Sunday, September 24, 2006
Tech News
I’ve been playing around with the Sanyo Xacti HD1A which records in high definition! The Xacti records onto SD flash memory rather than tapes or DVDs. The main problem is that the video is so compressed that it doesn’t look as great as 720p high-definition videos should. This camera will also record directly to the 4×3 iPod Video format. It even shoots pictures at 5.1 megapixels! We are now seeing the beginnings of solid-state cameras. I’ll put some test video on the site later on.
An HD-DVD addon for the Xbox 360 will be available for $170.
11a-Noon
Q John from Carson - Running Windows on a Mac
There are 2 ways to do this. First, you can try out Parallels Desktop so you can run Windows in a virtual machine within OSX. The other way is running Apple’s Boot Camp which will partition the hard drive. Also, it will burn a disc with the drivers for you in order to get all aspects of the Mac to work. If you want to buy a Mac just for Windows, I would not recommend it. If you just want a regular PC, go with Dell
Q Avis from Santa Ana - Wants to protect her photos
One thing you can do is put a large watermark on the photo. Another thing you can do is just put a small thumbnail on the website that no one will want to print.
Q Ardy from Rancho Palos Verdes - Getting “unresponsive script” error in Firefox/How to import IE6 bookmarks to IE7
What it is saying is that there is a script not running correctly, and if you wait, it will take a long time. Go to the address bar, and type “about:config”. That is going to pull up a list of configuration options. See the option “dom.max_script_run_time”, and the default is 5 seconds. Modify it until you stop seeing the error message. I’m not sure as to why exactly it happens.
Go to the plus sign in IE7, and there should be an option to add links to favorites.
Noon-1p
Q John from San Bernadino - iTunes 7 causing left channel (speaker) to go out
You may want to try getting the latest sound drivers from eMachines. iTunes uses Quicktime. Maybe Quicktime is doing something odd. What I would do would be to go into the Quicktime audio settings.
Q Randy from Corona - Cannot install Norton Internet Security on Parallels/Protecting the network from file sharing networks
You don’t need to on Parallels. Because you are running in a virtual machine. The OSX firewall as well as your router firewall protect you. When you are running on a virtual machine, it is completely sandboxed and cannot infect anything else. If the virtual machine gets infected, make a clone of a clean copy, delete the old virtual machine, and create a new one.
Isolating the machine with file sharing networks and protecting your daughter’s system with its own firewall.
Q Catherine - Looking for a tablet convertible notebook computer
I think the best is the Lenovo Thinkpad X Series. However, the Toshiba laptops have the newer Core Duo processors. If you hold off till late October, you will get a Windows Vista upgrade coupon. I would recommend that. Also, you may want to get Microsoft’s OneNote application or EverNote.
Q Ken from Grand Rapids - What’s Leo’s take on 802.11n?
I’ve tried the Belkin Pre-N routers and they worked great. Don’t get a draft-n router because they have several issues with interference.
Q Friends on AOL cannot see pictures sent in an email/Characters on the computer taking a while to appear
The AOL client is very, very primitive and basic. They shouldn’t be able to see the pictures within the email due to security, but they should be able to see the pictures as attachments.
While she is typing, the letters sometimes do not appear immediately while she types, but it does appear eventually in large chunks. This means something is running the background that is taking up processes and memory. See if the computer speeds up if you boot up with the shift key held down (this turns off extensions).
1–2p
Q Paul from Ohio - Computer running very slowly
He discovered that someone had hacked into his daughter’s system and was running a web server on it. After cleaning it out, the computer is still running slowly. The system seems to be completely compromised. It has been modified so thoroughly that there is no point of return. She need to format the drive and start over.
Q Michael from Massachusetts - Easiest way to handle RSS feed creation for podcasting
There is software such as FeedForAll for Windows or Mac. If you’re on a Mac, though, I’d recommend Feeder to create your RSS feed. Once you create the feed, you have to host that somewhere and send iTunes that RSS link.
