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Sunday 22 April 2007
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Tech News
Leo and Shooby are both streaming video over the radio show using Ustream. You can either watch Leo’s stream on this website on the left column or head on over to his Ustream page. Or if you want to watch Leo’s intern, Shooby, hard at work, head on over to his Ustream page. Both streams can be found on one page here.
Virginia Tech has replaced their homepage with a Memoriam where you can write on their guestbook.
Apple released a large security update that covers several aspects of the operating OS.
Google launched its Google History service that is amazingly interesting or creepy depending on how you look at it.
Guests
Q Ron Rosberg - Canon Powershot SD750
- Has face detection to focus on faces
- Red eye correction in playback
- 30fps VGA movie feature
- Uses new SD card format to go up to 8gb
- Can use the Kingston Data Traveler Reader to transfer pictures quickly
- Can support new SD format
Q Rick Alber - Bungee Labs/Vidoop
- Online development environment
- Vidoop aims to get rid of passwords by a single sign-on
- Part of OpenID
- First register and choose from set up pictures
- You’ll see a grid of 12 pictures based from the categories you’ve chosen
- No password required
- Roboform and 1Passwd are password managers
Hour 1
Q Dennis from Marina Del Rey - Bluetooth headset for a cell phone
- Plantronics 640 is great
- Plantronics Voyager 510 is what Leo would recommend
Q Joan from Garden Grove - Switching from cable to Verizon fiber optic (FiOS)
- Certainly will beat your cable modem
- In Leo’s opinion, fiber is the way of the future
- If channels offered by Verizon are comparable to Comcast, go ahead
- Broadband Reports has a great FAQ about FiOS
Q Richard from San Francisco - Quad-band phones compatible with Verizon CDMA
- Leo has two services just to use phones internationally
- The majority of the world uses GSM
- Not CDMA like Verizon
- Could also get a phone in international country
- Then get Verizon phone to forward to internation number
- Leo uses T-Mobile for traveling overseas
Q Robin from Toronto - Promoting a podcast
- Leo markets using mainstream media
- We need to find new ways to market
- Figure out who your viewers are
- Go to where they congregate
- Participate with to-be listeners
- Word of mouth still the best way to advertse
Hour 2
Q Herald - Cable TV over the Internet?
- Should look at the list of things you can get
- Lots of international offerings
- Check out InternetTVList.com
Q Fred from Torrence - Favicons
- Little icons shown when you go to a website in address bar
- 16×16 size
- Very tiny
- Several favicon generators available on the Internet
- Leo likes Favicon.co.uk
- Play with it until you get it how you like
Q Bill - Logging into 2 separate accounts on Hotmail
- Firefox is referring to the cookies
- Just block cookies from Hotmail
Q Patrick - PDA for email with a large screen
Hour 3
Q Scott from Chico - Linksys Skype iPhone
- When he stops using phone, can’t hear audio on Skype itself
- Can change settings on Skype to get output audio to speakers
- Not Skype’s fault
- Just how the iPhone works
- Can’t call up Skype and ask them to change their API
Q Gus - Laptop rebooting on its own
- You have a worm called Sasser
- If you removed it, and it still reboots, you may have a variant
- Never sure if you’re completely safe until you’ve reinstalled
Q Neil from Toronto - Wireless surround sound system
Q Storm - Making drive images of pictures
- Apple’s Disk Utility will allow you to create an image of the drive
- When you make an image of a partition, should keep the size of the partition
- Can just copy contents of the partition
- Not working because of hidden boot sectors
- Could use TrueImage on Windows using Boot Camp
