Im sure allot of you who read this blog our the family tech support or neighborhood IT department. So you probably have to set-up a new PC now and then I think you should do a few things to make sure that your not being called back a million times because there PC is Loaded with spy ware.
- Take off any Crapware on the PC. Allot of times when people buy new computers it loaded with crap that they will never need.
- Run windows update as soon as you get a connection. Most of the PCs coming out now have Vista with SP1 although that is good there are allot of dates since then and they are all important. You may also want to set windows update to download and install for them as well.
- Make two user accounts on the PC one admin and one limited. Although yes even as admin on Vista your really limited you still should do this because if you were admin you might just hit continue with out looking to see what you were giving admin rights. With being limited you have to use a password to do it and that gives you time to look and see what it is.
I hope these tips help you with setting up these new computers.
I’ve been saying and saying that I was going to change the URL to the mega tech blog for awhile now and finally last night I said I was going to do it so here it is I did. I changed the look too but the important thing all the old post are right here. So I hope you like the changes I made and if you have any questions or suggestions please e-mail me at samlikecoke90@gmail.com. I hope you all like the changes =].
Recently a friend of mine got a wii. She wants to play it online but she cant because they don’t have there router set up. Why is that well cause they didn’t know how so I’m hoping to fix that with this little tutorial. so here it is.
1) you need to unbox it there should be a Ethernet cord in the box.
2) look at the back of it there should be at least 5 Ports in the back 1 for the cable/DSL modem and 4 for computers.
3) now place the Ethernet going from your cable modem to the router (it is probably connected in the back of your PC right now)
4) Plug the Ethernet cord that came with the router into one of the Ports in back of the router and the other end plug in ware the cable modem we plugged in to on your PC.
5) Ok now turn on your computer and it may make some noise. now open up your internet browser ( Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari.) and type in 192.168.2.1 in the address bar.
6) Now you should see a page find ware it says login and just hit submit because there should be no password.
7) Now go to ware it says channel and SSID and just change the name from the default to something elts. Then hit apple.
8) now go to ware it says Security and chose what kind of Encryption type like WEP WPA. If your doing it to so the Wii can use it probably should do WEP. When you select it it should come up with a long line of numbers and letters write it down some ware you will need it when you go to your wii and set it up.
just hit apple and it should restart again and your online. I hope this is helpful to other people other than my friend.
More and more lately I look over at my cable box and think why are you still here. I never watch TV on my TV anymore. I’m about to walk out of my room with it in hand say here I don’t need it anymore. Most shows I watch are podcast and any TV shows I want to see are on hulu or the adobe media player. Its had to give it up because there is like one show can’t find that I can legally watch on the web and that is Big Bang Theory. Witch kind of shocks me that its not on the web. Well hopefully it will and there is the pirate bay to get the show if I really want to watch it. Its there fault they should have it on the web I would watch one maybe to ad’s if I have to but no its not on the web so tuff shit to CBS then. I'm almost serten now that I will do this though I’m not paying the cable bill so I probably will keep it.
I listen to alto of podcast and a few of them do tech support questions. A lot of times they get people that want to move from windows XP to Vista or PC to Mac but wont because of one or 2 applications that wont work with the new thing that they want. Well that's when the hosts sagest things like VMware and Parallels. These are good Virtual PC software but they are so expensive. I don’t see why they don’t tell them to use virtual box its a grate VM software and it is free. I'm sure there are things that VMware and Parallels can do that Virtual Box cant but I think if your still wanting to use older software and want the new thing too its grate.Revision 3’s system did an episode about VM’s it was grate and that is ware I first herd of Virtual Box. So try it you got nothing to lose its free and its grate for trying out Linux OS’s.
The system episode I talked about in the post.
For awhile now we have been seeing the beginning of a new browser war. What I find funny is that it is with the same two browsers again. Internet explorer and Netscape great grandson Mozilla Firefox. It’s like a horror movie for Microsoft I think. They killed monster once (Netscape) and now in a new form it has come back stronger and better than it once was and now Microsoft has to fight it off again. But it is losing.
For thought’s of you who do not know what I’m talking about the browser war is what it was called when in 1993 Netscape came out with a browser called Netscape communicator and Microsoft soon relies that well maybe they would should get on this internet thing so they came out with internet explorer. By the end of the 90’s they had destroyed Netscape.
Although the original Netscape has been gone for a long time now the sores code floated around the internet and a company named Mozilla witched they then improved and slightly changed to be there first browser Mozilla. Then sometime latter it became Mozilla Firefox.
With Internet explorer 6 so in secure it gave a lot people a wreathen to switch from IE to Firefox. Which is now IE’s down fall and even with their soon to be realest Internet Explorer 8 hopes are not high? IE 8 is supposed to work better with web standers unlike other versions of IE. Although it does the mark of IE has already been made even their own sites do not work right yet with IE 8 because most web servers see IE and render the page how IE likes it to be render.
I think this just show that IE is paying for its sins you could say. I’m not saying there will be a world without IE cause its part of windows and although I don’t use it much there are times when flash or some plug in go’s bad in Firefox and it just won’t work right and I need to get something done and that is ware IE comes in handy cause it has sonority so every web page works with it. Though I’ am glad for Firefox I love some many featchers in it that I couldn’t just name one or two. So who ever winds this time I hope doesn’t become a tyrant like Microsoft did.
-Mike
Today I went to Walmart and well I hate Walmart, I’m not sure if I have really ever said that on here but just so you know I hate Walmart. Its not even the whole chine's thing or that they pay there employs shit its because there are so many people there and most of them I wish just wouldn’t open there mouth. But these people are the common windows users witch scare me.
I was checking out and the lady doing it was older but had no clue what she was talking about she was talking to the older lady in front of me about the computer she got recently and went on to say how she got vista and how she doesn't know it but she said she had XP before that and now she has to learn ware things are allover again and she wished that there was classis to learn vista but she only find place for windows 2005(and what the hell is that the only thing I could think of is windows server most likely).
So I under stand she was old computers are a whole new world for her but i really think that computers Windows or Mac are not that hard to get use to. But normal people go into this with the whole thought of ooo computers scary and so they make it allot harder than they should be.They wont try things cause they think they are going to brake it but I really find that not true. I was like that for awhile I will admit when I got my first PC when I was in 3rd grade but then I learned to back up and what the restore disks did and I was never afraid to do anything. Now I still don’t touch anything in the BIO settings but I think that is a give in unless you know what you are doing.
Also these people don’t know how to secure them selves online either and in that case they are a danger to them selves and others. These people don’t update there computer and think as long as I got Nortan anti virus I'm safe and nothing can hurt my computer. That right there is scary to me too and the anti viruses companies don’t really correct that either. Then when you tell them the truth they say “Well why do I need a anti virus then if it doesn't help me” and you have to try to tell them is more a safety net.
Its a mess out there and I really wish there were more people like well Leo Laporte cause I think he dose do a good job of explaining to the normal user these things. A lot better than I can I try as I might but there just so much I can do because of the generation gap its easier for him because well he is older and can relate to them than a 18 year old could to a 50 year old. When I try to explain something to my friends who are around my age I can relate things to them and they can under stand what I 'am talking about. Maybe there will be one day where people understand computers a little bit more then they do now but until then I still have to run to my grandparents just so I can restart there computer and say and its fixed lol.
-Mike
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
- Mac mini
- Xbox 360
- The sims2 Pets
- The sims2 Free time
- A vizio HD TV
- PS3 For the blue ray player
- 32 GB Ipod Touch
- Apple TV
- HP Media Smart Server
- 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
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
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
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
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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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
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