and Jordan Berman give you several ways to reuse your old computer. (9:20)

Michael Plasmeier and Jordan Berman show you VLC, a lightweight media player that plays almost anything. It's good to have around! (7:19)

Michael Plasmeier and Michael Gdovin introduce you to Digg, where readers pick what the top stories on the web are, and is home to some great innovation in the social web. (10:46)

Michael Plasmeier and Jordan Berman try to steer you through the complicated world of watch TV online, including old and new shows, for free or pay. (16:52)

Michael Plasmeier introduces you to geotagging (placing it on a map) photos using any camera, a GPS tracker and some software. (21:39)

Jordan Berman and Michael Gdovin show you some of the things you can do on the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. (11:02)

Michael Plasmeier and Reed Dame show you Google Earth, an application similar to Google Maps, but in 3D. (11:03)

Michael Gdovin and Reed Dame explain Yahoo's Delicious, a social bookmarking service, that has different uses for different people. (10:59)

Michael Gdovin and Jordan Berman show you Zoho, an online office suite that does much more than Google Docs. (10:40)

Michael Gdovin and Michael Plasmeier show the complete workflow for shooting, transferring, editing, and sharing your digital video. (39:01)

Michael Plasmeier and Reed Dame show off their tablet PCs while explaining what tablets are and who can benefit from using one. (16:05)

Michael Gdovin and Michael Plasmeier show you how to set up Wordpress, an open source blogging platform on your web site. (20:22)

Reed Dame and Michael Gdovin show you the ins and outs of Gmail, Google's ground breaking email service. (16:00)

Michael Gdovin and Jordan Berman show you iLife, the digital media software suite that ships with every Mac computer. (8:50)

Michael Plasmeier, Michael Gdovin, Jordan Berman and Reed Dame tell you what products and services they use everyday. (7:52)

Jordan Berman and Michael Plasmeier explain the pros and cons of U3 as well as let you know how to get rid of it and what alternatives are best. (8:23)

Michael Plasmeier and Mike Gdovin introduce you to Twitter, the micro-blogging and messaging system sweeping the globe. (8:57)

Michael Gdovin and Jordan Berman show off iWork, the productivity suite from Apple, including Pages, Numbers and Keynote (7:57)

Michael Plasmeier discusses the digital TV transition. Does it affect you? And where are companies stretching the truth to take advantage of the FCC-mandated change? (9:17)

Jordan Berman and Reed Dame show you how to make a simple circuit and Michael Plasmeier talks a little bit about electricity. (10:45)

Reed Dame and Justin Plasmeier introduce you to Pandora, an online radio station that plays only the music you like. (11:58)

Michael Plasmeier and Reed Dame show you JungleDisk and Mozy which are applications that backup your data online. Online backup is the safest and most convenient. (13:05)

Michael Gdovin and Jordan Berman take you inside Apple's Mobile Me. Learn about the web publishing features from .Mac as well as the new syncing features. (8:19)

Michael Plasmeier and Reed Dame introduce you to Microsoft OneNote, a note-taking application from Microsoft. (23:53)

Michael Plasmeier tells you what features to look for in a new dash-mounted GPS. (22:27)

Jordan Berman and Michael Plasmeier show you two options to use your computer from another machine. (11:32)

Michael Plasmeier and Reed Dame show you Google Reader which lets you read your favorite news sites and blogs all in one place. (14:00)

Michael Gdovin and Jordan Berman describe the concept of "Cloud Computing" where you keep your data on the internet. Examples include Gmail, and Meebo. (10:14)

Michael Plasmeier and Reed Dame show you how to reinstall Windows XP on your computer when you just want to start fresh. (16:55)

Michael Plasmeier and Reed Dame explain cell phone internet or how you can access the internet over the cell phone networks almost anywhere with technologies such as 3G and EDGE. (10:41)

Michael Plasmeier and Michael Gdovin talk you through a digital camera workflow. They tell you what to look for in buying a camera, how to get the pictures on your computer, and finally, how to store and share your pictures using Google's Picasa. (31:05)

Michael Plasmeier and Michael Gdovin show you what is new in Firefox 3. (16:42)

Michael Plasmeier shows you Windows DVD Maker built into Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate. It lets you make a basic DVD in just a few minutes without installing or buying anything. (5:57)

Michael Plasmeier and Jordan Berman show you how you can get the songs off your iPod without any software to buy or download. (10:38)

Michael Plasmeier and Michael Gdovin discuss the different devices you can use for mobile computing and how well they work for popular tasks such as reading and writing email. (18:15)

Michael Plasmeier and Reed Dame show you how to sell and buy stuff on eBay in this extensive episode. (39:52)

Reed Dame and Jordan Berman talk about the multiple ways to speed up your Windows startup by disabling startup programs, services, and tasks. (11:38)

Michael Plasmeier and Reed Dame talk about net neutrality. What is it? What does it mean to you? Do we have it now? Is it protected by law? (15:19)

Michael Gdovin and Reed Dame show you how to create and distribute your first audio podcast. (15:05)

Michael Plasmeier, Reed Dame, Jordan Berman, and Michael Gdovin take a break for the 50th episode! They go outside and have fun to remind you to get off of the computer! (5:25)