Saturday 28 April 2007
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Tech News
Guests:
Hour 1: Scott Wilkinson of The Perfect Vision Magazine on Home Theater - LcOS TVs
- No screen door effect
- LcOS transistors are not in the way of the light
- JVC has their version of LcOS called HDILA: Wikipedia
- Sony has their version called LcOS: SXRD
- Memorex and Akai are ordering single-chip LcOS chips
- Managed to get to 1920×1080p resolution before other technologies
Hour 2: Rick “Dr. Web” Alber on Web 2.0 Nostalgia
- Windows front-end for Flickr
- Built on Windows Presentation Foundation
- Not for OSX
- Will synchronize folder with Flickr
- Similar to Picasa
- Developer, Thirteen23 provides front-end applications to various web services
- Program Denounce is a podcast player and blog reader
Hour 3: Paul Thurrott with a Vista tip and Steve Gibson on Security - http://
- No need to type http://
- Web browsers automatically put it in
- Humans not supposed to see that
- Just for user’s computer
- Stuck with it forever
Hour 3: Paul Thurott - Save Searches
- Alt+f opens up hidden menu
- Option to “save search” to come back to recent searches
- Can save anywhere you want
- Constantly updating
- Like smart folders
Hour 1
Q Mariana - Windows “hourglass” constantly slowing the computer in Word
- Maybe autosave is turned on and is running too often
- MythTV is a Linux distribution
- Try Knoppmyth
- Can burn recorded content to DVD
- For Windows, try out SageTV
- Both services get TV listings from the Internet
- Can also get a Panasonic DVD recorder
Q Mark from Tustin - Printing more than one picture
- Try emptying print queue
- Seems like a problem with the print spooler
- Try a different program
Q Carl - Sony Reader screen not protected
- Screen broke
- Not covered under warranty
- Only 90 day warranty
- Sony is not known for its support
Hour 2
Q Speranza - Can’t play certain things in FireFox
- For YouTube, you need to install Flash
- Go to flash.com within Firefox
- In terms of security, once you’ve been infected, you’re never sure you can be safe again
- The Windows firewall is sufficient with a router
- Windows Defender is Microsoft’s anti-spyware program
- Take a look at Leo’s Six Rules for Safe Computing
Q Christopher from Rosemund - Laptop computers in college
- Laptop computer have numerous advantages for college
- A computer is a must for college
Q Sydney from Costa Mesa - PDAs
- PDAs are a dying breed
- Phones are getting smarter
- Can get a UMPC, like the Sony UX series
- Or a Nokia Internet tablet
- Victim of identity theft
- Computer is not the main source of identity theft still
- Try out the 3 main rootkit removers
- In London, hackers would drop USB keys in parking lots with malware preloaded in order to infect unsuspecting souls
Hour 3
Q Cannot use Remote Desktop dialer after removing malware
- Malware often infects the winsock dialer file
- Reinstalling Windows is the only way to fix this
- You need to format and then install
- Opportunity to back up
Q Camera that will datestamp pictures
- Some cameras disable digital zoom with datestamping
- Don’t want to use digital zoom anyways
- Wants to upgrade the laptop
- Get up to 1gb of RAM
- See how hard it is to upgrade the hard drive
- Harder on some laptops than others
- XP should have 1gb of RAM and Vista 2gb
- Hard drive MUCH slower than RAM
Q Rob - Xbox 360 or PS3 on a standard TV
- Still will look better
- Wii is more of a social gaming system
- In the long run, you will see fewer games for the previous generation
- Xbox 360 still looks great on SDTV
Q Mary from Inyokern, CA - Web designer for a dog shelter site
- Can spend a lot of money and get a cruddy site
- Several great designers
- Look at a community college for some student willing to help out