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Sunday 13 May 2007

Tech News

Guests

Q Veronica Belmont - World of Warcraft

• Leo is at level 22
• Veronica is at level 29, but has a level 58 character as well
• The highest level attainable is level 70 with the Burning Crusade expansion
• Blizzard is working with Visa on a World of Warcraft credit card
• There are tools that automate gold “farming”
• People are selling gold in the game for real money

Q Ron Rossberg - Ion iTTUSB USB Turntable/XtremeMac MicroPack

• As you play it into your computer, the software will automatically fix some audio
• Amazon has 147 reviews of it
• $99 in store at Costco
• Rechargeable battery for the iPod

Hour 1

Q Robert - New camcorder

• Needs to be priced for a student
• Make sure it has a Firewire output
• JVC and Panasonic are great choices
• Look for something with 24p
  • For more film-like quality
• The larger the chip inside, the better the color performance
• Take a look at CamcorderInfo.com

Q John - IP Addresses

• Must be unique
  • dynamic or static
• IP addresses are assigned by the ISP
  • ISP is your Internet Service Provider
• Routers at home are like switchboards
  • Gets the single IP address from ISP and uses that as the external IP
  • Then assigns internal IPs to each of your computers
  • Follows format: 192.168.1.x

Hour 2

Q Downgrading the PSP firmware to version 1.5

• Wants to play homebrew games
• Sony breaks each hack with every update
• There are firmware downgraders available.
• However, once you get past version 3.1, it is very tough to downgrade
• There are ways to trick the Sony OS
• Look around underground forums

Q Mary - Setting up mother with DSL line

• Wants to network two computers together
  • Mainly wants to access mother’s computer
• LogMeIn and Crossloop

Q David from Indianapolis - Laptop gets hot enough to shut down automatically

• Can use external fans
• Make sure to put it on a hard surface
• USB laptop coolers available
• EverythingUSB conducted a USB laptop cooler shootout

Q Stephanie from Hayward - Earthlink web page causing slowdown problems

• Leo’s baffled
• Call Earthlink

Q Trevor from Vancouver - Cannot get PCI 802.11g card working

• Computer not booting
• Not sure what is going on
• Maybe card is shorted out
• Get them to take it back and replace

Q Jonathan from Los Angeles - Phone adapter for Skype

• Not integrating with Skype
• Sounds like a hardware issue with the adapter

Hour 3