Saturday, July 1, 2006
Tech News
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 was released
Have you seen Microsoft Live? It’s Microsoft’s attempt to enter the 21st century.
Office 2007 is going to be delayed.
Apple got in a little bit of trouble with their stock options.
The French have passed an iTunes law. In France, DRM developers must publish how their DRM works.
The Windows Vista Beta 2 has been closed.
Non-photography day is July 17th.
11a-Noon
Q Chris from Lake Forest - Recovering stolen computers
There is a great program for the Mac called Undercover. If your laptop has a camera, it’ll even take a picture of the thief! These computers don’t have a built-in GPS, but they have a variety of ways to notify you of where the laptop is located.
Q David from Winnetka - Getting full speed from DSL
The farther away you are from the switch, the less speed you are going to get. Earthlink cannot give you the full 6.0mbps if the other ISPs cannot either because everything is going through the same lines. The copper wire from your house goes to the switch. To make it a DSL line, the phone company must install a DSL switch. Other ISPs, however, can install their own DSL switches. The company that provisions the line is in charge of determining how fast the line can go. If Earthlink can convince at&t to lift the caps from the line. If all else fails, you can go with cable and get full speeds. You can get more information from Broadband Reports.
Q Bruce from Irvine - Linksys Vonage box not working great at home
The upstream bandwidth is most important with VOiP. It may be broadband shaping on Cox’s side. If you have a router, you may want to try connecting the cable modem to the Vonage box to the router. If you’re not getting all the download packets, you may want to check with Cox.
Noon-1p
Q David from Los Angeles - Automated news systems on websites
If you want to do that, you need a content management system. You may want to check out Wordpress. It’s the easiest content management system to install. It also is very good with podcast enclosures. If you put your RSS feed into FeedBurner, it’ll make a great RSS feed that’s also formatted for iTunes.
Q David - Mining audio archives
There is a wonderful service called Podzinger. They archive audio and video. It will find the specific clip where your search term was mentioned. If you would like to speed up audio, Windows Media Player, Winamp and a variety of players do that.
Q Bernice - Norton trying to uninstall Spybot
I don’t like Norton or McAfee. They are rather bloated. Viruses also target those two immediately and turn them off. NOD32 is very lightweight and fast. AVG Free Antivirus, Antivir, and Clamwin are all free. For antiSpyware, Microsoft Defender and Spybot are great. However, the most important thing to do is to monitor your behavior.
1–2p
Q Cathy from Laguna Nigel - Digital cameras for a vacation
You want optical image stabilization. There are small point and shoot cameras, midrange cameras, and then there are SLR cameras. Definitely try the camera in the store and check the shutter delays. I like the Sony DSCH1 and the Canon S3. Check out dpreview.com or digitalcamerareview.com.
Q Waldo from Temeculah - Converting 8mm tapes to DVD
In order to do this, you need to convert the analog tapes to bits the computer can recognize. Your method of capturing is probably where the quality is disappearing. You want to get a high quality digitizer: either an internal card or a firewire device. I would recommend the ADS Pyro.
Q Greg from Anaheim - Leo’s opinion on HD-DVD
I think you bought the HD-DVD player a bit pre-maturely. I would wait for the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD battle to settle. A year from now, there will be several hundreds of movies for HD-DVD.
Q Clarice - Easy Media Creator 8 vs. Nero
I would recommend Premiere Elements 2.0 or Sony Vegas. The programs you were looking at are made primarily for burning, not video editing. However, of the two you mentioned, I would use Easy Media Creator 8.
Q Kevin from Escondido - Defragmenting error
I would allow data execution prevention. It is meant for security purposes. Just go into the control panel and disable it during defragmenting.
Chat Logs and Show Audio
Listener Comments
01 July 2006
Leo - have you seen this: http://www.nonphotographyday.com/
Why put down your camera on 17th July?
Non- photography day is an effort on my part to revive the moment by putting down the camera. It is a day to think about how life exists, in essence and not appearance and to understand the inadequacy of the photograph in describing this essence, to bring awareness of the perils of living through the view finder or the display screen…
Sorry the body of the above post is a quote - this is not my event, but something that interests me!
