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Sunday 17 February 2008
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Guests
Ron Rosberg - Gadgets of the Week
My Favorite Cordless iPhone by Linksys for both Skype and your home phone iPhone CIT400
Retail $149 - Internet Pricing $127
Tangent Quattro Wi-Fi Radio from C.Crane Company
Price $349
Franklin’s Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Speaking Dictionary #SCD-1890
Retail $99.95 - Internet $75.00
Tech News
Talk show host, Oprah Winfrey promoted and announced the availability of a free book on her web site, which was available for 33 hours. The book, Suze Orman’s “Women & Money” was downloaded more than 1 million times in that time period.
Kevin Kelly says that the Internet is just one big copy machine. In order to send a message from one corner of the Internet to another, the protocols of communication demand that the whole message be copied along the way several times.
IT companies make a lot of money selling equipment that facilitates this ceaseless copying. Every bit of data ever produced on any computer is copied somewhere.
Hour 1
Q Mark from California - Sync iPhone to two machines?
If you connect and sync the iPhone to one machine, and then connect it to another machine, the new machine will resync and erase everything from the machine.
You can however get photo’s from one machine and music / video from the other. You might want to take a look at the iPhone Pocket Guide by Chris Breen.
Q Russ from West Virginia - Wireless Router with USB?
Leo wouldn’t really recommend doing that. What you really want is something called Network Attached Storage. That’s a computer without a keyboard, mouse, monitor…etc.
That has an operating system and will appear on your other computers as a network drive. You could use Windows Home Server if you want to be able to stream audio, video and photo’s, and you can also use them for backup.
If you have an old computer lying around, you could put the software onto it. NAS usually has a Terabyte or more of storage.
If you head to DistroWatch.com, they have server distributions of Linux that are rated.
Q Jeffrey from California - Internet Marketing
This field is called SEO (Search Engine Optimization). There’s some good SEO’s and some bad SEO’s.
If you go with the bad ones, eventually you might be removed from the Google Website. You don’t want to game Google.
- The title of your page is very important
- Don’t start your page with Javascript or CSS
Q Steve in Philadelphia - Making an RSS for my Podcast, Podnutz.com
There’s a couple of ways to do it. One is FeedBurner. You should use Wordpress Content Management System. That will handle all the HTML for you. Then you just use a form to make a new entry.
Wordpress will then make an RSS for you, you send that to Feedburner and Feedburner will turn it into the proper code for iTunes. Once your podcast gets very popular, take a look at Libsyn.com and they’ll make the feed for you and host everything.
Q Craig from California - Regarding Steve’s call
RunStream.com will give him a feed using a wizard and it’s free to setup.
The great thing about Web 2.0 is the fact that there are solutions for almost any issue.
Hour 2
Q Jeff in Long Beach, CA - Making an MP3 CD
There’s two kinds of CD’s… One is an Audio CD and there’s 2 seconds between the songs and you can only get 70 minutes per CD.
Data CD’s however can store a lot more. Depending on how smart this Philips player is, it may not give you tags, and it may not sort depending by folder names.
The advantage is the fact you can get 700mb of songs on there. iTunes is putting a number in front of the file name, and the MP3 Player sorts Ascending by Name.
If you look at them, it’s 001-SongName.mp3 or 002.SongName.mp3. In MediaMonkey you can tell it to do the same as iTunes. That’s exactly what the Philips player is doing.
Q Debra in San Diego - Cannot Display Webpage error
Ignore all Error Messages… Computers are dump. The error messages they give you is just their guess at what’s wrong.
It sounds like the settings. It may be that the modem or router’s are bad.
Hour 3
Q Steve from Lake Forrest, CA - Multi-Terminal Computer
You’ll use a Gigabit Switch, will then go into the server and each terminal will have it’s own IP Address. You’ll need to have something giving the terminals the IP Addresses.
A router would do this for you, so that’s probably the easiest way to do it.
Q Mike from California - iMovie ‘08?
You can still download iMovie ‘06 HD. You get better quality recording to DV Tape, and you want to get it into the least compressed format you can, which in this case is DV.
A great Video Editing Program for Windows is VideoRedo.
Q John from California - Voice Dictation Software
For a long time, there was only one good program for doing this, called Dragon Naturally Speaking and it’s Windows only. However there’s a company now taking the engine from Dragon Naturally Speaking and make it for a Mac program.
It’s called Dictate from MacSpeech.com. With any of these, they’ll claim excellent accuracy, but they do have errors.
Leo would recommend you use a USB Headset.
Q David from California - Outlook issue with PDA
You just need to pick which one you want to sync to. In the setup, you will chose which folder you want to sync and you can merge them if you want.
Q Alan from California - Word won’t print
Leo thinks it may be confused about the kind of printer, or the print spooler may have issues. It sounds like there’s a document stuck in the spooler.
You might want to reinstall the HP Printer Drivers from their website and get the newest drivers for XP.
Q Christina in Long Beach, CA - Laptop Color Issues
Leo’s pretty sure it’s the driver, and you would need to go to the manufacturer and get the latest drivers.
