Sunday 29 July 2007
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- Hour 3
- Mike from Tacoma, WA - Computer for 4-year old
- Jan from Hollywood, CA - Blogs she’s reading
- Troy from San Clemente, CA - Photoshop launching at boot
- Pablo - Running a program on your PC to see what devices are connected to WiFi network
- Rick from Parker, CO - File association
- Changing computer settings to type in Vietnamese
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Tech News
Blogging is no longer a hobby. Perez Hilton, a play off Paris Hilton, is a huge celebrity gossip blog that has been sued multiple times for posting paparazzi pictures. The New York Times recently wrote an article about the blog and the person behind it.
In fact, five presidential candidates are at the Daily Kos convention in Chicago: Unconventional.
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A Polish bus driver was fired for sending over 38000 text messages on the company phone.
A study has found that health symptoms are not linked to cell phone tower emissions.
Guests
Q Rebekah Baker - Zillow
- Mashup with Google Maps
- Will help you predict how much the house is worth
- Made by same people as Expedia
- Can even find out how much your neighbor’s house is worth!
- Wall Street Journal tested out how good Zillow’s estimates are
- Accurate in mid-range
- Way off in more expensive homes
Q Ron Rosberg - Davis Instruments Weather Station/Verizon Casio G’zOne/Motorola T305 Bluetooth Speaker
- $595
- Tells you how the weather was last year
- Has a connection to connect to the computer
- Wireless station and console
- Simply put it outside
- See how it compares to the competition
- Stores weather for 90 days
- Tough and rugged
- Leo’s son should even be able to land on it
- Water-proof
- Sounds good
- Relatively small speaker
- Shines blue light when activated
- $59.11 on Amazon
Hour 1
Q Eric from Hollywood, CA - Using another hard drive on Mac
- Can try a linux based partitioner called Gparted
- Make sure to use a Firewire drive
- To be able to run OSX on the Firewire drive
- Super Duper will make image backups
- All this will require you to start over
- Reinstalling Windows
Q Action Jack - WiFi access/broadband access on MacBook
- Simply click on the triangle in the menu bar
- Drop down menu will appear with network names
- If you want EVDO connection, need to get USB EVDO card
- Both Sprint/Verizon offer USB versions
- Only downside is that it’s somewhat clunky
- Mac simply recognizes USB key
- May be even more economical to use the Verizon/Sprint card all the time
- Verizon limits you to 5gb download bandwidth
- LCD/LCOS
- You already know about LCD if you are using a laptop or thin flat panel monitor
- Simple description: flourescent light in screen
- Liquid screen basically shutters that turn on and off on command from the computer
- LCOS has advantage
- Does not have “screen door” effect on LCOS scree
- DLP
- Chip with millions of little mirrors
- Mirrors flip in synchronization with color wheel
- HowStuffWorks.com has articles about how DLP, LCOS, and LCDs work
- Sony SXRD and JVC HDILA are great
Q Chris Marquardt - Lens hoods
- Glass naturally reflects glass
- Most professional photographers use them to prefent reflections
- Makes camera look bigger too
- Free Lens Hoods is a site that has layouts for cut-out lens hoods
Hour 2
Q Christine from Murieta, CA - Migrating PC data to Parallels
- All Windows programs should work on Boot Camp or Parallels
- Can make image of hard drive and move it over
- Gain benefits by installing Windows fresh
- Leo probably wouldn’t do a migration
- Parallels does have a tool called Transporter designed to do that
- Often bring problems over with you though
Q Diane - Computer for the next 10 years
- Not for sophisticated person
- Wants to get Windows
- Go with Vista
- Much more secure than XP
- Make sure it has 2gb of RAM
- Look at Dell, Lenovo, Fujitsu
- Dell XPS M1310 is great
Hour 3
Q Mike from Tacoma, WA - Computer for 4-year old
- 4-year old having trouble with mice
- Kids desk has miniaturized keyboards/mice
Q Jan from Hollywood, CA - Blogs she’s reading
- Macrumors
- Huffington Post
- Most emailed articles
- She uses iGoogle homepage
- John Cow
Q Troy from San Clemente, CA - Photoshop launching at boot
- Photoshop may be set to turn on at log in
- Probably set by accident
- Try uninstalling/reinstalling
- Use Spotlight to search for Adobe
- If you don’t care, simply trash everything
- In your root directory, you may have files that set it to launch
- all files beginning with “.”
Q Pablo - Running a program on your PC to see what devices are connected to WiFi network
- There are some real security concerns with an open WiFi network
- On an open network, anything unencrypted, another person will be able to read
- Can get a Fonera router to be able to share WiFi
- To monitor other people
- Log into your router and look for a DHCP table or attached devices
Q Rick from Parker, CO - File association
- Comoputer keeps database of what programs open what kind of file
- On mac, right click and select “get info”
- In “get info”, “open with” is one of the items
- Able to change it
- Checkbox to “change all”
Q Changing computer settings to type in Vietnamese
- Vietnamese language pack probably not installed
- No need to go back to XP
- Microsoft has information regarding additional language files