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- Veronica Belmont - Spore
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Tech News

Dr. Phil is blaming violent videogames for the Virginia Tech Massacre. However, there is no evidence whatsoever that the shooter owned any violent videogames. On the other hand, Dr. Phil may be blaming the violent culture - not videogames.

RIM suffered a widespread outage for its Blackberry email service, and the company has blamed a software upgrade.

Watch Shooby do the shownotes on a live stream on Ustream. Or you can try to crash Ustream and watch Leo on Ustream.

The RED Digital professional camera is doing something twice as good as the other companies, but they just can’t make them fast enough. In fact, they gave Peter Jackson one to shoot a video.

Guests

Q Veronica Belmont - Spore

Almost like an RPG
Living through the life of an organism growing
- Start off as a single cell (spore)
Can control all aspects of its life
Decisions you make early on can affect future
Leo’s wife can go play SimFarm
Games that are great for non-gamers can help hardcore gamers as well because they’re social
Search YouTube for “Will Wright GDC” to see his speech about Spore at the Game Developer Conference

Hour 1

Q Tim from Baton Rouge - Static on speakers, then PC freeze/crash

Maybe a power issue
Could be a lot of different things
Maybe bad capacitors on motherboard
First thing to do would be to eliminate software problems
Download a Linux LiveCD (like Ubuntu)
- Try it and if it works fine, then definitely a hardware problem
You want to eliminate problems one by one

Q Andre from Murieta - Running Windows programs on a Mac

2 methods
- Dual boot via Boot Camp
- Virtualization using Parallels
Those 2 require copies of Windows
Can also try Crossover
- Emulates Windows
- Only works with defined applications in this list

Q Linked together 55gb into several discs

One of his discs is corrupted
Seems like Nero put all data into one large file and split it across the numerous discs
Not sure how to extract data

Hour 2

Q Louis - Can’t access some files on flash drive

Flash drives, in some ways, are more fragile than real hard drives
May have taken out the drive before writing was done
PC Inspector Smart Recovery will probably restore the files

Q Tony from San Diego - Getting rid of duplicates in iTunes/iPhoto Preview

When you delete files in iTunes, there’s an option to move the file to the trash
To view duplicates, click the “View” menu and click “show duplicates”
iDupe can help
In iPhoto itself would be a great idea

Q Dave - 134mb only free? Can’t defrag

Try doing a search for for file over 500mb
Worst case situation a hacker may have taken over
Look around for a huge folder
SequoiaView will allow you to view at your hard drive graphically

Wesley writes:

Try out Treesize for WINDOWS, its free.

That’s the program I was trying to remember! There’s a similar program for Mac’s called WhatSize.

Hour 3

Q Glen - Clock is wrong sometimes/Windows bootup very slow

Something at startup is taking a while
Try creating a new account to see if problem is unique to your account
Autoruns will tell you everything running at startup
- Try disabling things you don’t need

Q Devon from Mission Viejo - MacBook questions