Q John from Gardina - Doesn’t want his daughter getting into trouble on the computer
Keep the computer in a public place. Also, have a talk with her about ground rules. On MySpace, there are often adult child predators on MySpace pretending to be teens. You can also see what she is up to on the computer. I use the iBoss which will allow you to turn off certain sites. Safeteens.com has a list of online safety tips that you want to go over with your daughter. Also, check out CyberPatrol.
Q Ed from Norwalk - Pictures in hidden files
When you look at system and hidden files, you’re seeing the temporary Internet files. When you go to a website, it downloads certain images in order to speed up loading times. If you don’t want those images, you can go into the Internet Options and clear the cache.
Q Julio from New York - Less flip-out screens on digital cameras
There are still dozens of cameras out there with flexible screens. Canon, Nikon, and other manufacturers make cameras with these screens. Camera companies do not want to replace flexible LCDs because they are probably more expensive to replace. Digitalcamerainfo.com lists cameras by feature. Shooby’s Nikon 8700 has this feature.
Chat Logs and Show Audio
24 September 2006
by GrampaBigAL?.
the following article: Apple Trademark Office docs point to REAL reasons for” Podcast” controversy
Posted by Russell Shaw @ 7:43 pm “
http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=1252
documents apple’s attempt to trademark “ipodcast”.
“Not reported so far but revealed here, it appears that:
Apple itself is seeking a Trademark for “IPodcast.”
Apple has been experiencing some significant difficulties getting final approval from the USPTO for the iPod trademark.”
Leo is correct to worry about steve jobs’s monopolistic bent.
rant, rant…
Fedora Core 6 available for the i386, x86_64, and
ppc/ppc64 architectures, including Intel based Macintosh computers
To the caller trying to keep people from downloading her photos:
Disabling right clicking would be another way (though a weak one) to make it harder to save the pictures on the site. For the amature image-yoinker it might be enough to dissuade.
For the lady who wants to prevent stealing of her picture; have your web master disable right click on the pictures. Then can’t save or print them. That won’t prevent external screen capture programs from capturing them though.
Leo & others,
What do you think about. Torpark “a program which allows you to surf the internet anonymously”, “an anonymous, fully portable Web browser based on Mozilla Firefox.”
Refs:Hacktivismo, Torpark, SWiK
For a professional photographer that wants to display your photos in a professional way and at the same time protect them, there are many options. There are online services specifically for “event” photographers (such as wedding phtoographers) which will also take orders for prints, process credit card payments, and forward the orders to you for fullfillment. You can find these services advertised in the ads of professional photography magazines. One popular service is http://www.collages.net.
Another option is to purchase software that runs on your server, and can be customized to your design specs. Such programs typically provide watermarking automatically, protection from downloads, and password-protected galleries for “events”. Most also offer e-commerce features, so you can price and sell downloads or prints. I believe the best-in-class of this type of software is http://www.lightboxphoto.com . You can see examples of customizations on their web site.
Is this were I can ask a question? I have been having this problum for awile. When I go on to almost every web site were the pictures or video there is the quicktime E with a big ? in the middle and I can’t see pictures or video. Please Help. I have reinstalled quicktime about three times and nothing. jerbou71@dslextreme.com
Question???
How do I reinstall system restore? I had a virus which disabled it, and I have not been able to reinstall.
12:16 by anonymous.
The preview pane only displaying text is Office 2003 or newer. It is a great idea to set the preview pane to assume the message is text.
first of all I use TCPView to monitor my Port trafic it is available from sysinternals.com second i dont use Dumb Web browsers Like Firefox I wont use Internet Explorer but i Do use Maxthon that uses IE’s Heart But Has ADVANCED Blocking and Unmatched User Configurations ,Third I won’t use Outlook or outlook express , I use Yahoo and G Mail
Jesus Freak 84. Can you telnet to a shell account and use IRC from the shell account?
Every time I try to reply or forward a message in Outlook, I get a messag “Cannot find file” when I clock “OK” everything works fine. I have done a repair reinstall and Deleated all and reinstalled Office. Where do I go frome there.
melhawkins@sbcglobal.net
12:34 by anonymous.
bth-POD, I hadn’t used TORpark, but I have use TOR. I like the idea.
