Facebook Gives

The other day I was talking about the new privacy changes facebook made and today they have changed them back. I love this quote from them.

“Over the past few days, we have received a lot of feedback about the new terms we posted two weeks ago. Because of this response, we have decided to return to our previous Terms of Use while we resolve the issues that people have raised.”

I think they did the right thing here to go back to the old one. The newer one just gave them too much power over our stuff. Witch is OUR STUFF. Though it makes you think… what are they cooking up at facebook that would make them want control over that and dose this mean they my try to do something like this again. Hopefully they will not I do like facebook a lot more than I ever liked myspace.

-Mike

Facebook Fail!!!!

I think at this point we know about the  change in facebook privacy policy. I we can all agree that its just wrong but incase you have no idea what im talking about, Facebook changed there privacy policy to basically say that any info that you put on your facebook page or any content you put on your facebook page is there's and they can do what ever they want with it. You can read more at mashable.

What I think we are going to see is facebook selling are info to ad agencies and company's so they can make ads that they can make ads that appeal to us. Witch will probably not work. But they could do other things with this too if you want to that into it. They can sell pics that we put on our pages to ad company's so when it shows one of thoughs meet hot girls in your area, it could come up with a pic of a a girl on your friends list (or guy).

I know it is a quick way to make money Facebook but really you don’t own us and you maybe able to use our stuff even if we leave facebook but if we do leave we will find some place elts that will not take our info and the ad company's will no longer want you. So what im really saying is don’t mess with your users.

-Mike

*update: In the time I wrote this facebooks mark Zuckerberg has responded to the conserns of this chang witch you can read as well on mashable.

Got a Xbox 360

Well I got a lot of money for x-mass and I thought it was time I got a Xbox 360. I really wanted it to be a Windows Media extender. But that hasn’t worked so well since every thing I have is on iTunes so pretty much nothing shows up or works. A few pod cast in H.264 show up but it says it can not read it. Net working the computer to the Xbox was really easy it took no time at all. I liked that it just used the internet on my PC to use internet TV. If you have allot of things that aren't copy weighted then this is perfect but if you use iTunes for everything like I do then its not as good. I hope too soon get some games.

-Mike

Google OS?

I had no idea that google was making a OS. It uses Ubuntu so if you are familiar with that you should be fine. Though the one thing I like about it is that it has a doc like OS X. But that is the mac fan with in me saying that. I think the G OS is quite good for net books witch is what they are being but in. Most of them made by Everex (not my favorite OEM). It installs just like any other linux distro so just burn the live CD and try it out and install. It really has everything you need for your basic user. It has Firefox, Open Office, google docs, Google Cal, Blogger, Youtube, gimp, most of the same things that are in Unbuntu.

Im sure you just read that last sentence and are thinking wait gmail, google docs, youtube and blooger are not apps. You get a cookie because they are not they are online apps and I like the way they prezent them in the OS. They open them in like a crome environment making them seem like local apps running on the hard drive. This is expected because this OS was made with net books in mind.

I have looked at this as good as I know how (Im no linux expert) and I think this is a grate linuxs distro for anyone who is fixing up a computer for someone that just wants to do e-mail and surf the web. It is a small kernal and it only needs a 1.25 ghz processor to run and vary little ram I was only using 512 MB in the VM I was using. You can get at thinkgos and there is also a myspace version with myspace apps on the doc.

-Mike

Pownce to be Shutdown

Before I did the last blog update I saw my friend the vixy say somthing about R.I.P Pownce but I didn’t know what she ment by that. Then Just a second ago I saw a tweet from

kevinrose While I'm sad to shut down the service, I'm excited to join @sixapart as an advisor, cool stuff coming.

Witch kinda mad me said because I was just starting to use pownce again and I liked pownce. if you want to see everything you can go to the pownce blog or you can go to Six Apart.

