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Tom and Brian name the tech they think was a turkey in 2009 and get a few turkeys from listners of the show as well. Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe with iTunes (audio) Subscribe with iTunes (video) Subscribe with RSS (audio) Subscribe with RSS (video) Episode 188 Twitter Peek Garmin Nuvifone G60 Danger s Sidekick Servers Xbox 360 (Red Rings of Death) Apple Magic Mouse BlackBerry Storm PSP (no)Go Palm Pre? Brother MFC-5890CN The Brother MFC-5890CN all-in-one is hands down the worst printer to take up space in our lab. From the irritating initial set up to the horrendous output quality and slow print speed, this device is the easiest way to flush $200 down the drain. http://reviews.cnet.com/multifunction-devices/brother-mfc-5890cn/4505-3181_7-33303729.html?tag=mncol;lst EMAIL QUESTIONS ********************** I was looking at getting a tablet PC. I was looking for a speficic kind. I would like for it not to have a keyboard and only have sceen input. My ultmate goal is one simular to the one used on Stargate Atlantis by Dr. Mckae. I was wondering what your opion on options would be. Thanks Jason Johnston Beaver Falls, PA Answer: I think Tom s opinon is probably don t . But if you re set on it as you seem to be, I would say Lenovo X60 Tablet. It does have a keyboard buit you can swivel it out of the way and pretend it s not there. The thing is, it s two years old. Nobody s making a lot of good new tablets these days. The best recent one s are netbook sized like the Yukyung Viliv X70EX. http://reviews.cnet.com/1770-3126_7-0.html?tag=mncol%3Bsort s a creaky, rickety machine and the screen has sparklies on it. Or http://www.axiotron.com/index.php?id=modbook ********** Tom: The Windows System Repair disk on the Oct 21, 2009 How To video doesn t seem to do much. When my Win7 crashed for some mysterious reason within the first 2 hours, Windows 7 seemed to boot but found an error, tried but failed to repair itself. When I put in the Repair Disk, it does the same thing as the self-repairing process as Win 7 on my HD, ending with the same result. In both cases it says Unknown Error and cannot be corrected. I even tried the Windows 7 original installation DVD and used the Repair option ending with the same process and result screen. I had to do a full reinstall. Given this experience, it seems like the Repair Disk and the Windows Installation DVD does the same thing so why would one need to create a repair disk. Thank you. Dickson Answer: Correct, the System Repair disk is included on the Windows 7 DVD. Making a system repair disk is god in a few scenarios though. 1. You didn t get a Windows 7 disk form the manufacturer when you bought the computer. You got a system recovery disk that in fact doesn t have a Windows System repair function on it. This is common. 2. You want a disk you can throw in your bag when you r eon the go, without worrying about scratching up your original Windows 7 install disk. As for it not working or doing the same thing as Windows did on it s own that s just the luck of the draw. If your system won t boo the system repair disk will, giving you an extra chance. It also works better if you have restore points created. But it s not guaranteed to work every time. Rafe: Create a Sytem Repair disk. It can access system restore files, and there are instances when you will need those. ********** Hey, I was just driving through Atlanta and saw a billboard advertising a 4G Mobile Network from Comcast. Now if memory serves me right comcast is an ISP, but not a mobile ISP, so I was wondering if you could explain what was up. (if it s any help the advertisement ad some sort of box that looked like it had something in the process of being plugged in to it, so it seems like some marketing shinangin to me) Answer: Comcast is an investor in the Clearwire WiMax service and sells a Comcast branded version of that service ins elect markets. Time Warner Cable Bright House Networks and Google are also investors. ***************** Dear Real Dealers, I was considering upgrading my 40GB PS3 hard drive with a 320GB one, as between game info files and a few movies and songs I m just about out of drive space. I know most laptop SATA hard drives will work, but I dont want to lose the data thats on the old drive. I was thinking of trying to clone the drive, but the only way I can figure to do this is to take out the hard drive out of my laptop, put in the old PS3 40GB drive, boot a live CD with some linux backup software, clone the disk to my external hard drive, then insert the new drive into the laptop, and transfer the cloned drive to it. One, I don t even know if the software will back up my PS3 data, and two, this seems needlessly complex, but I can t think of a better way. Any ideas gents? Thanks Rich in Lovely Cleveland Answer: Actually the standard method requires two drives, your