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Q Phil from Simi Valley - Using Ghost with RAID hard drives

• Still should back up
• RAID 1 works, but not 1 stop shop
• RAID 0 is great, gives you 1 large drive
• Make backups on external drive or CD/DVD
• About blue screens of death: driver issues may cause them

Q Ed from Orlando - Front Row

• Front Row is just a front end
• Will play anything in your iTunes/iPhoto libraries
• Can play media from external drive if iTunes if pointed to it

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

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 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

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

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

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 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 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 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

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?

Saturday 31 March 2007

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