Iphone 2.0 hacked maybe not so good???

Well I know that at this point I know this old new that the iphone 2.0 has been hacked. Is it just me or dose it just not make sence to hack the 2.0 software it dose everything you want it to do in the first place why do people need to hack to install apps I mean this just opens the door I think to problems. I think the first time it was hacked with the 1.0 software it was a good thing but now that the iphone and ipod touch can install apps now I think it will be time for the hackers to start doing mulish us things to it and I think it will become the windows of phones. People will have to worry about viruses on your phone. Though it wouldn’t be a new things there already viruses for cell phones out there just hasn’t been a huge out brake yet.

I just think that the iphone is just a setup for a big out brake of a viruses. The army is even using it what other reathen would there be for other country that hate us to come up with a hack or a viruses that would fuck with though. I think it’s something that people should keep in mind. So don’t freak out just be cautious and always be alert cause it could happen.

-Mike

Back-Up People

Late this morning I posted a video with my good friend thevixy having problems trying to get into OS X on her mac book. But she could get into Windows XP on her mac book. There are only 2 things I can think of one that a system file in OS X got corrupted and all she has to do is reinstall OS X or a sector on the OS X partion is broke witch she could use spin rite to fix if she has an extra $90 laying around.

This though is why I always like to back up things. once a month I always back up everything I can on to a DVD. Every week I back up important files to  windows live sky drive. Why you may ask, well cause its 5 GB for free so that's enof for me to back up all my blog entry's to it and other small files that I need or want and they are always there when I want them. Though I find it kind of funny to that the other day that I was watching System and they were showing how to turn a old computer into a free NAS (Network Attached Storage) witch is a good way to back up your data because it is a on site back so then it only takes as long as it takes to transfer files over your network.

So please people for your own sake and the safety of your data back it up. If its picks got windows live photo gallery and back them up to flickr. just back up then when your computer just stops working one day it wont matter as much cause you will have your data some place safe and ware you can get to it.

-Mike

This is why you back up

My good friend thevixy woke up today to find that she could not get into OS X on her mac book. Watch and enjoy.

-Mike

TWIT LIVE APP

Today I woke up and looked at the RRS feed reader in my windows live mail app and there was a thing from Leo's blog about a AIR app that some one made and I have to say this is the best use of adobe air since TWIRL. Its really simple you install it and there is Leo's video feed there is also a tab that has a schedule that shows when he dose his shows. I just thought it was kind of kool and thought I would share. you can get it here http://www.peterelst.com/blog/. So download it and watch there screen shots down here.

-Mike

Vixy and Mike talk Tech //

-Mike

Tech Today

Good Bye Bill

Well I’m sure everyone knows now that Bill gates last day at Microsoft was Friday. Some people are saying this is a bad thing but I think that this is really good thing. I think this just means that we will so more things that we would have never had seen with bill there.

Though he is retired he will still be there. He is still part of the board of directors I believe so its not like he completely gone, he will still have a say in things with the company. He just wont have the say that he once had in making the software. He was head software Developer or something like that I believe was his title there.

Well I think this is a start of a new beginning for Microsoft. They been kind of taking a little bit of a slump in the last few years but I think this is there chance to change all that around. They have new and initiative things coming out like Live Mesh witch I think will change the way people think about and interact with computers. So cheers to Microsoft to a new beginning.

-Mike

2 Windows

Back when windows 98 was king there was really two windows. Windows 98 and windows NT. 98 was the consumer version of windows and windows NT was the enterprise version. But when windows XP came out they combined the two cereals.

The point I’m trying to get at is why they would do that. They should go back to only having two cereals, a consumer version and a enterprise version. The consumer version could have things like the windows live sweet and Microsoft works. Then the enterprise version of windows could have stuff like Office and all the things enterprise users need to get there work done.

I got a lot of this from listening to windows weekly and when Paul was talking about I was just sitting here thinking “I want that” it was like as if I woke up from one of those dreams that are so good you think its real until you wake up and look around and think DANM it was just a dream. I just really think that marketing is getting in the way of what consumers want.

-Mike

Windows XP

Well Friday was Bill gates last day at Microsoft. He retired the 3^rd richest person in the world. Though he will still be at Microsoft after t Friday but he won’t have the say like he once did. But Monday is the last day you will see Windows XP on store shelves. But there road map for windows XP has changed for the better and you can read about it at the supper site for windows.

Well what I really want to say in this post is good bye windows XP. I will miss your weird colored task bar and start menu. I will miss how you anoid me with highlighting programs I just installed and most of all I will miss how when I plugged an old peace of hardware in you I never had to worried if it was going to work. But really I’m not going to miss XP all that much when I go to school and I have to use XP I miss Vista because my teacher tells me to find Photoshop and I cant find but I muddier to my self well if the school would just upgrade to danm Vista I could just type in “Photoshop” and what would pop up in the start menu oh my god Photoshop.

So for the last time good by windows XP I won’t really miss you that much. I just want to say I’m not saying that Vista is perfect by and stretch of the imagination but its good enof for me, for what I use it for at least.