Another Viral Video - Lots of Fun!
WEB VIDEO SHOWS WORLD HOW TO MAKE GEYSERS
Americans have a new way to celebrate the Fourth of July: Drop Mentos candies into 2-liter bottles of Diet Coke and watch as the soda shoots skyward. …
The geysers have been compared to the dancing fountain at Las Vegas’ Bellagio hotel-casino. … [continues]
ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2142524
View the 3-minute video at http://www.eepybird.com/.
David from Wineca - Getting full speed from DSL, with new housing developments they don’t run the phone lines all the way back to the CO, they couldn’t, so they usually just go to a little building at the corner of the development where they are digitized and put on fiber. If the DSL company could get access there they could offer any speed they wanted to.
in show 258 Leo talked about the “hidden accounts
panel
Anonymous told me it is at Start/Run and type in
“control userpassword 2″ this didn’t work,
what am I doing wrong?
12:12 by Adam.
Daemmette this may help control userpasswords2
daemmette, I think it is control userpasswords2 that you put in the Run window. You are missing a “S”. Hope it helps.
Hi Brent, I have been using the Office 2007 Beta
for 1 week and I think it is great. The new ribbon instead of menu takes some getting used to though. Enjoy it. It is free til Feb 2007.
is there a site that will check an address for DSL service without the email address requirement that most require?
HELP pleasee
Leo… Get off the radio and spend sometime with your family!!!
Leo: can’t you make your audio show in a karaoke form? This way you could search through the content and then listen to the section you want. What do you think?
I thought there was group for the hearing impaired will do this for TV.
Here is what I found on the net.
NightPortalStudio
Nightportal2000@yahoo.com
http://www.robson.org/capfaq/digital.html
Can captioning be done on the Internet?
Yes, it can. At least two companies are doing this. Realtime captions are created during a live event, and then transmitted through a Web page, Internet Chat (IRC), iChat, WebChat, America Online, CompuServe, or some similar online system. This can be done for radio programs, including the audio.
The first such captioning job that didn’t require special hardware or proprietary network systems was Al Gore’s “Information Superhighway” speech in 1994.
For more information about captions on the Internet, see:
· Cybercasts Pose Alternatives to Videoconferencing
Article from the National Law Journal, Jun 1997
· Internet Captioning
Seminar for the Washington Shorthand Reporters Association, Apr 1997
· Closed-Captioned Radio
Article from Newswaves, Feb 1997
· Can video conferences be captioned?
A question from the “Overview” part of this FAQ
· Can a radio broadcast be captioned?
David - Mining audio archives - Windows Media Player will playback at constant pitch at higher speeds. I use 2x. And the RM-X Media Edition plugin will allow you to skip ahead a user settable amount. I use it along with a wireless remote control to skip ahead 60sec while listening while lounging on the patio! Anyone know of an MP3 player with constant pitch?
02 July 2006
A thought on the audio volume fluctuation on the Vonage Box. The audio is analog for the out put. I bet his home computer power supply is dicey. Digital voice packets have no volume control bit.
How do you speed up podcasts on the iPod?
20:43 by anonymous.
No Troll Today
04 July 2006
Thank u leo for the small mp3s
05 July 2006
Leo,
I am surprised you didn’t mention this on the show, but Quicktime will play MP3’s and it gives you the option of speeding up the audio.
06 July 2006
Songs bought from Real will still work with ipods. http://real.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/real.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=5081
however, once you buy a song from real, you have to use their software and I don’t think that you can use the songs you’ve bought from itunes any more. So technically, if you really must have DRM music (unlike the music from emusic or Digital Lunchbox) and have an ipod you can use Real if you want to. Seems like more trouble than it’s worth to me though.
10 July 2006
09:27 by .
Hey Leo !
Great show…something caught my ears…
Speeding up playback on an iPod..
you mentioned it in passing as a way of getting podcasts into your ears faster than realtime listening….
But how do you do it ?
I can speed ‘audio books’ playback,
but can find a way to do it with any other content type on the iPod.
Would be really useful to know how.
best regards
