Sunday 3 June 2007
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Guests
Q Chris - Assignments
- Assignments force people to think in different ways
- Restricts them to shoot in a certain way
- Example may be “reflections”
- A fun project was “Lock yourself in the bathroom”
- Here’s an assignment for Tech Guy listeners: the ABCs
- Go out and find all 26 english letters
- Get creative
- Please string all 26 pictures into one mosaic or something of the like
- Submissions can be sent to the Tech Guy Flickr group
Q Ron Rosberg - Harmony 1000 Universal Remote/Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker
- Connect to PC using USB and download control profiles from Logitech site
- Ron has 18-year old Sony device and the Harmony can control it
- Guaranteed to work with over 200,000 devices
- Has a color 3.5″ screen
- $330.88 on Amazon
- Retails for $499.99
- Has a dispenser to put toppings in
- Will automatically mix in the toppings
- Makes 1.5 quarts in about 20 minutes
- Ron’s experience was 27 minutes or so
- Can either use Cuisinart mix or your own recipe
- $235 retail
- $99.95 on Amazon
- Make sure to watch the machine
- If you leave it in for too long, comes out too hard
- If too short, comes out like soup
- Makes 10 1/2-cup services
- Smaller than a gallon of milk
- Instruction book is not very well made
- Makes several touchless products
- For example: the automatic paper towel dispenser
- can use any size towels
- Uses perforation
- Need to pull up so you don’t break the machine
- $59.99 for pre-orders
- $79.99 for normal price
- Touchless trash can and faucet are actually useful
Hour 1
Q Ryan - WiFi dropping out or too slow
- Anything in between the signal and client will slow down connection
- Any metal whatsoever will stop it in its tracks
- Windows looks for the strongest signal
- May be connecting to neighbor’s network
- Microsoft has released an update for the issue
- Make sure to set a “master browser”
- Master browser should be most reliable wired computer
- Neighbor may be also using a speed-boost technology
- These knock out other wireless networks
- Can be alleviated by upgrading to an 802.11n network
- Thinking about using Stickam or Ustream
- Wants to do a powerpoint as well
- Fast motion will not work well
- EVDO is fine
- Sprint is what Ustream recommends
Hour 2
- Ordering by track number
- Will work if you use playlists
- Hassle
Q Mike from Long Beach - Online repository for photos
- Taking hours to upload pictures
- You’re uploading the highest quality file
- Look in iPhoto and find the file size
- If megabytes, that’s probably why
- Leo uses Flickr
- There is a Flickr iPhoto extension
Q Playing co-op game on a PC/Playing HD-DVDs on non HDCP monitor
- Maybe with an Xbox 360 and PC
- There is a movement for Xbox/PC compatibility
- Slysoft’s AnyDVD HD will allow you to play it
Q Michelle - iPod vs. the competition
- Wants to be able to record audio on the mp3 player as well
- Can do that on the iPod with products such as the Belkin TuneTalk
- For a Mac, an iPod would make sense
- The iRiver is used by many podcasters
- Leo likes the XtremeMac Micro Memo
- Take a look at the iPod Nano
Q Sean from Rancho Cucamonga - Seeing incoming faxes remotely
- Could get LCD screen to run orders past
- Probably should simply attach a light to fax machine
Hour 3
Q Alex from Vancouver - “Adult” popups on computer
- Coming out of nowhere
- No anti-spyware is catching it
- HijackThis will show you all installed software
- Also try Rootkit Revealer
- Once you’re compromised you never know if you’re secure again
Q Martin - OS9 not working well
- Don’t try running the latest programs
- Can run in classic mode in OSX
- Computer simply getting old
Q Rob - Cannot defrag hard drive
- Background applications using the disk
- Should run defragmentation in safe mode
Q Jim from Riverside - Cannot install Service Pack 2
- The farther PC gets from original XP installation, harder to install Service Pack 2
- Best way to do this would be to do clean install of XP and then install SP2 immediately
- May also be time to get a new PC
- PC is 5 years old
- Upconverting DVD players using HDMI for copy protection
- Find an upconverting player that will use component
Q iTunes sorting songs differently than Windows
- Can uncheck option to move files into iTunes folder
- Not using folder structure
- Using ID3 tag information
- Smart folder feature may solve some troubles
- Organizes music automatically using 20 parameters you set