Posts Tagged ‘PC’

This last couple weeks has been really trying on the tech. It all started with the main PC – I knew it needed to be reloaded because of some ntdll.dll errors I’ve been getting. I decided to take it down last week and reload before everything went south and I couldn’t do anything.

I think it started a chain reaction….

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It was a Commodore Vic 20. We were up North at our Grandma’s house for Christmas in 1981. Our cousins had a Vic20 and we played some cool games. When we got home at the end of the week, we opened our presents and low and behold, we had a Vic 20. I swear I got up early every day of Winter break to play on this new machine. I did have to fight for use with the rest of my family, but I think I got some good time on it.

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Hello. I’m a mac. And I’m a PC. We’ve all seen the ad. John Hodgeman and Justin Long Bantor back and forth on why the Apple Mac is better as the PC gets annoyed. But does the ad help or hurt the company?

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Facebook Privacy issue with Blockbuster

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What’s the big deal with Psystar?

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The other day I was working on a PC-based CAVS player so I thought it would be cool to show you how some machines are used in proprietary systems.

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BBQ Robocop?

Java for iPhone

Ziff-Davis Bankrupcy

Feature: Is it time to get a Mac?

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NUDAR GPS

Feature – Service Packs

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Year End Stats – PCWorld
Home Server Issues – Computerworld
iPhone 1.1.3 – Gizmodo
Online Spending at 28 Billion – MacWorld
Seniors Choose Wii – DallasNews
1 in 6 PC’s Infected – Internetnews
PS3 with HDTV – Joystiq

On the Geek:
WalMart Dumps Movie Download
FootMouse
What Would Fix Windows Mobile

Patent on Monitoring Employees Brains – TechDirt
5 Most Annoying Programs on PC – DownloadSquad
Transform Windows into… – Makeuseof
100 Years of Tech NYE Ball – Gizmodo
Battery Check on Flights – Ars Technica
Australia Plans Tough Web Rules – BBC

2007 Scorecard – InfoWorld
iSnake – BBC
8 Hottest Skills of 08 – Computerworld
Texting Delays on New Years – Engadget
FBI Uses IT – eWeek

RIP:
WalMart Movie Downloads
Netscape Navigator
RIAA to die?

25 Year Watch:
TCP/IP

Updates:
1st Perl Update in 5 Years

Of Note:
Foxtrot DRM
25 Things 2007 Taught Us
Best Hard Drive Enclosure
Action Figure Archive

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“Don’t Tase me, Bro.” is being heralded as the top quote of 2007. Who would have guessed that? Well, some tried to in early 2007. Predicting the future is not just a psychics’ job. Then again, we are not predicting – we are analyzing – Seeing trends in the last year to determine what is coming out next year.

I went through some of the predictions of 2007. Some were dead on. Social Networking and Apple devices seemed to top the list in this subject. Other predictions – well, not so much.

Now we are fast approaching 2008. There is a lot of technology that was debuted in 2007 and since they are still in their infant stages, we will see them ramp into tools that change the way we compute. 2007 was also a year of rethinking. Going Green is one of the ways we rethought things. We definitely had some good progress and will continue the trend.

So what is in store for 2008? I paneled my fellow techies at http://www.techpodcasts.com/ and we came up with some items to think about for this New Year. So let’s go through the list.

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Privacy Policy. Something many people don’t read, but when they are faced with it being misused, they are ready to take action. Privacy policies are vital to both consumers and companies - Mostly dealing with the statement of how they handle personal information. Yet some try to test those waters and bend the rules a bit. Still, the question boils down to ”when was the last time you read through the Privacy Policy”?

Facebook launched a new ad system that really tested the boundaries. The end result - consumers got upset in how the Social Networking site managed their information. On Thursday, Facebook changed their policy around. Now in reading the Privacy Policy, you will see the following: Read the rest of this entry »

If you use a Mac AND a PC, you may need to switch back and forth. VNC might be the best way to do so without cables, extra keyboards and mice. Here is how you do it.