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• Cocktail will also rebuild it
• Can simply reinstall finder from install discs as well

Q Joe from Punta Gorda, FL - Building web site for family

• Looking for tutorials
• Web Monkey is a web developer’s resource
• W3 Schools is another good one
• Take a look at content management systems
  • Wordpress will allow you to immediately post new content
  • Will also allow you to play with CSS
• TypePad and Movable Type are also great content management systems

Q NAS

• Use gigabit networking
• Use RAID 5
• Leo uses an Infrant system
• Look for one with a web interface
  • Make sure it automatically appears as a shared drive automatically

Q Eliza - Macbook crashing by accessing hard drive in Finder

• Use Onyx to rebuild icons

Q Scott Wilkinson - 1080i vs. 1080p

Q Dick DeBartolo - Old Will Knott Scales

Q Chris Marquardt - Holding the camera

• Do not want your pictures blurry
• Keep camera close to yourself
• Squeeze your elbows into your rib cage
• Chris uses a small bean bag to keep a camera stable

Q Mark - Moving from PC to Mac

• Been using PCs for 30 years
• Wants to know about fully Mac-compatible printers
  • Leo uses an Epson multi-function
  • Shooby has an HP C6180 multi-function printer
    • Has completel mac support
• For GPS
  • Use GPS program in Windows via Parallels

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Q Dick DeBartolo - Old Will Knott Scales

• Site sells scales and only scales
• Comes with AC adapter
  • Can also run on 4 C batteries
• 55 pound capacity
  • 0.1 ounce accuracy for up to 2 pounds
  • 0.5 ounce accuracy over 2 pounds
• Can use “tare”
  • Allows you to set weight to zero with packaging on top
    • In order to weigh goods’ weight only
• Dick got it for $28
  • Sale on the site
• Can move LED read out further away from scale if box is large

Q Marcia from Glendale, CA - Digitizing audio tapes

• Just need to get a cable with headphone jacks on either end
  • Plug one end into tape player
  • Plug other end into line in port on iMac
• Can also use USB audio interface such as the iMic
• Can use Garageband to record
  • Or free Audacity
• Then use iTunes to burn to CD

Q iPhone impressions

• Stepped in the store at 6pm without waiting in line
• Still waiting for activation to happen
  • Verizon taking their sweet time porting the number to at&t
• While waiting for activation, slider is fun to play with

Guests

Q Scott Wilkinson - 1080i vs. 1080p

• 1080i would be scanning all odd # lines, then all even # lines
  • Was done to save bandwidth at first
• 1080p would be scanning all lines at the same time
• CRT displays scan the image
• Newer digital displays flash the entire image
• Digital displays take interlaced signal and process it to be progressive
• Displays with smaller resolutions
  • Take interlaced 1080i signal
  • Convert to 1080p
  • Downscale to lower resolution
• With upscaling DVD players, upscales to 720p or better
  • Then TV scales it to its own native resolution
• Should not be able to notice difference with 1080p display unless it is 70 inches

Q Christine from La Jolla, CA - WebTV not working

• WebTV essentially been orphaned
• Next step up is a computer
• Can try out the all-in-one iMac
  • On the Mac, can zoom into any part of the screen
  • Can make interface simpler using Simple Finder
• Definitely try out broadband

Today is iPhone day! Leo waited for 6 hours in line. However, there was no need to wait in line. Check out the iPhone availability checker at the Apple store. Steve Wozniak was in line at the San Jose Valley Fair Apple Store.

The iPhone data plans are very reasonable.

Q Gary from Santa Monica - iPhone review

• Definite evolution, but not perfect
• Touch screen is marvelous
• For every thing that is wrong, 100 things are right
• 2nd generation will be a huge improvement

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Q Stephen in Detroit, MI - UWB

• Great technology in principle
• Not many devices that use it yet

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 Dr. Web - 37 Signals

• 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

Q Cannot use Outlook Express

• Microsoft has a tutorial on how to manually remove and reinstall Outlook Express
• Then try reconfiguring the Blackberry

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

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

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 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

Q Putting video on the Zune

• 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

To make the iPhone look smaller, Apple decided to use a model with much larger hands.

Q Computer not booting

• 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

Guests

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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 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

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.

Saturday 23 June 2007

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