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How often have you had trouble with your home network, and tried various different programs to attempt to figure out the problem? Wouldn’t it be easier to have one tool that can do pretty much everything you need to keep your network running properly? During a GoToMeeting recently, Uncle John showed us what he keeps in his tool belt when he needs to diagnose any network problems he may come across.
Andre Andraos asks:
I’m buying a new laptop (Macbook Pro), and was contemplating whether I should get glossy or matte finish screen. What are advantaged and disadvantaged to each? I am using this laptop both indoors and out, and planning to use it for: playing high-end games, schoolwork, web and graphic designing, computer programs, etc. What would you recommend?
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Datalore brought up an excellent point during a conversation with Wirelesspacket and myself recently. The future of the Operating System most definitely IS in Cloud computing.
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“General Walnut” poses excellent (if not rhetorical) questions on the matter of Windows vs. OS X:
I am nowhere near as much as an expert at this kind of stuff that you are and I’m not going to pretend that I am, but you were talking about how because of Vista that Apple might get more of the market. If they did catch up or even pass Microsoft, don’t you think that they will end up facing many of the same problems that Microsoft faces now? I mean, third party companies will want to start making machines that run their OS, and if Apple agrees then they would have to deal with the same hardware adjustments that Microsoft has to deal with. I don’t know, it just seems like, if the positions switch then it will just be the same thing with a different company, and if Apple computers aren’t running in that controlled environment that they have created then they will run into just as many, if not more, problems than Microsoft.
“Suggestionofdoom” was knows of more ways to reuse old tech hardware:
I remember watching a video of Chris on YouTube talking about interesting ways to use the old tech. What I do is I make crafts out of it. When doing this first buy or get something to decorate (preferably something that will look nice). Go to IKEA if you have too. Anyway, cover it with the insides of the tech. Do what I did when I got the idea. There was a day in my neighbourhood when we made a charity fair. I made a booth where people could smash the stuff for charity. They smashed it and I helped the world. Anyway, I took it back inside and saw I had a blank chair (got it from a yard sale) and remembering this charity thing at school, I glued the hardware on it. Then, I did it with another chair – and another. Soon, I had bought and decorated so many chairs, I sold them on eBay. The money recently paid for my PSP. I also found more junk and kept decorating, Soon, I wondered what to do with it. I did the same ‘chair system’ with a few picture frames; one has a picture of my parents and me at the park when I was five.
It is a period of barking war. Puppy spaceships, striking from a hidden bowl, have won their first chewtoy against the evil Galactic Dog House.
During the battle, Puppy spies managed to eat secret plans to the Dog House’s ultimate weapon, the BREATH STAR, an armored treat station with enough yum-yums to destroy an entire planet.
This week, it was my turn to choose where Ponzi and I would go for our “date night.” Sounds a bit silly, but it’s the only thing we can do to kick ourselves out of the house – if only for a few hours at a time.
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The community-at-large is loving GoToMeeting as we’ve been using it (they’re offering an exclusive 45-day trial for you right now). While we were chatting tonight, Wirelesspacket demonstrated a VoIP client that we’ve started to use on a regular basis around here (even though it’s been used by gamers for a while now).
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Laptop Magazine recently asked the question “Would you recommend a Mac to someone looking to buy a Notebook?”. One of the so-called “experts” was so wrong with his answer, I couldn’t stay quiet and let it go. Al Gillen stated:
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During the GoToMeeting, racedude showed us the Alpha version of the new Trillian Astra. There are some very cool new features and enhancements.
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Don’t adjust your monitor. That really is me in this video, and I look this way on purpose. You, too, can stream yourself live using ASCII characters… if you have OS X. ASCII Projektor is a free program that runs on OS X. ASCII Projektor presents films by drawing them with characters.
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During a GoToMeeting conference the other night, Zergdog shared with us how he uses Photoshop CS3 to make glowing text. Photoshop allows you to enhance your text by using many special artistic effects, including drop shadowing, bevel and emboss, and color overlay. To create glowing (or any other enhanced type) text, do the following:
“TheDub” keeps coming up with suggestions for making Vista snappier. Far be it from me to keep his findings a secret.
I thought I would mention another thing. You will not believe me when I tell you that I have gotten Windows Vista performance similar if not the same or faster than Windows XP. Both on battery and off.
When I was asked by Jim Allchin to go through Vista betas with a fine-toothed comb, I did – and I knew my feedback would be sent to the proper teams. If I knew that the right person at Apple was listening, I’d likely compile a similar (lengthy) list of Leopard UI oversights, inconsistencies, and bugaboos – and would be more than happy to do so. As it stands, however…
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