new 320GB drive and a second external drive that should be close ot he old 40 GB drive in capacity, though it can be a bit less. Take the small external drive formatted to Fat32, hook it up in an enclosure (or just use a USB drive) to the PS3 and back up all your data. Then just put the new hard drive in the PS3 and format it. Then take your small external drive, plug it into the PS3 and restore the backup. That s the easy way, if you have an extra drive laying around. If you don t, you can make a bit-for-bit clone of your PS3 drive that will work in YOUR PS3 drive. Don t get all wide-eyed about being able to clone drives and sell them to friends with saved games on them. This bit involves mucking about with reiserdriver. The whole process is listed out here: http://www.ps3news.com/forums/ps3-hdd-news/help-transferring-old-data-new-playstation-3-a-108384.html **************** COMMENTS ********** Tom Merritt is a big fat liar! Dear Tom Merrit, Don t take this seriously. The tip on using the free version of Yahoo Mail as a POP3 Failed me. Google got rejected by Yahoo POP3. Perhaps Yahoo realized that you were working for CNET and could give them a bad review? Maybe? Just a theory, anyway love the show. This is the error. Server denied POP3 access for the given username and password. POP access is limited to Yahoo! Mail Plus subscribers. Please contact Yahoo! 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Update on Firefox accessibility on the Mac. In Dumb Question Corner Jacob asks about how to update themes in Wordpress.com, and Sam questions the need for SuperDuper! if we can make bootable backups with Disk Utility. Matt and I experiment with wetoku at wetoku.com for recording video interviews. I review a blog aggregator website I'm enjoying called Regator at regator.com. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I go through a pile of security updates in Security Lite for the Mac, Windows, Safari, iPhones and Wordpress. Then Bart explains why you should use Fluid from http://fluidapp.com/ to create a separate browser instance for doing your online banking.

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Should you buy that extended warranty? Tom Merritt says no. Rafe Needleman says sometimes. We'll give you some guidance on how to decide if it's worth the money. Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe with iTunes (audio) Subscribe with iTunes (video) Subscribe with RSS (audio) Subscribe with RSS (video) Episode 187 Should I buy that Warranty? http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-10388909-260.html Recommended for: laptops. Applecare. Just factor it in. Not recommended for TVs Also GreenUmbrella: If you must buy an extended warranty, buy this one http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10005159-2.html sneaky anti-applecare idea: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2C388AN8YLA1K/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#R2C388AN8YLA1K Best advice: Don t buy stuff that has a chance of breaking. Ex: My seagate drive. I m on my second. Sure, I can send it back, but what a PITA plus I have to pay shipping for the privilege. E-mail questions Hey Tom and Rafe, you said in BOL that the short answer to warranties is no. What about Best buy s new extended warranty plan that for $140(basic) on a $400-$600 laptop, you can get a free battery at the end of two years(because your battery won t be functioning like it was when you bought it ), and if you have any major problems during the warranty they will more often than not replace your computer with a new one. I ve had to use an extended warranty a few times and have been VERY grateful for them, though some are obviously better than others. Great shows, JoshuaCaleb P.S. when s your next all questions ep? I have one that stumped the Geek Squad. ******************* Dear Tom and Rafe, After breaking my fourth pair of white apple earbuds in less than 10 months, I have decided to move on. I m looking for ear buds that work with the iPhone (same clicking to answer/pause/skip + mic). I m looking for something for no more than $100. I actually prefer durability and comfort over sound quality since I assume any decent earbud will sound better the apple s. I checked out CNET s reviews but their were SO MANY and I couldn t always tell if they had the clicker/mic. Thanks for all the great advice and keep up the great work. -Dan in MA via RI Answer: Spend $20 on this http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/smarttalk Then take this advice from Jasmine France. Koss earphones (i.e. http://reviews.cnet.com/headphones/koss-keb-79/4505-7877_7-32521878.html) come with a lifetime warranty, Shure also has a good durability reputation but they re a bit more expensive. Skull Candy Smokin Buds (http://reviews.cnet.com/headphones/skullcandy-smokin-buds-headphones/4505-7877_7-33715606.html?tag=mncol;lst) sound like