-Mike

My Wish List

I was just thinking today that Chrismass is coming soon and people keep asking me what do I want for Chrismass, There is alot I can think of none of it I will ever get unless my family winds the lotory but I thought I would make wish list as if money was no object. So here it is.

1. Mac mini
2. Xbox 360
3. The sims2 Pets
4. The sims2 Free time
5. A vizio HD TV
6. PS3 For the blue ray player
7. 32 GB Ipod Touch
8. Apple TV
9. HP Media Smart Server
10. Photo Shop CS4

Thats really all I can think of for now. That up there would make a grate Chrismas that HP Media Smart Server has been on my wish list for awile. Maybe some of this santa will put a Photo shop CS4 under my tree ^.^

-Mike

Things I have notice

I found out something today and Im not sure how long it has been out for but Sony has a free version of Acid called Acid express and I just downloaded it and I have never really played with Acid pro before so it should be fun when I go to play with it. So you can get that at the Sony site.

The windows live wave 3 is coming soon I have been using the beta for a wile now and I love it I use windows live photo gallery the most to keep track of the photos I take and have on my PC. The problem I have had though is I have 2 computers I use my laptop and my desktop. I use my laptop to do all my photo editing because the screen is wider and it is brighter. I want to have the photos that are on my laptop on my desktop computer but I don’t want to have to drag and drop them in to a network folder. I want to sync them with the Pitcher folder on my two computers. Well from what I have herd in the final version of Live photo gallery it will sync your pics between all the computers you use all you have to do is log in with your Live ID and it will start syncing them. Also windows live sync will be part of the Wave 3. The only thing that will not be ready for Wave 3 will be the new movie maker.

Another thing I have notice is yester day when I woke up I notice my Desktop had been restarted and when I logged on to windows it said that a new updated had been installed but when I turned on my laptop and looked for updates it didn’t have any and I know they both were updated last patch Tuesday. So im not sure what that was about if you know e-mail me at samlikecoke90@gmail.com. Well thats all I have noticed for now and I hope everyone had a good thanks giving.

-Mike

What I have heard about windows 7

I do not have a copy of windows 7 nor do I think I will until it comes out but I have herd and seen many cool things about windows 7 that make me want it. The big thing that makes me want it now is that it is vary light weight witch is something different since normally when a new version of an OS comes out it is bigger than the previous one. The other thing is kind of n Apple thing but from the screen shots of it, well its pretty darn its dame sexy is what it is. Paul Thurrott’s supper site for windows has a lot of screen shots of it there so check them out.

Windows 7 is going to be an improvement UI wise from what it looks like more than anything elts. Not to say there is not any changes in the back round going on but I think the over all focuses for the windows 7 team is UI. The only thing I ask is why windows 7? its the 12 version of windows and like the 6 version of the kernel. Windows 7 will ship as kernel version 6.1. The windows 7 blog try's to answer this but I don't seem to get Why 7?

-Mike

Open Office 3 Shoots

I just got installed after the open office site was down most of the day. Hope you like what you see I know I did.

- Mike

I’m A PC???

Well Microsoft is all over the with there ad’s now. The most meberbal I think were the Synfell Gates ad’s witch since they have pulled the plug on now. A vary sad thing  I think since I liked thought's ad’s. They also have the mojave ad’s they got going witch are ok. The newer of the ones that I think are a hit in the right discretion is the I’m a PC ad’s they have started showing.

When I started seeing this I was happy. I thought this was the right step back at the PC VS MAC ad’s apple has been showing the last few years. With that first line “Im a PC and I have made into a stereotype type.” I was thought to my self right on. I think out of all the ad’s they have been showing this campaign is a winner. Why you might say well because they just deconstruct almost everything Apple has been saying about windows.

So I have this to say to Microsoft please make more of this ad you will win back your loss users with these ad’s or at least get them to put Vista on there  Mac’s.

-Mike

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What I think about wave 3

Well for the last few days I have been playing with the wave 3 beta for the windows live suite and I like it so far. I like the new Photo gallery and live writer. I really haven’t played with the new movie maker but I will soon. My favorite thing though is the new live mail.

