Saturday 21 July 2007

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Facebook has purchased Parakey which is a company based on bridging the gap between online information and the desktop.

Three days before the release, the entirety of the final Harry Potter novel was leaked on the Internet.

Google has announced a bid for the soon-to-be-opened 700MHz spectrum. Check out a list of TV frequencies.

Q Scott Wilkinson - Logitech Harmony universal remotes

Logitech Harmony system keeps all codes for devices on their own database
If database doesn’t have code, set it up manually
- Then code is sent to Harmony’s database for everybody else to use
Usually program remote by connecting to computer and downloading information from Internet
- On database, codes organized by activities you want to do
“Smart state” technology has help dialog to determine which devices to turn on
- Synchronizes the power
Scott recommends the Harmony 676

Q Steve Gibson - Web-based email

Gmail is the only webmail service that does not include an identifying IP address
Unless explicitly said that they will not hold any information, they probably are saving information of your IP
Sending email from any other service than Gmail will provide the IP you sent the email from

Q Adam from Nashville, TN - Making iPod read playlist in reverse order

Wants to listen podcasts from oldest to newest
In iTunes you could write a script to change the track numbers
- Then organize by track number
RSS feeds are sorted ascending

Q Doug from Fountain Valley, CA - XP or Vista for WordPerfect

Q Carla from Los Angeles, CA - Trojans on a Windows ME machine

There is now no way to completely clean your system
The rule of thumb is that once you are compromised, the only way to make sure you are completely safe is to reformat your machine
Even after you reformat, Microsoft has stopped supporting Windows ME
Go to eBay to try to find a legitimate copy of Windows 2000

Q Laura - Can’t boot up computer after installing iTunes

Q Jerry - Looking for a new phone with good data service

Sprint and Verizon have well-developed EVDO 3g networks
iPhone requires you to switch to AT&T and doesn’t use HSDPA
Take a look at a Treo running Windows Mobile if you want to see spreadsheets
Blackberries are the best for email and have excellent keyboards
The Treos run an operating system that will allow you to run many more applications

Q Heather from Long Beach, CA - Getting spam

When you send an online greeting card, you are giving a 3rd party your friend’s email address
On the Mac, there is a great program called SpamSieve to filter spam before Apple Mail gets to it

Q Content management software

Q Keith from Evansville, IN - Running Ubuntu on an old machine

Machine probably doesn’t have a fast enough processor for the GUI
- graphical user inferface
If it won’t boot from CD
- Will need to get a floppy to tell computer to read CD
Look at Xubuntu for lower powered computers
Check out this Ubuntu forum thread regarding the creation of a boot disk for Ubuntu

Q Keith from Fontana, CA - Extracting video from TiVo

Q New HDTV

Q Cameron from Novato, CA - Camera advice

Q Nick from Huntington Beach, CA - Swap file in Vista

Q Downloading voicemail/text messages to computer

Q HP vs. eMachines