crap but have cloth-coated cable and those are usually more durable. ******************* Rafe, There is an internet myth circling about the home and student edition of Microsoft Office, obviously the EULA says that: The software is not licensed for use in any commercial, non-profit, or revenue-generating business activities. The myth goes that if it is used for business purposes, such as writing a book that then gets published, Microsoft owns part of that book and its income. Do you know if there is anyway to verify that? I only ask because as I was searching for information, I saw an article you wrote on Microsoft Office. -Nick Answer: MS says: This rumor is untrue. You cannot use Home and Student for any business or revenue generating activities and if you do so you are in violation of the EULA. However, Microsoft does not 'own' or receive income from those business activities. ******************* Hi CNET crew, I am high school students and a couple of years ago when my needs weren t that great I signed up to Yahoo Mail and now everything comes to Yahoo, but I want to go to Gmail for a variety of reasons, there s not a single problem with that but I want to forward all my E-mail automatically onto G-mail which Yahoo won t do unless I sign up to their premium version which I cannot afford. Is there a third party way of automatically forwarding all your incoming E-mail to gmail from yahoo. Any help would be great. Regards Karan (pronounced: Kar-aaan) Answer: Ingenius Linux solution http://digitalcardboard.com/blog/2009/04/15/forwarding-yahoo-mail-to-gmail-for-free/ There s also Mr. Postman which will transfer mail for you from your desktop http://sourceforge.net/projects/mrpostman/ Gmail will import the mail for 30 days http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en . Gmail go to settings. Choose Accounts and Import. Under Check Mail Using Pop3, Enter your Yahoo adress. Put in your password. And you re set! ************ Hey guys, I m currently coming up on the end of my iPhone contract with AT m pretty sure I d like to move over to Sprint s service for the great rates. I m looking for a smartphone and I m considering the Pre and the HTC Hero. Which do you guys think is a more worthy iPhone competitor for the long haul, WebOS or Android? Thanks! Tony the insurance adjuster in Miami Answer: Android. ********************** COMMENTS ********** In regards to the essential apps episode, and Rafe s refrain throughout about how installing apps slows down the system and adds processes. Uh, what? First of all, good software doesn t add startup items or services without your permission. And for those that do, try msconfig . There s no law that says you have to have a process running in the background for every installed bit of software, and you can disable these entries in your startup list to avoid the whole problem. Antonio Rafe: Correct, good apps don t add resident processes. Bad apps do. MSConfig is very useful. Also, Process Explorer will tell you what s running. *********** Hey Rafe and Tom, Just so you know, download.com also offers TechTracker in Mac flavor. It s a great app, and although it keeps my apps up-to-date, it s best function may be reminding me of all the apps that I ve downloaded and only used once. Keep up the good work. -Alan in New Jersey ************ Greetings Tom and Rafe, On your latest podcast of essential PC software, you mentioned HijackThis. There is a website: hijackthis.de that will take your hijackthis log file and analyze it. It displays the results in a user readable form with user feedback and rating about Each program running on your system. One other tool that I think was left out was Malwarebytes. Thanks for great podcast. Henry Cocozzoli Sr. Systems Engineer ******************** Which peripherals are covered under Apple Care http://www.tuaw.com/2009/09/11/which-peripherals-are-covered-under-applecare/ Now live Thursdays at 4 p.m Eastern / 1 p.m. Pacific on http://live.cnet.com/ Call live! 888-900-2638 (CNET) Next time: Tech Turkeys realdeal@cnet.com forums.cnet.com

Free audio sound files from Freesound Project from freesound.org and Sound Snap from soundsnap.com. Twitter lists - check out twitter.com/podfeet/nosillacast-live and twitter.com/podfeet/mac-roundtable. Matt Hilyer of the Stealth Mac Podcast at thestealthmac.com and twitter.com/bldgnerd reviews the Magic Mouse from Apple, see his pictures of the Magic Mouse unboxing: flickr.com/photos/baldingnerd. In Dumb Question Corner William asks me to explain what Flash actuallyis, and Jim Sewell asks where to find good Mac applications. Evan reviews the Night Camera iPhone app from sudobility.com. Review of the Brando Flexible Mini Capsule Microphone from brando.com and the great image editing program Acorn. in Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart tells us about the Topaz Bundle of plugins for Aperture and iPhoto from topazlabs.com.

