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Sunday 4 May 2008
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Guests
Ron Rosberg
CCrane Wi-Fi Mini Radio
Price $214.95
Jaybird Stereo Bluetooth Headset JB-200
MSRP $129.95 Available after May 15, 2008 with iPod or MP3 adapter additional $30.00
Griffin Technology iPhone Clearboost
MSRP $29.95
Web price $22.50 at this website
As always, Please read web reviews on all products before deciding.
Tech News
Leo was wrong on Yesterdays show, Microsoft has withdrawn it’s bid for Yahoo! Inc.
Microsoft said yesterday that it was abandoning its blockbuster bid to acquire Yahoo after it raised its offer by $5 billion but Yahoo rejected it as still too low. Yahoo! thinks that Microsoft’s offer undervalued the company.
YouTube went down again last night. Some people think it’s a DDOS attack.
Tom Cruise is buying Google Ads so that if you type Tom Cruise into Google, it goes to his website.
Hour 1
Q Steve in California - Can’t access NAS via Office 2007
It doesn’t sound like an Office issue. It sounds like some wider security issue. You need to change the NAS storage permissions so that the new machines can read and write to it as well.
Q Bob in California - Backscatter
PC World did an article on ‘Back scattering’ this week.
It’s not something you can do anything about sadly, but thankfully these spammers do move on.
Second Question:
There’s no more ‘Windows Sharing’ in Leopard, but there is ‘File Sharing’, and you’ll want to make sure it uses Samba.
Q Al in California - Problems installing XP
It could be a result of overheating. You should have used the tiny little dollop of thermal compound. Too little or too much can cause overheating.
Too many fans can make it hotter. What you really need is strategically placed fans. It could also be a power supply issue. You really need to make sure it has enough power to power the whole computer.
Building your own computer is a little challenging. You should try making a Live CD of a Linux install, and boot to that. That completely bypasses the hard drive.
If it runs fine, then we know it’s a problem with Windows, or the Hard Drive. If it doesn’t run fine, then we know it’s a hardware problem.
Q Bob in Boston - Grey area in Firefox
If you see a thick gray bar with red text below the status bar of your Mozilla application, it is usually caused by a faulty extension. Sometimes, the gray bar will include text that provides a clue as to which extension is causing the problem, but usually it just contains an ‘^’.
Hour 2
Q Derrek in California - Securing my system
If you have a secure system, then the medicines just help as a backup.
Don’t open email attachments, but this is less true these days. It still applies, just be careful. Make sure you visit safe sites. Make sure you run Windows Update regularly, and use a hardware firewall (eg. Router).
Q David in California - Installing programs to external drive
If you just copy programs over to the external drive, then Windows will get confused. You’ll have to install them to the external drive.
On some versions of Windows, you can tell Windows where the Program Files folder is supposed to live. Tweak UI from Microsoft, does allow you to move them on Windows XP.
Q Jason in California - Making a media server
Linux is great if you want to make a TiVO as you can use things like MythTV. It’s light way, very reliable…etc. However there’s not good software on Linux for things like Hulu.
Hour 3
Q Matt in Texas - Gaming PC upgrade
Price out the individual upgrades which you would like to make and then compare it against buying a ready made machine. Ready made machines give you a guaranteed source for support, and is most likely less expensive.
Be sure not to get too fast of a video card for your other specs, so the video card is not waiting on the CPU
Q Alice in California - Bulk Mail
Spam is automatically sorted into the folder.
You could use an anti-spam solution to sort the mail such as Only My Email.
Also, check out Leo’s Stop Spam tips for more ideas.
Q David in Los Angeles - Home Theater Receivers
Either Sony or Denon would be a good choice. Depending on your budget, generally the more money you spend on the receivers and speakers the better CD audio will sound.
Video playback also differs when upscaling to HD resolutions.
Blu-ray is ideal for a TV above 50″, a PS3 makes a great Blu-ray player, and about the same price as a standalone player.
Q Randy in Redwood City - Blu-ray Copying
To copy retail Blu-ray discs, you would have to break the copy protection first. Slysoft’s AnyDVD HD Software will rip the disc, and you may be able to use Nero 8 with the Blu-Ray plugin to burn the rip.
Blu-ray Software also sells several programs which claim they can do this.
Q Alex in Woodland Hills - MacBook Upgrades
Upgrade to 4GB of RAM for about $100, from a site such as OWC
Also, you may want to look at a FireWire external hard drive to hold video files
Q Chris in Lakewood - Sharing a printer from a PC to Mac
802.11 N will work with the wireless card in the MacBook Pro, and will work with 802.11B and G equipment. A network printer would probably be the best bet to share a printer between the two.
Also, check out the Missing Manual Series from David Pouge to learn more about the Mac.
