Saturday 12 May 2007
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Tech News
Intel finally began shipping its Santa Rosa chipset with an 802.11n draft wireless chip as well as an upgraded integrated graphics chip.
Guests
Q Steve Gibson - EEye Blink
- May replace all security software with one package
- Normal antivirus and antispyware software required constantly updating definitions
- Blink simply looks for activity typical of spyware/viruses and stops it
- The government even uses this software
- Neighborhood Watch edition is absolutely free
- Does not use definitions
- When “updating” it is actually building its database of suspicious activity
- Personal Edition is free for one year, and then $22
Q Dick DeBartolo - Wind up flashlight
- Uses LED
- UltraPower Zipping LED Pull-to-Charge flashlight
Q Scott Wilkinson - Buying your first HDTV
- Start with looking at your room
- Decide where the TV will go and what size you need
- Do not want a square room
- Don’t want to put the TV near or across a window
- Do not want to put plasma or LCD TV on top of a fireplace
- Wall needs to be very insulated
- LCD TVs are brighter
- Better for ambient light situation
- Rear projection TVs are very bright
- Center it on the wall so more people have a good viewing angle
- Determine the seating distance to figure out the size of TV you need
Hour 1
Q Rick from Torrance - Boot Camp or Parallels or Stick with the Mac
- Only need Boot Camp or Parallels if you have Windows-only software
- Boot Camp turns your Mac into a full-blown PC
- Parallels allows you to virtualize Windows
- Office 2007 uses a new format
- No sounds coming out at all
- Out of luck
Hour 2
Q Logitech MX610 wireless mouse lagging
- Lots of lagging with the mouse
- Get the latest Logitech drivers
- Try moving the wireless dongle around
- Try out a wired mouse to see if it’s a problem with the PC or mouse
- Always remember to check the batteries
- Maybe something else is using the same frequency
Q Tom from Los Angeles - Spyware on Mac OS X/Windows laptop
- In theory, Mac OSX can get infected with anything
- OSX has good multi-user protection though
- Hackers don’t want to develop for OSX
- 95% of computer users using Windows
- Leo has never seen spyware for the Mac
- Be very careful about saying that it’ll never happen
- Stick with the Core 2 Duo
- Faster than the AMD X2 because it has much more L2 cache
- Look at the Dell Inspiron E1505
Q Richard from Santa Clarita - DVDs burnt are stuttering
- Used Adobe Premiere Elements
- Try playing in another player to see if it is your player’s problem
- Then may want to tinker with settings in Adobe Premiere Elements
- Most likely player having trouble reading the disc
Hour 3
- Wants a solid state camera
- Highest quality available is using tape
- Advantage of solid state is so you can edit on a computer easily
- Take a look at the Sanyo Xacti HD2
- Leo loves this camera
Q Kurt from Pasadena - Buying his first computer
- PC is the better game console
- Mac is easier for beginning users to create content
- Go with 2gb of RAM
- With a Mac, you can use Parallels to virtualize Windows
- Go with the iMac
- Take a look at the Blackberry or Treo
- The Treo with Windows Mobile is more like a computer
- Blackberry OS is specifically made for a phone