An exciting step for the show has happened!  You can now listen live every Saturday night at 8pm Eastern Standard Time via Skypecasts.  To listen live you need the newest version of Skype.  Currently Skypecast does not offer a static page for Skypecasts, therefore I cannot give you a solid link to the Skypecast page or a specific number to dial into.  For this reason, to join the Skypecast, go to https://skypecasts.skype.com and in the search box type Tech Stew.  Simply click “Join Now” when the Skypecast is going live.  You may want to check during the week to make sure it will still be at 8pm.  If something ever were to come up, I may change the time of the Skypecast.  With the addition of Skypecast, this will allow all of you listeners to give input during the show and to speak.  Hopefully that will add an exciting twist to the show.  If you have any problems, just shoot me an email and I’ll try to help.  Also, hopefully soon I’ll also be adding a live broadcast feed to the website so you can listen live with WMP, Winamp, or iTunes.  I’ll keep you posted!

Microsoft tech support gives an OK to piracy, Studies show surgeons that play video games have fewer errors than those that don’t, The new 7 wonders of the world, XM and Sirius to merge.

Flash Game of the Week: Pod Panic
Freeware App of the Week: Jodix iPod Video Converter

Woman shoots tailgater, Google Apps Premier launch, Google taking over the world with artificial intelligence (AI).

 Tech Stew #17 - Google Artificial Intelligence [17:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Welcome to the first live edition of Tech Stew.

Announcements, Nine Mac OS X patches released Thursday, Salmonella runs rampid through peanut butter, technical difficulties, take two of the peanut butter story.

Freeware App of the Week: PIXresizer
Flash Game of the Week: On The Run

The new way of sorting music by sorting sound waves, Sharp plans release of Blu-ray Disc recorder.

 Tech Stew #16 - Say Goodbye To Metadata [21:45m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Windows Vista discussion, Did Vista copy Mac OS X?, Vista security flaws, Blue Screen of Death on Vista, Romania president tells Bill Gates about how piracy benefited Romania’s technology, Mac OS X used over Vista description (Part 1) (Part 2).

Flash Game of the Week: Bowman 2
Freeware App of the Week: GMail Drive extension

Father is tricked into thinking Ubuntu is Vista, Introducing the iPhone Shuffle, Australian sells his life on Ebay.
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 Tech Stew #15 - Where's My Vista SP2? [21:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Emails, YouTube announces the share of revenue with users, Fox fights YouTube, Dressing rooms of the future.

Flash Game of the Week: Pacxon
Freeware App of the Week: KeePass Password Safe

Windows Vista comic

 Tech Stew #14 - Worthless Technology [19:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Voicemails, Windows Vista work update, How much we are dependent on news via the internet, Wi-Fi hijacking debate, Idiot thieves steal 14 GPS devices and get tracked instantly.

Freeware App of the Week: SpaceMonger
Flash Game of the Week: Mini-Putt

School rights discussion, Find Satoshi to validate the six degrees of separation.

 Tech Stew #13 - The Six Degrees of Separation [23:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Special Guest - Phil Jackson, Training Coordinator for theplanet.com

Introduction to Linux and how it came about, cygwin.com, learninglinux.com, distrowatch.com, kernel.org.

Flash game of the week: Curveball
Freeware app of the week: Avast! Antivirus

Macworld and iPhone discussion, Why the iPhone might fail, Dual boot your iPod with Linux, Alternative operating system for iPod.

 Tech Stew #12 - The World of Linux [43:44m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Alright, for all you fans that have been waiting for the studio pictures, they are here! As you all know, I’ve upgraded from my headset to a full fledged broadcast studio. I think I actually got the new equipment around episode 6, but I just got my mic arm a week or so ago. That can be my excuse for it being so long for the pictures. I finally got around to cleaning up all the wires that used to be scattered everywhere and straightening up all my new gear. There are a bunch more pictures under the photos tab, so check those out!

Special Guest - Brad Yoder

Tech Stew format update, Identity theft discussion, Check your credit, Quicken 2007 review, Free extended warranty you might not know about, Apple’s big plans for 2007, Turn your PC into a Mac with this, Hitachi’s affordable terabyte hard drive, Chinese lose 9,000 domain names, Microsoft gives away laptops to bloggers.

 Tech Stew #11 - Keeping Your Information Safe [31:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Episode 10: AllofMP3.com sued by RIAA for $1.65 trillion, Microsoft fixes Zune-Vista problem, Vista security flaws, Microsoft patents RSS, Apple release rumors, Facebook creator turns down $1.6 billion, How to rip a phone book in half, DIY air horn.

 Tech Stew #10 - What's Cookin' in the Apple Kitchen [37:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download