Saturday 31 March 2007
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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
- Email phishing spams use HTML email to spoof the original bank links.
- 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
- 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 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