2007 September

• Palm Store – Free Shipping w/ $49 Purchase – Posted on 6/7/09 and Expires on 12/31/15
• Palm Store – Special Offers – Posted on 10/15/06 and Expires on 12/31/15
• Palm Store – Clearance Items – Posted on 10/15/06 and Expires on 12/31/15

It’s time for another exclusive coupon! This time we’ve arranged for a special 25% off coupon code for Registry Mechanic 9.0 for Windows.

• 25% off Registry Mechanic using coupon code AlexsCouponsRM25

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http://live.pirillo.com/ – I’ve been anxiously waiting for Microsoft to release their newest wireless keyboard and mouse. It’s been quite awhile since they’ve released a keyboard with USB ports in it, and believe me… you can never have too many of those.

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http://live.pirillo.com/ – If you’re watching this video, then you’re probably using Flash player. David wrote in wondering how to adjust the privacy settings, and whether his personal history is viewable by Adobe.

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http://live.pirillo.com/ – When I used to use Vista, I would have random crashes that were related to a COM Surrogate error. What the heck? I thought I owned my computer? You mean it’s a surrogate?.

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http://live.pirillo.com/ – I received an email the other day from someone wondering why documents they scan into their computer rearranges the text and doesn’t retain formatting. Well user-whose-name-I-can’t-pronounce, what you’re asking about deals with OCR.

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An anonymous user has an interesting Vista conspiracy theory:

I think Microsoft has given up on Vista behind the scenes. I’m sending this via email because well, I know it sounds like tinfoil hat time, but I think there’s some validity to it.

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http://live.pirillo.com/ – One of our community members recently attempted to run a defrag on his computer. During the defrag, he received a message that chkdsk wanted to run. He’s not so sure what this means, or if he should allow it.

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http://live.pirillo.com/ – Last night, I tried to install a Beta of SP1 for Vista. To put it mildly, it didn’t go so well. Coincidentally, two viewers have written in to ask me how I feel about Vista.

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http://live.pirillo.com/ – Ponzi recently walked into an Apple store, and asked to buy something that would allow her to rip her DVDs to be able to watch them on her iPod. The sales guy told her to just go home and search online. So, of course, she asked yours truly what to do…

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http://live.pirillo.com/ – I have been using Outlook since it came out in 1998. Until recently, I wouldn’t have recommended using Thunderbird, but that has changed. Both are good clients, but it depends on what exactly you’re looking for, and your preferences are.

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http://live.pirillo.com/ – A community member at large wonders what my opinion is on “E-charity”, such as seti@home. Do I think they are a passing fancy? No… I don’t. I feel this is the wave of the computing future.

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http://live.pirillo.com/ – I have been trying for years to get my parents to switch to Firefox. They still use IE, even though they complain about it a lot. Mom was recently wondering how to get rid of all those saved searches in IE 7.

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My friend Dave McClure is putting on a conference that I hope to be participating in… Graphing Social Patterns: The Business & Technology of Facebook. It’s a conference for marketers & developers on how to build and distribute apps for the Facebook Platform. The conference will be held in San Jose, CA from October 7th-9th. Monday 10/8 and Tuesday 10/9 are the main conference sessions; an optional pre-conference workshop is Sunday, 10/7. If I’m able to participate, it’ll be on Tuesday.

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We’re giving away that Ubuntu computer next week (to one of our lucky YouTube subscribers, if you’re one of ‘em). Setting up that PC gave rise to a new series of questions that Matt Hartley helped answer.

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