-Mike

My Worries About Cloud Computing

Every ware I look lately I keep hearing about cloud computing. The more I think of it, it kind of worries me. If you don’t know what I’m talking about cloud computing is the assentive to try and make the browser your most important appellation and your only application on your computer.

Now you’re probely asking why would anyone want to do that? Well there are a few reathens why people would like to have that. The rather is so that any ware you go you can always have your apps and files every ware you go.

But you see having everything on the internet kind of scares me. I just see a security disaster happening now if this truly happens. I mean with this whole cloud computing thing we are talking about entire operating systems. Just think Windows on the internet its unsecure now how many times do you think windows will be down then. Things going down if all your files and for business appellations on the internet there will be more incentive to bring down web servers and then what… nothing that’s what businesses wont be able to function losing millions if not billions from this.

Well I do think cloud computing is a really good idea. Like I have just said I have some worries about it. I it will be along time before this becomes a reality but I hope along the way developers think about some of these things. I really hope this happens I just think right now I feel safer having things on my local hard drive.

-Mike

Ustream a mess

I to say something’s are just falling a part lately I’ve notice. Is it really that hard these days to up date things that are critical to a business.

Number one Ustream.tv what is going on with it lately. It just seems to be falling apart. So it seems. I was at Iellie’s ustream room when she was trying to do her give and you can hear more about how that went at her web site. But what was happening was ustream was crashing Fire fox and safari. I just couldn’t use ustream on fire fox 3 RC2 and others had the same problem using fire fox 2. I finally had to switch to IE 7 wile I like IE 7 over past Versions of IE I still don’t like switching out of no ware. Well it turns out that what the problem is and what windows ended up telling was it was a problem with flash. From what I’ve been hearing is that Ustream.tv just hasn’t updated there flash so when you try to watch a show on ustream and your using the newer flash and ustream is encoding in the last version its causing these browsers to crash. All I have to say is ustream update flash.

I loved ustream when I used them and the problem I really had with them was that it no one was there like they are on stickam. I’m not saying though that stickam is perfect but it works for me and I just really hope that one day the bugs will be fixed and it will be more popular so I can return.

-mike

Firefox 3

I just wanted to show off Firefox 3 cause I think it will be out soon or elts I hope.

-Mike

Sick Twitter

For the last few days twitter has been 90% down. From what it has been saying it has something to do with a database going down. Though this isn’t the frist time that this has happen it been happening a lot lattly and I think there are a lot people that are fed up. I see a lot of people are going to other things like Jiko and pownce. I said before that it is 90% down cause you can still twitter and see tweets you just cant see older tweets from the people you are fowling. Also you cant twitter for a IM client. I know I haven’t twitter by Iming sins they stopped supporting AIM. Witch got me quite mad from there last upgrade.

Though it seems like sins there last big upgrade that they did twitter has just gone down hill from there. Though I also think that it has a lot to do with that there are a lot more people using twitter now. Twitter is just so atictiv that everyone is always on it and using it twitter just cant go down (I know that is just not posibal) but twitter is just getting so popular that if twitter tires to get some down time people are going to complane. Just like myspace it dosent matter when myspace gose down there is going to always be about 30,000 people complanng.

So the problem I think is that there is more tweets than twitter can handle. In the end if twitter dose not shape up soon people are going to be leaving. Twitter will always be our little birty with a broken wing.

-Mike

Stickam

Lately you have probably seen that I have been life casting a bit more. I bet you have also seen I have been using stickam rather than Ustream. This is because well I think stickam is better for life casting rather than ustream. There are some reathans for it too.

Now before I get hate mail for ustearm fans I’m not saying ustream is a bad place to do streams. I’m just saying I think stickam is better for things like life casting. One wreathen and this is the big one to, is that there are more people using stickam then there are using ustream. I the 24 hours on ustream I got maybe one or 2 people watching me, while on stickam I get one or two watching an hour and the people that do watch at least talk. I also like that if you have the right cam the quality is better on stickam and stickam goes down a lot less than ustream dose.

So in the end Stickam is my new life casing home. On another note I have been working on my old mikeville page its coming along not done yet but if you want to find me on the Internet then you can always find me at www.freewebs.com/mikeville one day I’ll register mikeville.com. So if you want to ask me something please do so by e-mailing me at sam16blake@live.com

-Mike

Ipod Touch

I talk about the Itouch and the sims2 =].

- Mike

Live Mesh

Well I just watched a  video about live mesh. Microsoft finally came out and talked about it at the web 2.0 expo so watch it and look at all the stuff that live mesh can do.

- Mike

Screen shots of live mesh

Twitter Wars

For a few months now twitter has ben under a color war. I still haven’t done much with it and I do feel bad for that but I do belong to a team and it is the green team. There has been a good thing because I have found new blogs and new tech shows. I think this color war on twitter is a good thing opening new and different things opening up new views. So I say join twitter and get a color.

- Mike

Firefox 2.0.0.13

Firefox has just come out with a new update it was manly security stuff so make of it as you will here are the fixes in 2.0.0.13.

-Mike

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