This week we look at PageHand, Popcorn, ScreenFlow 2, Gourmania, Freeware plus much more. I want to thank you for downloading and listening to the podcast. We have the best in Mac hardware, software and websites reviews. We have a lot of great folks on today s episode with their reviews and comments on software, hardware and websites that make using the Mac special. Plus I ll have the top freeware Mac apps of the week and much more. You can email me at surfbits at Gmail dot Com. I love to hear from you. Here is the freeware and shareware I look at during the podcast: ScreencastsOnline Special November Half-Price! Whimsically Plucky Software: http://www.whimsplucky.com BackityMac: http://www.whimsplucky.com VideoVangelist: http://www.whimsplucky.com RadioRocker: http://www.whimsplucky.com DockChanger: http://www.whimsplucky.com NewOCR: http://www.newocr.com Bleep Blop: http://bleepblop.isnot.tv Quiet Read: http://bambooapps.com/free-stuff Fairmount: http://www.metakine.com/products/fairmount Skreenics: http://code.google.com/p/skreenics Sequential: http://sequentialx.com Joomla: http://www.joomla.org David Sparks from MacSparky joins us this week and reviews: PageHand: http://pagehand.com Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast looks at: Popcorn: http://www.roxio.com David Allen from Mac20Q.com podcast reviews: ScreenFlow 2: http://www.telestream.net Michelle Lopez joins us today from the The Portable Gamer and iCasual Report to review the iPhone/iPod Touch game: Gourmania - $.99 Gourmania Lite - FREE Try the new ENHANCED version of the MacReviewCast: And now we have the Podcast in Bit-Torrent Feeds! You can either click on the podcast link on the left and listen to it via QT from the browser, or you can right click on the podcast link and choose to download linked file . That will download the mp3 and you can play it from you hard drive with iTunes. The right link below is the URL for the podcast RSS feed. Just right click it and choose to copy the address and then paste it in your podcast reader, or ipodder, or newsreader that will download enclosures automatically. Please Click Here to vote for us on the PodcastAlley Website. Thank you! techpodcasts.com Technorati Tags: software, review, mac, apple, iTunes, Mac mini, podcast, Macreviewcast, podcasting, maccompanion, OSX, iPhoto, Exposure 2

In this exclusive interview (don't they always call it "exclusive" to make it sound cool?) I talk to Mitchell Baker the Chairperson and Chief Lizard Wrangler of Mozilla about how you go from a failure to 24% market share using primarily volunteer labor across the world. Links from our discussion include Mitchell and John Lilly's op-ed piece on Net Neutrality at the Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com and labs.mozilla.org and browser Market Share by Net Applications at marketshare.hitslink.com. Also Mitchell's blog at blog.lizardwrangler.com.

Tom and Rafe discuss the apps they put on first thing when they get a new computer. Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe with iTunes (audio) Subscribe with iTunes (video) Subscribe with RSS (audio) Subscribe with RSS (video) Episode 186 Download.com starter kits: Windows: http://download.cnet.com/8001/2701-19409_4-2-1.html windows security: http://download.cnet.com/2701-2023_4-6-1.html mac: http://download.cnet.com/2701-19406_4-4.html And of course, NiNite http://ninite.com/ Tom s picks (Won t read all of them, just a few favorites and then refer to the show notes for complete list): VLC Open Office Sea Monkey or Firefox/Thunderbird/FileZilla/XChat (Colloquy) AVG Antivirus Hijack This Pidgin/Adium Paint.NET iTunes Audacity CCleaner Skype Rafe s picks PC Microsoft Security Essentials Process Explorer Foxit PDF reader CCleaner Paint.net Picasa Pidgin SugarSync Roboform VLC WinDirStat (plus the usual: Apps like Office/OpenOffice, Evernote, etc) Techtracker Mac Witch Win-like task switcher SugarSync Skitch Adium DiskInventoryX Precipitate puts google doc results in spotlight Multiclutch more trackpad gestures LISTENER PICKS Google Earth (for Linux) -dpeach uTorrent (Vista) -Hardus Backup Chunker (Vista) -Hardus SyncBack Glary Utilities (Vista) -Hardus Fences (Windows ) Sang Tweetdeck Andrew Path Finder http://cocoatech.com/ (Mac) Obada Rightzoom http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/30591 (Mac) Obada Default Folder X http://www.stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolderX/ (Mac) Obada Quicksilver (Mac) Sang EMAIL QUESTIONS Tom and Rafe, I know you are doing an episode on useful software for a new computer. I m wondering if you know of a good Hard Drive Visualizer for the MAC? Those programs are super useful for tracking down and deleting files that are just clutter and hard to find. I ve used a couple, but they are unstable and crash frequently. Robinson A Answer: Disk Inventory X! http://www.derlien.com/ for PC: WinDirStat ******************* Tom s not the fastest thing in the world, but it does appear save the harddrive to RAM allowing a complete power disconnect. I don t know how long it can suspend the