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The
first 6 months of Computer Corner were on
Wednesday Evenings, with.the First Show on Oct
6th, 2004. Links are made to most of the MP3s of
the past shows right from this page. Simply click
on the underlined date. The first 14 shows are on
line at www.5dnet.com - go to the link at the bottom. You will need to get a username and
password from me to access them. Just ask!! I will
eventually bring these links over after all the
others have been added. Most of the early shows
were recorded in segments with the commercials
removed. All shows except 23, 24, 25, 28, 31, and
36 are now available.
Oct
6th, 2004 Spyware First
caller: Jeff from West Chester received a free CD with
Spybot S & D.
Oct
13th Backing Up and Saving Your Data
- Listeners learned the difference between data, drivers,
programs, and the operating system. They also learned
about some good backup devices.
Oct
20th Computer Security and Viruses:
Special Guest & Security Expert: Joe Myshko. Joe
Myshko has actually chased after notorious computer
criminals.
Oct
27th Wireless Computer Security:
Special Guest Expert: Troy Sorzano from Net Forcement.
Nov
3rd The Internet. How it works
& what are the different ways to connect: Special
Guest: Rich Goldberg, owner of Bee Net
Nov
10th VO/IP (Voice over IP)
Nov
17th Selecting your next computer.
Should you Build One?
Nov 24th The
"Turkey Bowl" football game prempted our show. The
Game is a tradition on Thanksgiving Eve here on
1420 WCOJ.
Dec 1st Printers. (Show 8) All about
inkjet and the new color laser printers.
Should you refill your ink cartridges?
Dec 8th Digital photography. Joe
Hubler will again be our specialist since video is
one of his vocations.
Dec 15 TIVO, Replay, or a Computer
to record your Favorite TV Programs. Also, How
to record your favorite WCOJ radio show - use a
VCR with it programmed with the correct time and
the audio from your radio plugged into the AV
audio input of the VCR.
Dec 22 Electronic Computer Toys and Gadgets
for your computer. We will tell you our
pick for the best computer. Your questions are
always welcome and we plan to also give you some
up to date Virus - Trojan - Spyware
information.
Dec 29 Help for your new computer.
How to hook it up properly, what to expect when
you turn it on, some of the first things you need
to do. Where to dispose of
your old computer.
2005
Jan 5 Web Page Hosting - (Show 13)
Featuring Rich Witkowski, owner of JSWD: Learn how
to put up a business or personal web site with
your own Domain Name. Every business and
organization should have a web page, whether you
use it for just more information to potential
customers or use it for e-commerce. You may be
surprised how inexpensive it is. JSWD is a
marketing partner of WCOJ's. Check out
www.jswd.com for more information.
Jan 12 Creating Web Pages (for
beginners)
Jan 19 Digital Music including MIDI,
MP3, and other audio formats. Special Guest Ken
Miller
Jan
26 Linux - Special Guest:
President of Mandrakeworks Dianne
Ursini
Feb 2 Computer Viruses: Special
guest, Christopher Faulkner, President of
C I
Host, a Managed Web
page hosting and co-location solutions provider
serving 215,000 individual consumers and companies
in 190 countries worldwide
Feb 9 Totally Misc: Joe and I will
come prepared with about 50 items to talk about
concerning computers (Show 18)
Feb 16
EBAY - Learn How To Use
EBAY and How It Works - Special Guest Bill
Haggerty
Feb 23
Tonight: We were preempted by
a basketball game at Oxford, so the show was
cancelled. The programming will be
rescheduled.
March 2
CCIL Chester County
Interlink - Ed Callahan, President. CCIL, a
501C3 Non-Profit and a free Internet service to
Chester County Senior Citizens.
March 9
Bugs, Threats, Terrorism,
Spyware, Crashes:
March 16
More about Threats, Terrorism,
Spyware, and Viruses: Joe Mysko rejoins us as our
special guest and security expert. Last weeks show
was so spectacular and my visitors to the store
and and the emails are requesting more.
March 23 We
struck a nerve! Listeners still want more and Joe
Mysko is willing to come back again. More
information about Threats,
Terrorism, Spyware, and Viruses. Joe goes
so far to say that these terrorists and even
American companies that plant spyware in your
computer are stealing from you. They are using
your hard drive space, clock cycles, and stealing
your bandwidth. Learn how you might fight
back.
March 30 Show
#24 Windows: How it
works, why it breaks, how to fix it, and should
Microsoft be allowed to sell a defective product?
