Browser was are the new battle field for tech companies and the new open source FireFox has thrown down the gauntlet to Microsoft’s sleek and speedy IE9. …
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New FireFox Browser is a Powerhouse
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Monthly Archives March 2011
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Amazon Unleashes Mighty Music Cloud Power
I am right now loading my Cloud Drive with all the music on my computer. When it is done (in a couple of hours) all my legally obtained music will be stored in the cloud (aka. Amazon’s server) and I will be able to stream any of my music to any device or computer I want…except my iPhone! Only Android phones can play the music right now. This is a huge revolution. Read the full article. …
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Podcast: March 26, 2011
- Gary Baker, Ed Rudel, Cal Carson, Foster Braun, Erik Anderson
Show Notes
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Special return guest Josh Linkner outlines the kind of thinking and acting that will put America back on its feet again as a creative hotbed. Josh is a serial entrepreneur who founded ePrize and a handful of other successful ventures. During our interview Josh will share a five step process to getting the most creativity out of your life and/or organization. Among other things Josh is an accomplished jazz musician and writes an insightful blog
- We will also be hearing about Apple’s latest moves from Erik Anderson’s Mac Minute report and Cal Carson will give us the highlights of the upcoming MacGroup Detroit Meeting this coming Sunday.
- Then we will have TWO FULL HOURS of taking your phone calls and finding answers to your computer questions with Gary, Ed, Cal and Foster. Call us toll free between 5-7 PM at 800-859-0957.
- TeachParentsTech.org
- Disappearing DVD/CD Drive Solution
Podcast: March 26, 2011 – Hour 1
Podcast: March 26, 2011 – Hour 2
Podcast: March 26. 2011 – Hour 3
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Vote for Your Favorite Team in the Imagine Cup
March 23 kicks off another milestone for the Imagine Cup student technology competition. Right now, the People’s Choice Awards are live. You can check out the finalists, view videos of their projects and vote for your favorite team, including LifeCode.
The Software Design and Game Design teams with the most votes will be crowned champions at the Imagine Cup 2011 U.S. Finals awards ceremony on Monday, April 11, in Redmond, Wash. There are 22 U.S. teams competing in the U.S. finals on April 8-11 in Redmond, vying for a spot in the Worldwide finals on July 8-13, which will be held in the U.S. for the first time in 10 years in New York City.
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LifeCode Team Makes US Finals of Imagine Cup
The LifeCode Team from Wayne State University has made it to the US finals of the Microsoft Imagine Cup again! LifeCode uses sensors attached to a person’s body which capture vital information, uses Bluetooth technology to transmit the data to their Windows 7 phone which in turn sends the data to “the cloud” (remote data storage servers) where it can be stored and analyzed. Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, is an international competition designed to encourage a new generation of computing geniuses.
Good luck to the LifeCode Team during the US finals in April!
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Microsoft Takes Out Huge Botnet
The folks in Redmond do more than develop software, they hunt down botnets and kill them! Witness the demise of Rustock, a botnet that at one point contained over 2 million zombie computers responsible for sending 30 billion pieces of spam a day. …
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Podcast: March 19, 2011
Show Notes:
- Eric Abbot, Microsoft Online Solution Specialist, talks about Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, encouraging next generation of computing geniuses
- Alumni of LifeCode Team, Steve Markovitch and Kun Wang from Wayne State University hope to compete in July 8-13th in New York City for the Imagine Cup with their new project Moov .
- A brand new service from Google to help kids explain the Internet and computing to their parents and grandparents:TeachParentsTech.org
Podcast: March 19, 2011 – Hour 1
Podcast: March 19, 2011 – Hour 2
Podcast: March 19, 2011 – Hour 3
Link: The Mac Minute
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Run a Website or Blog? You Can Help Japan Quake Survivors.
“If you run your own site — and we know lots of you do — you can use your pageviews and influence to help Japanese people struggling to recover from yesterday’s devastating natural disasters. All you need is a couple lines of code from the Hello Bar. Mashable News …
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Podcast: March 12, 2011
- Foster Braun, Ed Rudel, Kurt Hines, Erik Anderson
You’re going to have to get your questions in quickly this week because we have just one hour to find answers for your computer problems. MSU Basketball starts at 3:00PM as the Spartans keep marching on to the big dance. So we will put everything else on hold to make sure you get an hour of answers for your questions.
Don’t forget to turn the clocks ahead one hour this Sunday
when we switch to Daylight Savings Time for 2011!
Remember or you’ll be an hour late for church or breakfast at very least! 😉
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New additions to Ed's Excellent Toolkit
Hit the Toolkit button at the top of this page and you will find some great additions to our weapons for combating malware: Microsoft Security Essentials, Comboxfix, and SUPERAntispyware. The best news is that they are free or have good freemium services, i.e. they can work for free but offer some additional services etc. if you pay a subscription. A good example is our favorite Malware Bytes. The free version does a great job hunting down viruses and other malware but it is not active all the time, unless you pay a yearly subscription of $24.95; then it actively hunts for, stops and/or destroys the malware before it has a chance to infect your machine.
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