Sunday 15 April 2007
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Tech News
Guests
Q Paul Thurott - Windows Vista tip
- Select one of a few windows and then click another one while holding the control button
- Then select the option to hold the windows side by side
Q Adobe Creative Suite 3 (Photoshop)
- Photoshop CS3 has all the features needed for pictures
- Extended version helps render 3d images
- Doesn’t have any RAM overhead
- Tried to speed up boot time
- Layer alignment feature in CS3 will help you stitch various layers
Q Ron Rossberg - Delphi SkyFi/Ascendo/PocketDay
- Has a roof-mount antenna, remote, earbuds
- Can record up to 10 hours of XM programming
- Accepts & reads MicroSD cards
- Ascendo will allow you to transfer pictures to the BlackBerry
- Very easy drag/drop interface
- 5/5 stars by Ron
- Pocketday shows you all events in calendar to happen today on Blackberry
- Like a start screen
Q Rick Alber - Nikon Universcale
- Flash-based application that teaches about different things by size
- Developed in Japan by Nikon folks
- Can quickly zoom across the line
- Similar to the Powers of 10
Hour 1
Q Casandra - Upgrading the hardware from a PC
- Wants to upgrade processor and motherboard
- Leo likes MSI motherboards
- Go with the Core 2 Duo processors
- AMD processors have just dropped in price, but Core 2 performs better
- Want to get a video card with 128mb of VRAM to run Vista’s Aero effects
- Anandtech has fantastic reviews for motherboards
Q Paul from Glendale - Got virus after going to dummy eBay page
- Probably took advantage of the animated cursor exploit
- Probably installed a rootkit
- Try RootKitRevealer or AVG Anti-Rootkit
- Once system is corrupted, can no longer trust your safety
- Only way to make sure you’re safe is to scan/backup your data and reformat/reinstall Windows
Hour 2
Q Janice from Rancho Cucamonga - HP printer & Mac not playing nice
- Want to get the latest drivers from HP
- If printer worked at Apple Store, make sure all cabling is set up correctly
Q Lida from New York - Email on the Treo 680
- Unfiltered email coming through from Versamail
- Using SpamAssassin on the server and get spam emails
- Probably filtering based on score on the desktop, but not on Treo
- Could set up email forwarding
- Leo says to move to IMAP to manage email on one central server from any device
Q Upgrading hard drive in a TiVo
- Cable Company may have disabled USB port
- If enabled, weaKnees will send you a kit
Q Steve from New York - AppleTV alternatives/Model Railroad Interface from the Internet
- A ton of things will be coming out soon to compete
- Only real competition right now is D-Link MediaLounge
- AppleTV works just fine with Windows
- JMRI may be of some help
- It is Java-based
Hour 3
Q Neil - Right click menu loading slowly
- Right click menus are extendable
- Some program you installed probably did not do a good job with that
- Can fix something in the registry
- Look for “shellex”
- From there, “context menu handlers”
- Look for “shellex”
- Can delete them
- ShellExView will allow you to view all the files in the ShellEx
- Here’s an article about your situation
Q Jim from Yorba Linda - Cannot connect to network over wireless
- Vista works great with WiFi in most situations
- Most probably a security issue on Vista
Q Nancy from Oakland - Someone else logged onto computer?
- Good behavior is the ultimate thing you can change
- There are no confidentiality standards at computer stores
- Once system is compromised, not sure whether you are secure ever again
- Copy off all data on the disk onto another source
- Then use system recovery discs to reformat/reinstall Windows
- May want to uninstall Norton and get NOD32
- Would be a good idea to get a router
- Make sure Windows firewall is on
Q Craig from Studio City - Panasonic Plasma TVs
- Remember the 3 Ps
- Pioneer, Panasonic, plasma
- Make sure it has HDMI port
- Take a look at how it scales low-quality signals (SDTV)
- Try before you buy
- Vizio is also a great plasma & LCD company
Q Brian - RJ45 ethernet connector not working on PC
- Installed Windows XP
- Only Dell Wireless working
- Make sure you get the right motherboard drivers
- If not showing up in device manager, a hardware problem