Starting April 9th,
2005 The show moved to Saturday Mornings
April 9th (Show
#25) Malware
updates
April 16
Understanding Your Computer
Files and Data, and What to Back up and How
to Do It.
April 23
Building Your Own
Computer
April 30 The Internet - How It Works,
and Why It Breaks Occassionally
May 7 (Show
#29) Wireless and Your
Internet Connection - War
Driving
May 14
VoIP (Voice over
Internet Protocol)
May 21 Web Pages: Creating a
Personal Web Page and How and Where to Put
It.
May 28
"Pool Party" A special show
with all kinds of information and News
discussions.
June 4
(Show #33) Security:
How to Protect Your Computer and Why the
Infections Keep on Getting to you and Faster: Joe
Myshko - Special Guest and Security Expert
June 11
Computer
Photography
June 18
Spyware and Your Infected
Computer - You Didn't Take All the
Precautions, so now what?
June 25 Should Microsoft Be Allowed to Sell
You Defective Software? (one of our best
shows but the tape machine jammed and the show
didn't get recorded)
July 2 (Show # 37) Networking: How it works, how
to set it up, and what goes wrong
July 9
Computer Gaming:
Software & Hardware Issues
July 16
Wireless and Spyware
Issues
July 23
Malware: Security,
Trojans, and Spyware - Special Guest: Joe Myshko
is back again
July 30 Featuring Gene's Sidekick: Joe Hubler
as Host :Pointers on speeding up older computers
(Gene is on Vacation this week) Joe will also take
your calls for any other help.
Aug 6 Customer
Questions from Gene's phone, answering machine,
and walk-ins (Although Gene and Joe have
pre-recorded this show, it is fresh
material).
Aug 13 Back
to School Computers: The deals and What to Get.
Also 2nd Hand Computers. Special Guest: Louis
Keser from Second Source Computers in West
Chester
Aug 20 BPL (Broadband Over Power Line) Another
option to broadband that will polute the radio
waves
Aug 27
Removing Infections Also, why you keep getting
infections
Sept 3 More
questions answered from customers, from my phone
and in store collection
Sept 10
Linux with special guest Bill Mosko from
TAFusion.com
Sept 17
Evolving Technologys: Serial ATA, SATA-2,
10,000rpm, BTX, Dual Core, Water Cooled Systems
(some new systems are just so hot), EFI (the
replacement for the BIOS), PCI Express,
Vista
Sept 24
Search Engines
Oct 1 First
Anniversary: Show # 50 Special guest: JOe Myshko,
security expert, and Rich Goldberg of BeeNet.
Those Nasty Infections Just Won't Go Away -
Update.
Oct 8 Home
automation: X-10,
Digital Home, and More
Oct 15
Internet Maps and GPS
Oct 22
Tele-Computing, Remote Access ( and who is doing
what to your computer?)
Oct 29
Software Licensing
Nov 5
Malware with special guest Joe Myshko, security
consultant
Nov 12
Backing up you files
Nov 19 EPC
(The Entertainment PC) What it is, what it is for,
can you build one, and should you have
one?
Nov 26
Electronic Toys, Gadgets, and Computer Related
Holiday Gifts - We have the latest computer news
and will also discuss some security issues. (first
20 minutes of show not recorded)
Dec 3
Malware (it's Never ending)
Dec 10
Double-Header (1) A computer on every students
desk, even elementary school (2) More Malware:
important developements that can't wait
Dec 17 Hard
Drives - How they work and what's
inside
Dec
24 Our Christmas Show with Santa Claus (he
will be calling in) ALSO: Installing Software
& Hardware in your Computer
Dec
31 Year end summary -Joe Myshko joined us last
minute and we had loads of good information. Joe
Hubler was recovering from a customer who didn't
back up their hard drive. An Encore presentation
of this show ran Sunday at
1220PM
2006
Jan
7 Malware Updates
Jan
14 Computer Diagnostics: When your computer
fails
Jan
21 For Beginners
Jan
28 Freeware and Shareware
Feb
4 Malware
Feb
11 Heat and Your
Computer
Feb
18 Caring for Your
Computer
Feb
25 Computer Sound, with some new
angles
March
4 Security Updates - New Trojans threaten
on-line banking by transferring your money while
you are logged in. Special Guest: Joe Myshko,
Independant Security Consultant will be with us.
Joe has chased the most notorious including Kevin
Mitnick who broke into our government's most
secure systems and stole top secret information,
landing him in Federal prison without access to
even a phone for his 5 years served because the
government was afraid of
him.
