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We had a discussion today in the live stream. Various different websites were mentioned so i will list them below
So much went on i talked about the upcomming announcements we have. Talked about the car accident i got into last friday. We welcomed our latest guest. Talked about windows vista and windows 7. Talked about the difference between intel core duo and the intel core 2 duo.

pretty good explanation i can’t seem to find the http://tomshardware.com one i used.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2808&p=4

http://www.box.net

Free online storage up to 1GB for all. No demonstration was done but will be done in later shows.

http://www.logmein.com

Access your computer from home. Will do demonstration in next tuesdays show.

http://www.simple-share.com

sending files bigger then 5 mb to your friends. Did infact do a demonstration using my email account through gmail.com

http://www.playlist.com

Create your own free online music playlist for all to hear. Share it with your friends or post your playlist on your public social media site.

Thats about it

the stream can be found here at

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/828601

A shoutout to our latest guest pcnovice91 and thanks for comming to the show.

So i thought this was interesting, Yesterday at church which for those of you who dont know i run a get your computer fixed evening to where if people in the church cannot afford to get their computers fixed they can bring it to us. We then take and clean them out. As you can see in the past ustream live vids we do that and manage to have fun at the same time.

But i was working on a machine last wednesday where the user had made a claim that the machine was slowing down periodically. We did a number of cleanups on the machine for both viruses and spyware and found absolutely nothing. We do these scans periodically in an application called linux. Runs the apps that we need from a third party disc.

We started up xp and it must’ve been over 20 min it took the machine to start up. The machine itself was an intel core duo 2.4ghz or something like that. So my thought was the machine itself was powerful enough to start up quicker then this. By the time it got into xp i noticed the machine was loaded down and i mean just packed with scanners. It had avg, norton, macaffe, spyware doctor, spybot, adaware, and more. Wow so i called them up and we began removing the ones not needed. Everytime you load a computer down with a scanner i dont care whether its a pc or a mac it eats up ram and causes your machine to slow down. FYI guys they make norton for mac to. But anyways my point is max you only need one scanner maybe two but dont load your pc or mac down with a bunch of scanner apps.

When you do a virus scan or spyware scan it is always best to have it going when you are not using the computer. If you use the computer and try a scan expect the computer itself to slow down. Unless you have a significant amount of memory. For example a lot of my computer support customers tell me that spyware doctor is a major resource hog. Honestly its simple, leave the scan going when you go to the supermarket or run an errand somewhere and by the time you get home the scan is done.

Well thats my thoughts on virus and spyware resource hogs. Tell me people if you have any input just leave a comment below …..

We covered a lot of topics in this stream. The video itself the first part you might notice a bit of lag time in the first video. I apologize about that the problem wasnt corrected until i began the second part of the video.

Anyways we heard from paul cooley who talked about his experience loosing all of his information on his laptop computer. He explained to us exactly what he lost and how i was able to help him recover some of that information.

We next went on to http://www.cyberguys.com and looked at harddrive enclosures. You can get 2.5″ enclosures for laptop HDs or 3.5″ for desktop HDs. We found both enclosures to be around $20-$40.

We then looked at http://www.frys.com and looked at a $79.99 for a 500GB external HD.

We looked at how to back up your HD at either the paid product Norton Ghost at http://www.norton.com or the free Windows Backup software that comes with some new windows machines.

Windows backup: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/maintain/backupfiles.mspx
Watch the videos to see for yourself.

Click here for part 1

Click here for part 2

Domain brainstorming session. Look how hard we work at it haha.

If you need help this is the video to watch.

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Want to learn more about internet security ? watch as we discuss the pitfalls and the possibilities of www.pctools.com spyware doctor. AVG - Anti-Virus www.avg.com. Avast at http://www.avast.com. Finding out the validity of companies that are out on the internet.
Go to http://answers.yahoo.com.

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Voice over ip or skype it is. The telephone used by everyone at one point or another. Invented by Alexander Graham Bell to be able to communicate with one another. Amazing it is though technology continues to evolve over time. I am going to talk to you today about voice over ip VO-IP or Skype. Skype its called which was invented by a team of developers from Estonia. One of the developers orginally helped develop Kazaa an illegal downloading service. Skype works over p2p networks or in another words the same network that illegal downloading works over.

Now skype being as cool as it is. Let’s me talk and converse with friends over the phone for free. For free ? Thats my kind of price. Voice over ip has been used in the business workplace as an easy way for phones to be linked together in a network.

So skype i can call using a logitech premium headset (not mentioned on live stream) can be found at http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Premium-USB-Headset-980374-0403/dp/B0007SXHP0. I would have to say overall the headphones have been proven to be very comfortable on my ears. I actually prefer it over the other logitech headphones i had which went behind my head. Anyways you can call using any brand headset it really doesnt matter. http://www.cyberguys.com has the cheapest i’ve seen but i don’t know how well the work. I plug this into my computer and if my friend or friends has a webcam we can talk and even see each other through the computer. This service is absolutely free.

Now lets say i wanted to use this service to replace as my current house phone. I can go visit http://accessories.skype.com/store/skype/en_US/DisplayHomePage. That is a list of their current for sale phones that can be linked up with skype. Generally you want to look more for the phones that don’t require the computer. Like the Phillips USB phone is 29.99 but requires a computer to use where as the Philips VOIP321 - Duo which is $99.99, comes with two phones, and doesnt require a computer. I can then link it up to skype and make calls from my ordinary looking house phone.

Skype also has a built in public chat feature that allows the user to be able to create chat rooms based on topic. You can then take these chat rooms and promote them online at your website, myspace, or whereever else you see fit to promoting them. These chat features also including banning, editing posts, and removing posts. You can also promote moderators of the chat.

Well thats it i hope you enjoy the product skype that i’ve found here.
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