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Tech News

A great prank would be to take a screenshot of an active desktop and then set it as a wallpaper. Then you can watch the fun as the victim tries to click unresponsive windows.

The founder of BetOnSports.com has been arrested by the US to answer criminal charges of running a gambling website. The USA is one of the few countries in the world where Internet gambling is illegal. People are saying the US is being anti-competitive because the country still allows online gambling for horse racing.

The Copyright Royalty Board has decided to raise the rates significantly for Internet radio. Is this just a case of the record industry trying to run Internet radio out of business?

George Gilder’s book Microcosm, written in 1990, is still correct with its predictions.

Intel has announced the 45 nanometer (transistor size) Penryn processor.

The ICANN has rejected the .xxx domain space once again and won’t look at it again.

One Man’s Blog has a chilling article on how easily some passwords are cracked.

Guests

Q Dick DeBartolo - The Printing Mailbox

Plug it into a phone line and set up an account via Presto
Make a list of people who will send them email
Can even set the default size of text
Then can set the device to check email at various times
- Plays a chime whenever email comes in
Then it prints out the email and any attachments
- Attachments mainly pictures
The device for people who aren’t tech literate, but want to be connected
$149.99 for device & $9.99 a month for service

Q Merlin Mann - Getting Things Done

Merlin uses the Hipster PDA
Once you’re done getting things done, you realize things come down to actions
You don’t need to overplan your life
- Just need to figure out the next 1–2 actions
Have a trusted system that will handle your organization
Here’s how to get started with “Getting Things Done”
The book “Getting Things Done” is a fantastic read as well

Q Rick Alber - Microsoft Live Labs

Microsoft plays around with technologies here
Similar to Google Labs
Photosynth takes pictures and puts them in a 3d space
- Similar to Quicktime VR
Unique experience that is user friendly
You have to try it
Site has cool things, but takes forever for technologies to get out of labs

Hour 1

Q Mike - Links disabled in email

Can’t click on links from email client
This is because of phishing
- Email phishing spams use HTML email to spoof the original bank links.
  - Then hackers can get your personal information
Leo’s suggestion is to copy and paste into the browser
- That’s safe
It’s not safe to click any links from email
Disable HTML email while you’re at it
Also turn off the preview pane.
Change email clients
- Outlook Express is outdated and has been abandoned by Microsoft

Q Joe from Ventura - Converting VHS tapes to DVD

Has several skydiving videos on VHS
VHS is analog
Need something that will convert analog to digital
Can get an internal tuner to connect a VCR to the PC
Pinnacle Moviebox DV uses Firewire
Or can get a tuner and connect VCR to the back of computer
- Then can use Adobe Premiere Elements to import/edit video

Q Mike from Corona - HP Deskjet print heads clogging

New inks are greatly overpriced
Laser printers don’t clog
- Upfront cost is a lot
- Cost per page is much less though

Hour 2

Q Todd from Detroit - Vista not seeing all RAM

Probably your motherboard
- Check RAM limits
Also some compatibility issues with sound card on Vista x64
Only benefit with 64-bit Vista is access to insane amount of RAM
- 4gb RAM will be fine in 32-bit

Q Joe from San Diego - Syncing smartphone with G4 PowerMac

Mark/Space has The Missing Sync that can sync numerous phones
PocketMac is free for the Blackberry

Q Mintu from Santa Monica - Antivirus on Windows partition on a Mac

You are still running Windows
But on Parallels, you are running a virtual machine
Once you have a perfect setup of Windows, make a copy of the virtual machine
- If the VM gets infected, just throw it out and go back to the backup

Q Importing saved email into Outlook or windows Mail

Was using email client provided by ISP
Just configure Vista’s Windows Mail to connect to the server
When you connect to Juno server and download, it’ll delete from Juno
Need to figure out how to convert Juno mail to mbox
Juno to mbox converter available for download
Then can import the mbox format to Outlook or any other client

Hour 3

Q Getting Windows XP on a new computer

Using Windows Vista isn’t that hard
It’s easy to pick up and set up quickly
Leo’s a fan of Dell
- Lenovo hasn’t been keeping up to snuff lately
Laptop should have Core 2 Duo
2gb RAM is plenty
Get extended battery
Want at least a CD burner/DVD reader (combo drive)
Microsoft has a chart comparison of the varying editions of Vista

Q David from London - Can’t invite people to events in Microsoft Entourage

Got a new Mac
- Connecting to corporate Exchange server
Macwindows.com has an extensive article regarding running Entourage with Exchange servers
- That should help you
Business world is a little more hostile towards Macs

Q Ed from Orlando - Front Row