Saturday 23 June 2007
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Tech News
Google Gears allows anyone to use Google Applications, which are online, when you are not connected to the Internet.
Google complained that Vista’s desktop search was unfair for other search applications, and Microsoft has caved in.
Yahoo has changed CEOs by booting Semel, and moved founder Jerry Yang into the CEO position.
To make the iPhone look smaller, Apple decided to use a model with much larger hands.
Guests
Q Dick DeBartolo - Sansa Shaker
- Looks like a salt shaker
- Shaking changes the song
- Built in speaker
- Built in twin headphone jack
- 512mb
- Holds about 125 songs
- Retail price is $39.99
- Made for kids
- Volume control is on the top
- Music control on the bottom
- Can upgrade memory card
Q Veronica Belmont - How to get an iPhone
- Going to close all the stores at 4pm
- Then Fedex will deliver between 4–6pm
- Begin selling at 6pm
- Only AT&T owned stores and Apple Stores will have the iPhone
- Make sure to call your local AT&T store to confirm they will have the iPhone
- Can also purchase at the Apple Store online
- Veronica will go to a store in a less populated area
- In the bay area
- Unique small-group software crafters based in Chicago and around the world
- Powerful but narrowly-focused, simple-to-use online applications
- Origin of name is from signals picked up from space during our ongoing search for extraterrestrial life
- Heavy use of Ajax for smooth interfaces
- Eat their own dogfood philosophy
- 8 years old, recent investment by Jeff Bezos
- Products
- Basecamp - project management and collaboration
- Highrise - CRM
- Campfire - group chat
- Backpack - info organizer and calendar
- Ta-Da List - to-do lists
- Writeboard - collaborative writing
- Web-based applications that are subscription-based $12-$149/month
- Philosophy laid out in their Getting Real book ($20 download)
- Creators of Ruby on Rails, one of the fundamental tools of Web 2.0 development
- Host Signal vs. Noise blog with 65,000 readers
- Basecamp
- Most popular Products
- Video tour of features available
- Monthly fee based on # of projects and features, not people using it
- Free for 1 project, $12 for 3, $24 for 15, $149 for unlimited
- File storage
- Calendar
- Chat, Message boards, RSS feed
- Time Tracking
- Whiteboards
- Philosophy of doing less things correctly and simply
- Campfire
- Room metaphor
- Transcripts of chat conversations are stored
- Images embed in chat window
- Great app to leave open all day if you’re working in a virtual group
- Free for 4 simultaneous chatters and 10mb of space
- $12 for 12 chatters, $24 for $25, $49 for 60 and 2Gb
Hour 1
Q Harry from Lancaster, CA - Netscape not behaving well
- May as well use Firefox now
- Netscape source was given to Mozilla developers
- Try to delete all temporary files
- Mozilla counterpart of Netscape suite is Seamonkey
- Individual applications
- Browser: Firefox
- Mail: Thunderbird
- Web editor: Nvu
- Only seeing Dell logo at startup
- Power supply may be malfunctioning
- May have to purchase a proprietary Dell power supply
- Other possibility could be a problem with motherboard itself
Q Terry from North Ridge, CA - Converting records and tapes to CD
- Looking at the Crosley solution
- Audacity would help to clean up audio
- Best results would be to get a USB turntable to record into PC and edit with Magix Audio Cleaning Lab
Hour 2
- Need to convert the video
- Xilisoft and ImTOO both have products
- Will need to use Shrinkto5 to decrypt DVD
Q How to delete Google History
- Option to remove all web history available
- Firefox extension called CustomizeGoogle is great to edit how you view Google
Q Douglas from Wichita - Modern VCR-like device
- DVRs have been taking over VCRs for a long time in terms of recording content
- TiVos available with built in DVD recorders
- Will not be able to find a removable medium to record HD content
- Until Blu-Ray or HD-DVD recorders are readily available
- Can also set up a MythTV box with a built-in DVD burner
Hour 3
Q Music notation on Garageband
- Garageband is made for MIDI loops
- Finale is a great application for this
- Can use a Mac Mini for recording
- Get an external Firewire hard drive as well
Q Jan from Beverly Hills, CA - Returning the iPhone/Podcast
- Easier for new customers to return
- Definitely ask about return policy
- Has a dog training podcast called The Hollywood Bitch
- For video podcasts, the less movement and the more static the background is, the higher the compression will be
- Microsoft has a tutorial on how to manually remove and reinstall Outlook Express
- Then try reconfiguring the Blackberry
Q David from Valencia, CA - Slow frame rate in World of Warcraft on new laptop
- Probably because of integrated graphics
- Vista Aero does take a lot of CPU cycles
- There is a site describing ideal Windows Vista services configuration
Q Stephen in Detroit, MI - UWB
- Great technology in principle
- Not many devices that use it yet