12:40 by anonymous.
picture-shark is a cool watermarking program (freeware), it has feathering which I hadn’t seen on other program. http://www.picture-shark.com/
12:52 by EZK?.
Simply adding fine scan lines to a photograph may provide a unusable result that is still clear enough to be used as preview image.
John, I have no idea. I’ve never telneted anywhere. Never needed to.
Geez, Leo! That wonderful panacia of the Mac World and the FACT that Mac OS X is TERRIBLE at Multi Tasking …. Hence the FREQUENT Spinning Beach Ball of Death!
Tell the Truth you phony! The “Beach Ball of Death” is an All Too Frequent occurance! Don’t instead try to pass it off to “not enough RAM” … your caller “gotcha” with 1GB of RAM!
13:09 by Jim?.
It’s amazing how some people are so resentful and fearful of the Macintosh’s success.
AOL and JPG’s, I have seen aol clients who cannot open jpg’s. The error refers to “MIME” issues. (multiple internet mail extensions” You can read up on it on AOL but I forget the keyword.
The clients need to use a non AOL program to open the jpg’s.
Photo Protection: www.artistscope.com
“Secure Image Pro” Not a free program, but a demo is available to download.
13:12 by anonymous.
My Belkin Pre-N F5D8230−4 router (pictured above) died - found out that this model has been recalled FYI
itunes 7 crashed while downloading macbreak video podcast. got this message: “ some of the videos in your itunes library, including macbreak 14 were not copied to the ipod because they cannot be played on this ipod.” another message says the video format is not
supported. I have a 5G video ipod and itunes 7. it’s itunes7 cuz
I have downloaded audio and video podcasts prior to the update
I tuned into your late and missed/missunderstood your instructions to make ID6 more secure from VML images. I thought you said go to your website and get the instructions for a registry entry that would prevent VML images from installing their programs on your computer. I can not find that information. Dis I get it wrong?
I wonder if Leo was sponsored by AOL or Earthlink instead of DSL Extreme … would we be hearing “ I LOooove DSL Extreme, they’re MY DSL provider, …. I’m using them right now … (sic) “; same for the iBoss.
Do all you naive Laporteoids realize that Leo and ALL the other radio pimps get personal use of DSL Extreme FREE to promote the product?? Likely the same goes for iBoss. So, where’s the disclaimer, eh?
Footnote: DSL Extreme is nothing more than a “resale broker” for SBC / AT&T or Verizon’s DSL service; who by the way charges EXACTLY the SAME price as DSL Extreme when you qualify for the limited 1 year promotion.
B & H Photo Video in NYC
bhphotovideo.com
To Dudley Truth Right, et all. Do you have any proof that Leo is accepting money from Apple for his positive spin? Could it just be that is what he personally believes? It is easy to accuse someone. You may have proved that he has a Msc bias. But there is no proof, he has been compensated for it.
this troll seems to just hate leo; one of the nicest people on the airwaves. Envy is a terrible thing to live by. get a life troll & leave these commnent sections for information, not hate.
To Dudley. As I said to your friend LA IT: If you disagree with Leo’s opinions so much, why don’t you stop listeneing, and go on with your life
I heard earlier in the week that Leo was going to have a Vista podcast starting on Friday but still haven’t seen it on itunes or TWIT.TV. I didn’t hear the show today or yesterday. Any update?
Leo is a really nice guy. But you have to understand he needs to support the companies that pay the freight. Whenever I hear him bash Zone Alarm or hype the latest window flaw I just take it with a grain of salt.
17:40 by joe?.
Hey anybody know of any good software out there that captures Audio and Video Software that you record off both YouTube and Google Video?
18:23 by anonymous.
HI ALL, SHOULD I USE ADAWARE ?
REGARDS, RR
itunes w/quicktime 7 audio doesnt work for me. so my fix was to reinstall itunes 6 w/quicktime and now my audio works
RR- Ad-Aware SE and Spybot should be on all Windows machines. The only diff in the free and paid version of Ad-Aware SE is with the paid version you also get Ad-Watch which runs all the time in the background. I think it is worth it so I have the paid version.
Bashing Zonealarm is not too difficult..
When my laptop sleeps, so does zonealarm.. The problem is, zonealarm refuses to wake up, ergo, no internet.
Blah to zonealarm..
What Wyn/Win application was talked about today that allows a MAC to run MS office applications natively in MAC? did I hear the term crossroads which is free in beta form and $60 when finalized?
19:31 by Ryan ?.
Can’t remember what episode the caller called about an Internet Radio Receiver, but I just watched a review on the Squeezebox 3, and it supports Pandora as well as internet radio, iTunes, and Windows Media Player.
To Joe. You could try Microsoft’s Windows Media encoder. It can record an analog copy of anything broadcast to your pc. It records sound in .wma I have never recorded video with it, but it does have that capabiltiy. It is a free add on to Windows Media Player. Just google it and click on the link.
25 September 2006
About photo marking. If the photographer has a full copy of Acrobat, she can put the photo in a document (.pdf) and put a form item over it that is invisible on the screen but prints.
Maybe easy to do for a large number of photos or maybe not. I use this feature for some documents that clients fill out that is “hidden text” on their screen but prints.
26 September 2006
05:53 by Ray?.
Regarding a way of protecting photos, I think you could put the .jpg in a flah movie as way at least keeping people from right clicking. I’m not sure about printing. Any ideads?
Comment for: Avis from Santa Ana - Wants to protect her photos from being printed.
I do have a solution to Avis’s problem, but it doesn’t avoid the user from printing the photo.
Here’s my solution:
1.) Open up the high quality image in photo shop or any photo editing program.
2.) Create an copy of the image on another layer.
3.) On the layer you see, apply a blur to the image. This blur will be enough to deture the user from wanting to print out the image, but it gives the user the ability to still see the entire image.
4.) Now, on the image, make maybe 2 selections, over important parts of the image. (Faces, flowers, whatever.) Then on those selections, delete.
In doing that, the image is all blurred, but in the two sections you select & then you delete the high quality image layer underneath shows through on the important parts.
I hope that makes sense.
Jay Gustafson
waltdisneyworld1971@comcast.net
I’m amazed at all the little sabatage or deterents thought of and employed to prevent artwork/photo copying/image theft. The only tried and true is not to put them up in the first place. I’m thinking of the logic…if a photo is degraded to the point that no one would want to steal it…who would come back and want to look either. Sounds like a Catch-22 to me. And if I see a nice cycling image and I want to use it as my background for a short time and its right-click protected, I steal them ALL just out of principal and because I’m hornked off that I have to do an end-around just to get something the web was born to deliver. Again, if you don’t want to give them away, don’t put them up, or put up crap and no one will come back to look because there are so many places with great stuff like www.digitalblasphemy.com.
I don’t see what your rant, has to do with Avis’s problem.
As for your comment, “I’m thinking of the logic…if a photo is degraded to the point that no one would want to steal it…who would come back and want to look either.”
If I had my photography website online, and people didn’t want to visit it because I make it hard for them to steal my work - why would I care if you came back or not?
Her objective is to “sell” the prints, not just to display them.
If anything, I’d be glad a crook like you didn’t want to visit my site again.
Now I personally could careless about copyrighted images & graphics online. But if her profession strictly involves selling the prints, then she’d be stupid not to find a way to protect herself.
Here’s an idea for Avis.
I think this will let photographers provide good looking proof’s and prevent viewers from stealing the photos.
#1. Upload a lower resolution file (640×480) but also
#2. Split the image into three separate files each containing one of the Red, Green, and Blue channels. (The file format must support an alpha channel).
#3. When the user clicks on a thumbnail, the web page loads all three files on top of each other so the viewer sees the color photo.
The results…
If the viewer right clicks and tries to save the photo, only the top photo gets the mouse click and only one color channel is saved.
If they are more sophisticated they might figure out there are three separate files and download all three but they are still stuck with three files that have to be reassembled. For most people this will probably be more trouble than it is worth.
For the photoagrapher, they will need an automated work flow to handle this process.