I have been looking for awhile for something that I could make changes to my windows live calendar for awhile. It also lets me make changes offline then will sync with it when I get online. There is really not much to say since this is only beta so I cant ready criditsise it to much.

So the bottom line is download the beta of the live suite it makes things allot easier. Just if something goes wrong remember it is just a beta.

-Mike

Wave 3 Gallery

Well I got the beta for the windows live wave 3 witch you can get it here. I really like the new mail client because it has a calendar witch syncs with the windows live calendar. Here are some pitchers.

-Mike

A Possible iphone hack

What is in this blog entry is comply just a theory that I cooked up in my head when I found out that there was a kill switch that apple had made for the Iphone to kill any app on a phone remotely. So no of this is true as far as I know.

So now this is what I was thinking, last week I believe it was that apple admitted that there is a kill switch deep inside the iphones OS that allows them to kill any app remotely on the iphone. Now what I was thinking is what if someone were to hack apple and get a holed of this kill switch wouldn’t it be possible for the hacker to start messing with so enterprise level stuff like they showed in Steve’s key note back at WWMC I believe it’s called, that they were showing businesses using it well what if one of the apps is mission critical for them and they wake up and its gone from the phone.

I was also thinking could this kill switch kill other apps than the third party apps like the Ipod part that’s just really an app on there so you can get your music that is on the hardware could the hacker also take that off to making so you can’t lessen to your music of podcast or whatever you do with the ipod part.

Now I’m sure I’m just being paranoid and most of this couldn’t happen but the Iphone and the Ipod touch are both running an OS which means some ware deep inside its code is some kind of exploit just waiting to be found and exploited.

-Mike

 

Podcasting

Podcast or Netcast whatever you want to call them they have started to make a change I think for the better or at least for the people that miss Tech TV. I was one of the thousands that were sadden when G4 took over and killed all the good shows on there. I think the only show that aired on Tech TV that is still there is Wired for Sex (Surprise Surprise).

Thank god Leo Laporte started twit and also thank god for Revion 3. I don’t know what I would do without thoughts pod casting networks I would drive myself crazy and I would not know most of the stuff that I know now. I watch more podcast more than I do TV now I find pod cast are a lot more convenient then TV cause I just turn on Itunes and its downloaded to my computer and I can watch them whenever I want. I myself normally watch my podcast when I’m eating breakfast normally things like the chris Pirillo show and Techzilla.

Though I see a down side to it I find is that pod cast are just like blogs but more annoying in the wrong hands. Cause of the fact that pod cast are so easy to make that means that any dumb ass can say what they want and normally do have their facts striate. That’s really the down side I think to podcast but as long you stick with figures or networks that you know and trust like CNET or soon to be called NBCNET you will fine and won’t really hear from them or other networks that you trust from TV.

Go to your Itunes or whatever is your favorite RSS reader and subscribe to shows that seem to interest you. At this point there is millions of them so I’m sure you will be able to find something and you will never have to surf around your TV to find something to watch again.

-Mike

Computers For The Old

A week ago I believe I talked about how my grandfather got a computer. Well it has been about a week later and he loves it. My grandma has been telling me that he has been getting up at 8 A.M to get on the computer. At this point my grandpa know ‘s more about the computer than my mom dose who uses computers every night at her job. I just found that funny.

My point is that most older people don’t think that they can use a computer. When you say computer they think of the old like punch card mashies. You just have to show them how easy they are to use. I just think that it is better for a older person to have a computer just cause it makes things a lot easier for older people. For example things like paying bills ordering medicine and in some cases even get groceries.

I really think that if you have someone in your family that is older and they don’t think they could ever use a computer you should find some way to let them use one and show them to that it is easy. So computers can be used by all you just got to know how to back up so if you mess up you can go back.

