This discussion provides the migration workflows for the five most common GIS data formats (tables, shapefiles, coverages, CAD data, and imagery) to the geodatabase. It is recommended that you are familiar with the geodatabase and basic geodatabase concepts. Users new to the geodatabase can learn more by listening to the Instructional Series Podcast episodes “An Overview of the Geodatabase and Five Reasons Why You Should Use It” and “Types of Geodatabases at ArcGIS 9.2.” Both can be found at . Less

This discussion provides the migration workflows for the five most common GIS data formats (tables, shapefiles, coverages, CAD data, and imagery) to the geodatabase. It is recommended that you are familiar with the geodatabase and basic geodatabase concepts. Users new to the geodatabase can learn more by listening to the Instructional Series Podcast episodes “An Overview of the Geodatabase and Five Reasons Why You Should Use It” and “Types of Geodatabases at ArcGIS 9.2.” Both can be found at . Less

Host: John Grinde iPhone 3G sales through the roof, another security hole, BlackBerry Media Sync for Mac, new event on October 14, another rumor, and VSBT forced to change the Apple-like logo. iPhone grabs top smart phone spot 30 percent of iPhone 3G buyers dump existing carriers iPhone 3G now the second best-selling US mobile handset Another iPhone security bug is related to Emergency Call BlackBerry Media Sync for Mac Apple "notebook" event is on, October 14th! Apple to release networked HDTVs Victoria school forced to change apple logo Links to stories are at http://delicious.com/techradio/ba0020 Theme music for TechRadio is Demon Seed by Nine Inch Nails. Running time: 12:26 Direct Download: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/blip.tv/file/get/Podcasts-BA0020H467.mp3 Less

This week we present an interview with Balticon 42 Art Guest of Honor, John Jude Palencar. Mr. Palencar is a world famous artist and illustrator who has been winning awards for his distinctive style of art for over two decades. He is known mostly for his book covers, which have appeared on hundreds of books [...] Less

If you’re a news junkie and you need your fix, or if you just want to see what’s going around the world from the perspective of local or national newspapers then you’ve come to the right place.  We’ll take a look at a few sites that help you get the info you need. The podcast is available through iTunes so don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast if you have an iPod, or in another podcatcher if you have a different MP3 player. Online Newspapers Newspapers.com Press Display .muo_af_style { background-color: #CCC; border: 3px dashed #999; } (By) Jason Mayoff is a dad, a tech geek and a Canadian radio broadcaster (CJAD 800). You can also find Jason at his brand new website, Tech Screencasts. New subscriber? Get your freebies at MakeUseOf Downloads. Enjoy! Tags:news, newspapers, Podcast Related posts Welcome to the MakeUseOf.com Podcast #1 (19) Ways to Stay on Top of The News (6) Watch Television on your Desktop with Livestation (8) Tools, Apps and Bots to Improve your Twitter Experience (19) The only TV and Movie Websites you Need (21) Less

BartlebyScrivener writes "A New York Times Op-Ed quoting Freeman and George Dyson wonders if Wall Street geeks and 'quants' outsmarted themselves with computer algorithms to create the current financial debacle: 'Somehow the genius quants — the best and brightest geeks Wall Street firms could buy — fed $1 trillion in subprime mortgage debt into their supercomputers, added some derivatives, massaged the arrangements with computer algorithms and — poof! — created $62 trillion in imaginary wealth. It's not much of a stretch to imagine that all of that imaginary wealth is locked up somewhere inside the computers, and that we humans, led by the silverback males of the financial world, Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson, are frantically beseeching the monolith for answers.'" The quoted essay from George Dyson is available at Edge. Less

After the FCC's tests mentioned early last month, andy1307 submits word of the FCC's report (released Friday), writing that "the major telcos disagree with the FCC's report that concluded that using white spaces to provide free wireless internet 'would not cause major interference with other services. ... The FCC concluded that sufficient technical protections would prevent major problems.' FCC chairman Kevin Martin's proposal is to auction off the spectrum, with some rules attached. 'Some of the spectrum would be used for free Internet service, which would have content filters to block material considered inappropriate for children.'" Less

