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Sunday 8 July 2007

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Tech News

NASA has purchased a $19 million toilet system.

In Handspring founder Jeff Hawkin’s book, On Intelligence, he discusses the need for technology to progress into literal “thinking machines.” He has gone on to found a new company based on the theory named Numenta.

iPhoneDevCamp is going on right now where people are trying to hack and develop applications for the iPhone.

Guests

Q Ron Rosberg - GiSTEQ Photo Tracker Kit

• Syncs with the timestamp on your camera
• Then will “geotag” your pictures
  • When you connect to the computer
  • Install their software
• On Flickr, it will show you exactly where you took the picture
• $99.95 on Amazon
• Comes with USB charger

Q Chris Marquardt - Reviewing the Assignment

• Take a look at the Flickr group
• Theimentor actually went out and found every letter
• Floyduk used a flashlight to draw the letters
• Majorlefty used a Rubik’s cube
• New assignment: contrast
• Chris will be holding workshops in America in September
  • 4 of them
  • Check the schedule

Hour 1

Q Josh - Password manager OSX

• Leo uses 1Passwd
• Not free
  • $30
• Excellent tool
  • Works with every browser
• For the PC, try Roboform

Q Jeff from Van Nuys, CA - Sending mass email to customers

• Problem is because ISP thinks he is a spammer
• A good programmer can help you get this work
• Wants ISP to allow him to send 5000 emails
• If Yahoo can do it, why can’t he

Q Cheryl - Solution for mass mailing problem/Internet access on the road

• 1ShoppingCart has robust mass mailing options
• Can have 10000 people on list
• Can use it to sell all products
• Several places have WiFi
• DirecTV has an option for Direcway sattelite Internet
• Verizon and Sprint offer high speed EVDO solutions
  • Look at coverage maps

Hour 2

Q Jeremy from San Jose, CA - MacBook disconnects from WiFi when inactive

• Something is wrong with the Airport driver
• Try creating a new account to see if the problem still occurs

Q Ed from Los Angeles, CA - TomTom GPS

• Leo thinks the TomTom is fantastic
• Best one out there is the Garmin Nuvi
• TomTom is very good though
• TomTom Go 910 will actually use text-to-speech to read street names

Q Lin - Virus problem

• Maybe you infected yourself
• Receiving false message
  • Message led you to install a virus

Hour 3

Q No longer a remove application button in the add/remove

• Rolling back to June 1 fixed it
• Drivesnapshot.de provides a good insurance/backup

Q Tom from Garden Grove, CA - New TV

• In ideal circumstances, plasma is better
  • Darkened room
  • Plasma is susceptible to burn in
• DLP TVs are great
  • Look at HD-ILA rear projection

Q Jerry from Oceanside, CA - Computer running poorly after update

• Can uninstall hotfixes from add/remove programs
• Windows Genuine Advantage shouldn’t slow system down

Q Cathleen - Machine slowing down after Windows Updates

• May be Windows Genuine Advantage
• Possibility of a hard drive problem
• Possible to uninstall Windows Genuine Advantage
• SpinRite can do a low-level format
  • But it is $80