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Technology Bytes, Houston's longest running computer call in show turns thirteen this month and they are having a party to celebrate.

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Local tech news in a compact, digital format.

Local tech news in a compact, digital format.

Local tech news in a compact, digital format.

Local tech news in a compact, digital format.

Local tech news in a compact, digital format.

It was your typical Friday night on the 3700 block of Main. There were bands playing at both The Continental Club and Shoeshine Charley's Big Top Lounge, The Mink was minding its own business serving drinks and Tacos-A-Go-Go were catering to their usual crowd of taco munchers when the evening started to really get hot! Hot as in flaming barrel hot. Houstonist Flickr photo contributor and resident photographer for The Continental Club, Jay Lee caught this event as it happened and has full details on his blog.

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Local tech news in a compact, digital format. Local blog roundup Grand Stream Dreams has some defrag tools for you. Mike McGuff is back from Japan, check out the videos on his site. jkOnTheRun has some new reviews and apps for you to check out. HAL-PC Prepares To Party If you've been thinking of joining HAL-PC, now is the time because HAL-PC is getting ready for its annual Christmas party. The party will be...

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. Indra Vishnampet: Local Entrepeneur Indra Vishnampet who was recently named "Outstanding Woman Entrepreneur of the Year" by The Indo-American Chamber of Commerce Greater Houston sat down with Purva Patel of The Houston Chronicle and answered a few questions about her local multi-million dollar software integration business which has offices in Houston, Canada and India. Missouri City Not Experiencing "Comcastic" Service Hats off to a group of...

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. Snapstream Ships Beyond TV 4.7 Houstonist loves TV, we also love our iPods and iPhones. We just love technology. So we couldn't be more excited to bring you this bit of news from local software giants Snapstream. It's the release of Beyond TV 4.7 software with automatic iPod and iPhone syncing! What is this you ask? Let us break it down for you. It's PVR software...

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. StartUp Weekend Houston "Startup Weekend is an idea, an experiment, a chance to gather the tech community and create a company over one jam packed weekend." If that interests you, head over to houston.startupweekend.com and get your reservation. StartupWeekend Houston is limited to the first 100 participants and space is limited. Andrew Hyde, Startup Weekend founder will be on hand along with Gwen Bell of Blogger,...

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor baldheretic. Greg Henkel holds down the fort at Sig's Lagoon on the 3700 Block of Main. If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining over 400 of Houston's best photographers in the Houstonist Flickr Photo Group. If Houstonist uses your photo for Photo Of The Day, submit it here. For more great photography check out the Houston Photobloggers....

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. AIR Houston Names Richard Yoo Chairman From our friends at abc13.com comes this story about local bazillionaire, Richard Yoo, founder of Rackspace and Hush Labs being named chairman of AIR Houston. AIR Houston is The Accessibility Internet Rally (AIR) which hosts a one-day competition in which web professionals team up with non-profit organizations to help design websites for users with disabilities. We know AIR Houston will...

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. Comcast Raises Your Rates In October Get ready to dig deeper to pay your cable bill because the amount you pay will be going up. Yes, that's right, Comcast will be raising your cable rates starting with your October bill. How much is this rate increase? Comcast says bills are going up 6.1% for all its subscribers. What are you getting for this 6.1% increase? Increased...

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. Houston, A Top 10 High Tech City According to Popular Science, Houston is ranked #10 in high tech cities. Popular Science ranked cities based on 36 technology indicators as well as expert and staff opinions. The best part of this survey is that Houston outranked Dallas, Austin and San Antonio. Richard Yoo and Hush Labs Richard Yoo and Hush Labs were recently featured in The Houston...

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. City WiFi Still On Hold It's been a few months since Mayor Bill White approved a multi-million dollar deal with EarthLink to provide over 640 square miles of wireless service to Houston and we are still waiting. Earthlink should have already started installing wireless nodes on light poles around the city but has failed to do so. EarthLink is still within time constraints set by the...

