From the Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer –

• Options Estimator
• Small Business
• Microsoft Tax Advice
• Quicken – Ten Top Year End Tax Tips
• Tax Man

Sent in from Chris – Comodo has released a final version of their excellent free firewall for Vista. Get it [here]

From Jason of FantasticFreeware –

To get around the Firefox performance issues with extensions that I only use once and awhile, I have created several Firefox Profiles.
A Main profile, Web Developer profile, and a profile for Reviewing new extensions.

To Use Firefox profiles use the “-ProfileManager” command line option create a shortcut like this “\Firefox -ProfileManager”

Firefox Profile Tutorial Link

Podcast: [Mirror]

(38 minutes)

Show #158 Notes

• Twitter Me: http://twitter.com/miketechshow
• Pownce Me: http://pownce.com/miketechshow
• Member of the Techpodcast Network
• Member of the BluBrry Network
• Mike Tech Show Forums

Show Links –

• Firefox Problematic extensions
• Tab Mix Plus
• System Restore Point – Run from desktop
• WordPress.org
• WordPress.com
• The WordPress Podcast
• WordPress Installation Podcast
• Technology Tips Plus
• Microsoft OneCare 2.0
• R-Drive Image
• ophcrack
• DriverPacks
• HP Systems Insight Manager
• UpdateExpert
• Shavlik NetChk Protect
• Mackie Onyx 1220

Independent Music –

• Loud Water – Seazons

Some of the songs on this program were provided by Magnatune.com

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I will be recording this week’s podcast live tonight, Tuesday, 11/20/07, at 7:00pm ET on Ustream. The pre-show will begin at 6:30pm.

From Cate – Thank you:

• Firefox CPU Usage
• Problematic Extensions

Gmail made some really drastic changes about the same time FF 2.0.0.9 was released, and THAT is causing people terrible problems in FF. Any extensions that have to do with alerting to or managing GMail are probably thrashing, and that’s almost never a good thing.

From the Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer –

Here are some Web resources for stopping gossip – and an argument that some kinds of gossip are healthy.

• Stop gossip
• Old gossip
• Positive gossip
• Mobbing
• Gossip cartoons

Audio archive of my appearance on the Computer America show Friday night, 11/16/07:

• 11/16/07 – Audio Hour 1

Podcast: [Mirror]

(41 minutes)

Show #157 Notes

• Twitter Me: http://twitter.com/miketechshow
• Pownce Me: http://pownce.com/miketechshow
• Member of the Techpodcast Network
• Member of the BluBrry Network
• Mike Tech Show Forums

Show Links –

• Aruba Networks
• Spanning tree protocol
• Enterasys N-Series Switch
• DLL
• Dynamic linking
• Windows Update Error Fix
• FireTune (Tweak Firefox)
• Firefox Support Search
• BartPE
• Compare Editions of Windows Server 2003
• FEED Validator

Independent Music –

• Pivot – Erase It

Some of the songs on this program were provided by Magnatune.com

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Join me live, tonight, 11/16/07 from 10:00pm to 11:00pm ET, I will be the guest on Computer America.