The panel for this edition includes:
Chuck Joiner – The MacVoices Group @chuckjoiner
Jeff Gamet – The Mac Observer
John F. Braun – Mac Geek Gab @johnfbraun @macgeekgab
Bart Busschots – www.bartb.ie @bbusschots
Topics Discussed:
- Apple Stock Price Swings – what’s behind them?
- Facebook buy Instagram for one biiiiiiiillion dollars:
- what are people worried about?
- was it worth a billion dollars?
- a discussion on the rights you give away and don’t when you upload content to social media services
- Tangent – social media: Facebook -v- Google+ -v- Twitter
- The new Security Reality
- time to re-assess your situation
- we discuss Apple’s schizophrenic attitude to security
- what can people do to protect themselves (ALWAYS patch, consider disabling Java & Flash, consider free AV, or even paid AV)
- free AV from ClamXav – (AVOID the crippled Mac App Store version)
- Little Snitch is another tool people may find useful for watching what their computer is at
Picks:
- John’s Pick – Cloak – Free VPN.
- Bart’s Pick – silly but addictive iPhone game – Worms Crazy Golf
- Jeff’s Pick – Paper for the iPad
- Chuck’s pick – Seagate GoFlex Slim Performance Drive
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
On social networking; I’ve spent more that the last decade in Yahoo! Groups and to me, that’s what google+ seems to be. Brilliant for separating you interests to specific groups. However, my network of friends and family lives on facebook and I use Twitter for mainly a read-only network for instant news and even my twitter account is separated into topical groups just saying. My wordpress blog is there so I don’t use facebook as a personal soapbox (as much). Therefore, I don’t necessarily want these services to merge or try to imitate each other. With all that said, what the Hell am I going to do when my iTools space goes away in June?!?!?!
Thanks guys!
Comment by Chris Moore — April 20, 2012 @ 1:58 pm