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I’ve mentioned ping.fm many times as a wonderful tool to keep your friends up-to-date with what you’re doing. The last thing you want to do is update your status on several networks. Instead, you can use ping.fm to update them all at once. That’s fine for text status updates, but what about photos? What happens when you need to upload one photo to multiple places? Why not use Pixelpipe. Simply create a login, and add your pipes. Liberate your media with Pixelpipe and get your content out to your favorite social network, photo/video and blog service. We support popular destinations and provide a number of applications to free your media from your desktop and mobile. Why choose one when you can send your media through Pixelpipe and have it delivered to so many at the same time? Just continue to create your free account and join the liberation. I have added 37 different destinations that I have loaded now, all places where I might upload photos. I can’t even believe I have that many! I took a picture with my iPhone, and then used Pixelpipe to upload it to all of those sites that I chose. As I upload, I can caption/title the photo if I want, as well. You can also set a list of default keywords, and/or add others as needed. Within a matter of seconds, my image was pushed out to Pixelpipe and then thrown onto my accounts all all of those sites I have set. How cool is that? I mean, seriously. I upload photos all the time, sometimes several a day. And invariably, I always need to put them in many more than just one place. This makes it so much easier. If I were to read all the sites my photo was sent to, it would take me longer than what it did for Pixelpipe to sneeze it out to them. For free, it’s doing a better job than any other service like it I’ve seen. I will continue to add other photo services through Pixelpipe, and hopefully they’ll continue to improve and upgrade their service. Landscape Photography 101 Videos & Manual. Digital Photography Secrets. Digital Photography Success. Want to embed this video on your own site, blog, or forum? Use this code or download the video: <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ito0A8pfe60"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ito0A8pfe60" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://chris.pirillo.com/">Chris</a> | <a href="http://live.pirillo.com/">Live Tech Support</a> | <a href="http://media.pirillo.com/">Video Help</a> | <a href="http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirilloShow">Add to iTunes</a> Where Do You Search for Stock Photography Images? Who Needs Photoshop?! Do You Pronounce it GIF (Giraffe) or GIF (Graphic)? Do you Embed my Videos or Pictures? Christmas Wallpaper The Politics of Security New Flickr Photo Header Flickr Fun Gnomedex Site Redesign Join the Geeks Community How and Where do You Post Your Digital Photos Online? Less

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Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I don’t think that I’ve heard heard anyone say “dang… I have too much capacity on my Flash drive”. You can never have too much space in my opinion. About a year ago I bought a 2GB Flash drive. What’s the highest capacity USB drive you have owned? Most of our chatters indicated that they own about a 2GB. I happen to have a 32GB Corsair Flash drive in my hot little hands. After the rebate, it was only $30.00. Of course, I found a coupon to help. As time passes, flash drives get cheaper and cheaper, and even as we speak, prices are ridiculous, but they keep going down. When I say “ridiculous,” I think about those days, not so long ago, when a 128Mb USB drive was worth a little fortune. Now, for that price, you can get a 8GB drive, and also get drunk. Anyway, instead of getting drunk, maybe you could also consider buying a…32GB drive? The Corsair Flash Voyager family of USB drives are rugged, stylish, compact, and reliable, making them ideal for transporting MP3s, digital images, presentations and more. Flash Voyager drives are fully Plug and Play with most operating systems and are backward compatible with USB 1.1. The Corsair Flash Voyager family is comprised of two outstanding products. The Flash Voyager GT is designed from the ground up for speed, optimizing transfer rates of both reads and writes, while Flash Voyager provides a durable USB drive in large capacities. The Flash Voyager and Flash Voyager GT are enclosed in the Corsair proprietary all-rubber housing. Boasting water-resistant properties, these drives allow users to carry more valuable data and applications without compromise. Several reviews of the Flash Voyager products have demonstrated the ruggedness, durability, and reliability of the Flash Voyager family. The Flash Voyager has been shown laundered, baked, frozen, boiled, dropped, and even run over by a SUV in many third party reviews. After all the punishment it receives, the drive continues to work. If you don’t like the U3 software, you can download the uninstaller from their website. I have about 9GB of apps on my Mac. I think I may keep these on this drive, so I can use them on other machines without having to download or install. I’ve always been happy enough with Corsair to spend the money and try it out. It was well worth what I spent, for sure. Survey Storage - Online Surveys Database. Featured On Entrepreneur Magazine Radio. Free Password Storage. Want to embed this video on your own site, blog, or forum? Use this code or download the video: <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-R9wPxRchGw"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-R9wPxRchGw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://chris.pirillo.com/">Chris</a> | <a href="http://live.pirillo.com/">Live Tech Support</a> | <a href="http://media.pirillo.com/">Video Help</a> | <a href="http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirilloShow">Add to iTunes</a> Do You Want to Remove USB Flash Drive Software? What’s Cheaper than a Gallon of Gas? The Fastest Flash Drive Vista ReadyBoost Join the Geeks Community What’s the Best USB Flash Drive to Buy? Less

