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Peter Greene's Top 10+ as announced on Monday 3/5/2012
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Next show is Monday - April 2, 2012
- DonorsChoose.org - an online charity service that connects you to classrooms that need [last week --> 7,884 donors helped 149,312 students].
- BISG.org - [Book Industry Study Group] is the leading U.S. book trade association for standardized best practices, research and education. Implemented BISAC (Book Industry Standards and Communications) - BISAC Subject Headings List, also known as the BISAC Subject Codes List, is used to standardize the electronic transfer of subject information between trading partners.
- Lulu.com - a book [including eBooks] publishing and book printing service.
- CustomerServiceScoreboard.com - a resource for customer service ratings for "top" [over 500 listed on frontpage] companies based upon user feedback.
- Fanhattan.com - [Fanhattan] is a starting point for entertainment discovery on the iPhone & IPad across Netflix, Hulu Plus, iTunes, Crackle, Lifetime, and PBS. It is a free Internet-enabled app (for the iPad & iPhone] trying to aggregate the Web's many scattered video sources into a single location.
- EuropeanMotorNews.com - motor news from Europe including auctions and technology news.
- AddThis.com - a large content sharing platform. It gives "you" a simple and easy way to share content across the social web, and also provides publishers with increased Web traffic and in-depth analytics.
- MealsMatter.org - promotes nutrient-rich food choices from all five food groups, and strives to equip family meal preparers with the tools and resources they need to make meal planning decisions that lead to better health.
- InvestorGuide.com - investor's resource overing the markets including stock quotes, research, personal finance and business news.
- Nanowerk.com - resource that covers nanotechnology and nanoscience. Includes a "Nanojobs" page and a searchable "nanoBASE" that lists unique nanomaterial in a database format with 2,810 nanoparticles from 178 suppliers.
- Windows 7 "God Mode Link" - easy access to changing your Windows 7 system setup.
- Google privacy policy effective 3-1-2012.
- Google's archive of privacy policies.
- Protecting Your Privacy Amid Google Policy Changes (NPR).
- Electronic Frontier Foundation - How to remove your google search history.
- Windows Defender Offline Beta [recently created by Microsoft] - download and then helps step you through the creation of a "clean sweep" tool to try and disinfect your Windows PC without it being connected to the Internet. Definitely worth knowing about just in case!
- answers.microsoft.com - searchable tech help resource for most - if not all of Microsoft's consumer products; you can search for answers but you need to sign in if you want to post a question or an answer. For example: Here is there explaination of how to: "How to Enable Volume Shadow Copy in windows 7". Also try their "Support" resource as well.
*** Below are last month's choices ****
- Kylo.tv - [Free] Web browser for computers connected to TV's that [obviously] have access to the Internet for TV content. Pretty easy to use Web browser designed for viewing TV type video content on your TV or Computer Monitor.
- Roku.com - is a device [no monthly fee but some content that is streamed does have fees such as Netflix and Hulu Plus] that connects your [broadband/high-speed] Internet to your TV to allow you to stream/download free and pay-for-content services for viewing on your TV. Device has built-in wireless (Wi-Fi b/g/n). Also visit for other devices and content subscription services: "Apple TV", "Crackle", "Hulu", "Netflix", "XBOX 360", "Playstation 3", "NFL GameDay", "NHL GameCenter", "MLB Live" and "ESPN3" and "Amazon's Prime".
- Boxee.tv - is a device that finds [broadband/high-speed] Internet streaming TV type content and puts them on your TV. Device costs but has no monthly fee [services such as Netflix and others will still cost via access fees].
- Attotech.com [ATTO Technology, Inc.] - storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments (in other words high performance storage devices or devices that work similar to hard drives but are much faster). They provide a free performance analysis program to test your products called "Disk Benchmark". Their Disk Benchmark is an industry-accepted tool that gauges storage system performance to identify both strengths and weaknesses. Disk Benchmark provides a variety of features controlled from a simple point-and-click interface with results displayed in an easy-to-view graphic format.]. Also visit another tech storage performance manufacturer called "OCZ Technology" and check out their RevoDrive products. And, did you know things like "Stripe Width and Stripe Size" while setting up a drive can make a difference in performance.
- BERTL.com [Business Equipment Research and Test Laboratories Inc., (BERTL)] - is an independent testing laboratory whose purpose is to provide objective, independent product evaluation reports and comparative analyses on imaging devices and software workflow solutions. BERTL prohibits any manufacturer-control over its product evaluations, and bases its opinions, ratings and awards on a combination of rigorous analysis and research.
- ShopWiki.com - they claim access to 162,000+ stores and 244,000,000+ products for internet shopping. If you have an online store you can your Website to be searched [crawled] by their search engine. "Froogle" is Google's tool for online shopping.
- MyFixItUpLife.com - a Do-It-Yourself home improvement resource to enjoy.
- MedicalNewsToday.com - timely health news gathered from well-regarded sources such as JAMA, BMJ, Lancet, BMA, plus their own articles; their archive contains 230,000+ news articles.
- API.org [American Petroleum Institute] - learn more about how we use Oil and Natural Gas natural resources, our supplies, future use and supply projections and topics such as Oil Sands, Oil Shale and more.
- CoPilot.com - remote support service via the Internet; let's you connect to their computer, see what they see, and control their mouse and keyboard to help.
- State of Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board - the official Web site; current elections recall info is "here".
- Windows Defender Offline Beta [recently created by Microsoft] - download and then helps step you through the creation of a "clean sweep" tool to try and disinfect your Windows PC without it being connected to the Internet. Definitely worth knowing about just in case!
- answers.microsoft.com - searchable tech help resource for most - if not all of Microsoft's consumer products; you can search for answers but you need to sign in if you want to post a question or an answer. For example: Here is there explaination of how to: "How to Enable Volume Shadow Copy in windows 7". Also try their "Support" resource as well.
 Peter's schedule for appearing as a guest on Larry Meiller's show can seen by clicking here.
You can listen to Peter on WPR (Wisconsin Public Radio) - 970AM WHA Radio in Madison, WI
monthly! It is broadcast live over the WPR radio network from the 7th floor of Vilas Hall, and is "Web casted" live via Real Audio - you'll need the "Real Audio player". The show is 90 minutes in length and covers the latest in PC computer technology
, the Internet and the World Wide Web; show is a question & answer format. I have supported Wisconsin Public Radio for 23 years with a monthly radio
show on computer technology. The show is produced by Jim Packard and hosted by Larry Meiller.
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