Thats right. I have shutdown the show. Why? No reason, just bored with it. There is no value to it other than socializing. Which is fun, just not worth the time and effort. Will I ever stream again? My guess is yes, but not in the same way.

I am working on a some new projects that will be media related. If you want to keep up with what I am working on, please follow me on Twitter.

For all of you that have been active in the show, thank you very much! Trust me when I say that you have not seen the last of me! 8-)

Starting next week, we are moving the show to Saturdays @ 3p PST (6p EST). Right in between Leo Laporte and Compute-Ability. This helps me out big time, by giving Fridays back to my clients. In testing yesterday we saw that we could get more traffic to the show by running on a weekend.

As some of you know now, yes Robert Basil has left the show. He will be missed and was great co-host. He is going on to bigger and better things at www.MySocialMediaGuy.com. We are greatful that he helped co-host the show for as long as be did.

Brandon Staggs will be helping with the show even more and even co-host from time to time. My wife is even getting involved and will be helping out in chat, and some of the background work.
So make sure you mark your calendars for Saturdays at 3p for CornDog Computers LIVE!

Gmail’s web interface had a widespread outage earlier today, lasting about 100 minutes. We know how many people rely on Gmail for personal and professional communications, and we take it very seriously when there’s a problem with the service. Thus, right up front, I’d like to apologize to all of you — today’s outage was a Big Deal, and we’re treating it as such. We’ve already thoroughly investigated what happened, and we’re currently compiling a list of things we intend to fix or improve as a result of the investigation.

Here’s what happened: This morning (Pacific Time) we took a small fraction of Gmail’s servers offline to perform routine upgrades. This isn’t in itself a problem — we do this all the time, and Gmail’s web interface runs in many locations and just sends traffic to other locations when one is offline.

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Slower Internet?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The biggest U.S. Internet service providers urged regulators to adopt a conservative definition of “broadband,” arguing for minimum speeds that were substantially below many other nations.

The submissions were filed with the Federal Communications Commission which had sought comments by August 31 on how the agency should define broadband for a report to be submitted to Congress early next year.

The Obama administration is seeking ways to extend broadband services to both unserved Americans living in rural areas and to make broadband affordable for those living in urban areas.

Some of the submissions from service providers argued for a definition that even undercut an international ranking of U.S. Internet speed.

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We will be combing the web for the weird and bizarre tech related media in honor of special guest Martin Sargent!
If you find a story on the web that you want to share, that is a bit out of the ordinary, send a link to the story to Rob or Robert.

Don’t forget to come for the laughs Aug 28th @ 11:00 am GMT -07:00 Arizona time! Quit your job, and drop the kids off at your Moms house… unless you still live with your Mom.

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Just put together a 30 sec video promo for AZ TechGuys. Nothing fancy. Not sure how or if we want to use this.

Click here to watch the video

Kyle Gray

This post has absolutely nothing to do with computers or technology. This is a personal entry about my friend… Kyle

I have known Kyle for many years now. We met at Denny’s in Casa Grande many years ago. I was waiting tables, and Kyle would hang out at night and sip coffee with the regulars. He had a long, bushy, curly “fro” at the time, so he stood out from the usual crowd. He was quiet and didn’t say much then, but that was before we got to know each other.

Without going into a million details about the trouble that Kyle and I have got into over the years, like any one else, Kyle has a past. He was on a destructive path until about 4 years ago. Something happened in his life to cause him to change his ways, and make a complete change.

Kyle has since become a very spiritual and kind person. To know him from the day I met him until now, he has become a completely different person. He is the kind of friend you can always count on. Even if it’s the nasty chore of helping your buddy move. He’s very thoughtful and still funny.

Kyle has since become a Christian rapper too. In his spare time, he writes music and records some of it on his Mac. Sometimes he’ll come over to my house and we’ll spend the whole day working on some of his music. I have added two versions of a song that Kyle and I worked on together to the bottom of this post. I encourage you to check em’ out! You may see kyle from time to time on our weekly AZ TechGuys video chat. (He’s the one laying down)

The point of this post is to share my thoughts with all of you about my friend Kyle. I’m very thankful to have known him, and to be his friend. He’s been through a lot in his life. He’s challenged the negativity that surrounds us all, and come out on top! I’m very proud of him!

Thanks for being my friend Kyle.

My Colors by GK (Music sampled from “This Joint” by Slightly Stoopid)

My Colors by GK (Music by me)

Well we kicked off our second Friday live video tech chat session yesterday with better success. With enough viewers and chatters to keep the room going, but no record breaking numbers. As many of you know, last time we used a mix of Ustream and Skype to host the chat. The downside was that in order for a guest to chat, they had to create a Ustream account. Not bad for Ustream, but very inconvenient for our guests.

This week we tried TokBox with much better success for user interaction. All though TokBox held up well without too many refreshes from the audio drops, it was not without it’s problems. We had no ability to record the show as well as no ability to moderate. I had a call from 2 people yesterday that said they wanted to watch, but every time they went to the chat, TokBox asked them for permission to use their camera, so they quickly got scared and left the page.

Next Friday we will be attempting to use TinyChat. Robert has signed up for a pro account which allows us moderation. We already anticipating some issues with this too. It meets all of our needs except the recording has yet to work for us in our tests. Another problem we are facing, is a way to pull caller audio into the chat as well. We hope to have a solid platform to host our weekly video tech chat soon, but you will have to be our guinea pigs. :)

In the mean time you can keep up with our progress and submit your tech/computer questions to questions@aztechguys.com which we will be trying to answer on the show every week. We really appreciate all of you that have helped so far to get this project started.

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @aztechguys to keep up with our progress and announcements.!

We’re working on the comment system for posts right now, and had to make an adjustment on some older posts. Should have it fixed by the end of the day.

Hey, at least you get the news again if you missed it the first time! :)

I signed up for a WordPress.com account 2 years ago and played around with it before getting board and going back to blogger. I had no idea what WordPress could really do. In all truthiness, (as Stephen Colbert would say), I stuck with blogger for o e simple feature… the ability to post by email. I wanted to be more active in my blogging life. Needless to say I never did.

Anyway. Fastforward 2 years a d here I find myself loving WordPress as default choice to build my company website on. I have been using Rapiweaver. I am still a big fan of Rapidweaver and will continue to use it, but the big problem has been the option to update my website from my iPhone.

So after a LONG weekend of moving all of my content to my new wordpress driven site, I have removed Rapidweaver from the dock, and installed the WP iPhone app. I am ready to start adding content to my newly improved 1.2 version of the site!

I have a n iPhone version of the site too, but it’s just a basic WPTouch plugin. I will be modding it soon to bring back that CornDog style to my site on your pocket computer.

I encourage you to signup for an account on my site so you can post comments, and ask questions. I will try to keep the information comming at a rapid pace!