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WotW – HubbleSite.org

Website of the Week – HubbleSite.org The Hubble Space Telescope has provided astounding images of space since it was launched in 1990.  Even in it’s early years, when they found a mistake in the glass, they still gained amazing pictures of far off galaxies.  Today, the telescope constantly kicks out colorful images of what we could never hope to see with the human eye within our lifetime.  HubbleSite.org is devoted to keeping...

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Show notes for 2011-11-26

Computer Talk Radio weekly broadcast for the week starting November 26th, 2011. Benjamin Rockwell opened with news regarding Chattanooga, TN’s Gigabit internet speeds, a baker mad at themselves over their Groupon mistake, the Nook tablet tear down, and the development of a lie detector for the Internet. Benjamin then moved into some of the nasty things that retailers did for Black Friday to separate you from your money. Benny...

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WotW – Epicurious

Website Of The Week – Epicurious.com Ahh, the time of the year when we are scrambling to put the turkey in the oven, make stuffing and cornbread, cook the corn, squash, and sweet potatoes.  And did we forget pumpkin pie?  Never!  But so many of us are not sure how to handle these things.  Grandma and Grandpa used to do the cooking, but with families becoming more separated, the passing along of information from one generation to...

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Show notes for 2011-11-19

Computer Talk Radio weekly broadcast for the week starting November 25th, 2011. Benjamin opens up as always with the computer and technology news of the week, including updates on the reviews of the Kindle Fire, Pentagon decisions regarding cyber attacks, the top 25 passwords (shame on those using them!), and the Stop Online Piracy Act. Benjamin then gave Black Friday / Cyber Monday tips, secrets, and information on getting better deals. ...

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WotW – Wayback Machine

Website Of The Week – Archive.org The Internet Archive, through the Wayback Machine, delivers you to a time when the web was a lot less of a web.  Archive.org has spent a large portion of time, crawling the internet (technically, as well as figuratively), to keep track of the information as it used to be.  One can easily look at their favorite website from 15 years ago, and see how it progressed.  Yahoo.com did not always look the...

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