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. Compaq Gets A New Logo Houston based Compaq unveiled a new logo for the company at a technology conference in India. HP/Compaq has modernized the font and given the trademark Compaq Q a weird new look. Houstonist is still on the fence about this logo. Dwight Silverman over at The Chron covered this story in a Tech Blog post and you can see the graphics he...

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. What Does A Hydrogen Generator Look Like? Last week we told you about Trulite's revolutionary hydrogen generator. This week we found an image of this generator and wanted to share it with you. Bum Shuttle Computer Is From Conroe A computer bound for the space shuttle Endeavour that was found to have been deliberately damaged came from Conroe based Invocon, Inc.. Invocon Inc. is a systems...

That's right, our favorite technology radio show, Technology Bytes, turns 12 this month! (the exact date seems to be lost by everyone on the show. hmmm, guess it wasn't on their Google Calendar.) Join Co-hosts Dwight Silverman & Jay Lee, and the whole gang, Peter, Barrett, Phliktid, Groovehouse, and Jennifer the Intern for the TechBytes anniversary party, tonight at Dean's Credit Clothing [316 Main St.]. Dean's is smoke-free for your breathing pleasure, and there will...

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. Chronicle Tech Round Up The tech guys over at the Chron are pumping out the technology news and we are going tell you about it. ---Dwight Silverman Dwight Silverman reviews and discusses the newest version of the popular image editing software, Photoshop. The new version is called Photoshop CS3. Dwight also informs us that Houston is the 5th most e-mail-addicted city in the U.S. A fact...

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A few months ago, we announced our first-ever photo show, 600 sq mi: Photos from Houston. The idea was to give photographers, both professional and soon-to-be professional, a chance to show us (and you) what they see when they look at Houston. So we set things up with MSquared Gallery in the Heights, put out a call for entries and crossed our fingers. Well, it turns out the response was even better than we...

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. Jay Lee's Helpline Helps Jay Lee tackles reader questions over at The Chronicle in his HelpLine Blog. Here are some recent reader queries. A reader had problems with file associations and Jay put them back on track. Another reader had issues with kids accessing her files. Read how enabling log on passwords solved her problem. See how email auto-formatting helps avoid annoying links. Check out Jay's...

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. Tracking Down Stolen Laptops Police are using a lo-jack type system for tracking down stolen laptops. The system alerts police when a laptop is stolen and the article states that some PC's have been found as far away as Africa! More on this from abc13.com. The Chronicles of Jay Lee Local geek, radio show host and blogger Jay Lee investigates and solves taskbar problems, XP logins...

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. HelpLine: Outlook Freak Out Jay Lee over at The Chronicle's HelpLine helps a reader who's Outlook email app is opening mulitple windows. Click here for the solution to this wacky reader debacle. Ugliest Building in the World? Someone placed a story on Digg about The Ugliest Building in the World. Yup, that's the Federal Reserve Bank Building on Allen Parkway. Ugly? Maybe, but Houstonist is just...

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. Feel Good Recycling Techs & Trainers is a non-profit organization that recycles old computer equipment, rebuilds systems and then offers them for a nominal fee to those with special needs. You can help by donating your unwanted computers and accessories or volunteering your own specialized assistance. HTC Blood Drive The Houston Technology Center is having a blood drive on April 13 from 7-11am. Get out from...

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. Chronicle Tech Round Up Houstonist really applauds the chron.com's technology writers as they do a damn fine job of keeping things up to date. Hat's off to those involved in all the blogs over there. Let's start off with the ringleader, Dwight Silverman as he warns us of a Trojan being spread via email, catches us up on a Vista flaw and tells us about an...

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. UH Number One in Online Dating According to IamFreeTonight.com's website, University of Houston was ranked number one in online dating last week. So, how did UH get this distinction? It appears that the results are based on a complex mathematical formula incorporating numerous variables relating to how college singles interact on the IamFreeTonight.com website. Sounds like something Chris Knight would be involved in. WhiteFence Secures $14M...