Sunday 13 May 2007
- Tech News
- Guests
- Hour 1
- Hour 2
- Downgrading the PSP firmware to version 1.5
- Mary - Setting up mother with DSL line
- David from Indianapolis - Laptop gets hot enough to shut down automatically
- Stephanie from Hayward - Earthlink web page causing slowdown problems
- Trevor from Vancouver - Cannot get PCI 802.11g card working
- Jonathan from Los Angeles - Phone adapter for Skype
- Hour 3
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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
- 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
- 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