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Saturday 19 May 2007
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Tech News
Microsoft has purchased for $6B dollars, the largest deal that they have ever made, aQuantive, a digital marketing firm.
Do you use the Internet Explorer search bar in the corner? If you do, do you use the default Live Search, Google, or another search engine?
John Chow has a blog on making money online, and now makes $11,000 a month on ads.
On Wednesday, Engadget posted a story about an internal Apple memo saying that the iPhone was delayed until October, and Apple wouldn’t ship until 1Q 2008. Apple’s stock dropped significantly. The iPhone was shortly after approved by the FCC and is on schedule to launch sometime in late-June.
The Seattle Post Intelligencer may begin to print their newspaper on e-paper or flexible color LCD displays but not any time soon.
Blizzard Entertainment, makers of the popular World of Warcraft online multiplayer game, has announced that Starcraft is returning as Starcraft 2.
Guests
- UV Hawk is a ultra-violet sunlight meter
- Bigger than a book of matches
- LED screen on front
- Set your skin type, your sunscreen’s protection factor
- Go out into the sun, and tells you how long you can safely stay outside
- Also tells how much sun you’ve gotten
- ShieldsUp lets you test your ports to see if any vulnerable ones are open
- Typical broadband routers are NAT routers
- NAT stands for Network Address Translation
- Routers share one IP from your ISP
- A single computer has a unique IP without a router
- More computers needed to share the single IP from your ISP to your other computers
- NAT watches which computer sends traffic and routes the return traffic to the correct computer
- Unsuspected traffic not directed to a computer, and the NAT router drops the traffic
- NAT routers are really a hardware firewall
- Steve still recommends a router even for one computer
- Routers still won’t replace a software firewall but good enough
- Lots of controversy about this
- Casual users receive enough protection from the built-in Windows Firewall
- People who want more control can use a third-party firewall like the Blink Personal Edition from eEye
Q Doctor Tiki aka Jeff MacPherson
- Doctor Tiki is the maker of Tiki Bar TV
- Many guest appearances including Kevin Rose
- Podcast is unscripted, 30 minutes of footage, cut down shorter
- New episode is coming soon
- Once a year, sign up for Email Amnesty
- You and everyone else on your contact list gets an email
- On your birthday, all unread emails are wiped
- Could be the biggest thing on the internet
- Show how many emails behind you are
- Email Leo to plan this out
Hour 1
Q John from Fort Collins, Colorado
- Wants to release higher-resolution podcasts
- Using H.264 video codec
- Some viewers can’t sync podcasts to their iPod
- Always have the latest version of iTunes and iPod firmware
- Only a handful can sync the video
- Leo doesn’t know why it isn’t working
- Cali Lewis from GeekBrief.tv had the same problem.
Q Dennis from Olive Branch, Mississippi
- Maintains a website for high school band
- Started doing a podcast this year, interviews a band member per week
- Has been capturing the audio using the line-in on notebook
- Switched to DSP-400 from Plantronics
- Wants to use both headsets at the same time
- Only able to use one headset at a time
- Best way to use two inputs is a mixer
- M-Audio Fast Track is a USB interface for a microphone
- Fast Track Pro has two mic XLR inputs
Q Tim from Daytona Beach, Florida
- Using a screen-reading program called JAWS
- Uses Eudora for e-mail client
- Eudora is discontinued
- Mozilla is taking over development
- Looking for an e-mail client compatible with screen-reader
- Try Mozilla’s free Thunderbird client
- Eudora may be based on this in the future
- Cursor from the chatroom says that JAWS works fine with Thunderbird, though there are issues with scripting
- Also take a look at Pegasus Mail
- All of these clients use the mbox file format
- Have any other suggestions? Email Leo!
Hour 2
Q Jeff from Sherman Oaks, California
- Using the Palm Treo 650 smartphone
- Looking at the new Blackberry 8830 World Edition for Verizon Wireless
- Based on the 8800 from Cingular
- Some complained about the keyboard
- Blackberry has better e-mail capabilities
- Advantage of the 8830 is CDMA (Verizon, Sprint) and GSM (Cingular, T-Mobile)
- Good for traveling internationally
- Trackball takes some getting used to, but is better for navigation
- Blackberry OS is much better than the Palm OS
- Browser works great with web technologies
- Blackberry Curve has a 2 megapixel camera
- Leo has the 8700c from Cingular, similar to the 8800/8830
- Wanted wireless in the home
- Purchased Linksys wireless router
- Interferes with cordless phone
- Only on 2.4 GHz wireless frequency
- Try the 5.8 GHz or 900 MHz models instead
- Was getting cut off from the internet
- Called Time Warner Cable thinking internet was out
- Change the channel of the wireless router to a higher channel
- Lower channels are closer to cordless phones
Q Jay from Kernville, California
- Has a 17″ iMac
- Running out of space
- Needs a scratch disk for Photoshop
- Photoshop needs a lot of space
- Looking at a 500GB external hard drive
- Makes no difference
- Mostly the same
- You pay a premium for LaCie because of the design
- Most generic external drives use the same brands of hard drive
- FireWire is faster than USB for backup, runs off port in some cases
Q Steve from Vancouver, Canada
- Hooked land-line to laptop
- Now it doesn’t want to connect
- Connects wirelessly
- Trying to set IP to 1.1.1.1
- Using a US Robotics router
- DHCP on router is malfunctioning
- Might want to update firmware
Hour 3
Q Chip from Corona Del Mar, California
- Installed a Logitech Harmony universal remote
- Programmable via USB and internet
- Purchased the Harmony 890
- Put in what devices you want to control online via browser
- 890 is also RF, ability to control things behind the door
- Works by function
- Sets everything for each task
- Automatically switches the inputs
Q Ed from West Covina, California
- Working with an iMovie HD project
- 30 min. independent film
- Has some audio that is soft, some that is really loud
- Amadeus Pro or Audacity allows you to edit audio
- Can’t separate dialog from audio
- Soundtrack Pro has the ability to edit audio from video
- Only with Final Cut Studio
- You can change the audio with markers in iMovie HD
- Use compression to normalize audio
Q Mary in San Clemente, California
- Wants to play iTunes on stereo system around the house
- Using a Mac
- Apple’s Airport Express with AirTunes will work
- Also can be used to extend wireless network
- Stereo is 70–100 feet away from computer
- SqueezeBox is a good choice from Slim Devices
- Trying to create a keyboard shortcut
- Best way to do this is Quicksilver
- Keyboard launcher
- Trigger command can do this
Q Julie from Santa Clarita, California
- Looking to use DSLExtreme
- Can’t because phone is provided by cable company
- Bare or naked DSL is what she wants
- Currently getting internet from cable company
- Phone company is AT&T
- AT&T requires you to be a phone subscriber
- AT&T will start offering naked DSL later this summer according to the chatroom
