For the show broadcast between July 5th and July 11th, 2008

This week Benjamin had an interview with Jeff from Eye-Fi, a company that makes wi-fi SD cards for cameras. This car will connect to Wi-Fi and send your pictures to the company’s servers and then along to you, giving you greater simplicity and convenience in your picture-snapping expeditions.  This was an amazing product, and there's more coming down the line from these fine folks.  Check them out on-line at http://www.eye.fi .

Benjamin also covered the popular topic of MP3 players. So many people have MP3 players these days because they are so convenient because of all of the music they hold in such a small physical space. But he in this case Benjamin was talking about the digital space in an MP3 player and how much people realistically need. In the end the amount of memory you need from your MP3 player really depends on how much music you want to be carrying around. On average, an MP3 player will hold 200 to 250 songs about 4 to 5 minutes long. So then he transferred this into the CD equivalent. If there are about 10 songs on each CD then you can fir 20 to 25 CD’s per gigabyte. So, most people can easily get away with a 1 GB player if they’re only looking to hold 200 or 300 songs. Here is a breakdown of common sizes for MP3 players.

• 1 GB: small assortment of songs for jogging and exercise

• 4 GB: Regular Podcast downloads
• 16+ GB: world traveler looking for variety
• 40+ GB: Club Disk Jockey with a limitless budget for music

Additionally, Benjamin talked about the manufacture of the “Green” Studio and covered the things that make it “Green.”  For instance, the floor looks like red brick tile but is actually 100% recycled tire rubber manufactured by US Rubber.  The lights are energy-efficient fluorescents that were slated as “blems” and thrown into the dumpster because of a scratch on the top of each one where they couldn’t even be seen because the lights were recessed into the ceiling.  Further, all five doors were saved from a mall store that was remodeling and had no use for them any more.  According to the studio owner, this is probably the first ever “Green” studio, and nobody has informed them of a studio with more "green features" than this one. 

 Another thing that Benjamin covered is IT workers and the disturbingly large number of them that pry into personal business using top-level admin passwords. One-third of IT administrators who took part in the survey admitted to using their passwords to sneak into confidential information or admitted that they know someone who has. Half of the IT administrators said they had used their passwords to gain access to information that wasn’t relevant to their job. Additionally, out of these IT administrators, more than half of them said they work for companies with more than 1,000 employees.

 Additionally, Benjamin covered increasing security for folders on a computer that you share with someone else.

1.      You can set the folder to private if you have a password for your account on the computer by right-clicking the folder, going to properties, going to the “sharing” tab, and clicking “make private.” If you do not have a password then the computer will prompt you to make one in order to make the file private.

2.      If the file is zipped then you can assign a password to un-zip it. Double-click on the folder. In the top menu select “File” and then select “add a password.” Type in your password and then type it again in the “Confirm Password” field. Click “OK.” The file is now private.

Benjamin also spoke on the touchy subject of child pornography, and what efforts are being made against this insidious crime. Verizon, Sprint, and Time Warner Cable have entered into agreements with officials from the state of New York to block child pornography from their servers. Additionally, the companies will pay over $1 million to fund more efforts to remove child porn from the internet altogether. Last year similar New York officials made agreements with MySpace and Facebook to toughen prosecutions against child pornographers.

 On a slightly lighter topic, Benjamin spoke on the futuristic-sounding internet-connected coffee pot. New coffee pots have been made that connect to the internet to allow you to begin making your coffee from a distance. Unfortunately, there are many security holes in the internet for this product, which may give hackers the ability to ruin your mornings by disabling your coffee maker or by burning down your house via an internet-connected oven.

Benjamin also covered  a study from McAfee levels of malware in different regions. Websites in different countries and sometimes cities have different levels of chances of containing malware that you may accidentally download. The list of dangerous domains is as follows:

• Hong Kong, .hk;  China, .cn;  The Philippines, .ph;  Romania, ro;  Russia, ru

The domains reported the safest are:

• Finaland, .fi;  Japan, .jp;  Norway, .no;  Slovenia, .si;  Columbia, .co

Additionally, McAfee’s report showed that the chances of accidentally downloading malware, adware, and viruses while on the web increased 41.5% from 2006 to 2007.

Benjamin also answered questions from e-mails he had gotten. Bobby asked how to change his C: drive from three partitions into one partition, which he is able to do with a program called Partition Commander. Frederick asked if E-mail addresses are case-sensitive, and Benjamin informed him that they are not.

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