Archive for April, 2010

Seems like everyone is getting in on the podcasting act. Tom and Veronica go over the basics of the tools, services and things you need to do required for any successful podcast. Watch Video Podcasting Audio Software. The stuff you need to record, edit and normalize your recorded audio. Audacity. Great free audio recorder and [...]

I really like Skydrive Explorer. It creates a virtual folder so you can drag files into it but if you wished to use Skydrive to backup data automatically you are out of luck.

Windows Maintenance Tips

Posted: April 21, 2010 in Tips
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There is a lot of talk about Windows maintenance. What services should turn off? Which utilities should I use? To sleep or hibernate? Here’s a article from Lifehacker. It is the best article I have seen on the subject.

Leo Laporte’s TWiT network now has many of their great programs on video. They  had live streaming from the beginning and they had several programs for download for quite some time. Now they have increased the video downloads considerably.

Me Want Drobo

Posted: April 11, 2010 in Hardware
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My first three rules of computing are backup, backup and backup. You may have  heard this before? I use Carbonite a cloud backup solution that works very well but I really should have a local backup as well.

One Is Not Good Enough

Posted: April 11, 2010 in Tips
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I have a set I rules I follow when computing. The first three are backup, backup, and backup. This poor lady came to my computer users group with a external harddrive that was not functioning. I took a look at it. When I plugged it in to the power it started click loudly.

Microsoft Technet

Posted: April 11, 2010 in Tips
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Download all an use all of Microsoft’s software and use it forever without time limits or feature limits. You can download anything Windows Server, Microsoft Office, SQL Server, Windows 7 and everything else.

If your using HTTPS Everywhere and you want to add a site that you want to always use HTTS you will have to create an XML file with some simple code in it and save it to the HTTPSEverywhereUserRules/ subdirectory in your Firefox profile directory. This sounds a lot harder then it is. First open [...]

Don’t Deal With Dell

Posted: April 7, 2010 in Rants
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Last weak I ordered a Dell Mini 10 portable computer with the Ubuntu operating system. I got it on April 6th. After 24 hours of nearly continuous use I could not get the computer to work the way I wished. It’s as if they didn’t test the Mini 10 with the Ubuntu OS that was [...]

Lucid Lynx Countdown

Posted: April 6, 2010 in Software
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The Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is out. You can download it now.