Additional  notes

XP Antivirus 2008 is a fraudulent program purporting to be an anti-virus program.
When you visit an infiltrated web site it will display an image designed to look like a warning that your computer is infected. Clicking on an invitation to correct the supposed infection will actually download a virus and the only way to get rid of it is to click on a link where you pay $49 to supposedly get rid of it.
Real anti-virus programs have trouble keeping up with different flavors of viruses which morph to change their signatures. See the link above for Anatomy Of A Virus.

To scan for a virus with AVG 8 start it in safe mode (F8) and then do the scan.

SmitFraud is the name for a class of fraudware, like that mentioned above.

Gmail can be configured as a POP mail server so you can use a local mail program like Outlook Express or Thunderbird from Mozilla to send & receive mail.

Settings in gmail allow you to also use the IMAP mail protocol (developed by the University of Washington). IMAP allows you to view just the mail headers and then decide if you want to read the actual mail. To use IMAP you have to make that choice when configuring your mail client, you can't just switch the behavior of a particular account from POP to IMAP, but have to create a different one.

IMAP also allows you to synchronize mail folders. In Thunderbird enable the setting which configures folders for offline use.

Once you have a gmail account you may also use the spreadsheet or word processor at docs.google.com.
You also have a web page at igoogle.com or google.com/ig.

One can also treat gmail as offline disk storage for any type of file. There is a plugin for Firefox allowing you to do that.
The plugin is called Gspace:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1593
Gspace FAQ:
http://getgspace.com/faq.html

Officially you can update XP to Vista but it's not recommended. Do a clean install of Vista.
Maxtor Blast (or free personal edition?) makes a clone of your drive. A good idea if you want to try the upgrade path.
Make sure you have enough RAM to use Vista. 2gig should be fine.

Vista's not so bad with service pack 1. PC's are just now being sold with SP1.

A caller using iTunes to read in compilation CD's finds the tracks are arranged in an undesirable way. The recommendation is to use the comment field so tracks you want to remain together have the same comment. Then sort the tracks using the comment field. Or use the "Date Added" field to do the sort.
Among other ITunes tips, stretta.com explains how the compilation flag works.

A caller who wants to play WMA files from a PC on a MAC is directed flip4mac.com.

A caller with a flip video camera wants to know if its file format can be converted to a common format. Look at the file extension (the 3 characters after the dot in the file name). Then, in google, search for ".fli convert .avi", if your extension is .fli, for example.

Additional notes for today's show

As mentioned above, the audio for this show is available in the archive. 

Co-host is Coryon Redd of batteries4less.com, email address: coryon at gmail.com.
He is teaching a class on web site design aimed to get a high listing on Google.
To be held on Wed 7pm to 9:30pm at Sierra College (Grass Valley campus) room L101.
To register for the class call 530-274-8455. You can register by Wed at 5pm
Sponsored by the Nevada County Economic Resource Council, ncerc.org 530-274-8455
Keep checking back as there may be more classes if interest continues.

Find out where to recycle batteries in your local area.
rbrc.org

Free resources for the web designer…
Wordtracker on Google to find the best keywords to use on your web site.
How to use Wordtracker here.
Use social sites (Facebook or Myspace) to spread the word about your business.
seo-browser.com shows what, on a web page, a search engine crawler sees.
To find out who links to you, how many links are there to you, etc:
www.google.com/webmasters/
Google Analytics helps you determine who's coming to your site; what they
searched for to get there, etc.
www.google.com/analytics/

Use Google Local Business Center to find out how to customize the way your business search results are displayed in a Google search.
https://www.google.com/local/add/
Google Alerts is an electronic news clipping service to keep track of trends in your business sector. Go to news.google.com, create an alert & link it to your Google account.

On some email systems (e.g. gmail.com) one can use a period, to the left of @ sign; in the email.

Steven Krug's "Don't Make Me Think" book is recommended to those who want to design a web site.

Service pack 3 for XP may cause problems for some people.
See show notes for May 19 2008 for links.

One can find tech news at theregister.com.

To opt out of telemarketing phone and fax calls at www.donotcall.gov.
One originally had to reregister every 5 years but that may be longer now.
A similar service for mail is dmachoice.orgv.

It's now possible to transfer your phone number from AT&T or other carriers to such VOIP accounts as.
vonage.com
lingo.com
broadvoice.com

Virtual fax services make your incoming fax available as a pdf file.
myfax.com
efax.com

If you try to get your credit reports from freecreditreport.com you may have to pay.
www.annualcreditreport.com is truly free.
If you stagger your requests 4 months apart you'll be able to get your free credit reports from each of the 3 credit companies in the shortest time.

External sound cards are available that use the USB port and they work for PC's & Macs.
Search for "usb sound" at ebay.com.
They usually provide headphone & mic ports.

Carnegie Mellon computer science prof Randy Pausch, who died recently from cancer, has a popular viral video; www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/

A caller asks for a recommendation of a laptop.
An option is to find a refurbished Mac at apple and then get apple care extended warranty from a 3rd party like ebay.com.

One does not have to have landline phone number from AT&T to get DSL from them.

Magicjack.com, another VOIP hardware unit, is an alternative to a landline.

A caller wants to share Quickbooks data with a coworker over the internet.
webx.com is one recommendation.

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!

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.