July 14 2008
KVMR's Birth Cries were around 1PM July 14 1978 which we mean to commemorate!!!!
It;'s Also Bastille DAy commemorating the start of the French Revoltion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille_Day
We sprang an Interview with Jemma Abbott, a founder and first voice on the air of KVMR after 'Dead Air'- Archive to Follow
Some Background about early Tech at KVMR– Analog!
Soem Info abotu the state of Technology on July 14 1978 and wehre various of us were…..
VOIP Virtualised Phone Number- CAN move ATT numbers up here now.. see http://Www.BraodVoice.Com and lingo.con and of course vonage.com for More Infornation: Basically it's Dial Toen generated by a call router for a virtual exchange over the Itnerent. But your house phones are all the same… Ket's Talk!
Disability Use of Windows XP: Thanks to Andrea for the Research: If attempting to tune and scale Fonts under XP for vision impairment, (Yep– Me!) infinite font & Screen Scaling is simply NOT offered under my preferred Classic mode, one needs XP mode, More on the Show!
Thsi show is dedicated to my father (Paul) who died this day 1995. Also:
THANKS to Michael Stone and many others who are saving our real lives every day
You Know Why! and my tohughts to Susan Kline.
http://www.hdrsoft.com/ Photomatix software Increase the dynamic range of your photograph. Your camera and retina have rather poor 'dynamic range' of lighting extremes they can cope with. Your brain takes care of your eyes, Photomatix can take care of your photos actually be blending bracketed shots into remarkable hybrids. Superreal or fake? you decide! (MAC or PC, PC requires free Net Framework 1.1)
End. Thank You!
June 30 2008
Paul Still out Of Country Avoiding Smoke : ) * THANKS to guest co host Mikail Graham of The Other Side & Much More for Sitting In
The same week Bill Gates officially steps down as head of Microsoft, XP is finally pulled from Shelves. The End of an Era?
FireFox version 3 release official http://www.mozilla.com I (Paul) Tried it. Nice!
MAC issue for Mikail to get old OS 9.1 data onto new Powemac: Use External FireWire drive. TArget Mode by either machine was Not Happy!
Caller spoke of an HP All in One printer 'vanishing'. I (Paul) am aware of Conflicts of HP software with IE7. 1) Try: Programs… HP .. Hp Software update. Or, 2) Visit http://support.hp.com and chose "Drivers & Downloads" then look for your Printer and get all-new Software…
AVG 8 NOT without Problems: I suggest turning OFF or Disabling the AVG Add On within FireFox that causes Link Checking when using things like Google as it adds traffic, slows things down and is not neccesarily that helpful given the anti phishing tools already existing within FireFox AND your Due Dilegence– OF COURSE : ). Tools.. AddOns.. Unistall (OR, Disable) then Restart FireFox. AVG is reather well deployed, so Webmasters need to skip the logging of the scans performed on the Links this performs…
END. Thank You One And All.
June 16 2008
(Guest host: Mikail Graham- Thanks!)
iLiberty+ Mac or PC – http://tinyurl.com/4nrl7u
The iPhone Project PC & MAC – http://tinyurl.com/3oh4jh
Hack the iphone/itouch blog – http://tinyurl.com/4czy2f
iPod Touch Fans site – http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/
– 3G-capable. 2.8 times faster than EDGE (AT&T 2G network)
– Microsoft Exchange AcctiveSync
– GPS built-in
– Better battery life – 300 hours of standby, Talk-time 10 hours (as opposed to 5) on 2G networks, 5 hours of 3G talk-time (competition is 3 hour 3G talk time), 5 to 6 hours of high-speed browsing, 7 hours of video, 24 hours of audio.
– flush headphone jack
– MobileMe replaces .Mac
– App Store – 71% of the apps in the App Store are to be free!
Pricing and Availability
The iPhone 3G will be available July 11th in 22 countries for $199 for 8 GB and $299 for 16 GB. The 16 GB model also comes in white.
iPhone basic plan:
$199.00 – 8gb 3G iPhone basic cost
$30 – 3G data plan (no SMS?) – $45 for business users!
$69.95 – per month w/o taxes and other charges
$1678.80 – 24 month contract fees
approximate costs w/taxes and charges
$1877.80 – total for 2 years
and last for now
$10 – SMS message plan is extra
DRAWBACKS
no voice only plan which would allow wifi to be used instead of 2/3G data plan
New 3G iphones must be activated within 30 days or they will penalized with a yet to be made public fee according AT&T and Apple.
3G data coverage info
http://tinyurl.com/69ycow
The service runs $99/yr, with new users getting a free 60 day trial. MobileMe lets you access and manage your email, contacts, calendar, photos, and files at me.com (which still isn't quite up it seems). Push technology means when you update your contacts, calendars, or email on your iPhone, web, or Mac, the updates are automatically and immediately pushed out to all your other MobileMe devices.
http://tinyurl.com/5jfyxc
AppleInsider has a scoop on the iPhone App Store and the limitations Apple is placing on them. Each individual app will have a hard limit of 2GB, as well as a ceiling of $999 for each app. These two look like pretty reasonable limits for all but the most extreme of cases. If someone wants to charge more than $0, the lowest possible price is $0.99. There are other details, such as how an App looks, how they're rated inside the store, and region control, but Apple's legal team had AppleInsider take those images down—always a sign that there was some good stuff there. [AppleInsider]
http://tinyurl.com/5e78oq
May 19 2008
A power meter that takes the power factor into account & computes usage in dollars.
