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TECH RADIO PODCAST for Thursday, July 1, 2010: Google Street View finds someone naked. Microsoft’s Kin is history. The Feds have shut down numerous pirate movie sites – arrrrr. Stupid web campaign idea to blow horns at BP. Webcams to check your prostate. Craig talks about his experience getting shaved by a nurse. Sony laptops are hot today – literally. And tons more!

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Here is yet another Tech Radio Podcast Screencast Tutorial on how to use Google Chrome web browser extensions to make your web surfing much easier and safer. Get stuff done faster! We demonstrate how to use Craigslist extensions to look at ads and photos faster. Plus we show you how to shop for a car on craigslist by retrieving reviews, reports, recalls, and more right within the ad itself! You will be shocked at how easy this is. YouTube video after the jump …

Google has begun pushing out the latest version of their Android OS to Nexus One users over the air (OTA). There are multiple reports spreading around the message boards in the last 12 hours confirming the update.

If you want to do the update manually, we have made available the ZIP file for download and instructions below on how to do the upgrade. Please remember, this update only works for stock T-Mobile versions of the Nexus One. This means that if you have rooted and have an unlocked bootloader, do not attempt this update. Rockland USA is NOT responsible for any problems you may encounter.

On this edition of TECH RADIO we talk Facebook privacy again and how CNN and other news sources are finally saying what we have been telling you for the last two weeks! Android 2.2 Froyo makes it on the web but its an older build with issues and NOT the over the air update we are waiting on. We tell you how to watch Hulu on your cellphone using a simple little web browser trick. And of course much more. iTunes Link:

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With all the media hype lately about Facebook security issues, you may be wondering to yourself how safe you may be with your current site settings. Even if you are very familiar with the social site, have you set all of the optional privacy settings that are available to you? There is a new open-source privacy scanner that you can run right within your browser. Reclaim Privacy will instantly inspect your privacy settings and tell you where you may have some concerns. It’s quick. It’s easy. It’s worth the time to check yourself.

Twitter is huge. With that there are many who have varied approaches on who they will and will not follow. There is a great number of those who refuse to follow anyone unless the know them – similar to Facebook. Others have signed up for one of those pesky follower-generating tools or websites that will allow you to amass thousands of followers (NOTE: most of these sites have been shut down or disabled) …

Here is a down and dirty screencast tutorial on how to trick out your Facebook profile picture. This visual trick will set your Fan Page or Profile to be completely different than everyone else which will end up setting you apart from the competition. Plus, it’s just plain fun.

How long would it take to translate all the world’s web content into 50 languages? Even if all of the translators in the world worked around the clock, with the current growth rate of content being created online and the sheer amount of data on the web, it would take hundreds of years to make even a small dent.

There are so many ‘experts’ in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) running around the web and Twitter telling us what we should and shouldn’t do with our blogs and web sites. What better place to get your REAL information than from the #1 search engine service on the web: Google. Why not just ask them what I should and shouldn’t do?

Today, Google addressed a question regarding the header information that appears at the top of most every web site on the net. The question that was raised was, “Does Google ever use the ‘Keywords’ meta tag in its web search ranking?” they asked.

Googles response in their own words: