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Sunday, December 3, 2006
- Tech News
- 11a-Noon
- Noon-1p
- Ryan from Massachusetts - Recording HD movies to a DVD recorder
- Aaron from Maryland - Wife spilled soda on a laptop
- Adware in multiple Windows XP accounts
- Downloading radio programs
- Norman from North Hollywood - Antivirus
- Henry from Huntington Beach - Looking for a desktop computer for digital photography
- 1-2p
- Steve from Detroit - Can’t see any video from Yahoo News Video
- Cleaning a keyboard
- Kurt from Oregon - Ubuntu and Windows networking
- Vince from Burbank - Calling cell phone from your computer
- Bob from Los Angeles - Going wireless for DSL
- Al from Huntington Beach - Myspace ruining gaming
- New email standard to prevent spam
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Tech News
A monumental beta version of the virtualization program Parallels was released this week. It has a feature called coherence mode so it looks like a Windows application is running naturally on a Mac. I think that this is the most important program of the year 2006.
Turns out Windows Vista is vulnerable to malware, even from 2004!
There is a Windows Vista “crack” circulating around the Internet that turned out to be a trojan horse.
11a-Noon
Q Stephan from Germany - How much to charge to design a website
He is designing and maintaining a site for a church. My website designers charge $150/hr. I would keep track of the hours and charge by the hour. I’d say to charge about $50–75 an hour. This converts to 38–57 euros an hour. Web design is an incredibly skilled work.
Q Patty from Orange County - Erasing hard drive on a computer
She wants to send her computer to e-waste, but wants to erase the hard drive first. However, it does not boot up. Use DBAN (Darik’s Boot and Nuke). This is floppy based so you do not need to boot up.
Q Chef Jeff from Van Nuys - Services from GoDaddy
GoDaddy is a very good domain registrar. On the other hand, their hosting service is geared towards low-traffic sites. Their services, like submitting your domain name to search engines, are useless. Shopping carts or email services are useful though. It’s hard to tell, because they offer so many services. Starting a blog with a constant feed of content can help. Also, you can purchase Google Adwords where you pay per click.
Q Stan from Colorado - Recommendation for a digital photo album or frame
Actually, a lot of new televisions have flash card slots. If they keep all their pictures on cards, they’ll need to constantly buy new cards. You may want to look into something to offload the pictures onto. Epson makes multimedia viewers like the P-3000. There are also digital photo frames that you plug memory cards into like this Philips frame.
Noon-1p
Q Ryan from Massachusetts - Recording HD movies to a DVD recorder
He is going to get an HD camcorder (Canon HV10: review soon and wants to use a DVD recorder to record the video taken to a DVD. However, the quality will be degraded when you transfer the video because it is being compressed to MPEG-2. While you’re waiting for high definition recorders, save the data.
Q Aaron from Maryland - Wife spilled soda on a laptop
He wants to know if he can use rubbing alcohol to remove the soda. There’s a couple of things that liquid can do to a computer. If you get liquid into a computer, disconnect it from ANY source of electricity. Then, you want to dry it out. There is a secondary issue, though. Now that the keys are sticky, you have to find a way to clean out the sugar. If you can remove the keyboard, it may be possible to put it through the dishwasher or bathe it in alcohol. That will dissolve the sugar. You have to put some elbow grease into it. They key is that the keyboard is bone dry before you plug it back in. eHow has an article on cleaning keyboards.
Q Adware in multiple Windows XP accounts
Regardless of whether your account is admin or not, the adware will have affected all users. If using an antispyware program will not clean up your computer, your only choice is to reinstall Windows.
She wants Internet radio without getting the Internet. You would have to get Internet access somehow. The library would have to allow you to listen to the stream or download it, record it (if streamed), and put the audio on a device. I would check with the library first before spending any money on an mp3 player. This is a rather compelling reason to get an Internet subscription. When you do look for an mp3 player, try out the iRiver.
Q Norman from North Hollywood - Antivirus
His computer will not allow NOD32 to work because of a lack of memory. Also, his DSLextreme service offers email scanning and the such. Changing your behavior is the most effective method to prevent spam. Do not click links in email, do not download attachments, do not use these p2p services. Because there are so many holes in Windows, hackers are always finding ways to exploit systems. In fact, there is a company in Russia that will sell a hacker’s kit. Also, use Firefox instead of Internet Explorer.
Q Henry from Huntington Beach - Looking for a desktop computer for digital photography
I’d take a look at the Mac side. Aperture is a great photography program. Obviously, you want a Core 2 machine. I’m a Dell. Look at the XPS 410 machine. You get Windows XP Media Center, 1gb RAM, 250gb drive, slower 1.88ghz Core 2. On top of all of that, you get a 19″ monitor.
1–2p
Q Steve from Detroit - Can’t see any video from Yahoo News Video
That’s almost undoubtedly a Windows Media Player problem. Use Windows Update to get the latest version of Windows Media Player. Also, try using Firefox.
Use distilled water, and then use a squirt bottle to use streams. After that, use 91% rubbing alcohol. Now, do the same thing as you did with the distilled water: flood the keyboard with it and then put it in a squirt bottle to squirt it. Finally, get a hair dryer set to “cool” to dry it out and then leave it outside for 3 days.
Q Kurt from Oregon - Ubuntu and Windows networking
He’s able to browse folders ont he Windows machine from the Ubuntu machine, but not the other way around. It’s likely that you have security software blocking access to the computer. The reason the Ubuntu machine is seeing the Windows machine is because of something called Samba. There is an article to get Windows to work with Samba [[Q: Steve from Detroit - Can’t see any video from Yahoo News Video
That’s almost undoubtedly a Windows Media Player problem. Use Windows Update to get the latest version of Windows Media Player. Also, try using Firefox.
Q Vince from Burbank - Calling cell phone from your computer
What you need is a special kind of modem called a voice modem. The market for modems has dwindled. What I do is use a service from a company called GotVMail. Grand Central. Also, try out Skype.
Q Bob from Los Angeles - Going wireless for DSL
All you really have to do is get a wireless router. DSL, like cable, comes out of a modem which outputs an ethernet connection. My current favorite brand for routers is D-Link. After you get the router, you’re going to get USB WiFi adapters. Make sure to look on the box to see if Windows 98 is supported. Next, you want to turn on WPA encryption. Then, on all the computers, go into the wireless settings and enter in your WPA password. 802.11b is the oldest and slowest, 802.11g is the most common on routers. However, if you want the most range, look at the Belkin Draft-N routers.
Q Al from Huntington Beach - Myspace ruining gaming
Whenever his daughter scrolls down on a MySpace page, the ping on his LAN gaming shoots up. MySpace pages are loaded with images and other multimedia. You can go into her Firefox settings and turn off javascript and images. She’s not going to like it, though.
Q New email standard to prevent spam
There were competing email standards. Both deal with authentication. The main idea being that in order to receive email, you must authenticate that person. Unfortunately, the only way to avoid spam for now is filtering. As a suggestion, use Mailroute.
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