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In this episode we discuss…

Charlie Sheen (just for the Google hits)

What’s easier than HelpMeRick.com

How long can we go without talking about the iPad 2

Who will still be using Twitter in 2 years

Charlie Sheen deserves another mention

Twitter vs. Facebook – or does it matter?

How often should you clean out your Facebook friends?

WordPress 3.1 vs. Drupal

Answers to listener email

Discover TED.com

How much trouble should you go to just to save a few clicks

iPad 30 minutes into the show – everything you want to know about what we think of the iPad

Spyware and much more

Intro Music for this episode:

“Charlie” by Jesus du Dos from the Album Jesus du Dos

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http://www.helpmerick.com

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In this episode we…

Answer many many emails from listeners and fans of HelpMeRick.com

Discuss how to configure Outlook and Outlook Express

Explain how to download and configure AVG Free

Discuss why AVG Free is not as great as it used to be

Kinect hacks and sliced bread

Complaints about the standardization of education

Much much more

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articles

• Castellini on Computers 008 – Flynn is my user (talkingdigital.org)
• Castellini on Computers Episode 005 – Digital Sins and Foreign Emails (talkingdigital.org)
• Castellini on Computers – Episode 006 – The third world of America (talkingdigital.org)
• Do not open attachments from people YOU KNOW (helpmerick.com)
• Holiday Computer Madness (helpmerick.com)

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This is the first of two episodes of Castellini on Computers we will be posting in the next few days. All talkingDigital podcasts are first posted on the respective show’s blog a few days before we post them here in the master feed. This episode was from 10-07-10, but you can hear the episode we recorded today (10-20-10) over at HelpMeRick.com. Or you can wait a few days and we will post that episode here.

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This is the first post from my new iMac. After much searching, I found that the best deal on a Mac is to get one from Apple directly.

Here are a few tips on how to get the best deal. Read the rest of this entry →

This article from the Register contains a lot of jargon and techno-babble. In our reading between the lines, we interpret this article to mean that Microsoft is one step closer to creating their own version of MS Linux.

We (namely, Adam Cochran, the guy who does all the work at talkingDigital) have predicted that Microsoft’s next major overhaul of Windows (not Windows 7, 8 or 9 – but total rewrite of the OS) will be their own brand of Linux.

Every step Microsoft takes acknowledging Linux, the closer they come to accepting it. I hope they name it something cool like MSLinux, or Open Windows.

Here’s the lengthy article from the Register – we warned you about the technogobledygook.

Microsoft set for open source outpouring? • The Register.