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Sunday 13 January 2008
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Tim Ferriss - Four Hour Work Week
- Work is not the most important thing in your life
- Most of the people who do this have kids, and aren’t just 20 year olds…etc
- If you can just cut down to 40 hours, that’s great
- Cut down on non-paid over time
- Life style design reverts Career Planning so that work is a vehicle to allow you to get a good lifestyle
- Career planning is flawed… we’re working til we’re retired and many people never get there
- If your in an Office environment, the idea is to be busy not productive
- Tools like GoToMyPC and LogMeIn allow you to work from home and use office only software
- Don’t carry a laptop around with you to stop screen-sucking 24/7
- E-Mail is the worst thing in the modern age, because it stops you from working
- People stay at jobs they don’t like because they get a raise
- However their responsibilities and their work hours both rise
- 2008 is going to be the year of the web work
- Tim doesn’t use the Time Management and “Getting Things Done” system aren’t bad, however he’s about doing less and less instead of adding more
- Tim spoke to a number of best selling authors and asked if there was anything they would do different
- They said book signings are useless, so he didn’t do any
- Times have really changed, and that’s the key to everything
Ron Rosberg - Gadgets of the week
Spot Locator
Price $149.95 plus $99.95 per year monitoring
Gibson Self Tuning Guitar
Retail Price $2,499
Do It Yourself Home or Business Alarm System by Ingrid
Prices start at $129.95 to $399.95
iRobot Looj™ Gutter Cleaning Robots
Prices on three models to choose from $99.99 to $169.99
Transfer files from Mac to PC or PC to PC with the iTornado
Price $79.95 (Available within 30 days)
Tech News
Warner Brothers has gone Blu Ray exclusive. For a while it was a swing between the both, but this announcement from Warner Brothers means that there’s no chance for HD-DVD now.
You may want to wait as Blu Ray players will be dropping to $150 soon. Leo thinks you’d be crazy to buy a HD-DVD Player at this point.
Another battle that was going on was the Verizon / Comcast war. Verizon has been putting FiOS everywhere with 50mbits down and 10mbits up… amazing speeds. They had to put Fiber Optic cable in the streets. Comcast has said that they will also be doing a similar thing.
The minute you get 2 or 3 companies going head to head to get your Internet bucks, that’s when it gets cheaper and interesting.
You’re Dial Up modem was 56kbits, your T1 line is 1.5mbits, and if you have DSL you’re probably getting 4mbits. If you have a good Cable Company, you may be getting 6mbits. 8mbits = 1 megabyte a second. Now we’re talking 160mbits a second… that’s 80 megabytes a second. That’s fast enough to download a full audio book in a second, or get an entire movie in 10 seconds.
AT&T are trying to do the same.
Hour 1
Q Nancy from Long Beach, CA - Editing HD Video
There’s so much data coming in when you edit HD Video, the computer just chokes. If your serious about Video and High Definition, then you should go to a Mac. If your resistant to that, you can use Windows, but you’ll need a state of the art system.
You’ll want to get at least a Core 2 Duo, a big hard drive and lots of RAM (at least 2gb) and you’ll want to get Adobe Premiere Elements. You’ll want to use XP not Vista.
You won’t want to import it at 1080p, but at half the resolution. You’ll want it at 960 by 540p. You’re old PC won’t be able to handle High-Definition.
You’ll either want an iMac or a high end Dell / HP.
Hour 2
Q Mike in New Jersey - Leopard OS
OSX does come with Ruby. You should use both Fink and Darwin ports, because neither one has everything.
Fink is better for LS, and Darwin is better for Ruby. There’s no harm in installing both, but they both tend to install to different directories.
They don’t conflict and you can even have two versions of each. If your a Mac user who wants to delve into Unix, it’s a great thing to do.
Q Kathy in California - Digital Picture Frame for the Elderly
You have two choices. You could mail her an SD Card every month. That’s pretty easy. The cool thing to do, is get one that supports picture sharing. That way you could give her different pictures every day easily.
A lot of these picture frames have WiFi not Ethernet. Probably the one Leo would recommend is Digital Spectrum. They allow you to upload pictures over the Internet, and they are quite big and nice to look at.
You should go to the site and look through their product line to see what meets your needs.
Q Jack in Los Angeles - Image won’t install on computer
If it’s exactly the same configuration, and it’s the exact same machine, the best way to do it at this point is via the XP Repair feature.
You can find a guide on how to do so here
Q Ricardo in Colorado - PDF’s just close
You’d need to reinstall Adobe Reader with Internet Explorer and Firefox closed. It should then work in both Firefox and IE7.
The reason it’s crashing is because it’s trying to run it and there’s something wrong there. You might also want to uninstall reader.
Q Roger in California - Wants iTunes to Shuffle Music
You would need to create a Random Playlist, and you could then start from where you last played. You need to create a Smart Playlist, and in that you tell it to Look at the play count, and then look at the play count. It will then only play songs you haven’t listened to. You then shuffle that playlist.
Then as you play songs, it removes the ones you’ve played.
Hour 3
Q Verit - Print server not working
You need to add it as an IP Printer. Then you find out the IP of the Printer and then put that into the Mac’s and other Windows Machine.
The Mac comes with Direct Print drivers, however you need network drivers for that Canon printer. You can use Unix drivers, but it’s not worth it. You’ll probably just want to get a Canon for the mac.
Q Peter in California - Mac to TV
You want a DVI to Component Converter. The problem with Component, is the quality won’t be great. A Mac mini would be fine as a Media Center.
The best way is to get a Digital input to that TV. The best way is a converter.
It will be MUCH better than S-Video. But the TV is too low resolution for it to look amazing.
Q Bill in Hollywood - AOL Welcome Screen issue
As soon as you get You’ve Got Mail, it means your online. What has to happen on a Dial Up connection is your modem talking to the server modem. That’s called training. What that does is tell the server modem, you’re modem’s capabilities.
You’ll see what happen until it has a bang on connection. It could be that the phone company has installed a new line or something. Yes your instinct is right, and you should wait.
You might want to try DSL for a couple more bucks a month. It’s faster and there’s no wait.
Q Eric in Long Beach, CA - Shortcut Files
Usually when there’s icons on your desktop, their shortcut icons. There’s usually a little arrow in the right hand lower corner. For some reason, those shortcuts no longer point to the files they used to point to.
You can also try and go into C:\Program Files\ProgramName\Program.exe (replace ProgramName with the Program’s Name, eg. Adobe Reader, and replace Program.exe with the program name, eg. reader.exe).
Back up your system as it could be your hard drive failing. You may want to take a look at this guide.
This can also be caused by a Virus, so make sure you run a scan for Viruses using an up to date virus scanner. Make a Backup and reformat and reinstall
Q Rob in California - Problems with iMac
You should open up the disk utility to see if it’s there. It sounds like something may be wrong with the Firewire port. Sadly with Firewire 400, if you put it in the wrong way, you can fry the port. It could be a bad drive, enclosure or cable. Find some other Firewire device on that.
It does sound like it’s the Firewire drive. You can use an 800 cable on a 400 drive, it’s possible that it just the connector that’s messed up. That could be the reason the guy sold the thing.
Q Jim in California - Norton Problems
Get rid of Norton 360, that program is Awful. You might be able to return it.
