Jeremiah Owyang - Streaming Live from Web 2.0

Jeremiah Owyang, a web strategist and also Director of Corporate Media Strategy at PodTech.net is streaming live from the web 2.0 expo in San Francisco, California.

Its amazing how this can be done with minimal infrastructure. Here is the equipment Jeremiah is using to stream live,

1) Webcam (we’re using a 100 dollar logitech)

2) Hat, and put some duct tape on it so it can clip on

3) Laptop (you can change power settings so when you close the laptop it does not hibernate) and power cables and batteries as needed

4) Wireless signal (we’re using EVDO, or 3G)

5) Ustream account (free)

This is a very interesting concept and i predict it will be a phenomenon very soon. To view the live broadcast by Jeremiah, visit his blog.

Best Of Web Roundup

10 Tips to Help Keep Your Desk Clean

• Keep nothing on your desk unless you absolutely need them
• Sort your mail and toss junk as it arrives
• Get rid of sticky notes and scraps of paper.

Yedda - Questions and Answer about a wide range of topics, answered by the community. Preety neat.

How to Leave Work at Work

• Change your route
• Get up earlier
• The boss at work does not equal the boss at home

Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center

• Using Gmail as a Massive Database
• How to get real-time news updates in Gmail
• How to automatically store your bookmarks in Gmail
• How to blog from Gmail
  

Create a Perfect Picture for your Profile Using MyPictr

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How to Burn Youtube Videos to DVD - ".. create a DVD movie of video downloaded from Google Video, Youtube or Myspace so that these videos can be watched on the TV screen"

Declutter Your Desk - Who doesn't like extra space?

Top 10 Worst Company URLs - Its hilarious, just check them out.

Seven steps to remarkable customer service - Great article written by Joel Spolsky on how to give great customer service. Some of the suggested ways is to :

• Fix everything
• Blowing off dust
• Accept blame
  
• Dont be greedy among others.
  

All About Hard Drive : From Backup To Extending Its Life

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A detailed guide to Mac backup - ".. details the entire process of backing up a Mac, from planning a backup strategy to getting things back to normal after disaster strikes your primary drive."

The self-repairing hard drive - "..a batch script that takes disk maintenance to the next level by checking all your hard drives for errors, repairing any it finds, and then defragmenting."

How To Maximize Hard Drive Life - Defrag, use UPS and also make sure you have a backup of all your important stuffs.

How to recover lost files after you accidentally wipe your hard drive

• Recover the files to a separate hard drive.
• Recover the files to a networked storage drive.
• Recover the files to a separate partition on the same hard drive.
• Image the hard drive using a tool like ddrescue and recover files using only one partition.

Rescue files with a boot CD - "Few moments in computing are as heartbreaking as when you turn on your trusty PC only to receive that bone-chilling message: "Boot sector corrupt. Config.sys missing. Disk cannot be read. In other words, "You're screwed."" Dont worry, here's a solution to that problem.

Note: The above picture of the hard drive is courtesy of enricopalombaro.

All About PC Power Supply

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Power Consumption and Noise Level of Contemporary Graphics Cards - "Power consumption and the level of generated noise very often become other important criteria besides performance and image quality when one is shopping for a graphics accelerator."

Power Supply Calculator - Helps you estimate what size power supply you should purchase. "when it comes to power, having excess wattage on a power supply is never a bad thing!"

The cost of leaving your PC on - "Have you ever wondered how much it's costing you to leave a computer on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?" Save a few hundred dollars a year and in the process you help protect the environment.

Why estimate when you can measure? - "Estimating is only necessary when you can't easily measure. When you meet people like this, gently urge them to stop estimating and start measuring."