Podcast: The Internet Monthly – August 2009

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The Internet Monthly is a monthly podcast featuring 20 or so short Internet related articles, tips and tricks and a regular search engine of the month feature.

This month’s podcast looks at the likely demise of the PC hard drive, the open-source smartphones that will outshine the iPhone, the ringtones that only children and dogs can hear and the online photo-shrinker for friends with cinematic display expectations.

You can also find out about how to watch online videos or browse the Internet on your TV, couchsurfing that’s designed to get you out of the house, and the search engine for what’s happening now.

This podcast is derived from a monthly newsletter published by Zen Internet and recorded and produced by Silicon Bay. The podcast is reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet.

This Month’s Podcast

The Internet Monthly – August 2009:

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This Month’s Articles

This month’s edition of The Internet Monthly podcast contains the following articles. A list of links associated with each article are included for reference:

PIRATES IN GOVERNMENT – Pirate file sharers go political
- www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/elections/article6452298.ece
- news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8140895.stm
- pirateparty.org.uk
MICROSOFT BIGGER IN IRELAND – Microsoft open mega data centre in Dublin
- news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39669283,00.htm
CLOUD CASTLES – Cloud computing data centres flourish
- resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/comment/0,1000002985,39669779,00.htm
GREEN IT AWARDS – Awards for organisations fostering green computing
- dennis.cerosmedia.com/1Q4a27acbd79af4540.cde
SEVEN UP – Microsoft Windows 7 ready for production
- www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2009/jul09/07-22Windows7RTMPR.mspx
HDD FACING SSD THREAT – The hard disc drive faces demise
- www.itpro.co.uk/612136/samsung-to-drop-hdd-for-ssd
DISK VIEW – Find out what’s really on your hard drive
- www.jam-software.com/treesize_free
CARD INDEX – Search for new businesscard listings
- www.qwista.com
- telnic.org/business-landing.html
OPEN SEASON – Open source mobile phones to dominate
- resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/comment/0,1000002985,39667245,00.htm
ULTRASONIC RINGTONES – Ringtones suitable for youngsters and dogs
- www.ultrasonic-ringtones.com
PHOTO SHRINKER – Online photograph shrinker
- www.imagemerger.net/resize.php
PDF TO WORD – Free PDF tools
- www.anypdftools.com
EXCEL YOURSELF – Free Excel templates
- www.vertex42.com
WIKIFY – Automatically embed Wikipedia links in your documents
- wikify.appointment.at
WORDNIK – Enhanced online dictionary and thesaurus
- www.wordnik.com
APHORISMS GALORE – Aphorisms, aphorisms and more aphorisms
- www.aphorismsgalore.com
PC TO TV – Merging the PC and the TV
- www.iogear.com/product/GUW2015VKITW6
- www.tenzy.co.uk/epages/es117950.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/es117950_shop/Products/GUW2015VKITW6
- blogs.channel4.com/platform4/2009/01/21/web-and-tv-can-they-be-bedfellows
- www.zilliontv.tv
COUCHSURFING – Holiday on the cheap on someone else’s sofa
- www.amazon.co.uk/Couch-Fleur-Britten/dp/0007310994/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246707591&sr=1-1
- www.couchsurfing.org
- www.globalfreeloaders.com
- www.hospitalityclub.org
SANCTIFIED SEARCH – Restricted search for Haredi Jews

FRIENDS – Renting your house to Google

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RDe2Ia6YlM

META SEARCH SECURITY – Search without leaving a trail

www.ixquick.com

SEARCH ENGINE OF THE MONTH – Search what’s happening NOW
- collecta.com

This podcast is sponsored and reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet Limited. The music on the podcast was provided courtesy of Will Tang.