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Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Is it just me, or is GTA IV like the most awesome game ever?! I don’t know, I’ve never played GTA to be honest. Grand Theft Auto is just not my thing. I have a top five list though, from someone who was also disappointed with GTA. He waited anxiously for the release of GTA IV, purchased it, and spent the night in Heaven playing it. He now regrets buying it instead of renting it first. Here are his reasons to not buy the game: From the second he started playing, he noticed the weird camera angles. Running and walking is very slow. The camera won’t stay directly behind him, so you have to re-adjust constantly. GTA IV received way too much hype over online play. Firsly, the maps are way too big for the number of people trying to play in a game. It’s hard to find anyone, and there are a limited number of cars in too large of an area. The auto-aim system needs to be revamped. It’s nearly impossible to switch from one enemy to another. There’s almost no free aim. When you aim with any weapon, it automatically aims at the nearest person. This makes things all the more frustrating. There’s one thing that is consistent, the missions. It doesn’t matter whether you’re playing a mission full of explosives or killing a family of Italians. There’s no variety. Each mission is the same. There’s no originality in the missions, like in past games. There is a serious lack of things to do. The city is the largest, but there isn’t much there. Bars and strip clubs get old after awhile. There’s a limited number of buildings you can enter. There’s no shops, restraunts or theaters. I don’t understand why the company would spend so much time building a beautiful game, yet limit us on what we can do. The reason why I pointed this out was not because I’ve played GTA, but because this is a very well laid-out list. I don’t complain about something unless I really care. When you hear me complain, then you know I care because there is passion behind my complaints. The person who sent this list truly cares. It’s a very well constructed bit of criticism. I’m curious to hear your opinions on the entire GTA series, and specifically your thoughts on GTA IV as compared to the rest. Sd Specialist - Surveillance Detection. Want to embed this video on your own site, blog, or forum? Use this code or download the video: <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tT0WzoFbU1Y"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tT0WzoFbU1Y" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://chris.pirillo.com/">Chris</a> | <a href="http://live.pirillo.com/">Live Tech Support</a> | <a href="http://media.pirillo.com/">Video Help</a> | <a href="http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirilloShow">Add to iTunes</a> Random Posts An Easier Way to Upload Files 10000th YouTube Subscriber Webcam Giveaway Easiest $180 I Ever Made How to Switch Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, OS X The Business of Software, Blogs and the Political Machine Free Webcam Giveaway! Is your Avatar a Gravatar? Is VNC on the iPhone Worth Using? InkJet Printer Help Jason Goldberg of Jobster on Career Searching Join the Geeks Community Is GTA IV the Best or Worst of the Grand Theft Auto Series? Less

