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Last night I was on the phone last night with a friend I told her how I had a project due Monday about imac’s. My friend asked me if I thought that one day that apple would ever be the norm and over come windows. My reasons was that I think that unless Apple stats licensing what they need to license to OEM’s Mac will never have the over all market share that windows dose. There was one case not to long a go that an OEM wanted to make Imac’s and Apple said no. I really think that if Apple lets other OEM’s make Imac’s that OS X could have the over all market share that windows has had for so long or at lest Apple could give a real scare that Microsoft needs to have.
- Mike
Some time this year Firefox 3 is coming out and the more and more I hear about it I can’t help but to think what is going on at Mozilla. I was reading Pual Thurott’s and he doesn’t seem to like it because Mozilla isn’t doing anything new. Mozilla is what basically made IE7 if not for Mozilla we would not have IE7. But now there is no wreathen to get Firefox you already have it and its IE7. Witch is fine to use. For me at this point the only wreathen I still use Firefox is the mast password and varsines seat belt plug in for Firefox if not for those to things I would be taking Firefox off my computer. In the end there will probably only be IE again. Why you might be asking because if Mozilla doesn’t do anything new with Firefox then no one is going to talk about and tell others about it and with out that no one will know about it. Its not IE or even Safire ware it just comes with the OS. So in the end it will probably die and I think other things that Mozilla dose will too sadly. The other things they do are grate and so is Firefox but with out it why should people go to there site and find the other things they do. It is kind of said that the browser that fought for internet standers and won will probably never see the light of day soon. Unless that is they do something in there new bate of Firefox 3 witch came out today and I will be looking at that soon.
- Mike
Here you can go get the Firefox 3 beta 4.
Last night I was on Itunes buying music and I saw +.99. I wanted to know plus what? So I clicked on it and it came up with a FAQ about Itunes Plus. From what it was saying Itunes plus is going to be a new Itunes store with and it will off the Fowlling.
- No DRM on songs
- highest-quality 256 kbps AAC encoding
- No more burn limits
The songs will also be same price as songs with DRM. This makes me think my be the end of DRM is here its just going to slip away and be no more. I can only assume that buy next year at the latest that all the content on itunes will have no DRM. So I guess what I have to say about it is R.I.P DRM[TP1] .
- Mike
Here are the links to the Apple stamen and the FAQ's.
Well I watched the first 2 episodes of Download last night and they were grate. They talked about the browser wars (Netscape and Microsoft). I just love how they showed Microsoft as like a mafia like company. From what they kept saying it that’s how they were back in the early 90’s. But I don’t want to give away nothing so your going to have to watch it your selves so got to Downloads web site and find out what time this week it is on in your area.
-Mike
I use to use my old windows 98 computer for a server until it died. It was a good idea I think and something I had wanted to do. It wasn’t that hard I just had wish I had a copy of windows XP laying a round to network my computers all to gather and it would have helped if the router that we are using in this house was connected to that computer. As long as you have all that and an older computer that is just sitting around gathering dust you can have a little sever of your own. Just be aware you won’t be abele to make users on the network or even do roaming profiles.
I would reinstall windows on the computer you are going to use for this and I would also say do this with wired network. This will work on a wireless network but it will be slower. One more thing I for got to say make sure this computer is has at least 80 GB of hard drive space. Once you have reinstalled windows make a good 20 GB partition. Once you have that made make your work group and name it something other than workgroup. Once windows is done confining windows it should ask you to either make a CD or finish. It is easier to tell it to have it make a setup file on a flash drive. Once you have the setup file with your network config on it just take to all the computers that you want networked to the older one. When you have done that you can get back on your “server” and tell it to share the 20 GB partition you made. Then you just have to go to the computers you have networked to it and tell them to map it out as a network drive just make it the same drive volume on all the computers. Then you can just save files to that drive have Microsoft Money to save your money file there then you have another back for your money things or even save your documents to it. Just one thing though never work off this server or really any server cause if something happen to your network work you cant get to your computer.
Well I hope this helps and saves money if you have wanted a home sever but you really don’t think you need it. This was a big help for me when I did this. Just remember to back up your data to something like sky drive or even to a DVD. If you want to e-mail me about the blog just e-mail me at sam16blake@live.com hope to hear from you all.
- Mike
Lately I have been backing up a lot cause of what happen to my old computers. I use to back them up to a CD every 2 weeks and I hade records of back up CD’s with my stuff on it that I thought were important. But I started to run out of room for all my back ups so I stopped doing it I thought nothing will happen and one day it did do to my dumbness. Everything on that computer I lost pics, vids, home work, notes, etc. So I had to get back what I could lucky for me most of my pic’s were on my space so all I had to do was download them back.
So a few months have past now and well I really haven’t backed up much. Except for lately I have. The other day at school I found the use fullness of windows sky drive. I was in typing class and I was done with my work so I thought I would work on an e-mail for a friend I wanted to send. I worked on it for about 10 min’s and the bell was going to ring soon I knew so I put my flash drive in and what happen next puzzled me windows would not install the flash drive and I needed it to. Then I knew that I could upload stuff to the inter net so I went to the live sky drive site and signed in. I took the doc file and uploaded it to my sky drive documents folder. When I got home from school that day I got on my laptop right a way and went to my sky drive page and down loaded the file and finished it.
I started to think my be this would be a good way to back up my school flash drive cause now and then I for get it and im screwed normaly. So I took just took all my school work and just uploaded it to my sky drive and now if I ever for get my school flash drive it is there and it was easy. I just dragged and dropped it in the folder (a add on for IE & is needed to do that).I also added some pics that are important to me cause with the hole yahoo thing who knows what is going to happen to yahoo.