Kill-A-Watt EZ model from p3international.com $40
Vista service pack 1. Get it only from Microsoft to avoid earlier pre-release versions.
kb936330
kb935791
Some drivers for Hewlett Packard multi-function machines won't install on a Vista PC.
XP service pack 3 is also available. Those with an HP computer and an AMD processor check with HP before installing. Original article here. And there may be even more porblems .
How to get a telephone number without a landline when all you have is wireless internet.
Use cordless VOIP telephone. Looks like a cell phone but connects to the wireless router you have "permission" to use. Skype phone is one type but requires computer, Vonage doesn't. Search with Google using "cordless viop sets".
Refurbished Toshiba with AMD Athlon 64×2 dual core processor tk55; 1gig RAM; 120gig hard drive; DVD burner; 15" wide screen; 802.11b & g wireless, 4 usb, 1 firewire, ethernet; S-video. From Fry's in Roseville.
$10 DSL from AT&T for new customers. Includes a rebate on the modem, but be alert for a coupon which comes later in the mail.
At google.com click on igoogle (upper right). Create a personalized page to customize your experience, using only cookies.
Norton Ghost from Symantic; does drive cloning; track-by-track duplication of your hard drive.
G4L does similar stuff but is free.
also, Drive Image Pro
Be careful when entering the URL of a website. www.xxx.com may take you to a different place than xxx.com, possibly a site designed to steal your personal information. Misspellings pose the same threat.
Someone's found a way around Verisign high security certificates for Paypal. Be sure to enter the correct URL in the address bar.
A caller asked about an alternative to dial-up internet connections where there's no DSL:
Satellite services, are expensive, and secure connections over a satellite link may be slow.
In the foothills there's terrestrial wireless like Smarter Broadband.
Accelerators for dial-up connections. May not help much with secure connections. They generally only work with loading web pages at a 10%-20% increase (personally, I got 100% or more increase). But be sure the accelerator software you download comes from a trusted source.
Broadband over cell phone networks. More from a previous show's notes here
If you have cable TV, that provider may also offer internet.
On a Mac you can usually copy a backed up version of an application to a different Mac. Just drop it into the Application folder. You may be asked to reenter the key to verify ownership. Things aren't that simple in Windows.
Caller wants to choose a hardware interface that will be supported the longest. Of the two choices PCI may be around longer than PCMCIA.
May 5 2008
Hello All: Paul Castro Back with Glenn in the Studio! THANKS to Alex for publishing show notes and to Adam Brodel http://smarterbroadband.com/ for being here last time.
THANKS to Mila fresh from the Broadcaster Class who helped out and fit right in with answering calls and had esoteric knowledge about software version numbers and program quirks.
Final Vista Service Pack 1 Release Mid April 2008; Use Google to Look up : KB936330
Reason: Microsoft uses such funky tranansient URLs that I cannot reliably insert them here!
Administrative Download (5+ Languages) is nearly 500MB but it appears to WORK after many false & buggy starts. A Very funny 'christmas tree icon flash' Bug after restart!!
Naughty APPLE is foisting Safari for Windows onto us as an 'Update' via the iTunes Update Facility.
I love iTunes, I don't mind Safari but I hate their arrogance. If you ever wondered how a boat load of garbage ends up on your PC that makes it unuseable after a year or less,
here's one way. Get Stuffed on THAT one Apple!
Other ways: everyone and his or herr sister shoving the Yahoo Toolbar onto you when you install 'free' stuff: This is the technical equivalent to me of NOT labelling your foods and products honestly with their purpose.
http://www.p3international.com/products/ "Kill a Watt" Clever Energy Meters that tells you in a runnign total the Cost of Energy for particular devices in your home: Especially the "EZ" model.
No Good hiding the System Tray to pretent Too Many THings are running:
I typically have about five, that's all. Any More and soemthign is wrong!
Check out Amazon Web Services http://aws.amazon.com for truly virtualized web/app hosting!
Today, Peter Gabriels physical host was Stolen in the UK and his site went down It would not happen with this system!
Google: DOCS and iGoogle Just Got Better! Yea!
Hey look the free AVG Antivirus version 7.5 many of us use is starting
to nag us to buy upgrades to paid version 8.0 and warnign 7.5 will quit
operating at the end of may.
and why not.
If you DO buy,
be sure to ONLY get the Antivirus Product, not the Internet Security
suite which as many found, utterly busts Windows (more)
But you can continue to freeload
or even start using this Antivirus
product for the first time by going to:
http://free.grisoft.com
click throughout on the FREE version 8 DO NOT pick Upgrade otherwise it will NOT show oyu the Free one.
save & then Install..
It will detect version 7.5 and Remove it. That's Okay It will offer to
install Security Toolbar: Pick NO.
It will offer to schedule scans everyday. Pick NO It will want Rebooting
Then it will UPdate. or Make it Do so.
Back in Business.
This version has URL Phishing Checking
which is bound to have an impact on web browsing speeds.
TSA & DHS Take Laptops. NO Guidlines about use of data on way thorugh borders. More On Show.
32 bit CPU RAM Linit under 4GP LAE: The Limiti We THought We Would Never Reach
Glenn's EeePC Recoverd from Trip
Apple LogicPro 8 surprisingly low cost!
Mexican Mobile Phone Use in Baja by Paul
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