Podcast: The Internet Monthly – October 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.

In this month’s podcast we look at a competition to redesign Google’s front page, how to download printable PC tutorials for children and get adult cheat sheets for popular software.

You can find out how to cook your own pie charts and logos online, check the free security monitor that scans your Web site every day for hacker interference, find out what others know about you from sites you’ve visited, watch the best from the BBC archives and make personal appearances in famous movie clips.

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 – October 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:

REDESIGN GOOGLE – Competition to redesign Google’s homepage
- redesigngoogle.com
FREE PC LESSONS – IT lessons to download for 5 – 15 year olds
- www.pcpro.co.uk/features/351556/free-computing-lessons-for-kids
CHEAT SHEETS – Quick shortcuts for popular software packages
- www.customguide.com/quick_references.htm
- morris-photographics.com/photoshop/shortcuts
- posters.msug.vn.ua
CHARTS TO GO – Create great bar graphs and pie charts online
- www.chartgo.com
LOGO MAKER – Free online logo designer
- www.onlinelogomaker.com/design
PARK AND RIDE – Save the environment by cycling more
- www.cyclescheme.co.uk
- www.freecycle.org
- www.snaffleup.co.uk
GREENER GEAR CHANGE – An eco friendly gearbox of the future
- www.torotrak.com
VANDAL PROOFING – Anti graffiti coating developed by MP3 creators
- www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2009/09/Graffiti-freehistoricbuildings.jsp
SAVE OUR SPOTIFY – Internet radio made easy
- www.geek.com/articles/news/spotify-threatens-to-kill-savespotify-over-recording-music-streams-2009097
- www.spotify.com
SURVEIL YOUR SITE – Check your website for security vulnerabilities
- sucuri.net
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? – What’s in your browser history?
- www.whattheinternetknowsaboutyou.com
CHIPMAKER CHIDED – Intel’s not been playing fair
- europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/09/400
- www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=20230
DARWIN DENIAL 2009 – More protesters against Darwin
- www.harunyahya.co.uk
- www.harunyahya.com/en.m_website_index.php
- www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/feb/10/religion-evolution
ROLE PLAY – Star in Hollywood films yourself
- www.yoostar.com
THE WAY WE WERE – BBC archives open up online
- www.bbc.co.uk/archive/collections.shtml
VLC UPDATE – Cross platform media player gets updated
- www.videolan.org
GOOGLE CAPTURES RECAPTCHA – Google buys Recaptcha
- recaptcha.net/learnmore.html
- googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-computers-to-read-google.html
- zikkir.com/science/2020
MIND READING TOOL – Advertisers predicting what you want to see
- www.revolutionmagazine.com/news/926586/New-ad-tool-read-mind-predict-future-sort-of
- www.openamplify.com
NOW AND FUTURE SEARCH – Twitter becoming a search engine
- mashable.com/2009/08/16/twitter-facebook-realtime-search
STUCK IN SECOND – Goggle takes second place in China
- www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1005/technology-baidu-robin-li-man-whos-beating-google.html
SEARCH ENGINE OF THE MONTH – A “personal” search engine
- www.zakta.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.