In the end I now feel a bit safer about my data and that im not going to lose it. The only bad thing I can say about putting it one the sky drive is that I can only restore as fast as my connection will let me. At least I know my school work my past blog past and important pics are safe and secure.
- Mike
Yesterday I did a full encryption of my system partion. I did it cause one I wanted to play with truecrypt and the other is I just don’t like knowing that my laptop is just laying there at home wile I’m at school and some one could be putting software on my laptop with out me knowing. So I encrypted the drive so I can be at ease. I went to the truecrypt web site and downloaded the latest version of it. My be it is just me but I like knowing nothing is getting in or out of my computer (for the most part) with out me knowing.
- Mike
This week windows live sky drive came out of beta and is now live. They have added 5GB of space so for me that good for backing up my blog and stuff. They also add an extension for Internet Explorer 7 that allows you to just drag and drop stuff into your drive. It is also much faster uploading files to it than it was in beta. It is a really grate for back up and its 5GB free.
As grate as it is I think there is one thing they could do to make it better. I would like it if they were to allow you to download a program or something to be able to sync a folder on your computer to your sky drive. They should make it so it syncs to the sky drive when you can. Like for example have it set to sync my blog folder every Saturday at 4 PM then at 4 PM it dose it or every day or weekly how ever much you need it.
That for me would make sky drive so much better. Though I guess I can’t complain its 5GB for free I just got to stop being lazy and remember to back it up once a week. Well I hope to tell what’s on my mind about tech again tomorrow bye.
Last night I was watching one of Chris Pirillos show on my Ipod and he talked about mac VS PC and I though hmmmm..... I wonder what he's thoughts on it are cause I know he has touched on this in previous nights. so watch the clip cause I don't think anyone can put it in better words than he can.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_AqimYMIfQ&rel=1]
I talk about morwe tech stuff.
you can got Pocket KillBox.
I talked about HD DVD and dumb people.
Well as you all probably know I broke my HP computer just before X-mass. I’m getting a new computer built from some off the newer things I put in my old computer just before it went and some newer things. I was told to make a list of things I have and things I want in that new computer so I’ll start with the things I want.
- Windows Vista Home premium (Yes I want Vista)
- RCA input
- SD Card adapter
- DVD Burner X2
That’s all I really want on my computer. Now the things I have aren’t any longer.
- Motherboard
- Wireless G card
- 4X hard drives 2GB-160GB
And that is about it I know I don’t want much but hey its what I want.
-Mike
I read today from the vista blog that it might be here today. So I go see if it is yet watch =].
Here are some Tech videos I did on ustream awhile ago there bad but should be shown. they may be out of order.
The other night I was listening to Windows Weekly and Paul Thurrott started talking about Vista one year latter and SP1 for Vista. He stated talking about the sales numbers for Vista in its first year and Windows XP in its first year and basically they found that in Vista’s first year sold more copies than XP did in its first year. Though I remember when XP came out and I wanted to upgrade from Windows 98 to Windows XP all I ever herd was XP sucks don’t upgrade basically the same things I hear about Vista and just like Vista with everyone buying XP in grate amounts as they are now when XP came out everyone was buying windows 2000 and got mad when Microsoft stopped making 2000. I have come to one answer and that is no matter what Microsoft dose this cycle will always happen. Sorry Microsoft.
If you want download the Episode of Windows Weekly of past ones at as well go to Pual's page.
Windows Vista the OS failure sins ME. Though I want to say it is really a good OS but if I do I'll probably be hung. Really Vista inst a bad OS its just not really new and broke some things in networking that worked in XP. I remember something that Leo Laport said on ether Call For Help of The Screen Savers. It was “I hope that Long Horn (windows Vistas code name at the time) dosen't turn out to be another Windows ME”. Well I think in some was Vista has ME was nice if you were getting a new computer and it was already on it for the most part it was windows 98. But there was really no raethen to upgrade to ME if you had windows 98. Well now if you have XP you really don't need to go to vista and if your getting a new computer for NON-BUISNES USE go with vista. Now your probably wondering why I said for NON-BUISNES USE and thats cause in a business place Vista fail big time. In a business place a network is inportin and Vista inst really good with networking in XP networking was easy in Vista something inst going to work. Other than that Vista is fine. Its probably the most secure version of Windows ever. So please stop putting Vista down.
- Mike
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Mary X-mass to all!!!!
Well yes another Mac vs PC thing I know its point less and there just OS's but there are differences I use PC's for the most part but you know ever sins I was in like 3rd grade I've always have wanted a Mac because in school thats what we use here are Macs. But I got a PC with windows 98 and I lived. Windows I will say I have seen dose a lot better with networking and file sharing than Mac's do from what I've seen that is. Though Mac's I think are a lot better for people beginning with computers cause the OS X inter face looks just so much more simpler than Windows XP or Vista.
Updates are done I think Better on the Mac than in Windows cause Mac makes everything for there OS so they just have one updater and it keeps everything on OS X updated. Unlike Windows were you have Windows Update and a million other software updates going on at once and you never really know what they are updating cause it probably software you don't even use any more.
But really in the end it docent really matter any more cause hell if you have a Mac you can have both of both worlds. I've also seen ways to get OS X running on PC's as well. I think in the end it just boils down to what do you want to get out of your computing expectorants. If you want to do stuff like web deign and graphics then get a mac there so much stuff for that for the mac. If you want to run a Business and use business software like Microsoft Office then get a PC.
- Sam