-Mike

What Will happen When 7 Is Here

Every now in then late at night I start thinking about random things like what will happen to vista when windows 7 comes out. I heard some ware that windows 7 is going to be more business orated. That made me think that maybe windows Vista will still have life after 7.

Let me explained, I think when windows 7 comes out that most of the people that are going to be upgrading to windows 7 will be enterprise. Wile the rest of use (the consumers) will be happy with vista and wont see any reathen to upgrade to windows 7.

What I'm saying is windows 7 will be the OS for enterprise and vista will be the OS for the rest of us. That's how I think it will be. But just like any thing elts in tech you never know.

-Mike

A Lay Out For Facebook

Facebook this week came out with there new layout. Witch really isn't that grate or different from what I can see. The only different that I can see is that it looks longer that's all. There really isn't that much to say about it. I really don't like Facebook I use it I just like myspace over Facebook. That's about all I have to say about the new Facebook look. I will just end by saying that the myspace layout looked a lot better.

- Mike

A New Computer

Today I went with my grandparents to get there first computer and boy was that fun. We went to circuit city to get it it was a Compaq pasarieo laptop. Getting it wasn't that bad other than I  miss read the thing I found on there site. I thought it was $499.99 but that was with a rebate. It turned out to be around $600.00 so there was a slight error there with that.

Like I said before they got a Compaq its running a Intel Pentium duel cor prosseser with 2 GB of RAM. It works pretty good for a laptop or maybe that's cause I'm use to this one witch I can never say is the best laptop ever. But it dose get my work done and school work so its not that bad.

Trying to teach them things was hard though cause what they want to do is things on the Internet. I just don't want to be telling them things they wont ever remember or use. So I showed them how to do a few things in Word and how to turn it on and off that's about it. It was really even harder to cause I had maybe 3 house of sleep.

Now as they say they are now part of the 21st century. They just need to get on the Internet witch will be soon and I can help a lot more.

-Mike

The Mega Blog

I have just made some changes to the blog that I've wanted to make for awhile to make this truly a tech blog. This is now the Mega tech blog. I thought it was time to get rid of any thing that you could tell that this was a personal blog. I' am in hopes to be abel to do more vids on this site and do more pod castes with my good friend the Vixy. So I hope you like the new Mega tech blog.

-Mike

Windows Vista SE

I’ve been thinking for awhile now about windows 7 and what it might be like. I really been thinking that it would be like windows 98 SE. Why you might ask. Well it really hasn’t been that long since Vista came out. So I figured that windows 7 is going to fix all the problems with Vista and add things to it to make it the OS that it should have been out of the box. When I was thinking of doing this blog entry I thought I would e-mail Paul Thurrott from the supper site for windows. Surprising to me he responded to my e-mail.

Hey Paul I just wanted to ask you you think on something. I've been thinking about windows vista and windows 7. MY question to you is do you think that windows 7 is going to be more like windows 98 SE in scenes that its not going to change anything that its just going to be a really big update that’s going to cost a lot of money to just fix some of the problems with windows vista now and add some new things to it. I mean it just doesn't seem like something all that existed to get when it comes out like I was when windows vista came out.

From

Mike B

and his Reply:

I think it's going to be like Windows Vista in reverse. (Bear with that one for a sec.)
In other words ... Windows Vista completely changed the underlying Windows platform but provided a UI and experience that was much like its predecessor. To the user, Vista isn't a huge upgrade, but the reality is that the underlying platform has completely changed.
Windows 7 will utilize this new Vista-based platform but will likely be a dramatically different OS from a user experience standpoint, hopefully with at least an improved if not completely new shell. There will be a ton of new applications and functionality.
I guess Windows 7 could never have happened without Windows Vista, but Windows Vista will never get the respect it deserves for getting the hard part done and taking the ensuing lumps.
Paul

I think after reading that has me thinking a little bit more of windows 7. I just hope it doesn’t get the rap that vista got or even cause of vista that it doesn’t just get looked over. I think that would be an awful shame.

-Mike