March
11 Personal Web Pages
March
18 Questions and Answers from a growing list.
Email us with any question that's nagging
you. March
25 Graphics - We want to know what video
card you have in your computer. Find out and give
us a call on this show. Usually, you see a message
when your computer boots up. Your documentation
should also tell you.
April
1 Malware- It is getting worse?
April
8th Windows Utilities: What they are and how
to use them, and more
April
15 Your questions answered from calls
and emails and our list. Prize for the best
question called in. Dave from
Coatesville wins for the best question.
Joanne gets second place.
April 22 More questions
answered. Give us a call or email your question.
(One of our best shows and the recorder was
recording another show).
April
29 Still More questions answered. Give us a
call or email your question. Last weeks show was
one of the best with a record number of callers.
Its like the topic keeps changing every few
minutes.
May
6th Security - ID Theft: How its done from the
INternet and how to prevent it. - Special
Guest Troy Sorzano from Netforcement
May
13 Installing Software Upgrades - OS &
Programs and answers to your emails and phone
calls
May
20 Drivers plus your questions
answered.
May
27 The need for speed. Your Computer and the
Internet.
June
3rd Computer Security
June
10 Special Printers
June
17 Satellite Internet Service
June
24 Flash Memory (by Joe)
July
1 Security including "MoviePass"
July
8 The Internet On The Road as you travel
or go on vacation: WIFI, EVDO, Webmail,
Blackberry, and other methods
July
15 Failed Software Installations
July
22 RAID (Special Hard Drive Controllers)
July
29 Video Editing Joe Hubler, Host and expert
Aug
5 Joe's "What Bugs You about Computers and
Windows?"
Aug
12 Security - and Gene's "What Bugs Me about
Windows"
Aug
19 Email: How it works and what can go wrong.
Backing Up Your address book and
email. We didn't get too far with all the
calls so we will try to make this up next week.
Aug
26 Let's Finish up the Email topic and then go
onto Uninteruptable Power Supplies,dirty
power, and protecting Windows from power
glitches. Also 3 minute interveiw with Congressman
Curt Weldon.
Sept
2 Security Tips for Students going back
to school. Also, you can expect Windows to
un-activate and stop running because of a
Microsoft problem. Listen in for the details.
Sept
9 Recording a CD or DVD, including Nero &
Easy CD Creator
Sept
16 Music Downloading - Is it illegal?
Sept
23 Questions and Answers - a new list
Sept
30 More Questions and Answers
Oct
7 Computer Security - Our
Birthday, Celebrating our 2nd full year -
Open house at Gene's Computer 10AM-Noon
Oct
14 More Questions and answers
Oct
21 Mini Topics: OCR, Blue Tooth,
Lightscribe, etc
Oct
28 Questions from the Boy Scouts at the
Camporee and JoTA (Jamboree on the Air)
Nov
4 Security - Specifically: Social Engineering
with Joe Myshko, security expert in the studio
Nov
11 More Mini-Topics
Nov
18 More Mini-Topics including Posture and "Is
Core 2 Duo worth it?"
Nov
25th Mini Topics: WIFI Troubles, Compression,
DVD, Selecting a New Computer, LCD vs CRT
Dec
2 Security: Why you will still have trouble
Dec
9 Christmas and Holiday Gift Ideas including a
special interview.
Dec
16 Windows VISTA: 25 reasons why you might
want it and 25 reasons you might not want it. Also
learn why Vista Locks Users inand how it will
change everything
Dec
23 Holiday Party - We have a gift for you.
Everything You Need to Know about the Care of Your
Computer
Dec
30 Continuing Last Weeks List and then Year
end Roundup - Live!
2007
Jan
6th: Security including Wireless and
BlueTooth
Jan
13: Mini-topics
Jan
20: More Mini-topics
Jan
27 More Mini-topics
Feb
3 Security
Feb
10 Windows VISTA
Feb
17 More Mini-Topics
Feb
24 More Mini-Topics
March
3 Security - New Shocking Information about
Infections that you can't get rid of, even by
reformatting your hard drive
March
10 More Mini-Topics including New Technology
for Monitors, Soft Power Switches, About Windows
Updates
March
17 More Mini-Topics
March
24 Special topics and lots of customer
troubles
March
31 More Mini-Topics
April
7th Security - Firewalls - Special Guest, Joe
Myshko, Security Consultant
April
14th More Mini Topics and lots of interesting
news and even a security alert
April
21th More Mini-topics including Wireless
problems, Computers that keep getting infected,
and Computers in the Workplace
If the link is not highlighted, you
may still be able to download the MP3 file by
knowing the secret. The MP3s are at www.5dnet.com/radio/cc042807.mp3
Simply substitute the correct date.