Mac Mighty Mouse
I am a recent owner of a 17″ iMac Core Duo. It came with a Mighty Mouse. I have used Windows since 3.1 and I have no problems with the Mighty Mouse on the iMac. Perhaps long time Mac users have an ingrained habit of how they always clicked the single button mouse that makes the Mighty Mouse difficult for them to use.
Avis - One of 2 things. Either
1) you need to add a watermark that covers the whole image yet isn’t dark enough to obfuscate the photo. or
2) Your customers are spoiled brats (like many people on the Internet) and will whine unless you give them full resolution pictures that they can print off. So either find a way to charge them for access to the digital pictures (such as a contract obligating them to pay for a certain number of prints) or make them come to your office to see them.
Joe - There are many ways to download Youtube and Google videos. Just do a google search. I use http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php to download and convert the flv videos to usable files with a great free converter, SUPER ©, available at http://www.erightsoft.net/SupCk2.html .
27 September 2006
Mark, from show 282
Record streaming radio
Before podcasting (almost 2 years for me..), I used Net Transport to save streaming files. The reason was that, despite my very stable DSL, I found that many streams had hick-ups and did not allow me to fast forward easily. Nowadays I only play podcasts.
See note below….
Net Transport 1.87 (last freeware version)
OS: Win98/98SE/ME/NT4/2000/XP/2003
Net Transport is a fast and powerful download tool. You may use it to download files from Internet servers. Net Transport now supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, MMS (Microsoft Media Services) and RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol) - five protocols used to transfer data. It can use multiple threads to download files (this feature is supported for HTTP, FTP, MMS and RTSP protocols). If a sites allows multithreaded downloads, you can expect much faster speeds. This is especially effective for MMS streams, because they use a fixed transmission speed and loading several streams of the same file fully uses your Internet bandwidth. RTSP also can use multiple threads to shorten download time, in addition, you can check ‘Streaming/Delivery Bandwidth’ to use TurboPlay feature of RealNetworks to accelerate delivery.
Another feature of Net Transport - File Manager - helps you to be aware of the downloaded file locations even if you are using numerous folders to store them.
Currently Net Transport provides support for RTSP downloads, but every RTSP job allows only one thread at a time. Another restriction is that we guarantee successful downloads only from Real Server (including Helix Server) using RDT - RealNetworks Data Transport data transfer protocol.
Net Transport can download PNA streams (URLs that start from pnm:// protocol). Simply rename the ‘pnm’ prefix to ‘rtsp’ and add the server port to the resulting URL (PNA default port is 7070). For instance, pnm://www.realserver.com/movie.rm should be renamed to rtsp://www.realserver.com:7070/movie.rm
From version 1.20, Net Transport added support for HTTPS, and you can also download HTTPS streaming via HTTP, SOCKS4&5, which only Net Transport can do, especially in SOCKS5.
Regards,
Robert
Regarding the troublshooting/repair term for smacking an electronic device. It’s “Impact Modulation” and although it doesn’t fix the problem all the time, it always you feel better.
Title idea for Leo’s Vista podcast…
“Windows on Vista”
Ah…Jay, you aren’t married are you? Otherwise you wouldn’t call my eloquent prose a rant. In fact my girlfriend has to give me the elbow in the ribs every so often; I ask her why; she says, just making sure you’re still breathing.
By all means, of course protect your property by any proper and legal means you wish, especially where interest is specific and limited (I don’t see myself stealing someones wedding photos online any time soon). I was just pointing out that its a Catch-22, which I AM something of a maven for, as in the connoisseur side of the definition.
Its sort of like John Lennon, he absolutely had to display his talent and creativity because it was a huge part of who he was. At the same time he boiled and churned…and hated the fans who overtly demonstrated fawning admiration for him. He was like, get away from me, its mine, not yours, only he said it a whole lot more graphicallly so to state for the kiddies.
I simply see the territorial machinations of people trying to have it both ways and am always amazed, for some reason, but that may be a shortcoming on my part, because I see such things and just…stop that behaviour—maybe if I continued and after much beating of the head I would find another way out of a Catch-22 (perfect, not compromised) but the way I proceed, I will never find out.
Which is fine by me actually cuz…I’m expecting the next elbow in the ribs any minute now.