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Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed When I was preparing to do a video on classic gaming, I wondered where I could send all of you to play high quality games. I then remembered a site that has tons of classic games, along with media fun. On Neave, you’ll find things to keep you entertained for days on end. There are a tons of different things you can try out: Flash Earth - Zoom into Earth using Satellite imagry from NASA, Google Earth, and more. Planetarium - Gaze at stars through your browser using Flash imagry. Games - Lose yourself playing games like Simon, Space Invaders, Tic-Tac-Toe and more. Imagination - Play with wobbly lines, and create your own design. Fractal - Recursive Math? Computer-generated art? Either way, they’re pretty. You get the idea. Those are only some of what you’ll find over on Neave. The coolest part is that with the games and such, you can embed them on your own website. Paul Neave, you rule. I mean that sincerely. Sit-N-Go Pro - # 1 Gaming And Poker Product On CB! How To Beat The Online Casinos. Create Unforgettable Characters For Your Fiction. Want to embed this video on your own site, blog, or forum? Use this code or download the video: <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZTO7jV8DNfc"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZTO7jV8DNfc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://chris.pirillo.com/">Chris</a> | <a href="http://live.pirillo.com/">Live Tech Support</a> | <a href="http://media.pirillo.com/">Video Help</a> | <a href="http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirilloShow">Add to iTunes</a> Do You Want Some 3D Astronomy Software? What is the Best iPhone Astronomy App? Does Flash Encoding Slow Down the Computer? Microsoft’s Free Astronomy Software Register or Name Your Own Star for Free Tips for Using Adobe Flash Buy USB Flash Drives Chumby Widget Become a Browser Music DJ in a Flash! Creating Flash Files for Free Join the Geeks Community Where Do You Go for a Bit of Web Fun? Less

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Nearly a decade ago, I was on the cutting edge with a web cam. I didn’t even have broadband back then, but I had a semi-live web cam. People would watch it and save images from it. I received an email question, asking if I knew of something that would work to help him do surveillance with his computer and web cam. He’s using a Mac, and asked specifically for a Mac application. However, for you Windows users, you can check out webcamXP. webcamXP is a powerful webcams and ip cameras management and streaming software for private and professional use. it offers unique features and unequaled ease of use to let you broadcast and manage multiple video sources on the same computer. it is the perfect tool to secure your goods. For the Mac, I use Periscope. Periscope is the next generation of web cam software that lets you use your iSight to capture activity in front of your Mac’s camera and then save or share that image simply and automatically. Within seconds, you can configure Periscope to monitor a room for motion, sound or on a timer. Periscope will send real-time images to your e-mail, .Mac web page, or FTP site, and can upload to Flickr! The configurationg of Periscope is simple. You can set it up on air, and then make the configuration selections that are right for you. Choose how and when it captures photos, and decide if you want to add timestamps or text overlays. Then you can choose from a variety of places to publish the photos, including iPhoto or your .mac account. Periscope has the potential to be just right for your home surveillance needs. It’s only $25.00, and works very well. It doesn’t record video, but it is quite full-featured otherwise. The images from this are high quality, as well. Whatever you’re doing, Periscope is fun and functional. Sd Specialist - Surveillance Detection. Want to embed this video on your own site, blog, or forum? Use this code or download the video: <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yqj6FRY_qUM"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yqj6FRY_qUM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://chris.pirillo.com/">Chris</a> | <a href="http://live.pirillo.com/">Live Tech Support</a> | <a href="http://media.pirillo.com/">Video Help</a> | <a href="http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirilloShow">Add to iTunes</a> What Do You Do to Keep Your Home Secure? Home Security and Electronics Join the Geeks Community What Kind of Home Security Do You Have? Less

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Many ecommerce merchants run pay-per-click ad campaigns on the major search engines. But Jason Prescott, CEO of Toptenwholesale.com, argues that merchants can obtain a higher return-on-investment by advertising on specialized virtual search engines. He discuss this with Practical eCommerce's Kerry Murdock. Less

Iddo Genuth writes "The Netherlands based company Shapeways is beta testing a new service allowing people to print three-dimensional models. Customers can upload designs or use a creation tool hosted at the Shapeways website, then order a printed model of their designs for less than $3 per square centimeter. The printed items are shipped to the customer in ten days or less, bringing 3D printing to consumers and not just companies large enough to afford their own printers." Less

Climate Savers Computing Initiative is a nonprofit group of consumers, businesses and conservation organizations who hope to promote development, deployment and adoption of technologies that improve the efficiency and reduce the energy consumed by computers. Erik Teetzel from Google will join the Geeks to talk about the amount of energy that will be saved, and the design and implementation of the technology that Climate Savers is recommending. MP3 of Show Less