April 28th Mini-topics
May 5th Security
May 12th Computer Hoaxes
May 19th Mini-topics: SATA Hard
drive trouble, Grey Market
May 26th More Mini-topics: 3rd party
Registry Repair Tools and System Restore
June 2: Security
June 9 Software and Music Licensing
June 16 Father's Day Gifts and Your new
"Computer Instruction Book" Every thing that
should be in there.
June 23 More Mini-Topics including Bandwidth,
Multi-media PCs, Driving while computing, Hard
drives
June 30
July 7 Security - Special Guest - Joe Myshko
July 14 Linux
July 21 Mini-topics
July 28 Email: 8 Mistakes that make you look
bad and Tips to make you look good
August 4th Security - (prerecorded show didn't
air while Gene was on Vacation)
August 11
Mini-series produced by Joe Hubler (speeding
up your computer)
August 18
More Mini-series produced by Joe Hubler (more
speeding up your computer)
August 25
More Mini-series produced by Joe Hubler
Sept 1 Security - After 20 minutes of dead air
caused by a computer problem, the recorded show
started at 830 and ran to 906AM The complete show
can be downloaded in 3 segments www.5dnet.com/radio/cc090107a.mp3
and substitute a b and c for the second and third
segment
Sept 8th
The show will be in depth computer news
and discussions on that news and if we have time,
some more of Gene's topics.
Sept
15 Computers & IRS audit, HDTV
channels, Monster's Trojan, IPV6, Wired's Wiretap
story, Social Networking Overload, Secret Window's
Updates, Weird New Resolution, Data Miners not
minor, Why Cleanup your TMPS, TIFs, and Cookies
(yes, we covered all this)
Sept 22
Misc info
Sept
29 Misc info
Oct
6 Security Show with special guest Joe Myshko
Oct
13 Misc Info
Oct
20 We had a good show planned but the storm
put the station off the air.
Oct
27 Interview with David Goldman, CEA of
Identity Finder software
Nov
3 Security Show - The Storm Worm threat
continues
Nov
10 Numerous Minitopics
Nov
17 Loads of Listener emails and more
minitopics
Nov
24 USB Ports from A to Z
Dec
1 Security Show Joe Myshko will speak on
Spam and how it leads to Malware
Dec
8 Special Guest Brian Fielder, Microsoft
Security Specialist
Dec
15 All kinds of various information including
selecting a new computer
Dec
22 Variety
Dec
29 Variety including ON-site service, power
wiring problems, in-flight Internet services,
alternate data streams, and HDTV
Jan
5 Security with Joe Myshko
Jan
12 Variety
Jan
19 Variety
Jan
26 Variety
Feb
2 Security with Joe Myshko, Security
Specialist
Feb
9 Variety
Feb
16 Variety
Feb
23 Variety
March
1 Security with Joe Myshko, Security
Specialist
March
8 Variety
March
15 Special Guest Paul Tabatschkow N3UD (Ham
call sign) with the new OLPC (One Laptop per
Child) - the $100 laptop - I saw it and its really
neat
March
22 Corey Greenberg
March
29 Computer Graphics - Joe Hubler and his
expertise
April
5th Security with Joe Myshko
April
12th Second Life
April19th
Variety
April
26 Variety
May
3rd Security with special guest Joe Myshko
May
10 Variety
May
17 Variety
May
24 Variety - numerous emails and phone calls
May
31 Variety
June
7 Security with Joe Myshko
June
14 Linux: Special Guests - Alex and Lyz
June
21 Various
June
28 Various
July
5 Various - we changed to accomodate Jo
Myshko
July
12 Security with Joe Myshko
July
19 Various
July
26 Various
Aug
2 Security with Joe Myshko - Robert Henson
engineer
Aug
9 Joe Hubler, Joe Myshko, and Robert Henson -
eventually got to the topic of flash memory
Aug
16 Gene is back from Vacation - store tories
and tidbits
Aug
23 Various Store stories and tidbits
Aug
30 Various
Sept
6 Various
Sept
13 Various
Sept
20 Various
Sept 27 Various Last show on WCOJ
Oct 11 First Broadcast on 5DRadio.com - Go to the Podcast page for all shows starting October 2008
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