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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Life Casting

I talked about life casting go to http://www.live.pirillo.com to see a good look at a good life cast.

What If Apple....

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

Firefox going the way of Netscape

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.

No More DRM?

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.

1. No DRM on songs
2. highest-quality 256 kbps AAC encoding
3. 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.

Download

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

Making A Home Sever F or The Rest Of Us

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

Backing Up

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

True encrypt

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

Sky Drive Is Live

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.

Mac VS other OEM's

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]

Waiting for sp1 still

I talk about morwe tech stuff.

you can got Pocket KillBox.

Death of HD DVD

I talked about HD DVD and dumb people.