Original Airdate: January 26, 2008

Feeling overwhelmed with the task of maintaining & protecting your PC?  Steve will take you through Windows Live One Care, a new approach to protection for your computer that's more than just anti-virus software.  Windows Live OneCare will care for all your security and maintenance issues in one easy to manage, and easy to use convenient package.

Steve will also look at a few tools and techniques to help you increase your productivity.  He shows us the difference between the most common email technologies, demonstrates the advantages and disadvantages of such options as POP and web based mail, and helps us choose the best option for our particular lifestyle.  Once you have an email system in place, Steve walks you the next step, choosing a calendar and explains why you need to back it up.  

Grab a pen and take down these cool websites loved by the Dotto Tech crew. Pageflakes startpage stores your personal dynamic information and runs in a web browser, so you can access customized tools, newsfeeds and more from anywhere. This week’s Tech Toy is the Disc-Go-Pod Plus that can make a badly scratched CD or DVD good.

Steve lets you peer into his new .Mac account to see how it can expand your work & entertainment territory over the internet. iDisk offers convenience and security -the virtual drive protects your automatically backed up data and allows you to access it from any computer. Also, MacBook laptops, and iPod cases for the active set.

Apple

Add your voice to the internet with this exciting new form of audio and video broadcasting. Steve shows how podcasts can be recorded into Apple’s free GarageBand software with MacMice’s Micflex microphone or through a regular phone and hardware from PhoneValet. For listening to and even watching podcasts, Steve goes over the 60-gig iPod, and how to manage and subscribe to content with Apple’s iTunes.

iPod Cases

Caroline shows you how to protect your gear and look good doing it with cases for the iPod, iPod Shuffle, and Palm Treo.

OS X - Tiger

It is time to take a walk on the Apple side this week! Today we are going to take a look at the latest release of OS X, Tiger. I would like you to meet the world’s most advanced operating system. Mac OS X Tiger delivers 200+ new features which make it easier than ever to find, access and enjoy everything on your computer.