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Saturday 24 November 2007
- Show Audio
- Scott Wilkinson - Home Theater Tips
- Tech News
- Hour 1
- Hour 2
- Karen from Ontario, CA - Is Verizon’s TV Service any good?
- Dave in Los Angeles - Is it better to install Windows on Boot camp or use VMWare Fusion?
- Walter in Los Angeles - Burning CD’s with Mouse Stroke
- Ileane - Good Hard Drive Camcorder?
- Michael in California - Fax program for Vista Basic
- Casandra from Jamaica Queens - Use Hotmail as Default Email Program?
- Hour 3
Show Audio
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Scott Wilkinson - Home Theater Tips
What Titles do you want in HD to show off to your friends?
BluRay:
- 7 Years in Tibet
- The Patriot
- A few good Men
- Spiderman 1, 2, and 3
- Cars
- Fantastic 4
- Sleeping Beauty
HD-DVD:
- Heroes - Season 1
- Elizabeth
- The Hulk
- Casablanca
- Corpse Bride
- Happy Feet
- Children of Men
Tech News
A great gift for a child or nerd this holiday season is the OLPC - One Laptop Per Child. For $400 you can get one for both a child in need, and one for yourself.
These machines allow them to become educated, and as a nation become economically self-sufficient. The systems run Linux, and on an AMD Processor. Their solid machines, that run e-toy as the operating system, which is designed for education and designed for kids.
With the OLPC, a mesh network is created, which means hundreds of these machines can use the same network connection spread over miles.
A lot of people are loving the ASUS Eee PC, which is a 2lb laptop. Also Nokia’s 810 Tablet has just come out. It’s small, just a little bit bigger than a mobile device. Both of them are roughly $400, and both run Linux.
Text Messages Help Shoppers Find Their Cars. The Mall of America is using a new system to help out shoppers who can’t quite seem to remember where they’ve parked.
Philips Electronics just started its “Simplicity Parking Program” at the giant mall. To use it, send a text message to a designated number when you park.
Hour 1
Q Marilyn in NY - Is TV over the Internet any good?
Most of them don’t have any premium channels. It’s mainly international channels. The Quality isn’t great, and definitely don’t expect HBO, or MSNBC…etc. Really it’s just a collection of free Internet TV streams.
The way Apple TV works, is by buying them on iTunes, and then stream it to your Apple TV. It takes a little work, but it can definitely be cheaper if you only watch certain shows.
Q James in California - Mac is getting slow
The slow ness may not just be because of the Operating System getting bogged down, but also the Hard Drive may be a little shook up and it may be getting hard to read. It wouldn’t hurt to do a Secure Erase of the hard drive which will write over every bit on the hard drive.
Q Ralf in Sherman Oaks - MVIX as a pose to Apple TV
You put a big hard drive in it, and you can put any format of file on it, and it streams to all your PC’s and also to your TV. You can also plug in USB Hard drives to extend the storage. It supports 1080p and you can rip DVD’s to it.
You can get one at MVIXUSA.com
Question: If I go into Notepad for example, and hit copy, the word copy becomes part of the screen.
It’s usually something to do with the Video driver. Go to the Video Card manufacturers website, and you’ll need to get an updated driver. That should fix it.
Hour 2
Q Karen from Ontario, CA - Is Verizon’s TV Service any good?
The Fiber optic version of HD content should be much better than on the satellite as they have to compress less heavily on Fiber optic. Lip syncing options will be solved with FiOS.
- It will be better picture
- More interactivity
- Generally a better choice
Tell us how you like it once you’ve tried it. Leo thinks it’s the best way for you to go.
Q Dave in Los Angeles - Is it better to install Windows on Boot camp or use VMWare Fusion?
It generally runs just as fast, and it will run right aside OSX. If the XP Disk is a full install disk, then you’re able to install it on VMWare. You also just type in the key from your old machine, and you’ll be good to go.
Q Walter in Los Angeles - Burning CD’s with Mouse Stroke
You can always just drag from the lower right corner to the lower left. You just have to start your click from outside the file group. Another way you can do it, is click the first file you want, press and hold down shift, and then select the lowest one. At that point, press Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V on the new menu, or select Edit and then Paste.
Q Ileane - Good Hard Drive Camcorder?
The Canon HG10 is a very good Hard Drive camcorder, and that works well with the Mac. It’s High Def. It has 24 frames per second, and saves you a lot of the file size.
Final Cut Express is pretty easy to use, and works very well if iMovie doesn’t quite work for you. Eventually support for iMovie ‘06 won’t be supported. If you go to the Apple website, they’ll have a list of compatible format’s that you’ll be using.
It’s about $1000 for the Canon HG10.
Q Michael in California - Fax program for Vista Basic
You’ll want to try RKS Fax which is Vista compatible and works just great. It’s the replacement for Mighty Fax.
Q Casandra from Jamaica Queens - Use Hotmail as Default Email Program?
It’s a little tricky, but can be done. You’ll need to install Windows Live Mail first. Live Mail replaces Outlook Express, and because Hotmail is a Microsoft product, it works really nicely with Windows Live Mail. Once you do that, you can go to the Internet Options, and you can either select Windows Live Mail or Hotmail.
It’s a nice way to get it to your desktop. Anyone who’s using Outlook Express should definitely switch to Windows Live Mail.
Hour 3
Q Catherine in California - Spy Shredder Spyware
Once you have this software on your machine, there’s really no way to get it off your machine. It claws itself into the system. These guys have a huge incentive to stay on your system, because they can put other bad stuff on your system.
The best way to get rid of this stuff is to reinstall Windows. If you really can’t reinstall Windows then you can use software like Smit Fraud Fix. The only way to be sure you’ve gotten rid of it all, is to backup all your data, take those system recovery disks, you then format the drive.
Make sure you install all the Windows updates once you reinstall Windows. Turn on Windows Update and make it install Automatically.
Q Joseph in Costa Masa, CA - Encrypting Data
Hitachi, and IBM both make external hard drives make drives that encrypt the data on the fly. If your using Windows, TrueCrypt is an excellent encryption system which is free and open source. Both these drives have to be given the correct password before you can even access them.
Q CJ in New Orleans - CJEureka.com
It’s not fair that we can’t use media bought from Amazon or Napster on another machine or in a different player. We’re “renting” their content.
Q Daniel - Using a Dazzle cam for uStream
You need a Mac driver for it, because it’s a Windows device. Once you get Mac drivers for it, and Flash can see that camera, you should be able to use the dazzle.
A good soloution would to be, go out and get a cheap USB cam.
Q Paul in California - Hotmail not working in Firefox
The new Internet Explorer 7 is very good. Also clear the cache on Firefox, and you can always change your settings to classic mode in Hotmail.