harddrive on the RAM, but score one for windows. Love your show, JoshuaCaleb P.S. for all the listeners out there, you have to put the computer in hibernate not sleep . When in sleep , the computer will eventually go into hibernate and I think you can alter the hibernate settings as well. Anyway, that s my nickel and two cents. *********** Tom - On Real Deal Ep 184 you read an email from a guy with a fried XP drive that wanted to upgrade to 7, but didn t have his key. this actually happened to me, but I did have the original XP drive. Someone suggested I call Microsoft (yeah, right ) and on a whim i did. The guy on the phone (lovely gentleman from India who was concise, pleasant and knowledgeable) told me to read the characters printed around the rim of the hole in the CD. I d never noticed those numbers before but I read them off and in about 20 seconds he told me my product key! Now the thing that really blew me away was that he asked if he could stay online with me while I ran the XP install so he could be sure I was taken care of! Or maybe I dreamt that, it sounds too good to be true, doesn t it? Allison Sheridan NosillaCast Podcast Now live Thursdays at 4 PM Eastern / 1 PM Pacific on http://live.cnet.com/ Call live! 888-900-2638 (CNET) Next time: Warranties realdeal@cnet.com forums.cnet.com

iTivo from code.google.com/p/itivo/ disappoints, but there's hope in TivoButler and Popcorn (stay tuned). Donald reviews MiFi Phone App from jkontherun.com. Blackberry Desktop for Mac from na.blackberry.com works perfectly. Camera Plus for iPHone from globaldelight.com and PS Mobile from give new tools to the iPhone camera. Bruce reviews HotSpot Shield from anchorfree.com for a free VPN option. Windows 7 install doesn't exactly go smoothly for me. In Chit Chat Across the Pond we cover the latest Firefox updates, and Bart describes his journey from Thunderbird to Apple's Mail.app.

Tom and Rafe discuss life with Windows 7, Entourage, Seagate hard drives, Ubuntu and more. Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe with iTunes (audio) Subscribe with iTunes (video) Subscribe with RSS (audio) Subscribe with RSS (video) Episode 185 Windows 7 Windows 7 Virtualized XP Mode (for VPN) NiNite Entourage LISTENER ROAD TEST Hey guys, Good timing for a road-test episode, as I have been using Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope (man, I always feel stupid typing out those codenames..) on an old Toshiba laptop. This was my wife s old windows machine that (supposedly) died two years ago. Well, I wanted something to do the other day so I downloaded the 9.04 ISO and tried installing it on the not quite dead yet machine. The install was dead easy, about the same as installing OSX, so a little easier than windows (for me anyway) and in about 20 min the machine was up and running. I could not get the Atheros wifi chipset to work, but, alas, google is your friend and I managed to install (very easily) the restricted drivers and I was online. Now, understand, I have used Ndiswrapper etc to get windows drivers to work in linux which is like a special level of hell, whereas this was simply point and click, no terminal, nothing. I gave the machine to our eight your old son. He has high functioning autism, so change is not the easiest thing for him (hell, it is hard on most people). His desktop machine is an old (and I mean old) machine running Kubuntu 6.04. He had no problem at all adjusting. Indeed, the UI is so darned intuitive that he no longer has to ask to connect to the wi fi if he loses a signal, he figured out right away that he just had to click on the wi fi icon and select our network and not the neighbours . I have of course played with it some too and this machine, an old 1.6 GHz laptop with 1 GB of RAM runs better than the Dell Inspiron that I have at work. Applications open very quickly, the media stuff, such as the music and video player work perfectly with our Freenas home server. It is so damned slick that my wife now is entertaining the idea of flattening her vista machine and moving over to Ubuntu. That said, we have a site license at work for Windows 7, so well, maybe she will try that first. Sorry for the long email, but I really am loving this OS, and so is my boy (so much so that I caught him the first night he got his new laptop at 2:45 am watching Youtube videos and reading wikipedia). Dave (the psychologist) ******************************* Hi Tom Squeaky-clean Install approach and install W7 Professional x64 on fresh hardware: A heavily reviewed and highly rated LGA775 motherboard (according to NewEgg, the Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R), load it with 8GB RAM, a 3GHz Core2-quad processor, and a popular but inexpensive (nVidia GeForce 9400) graphics card. The OS installation went very well. The W7 installer even detected the RAID-1 mirrored system disks we configured using the Intel ICH10R Matrix Storage Manager! However, two benefits of W7 that were touted by Microsoft didn t work out for us: * We were led to believe that W7 would support Vista device drivers. Not so in our case. When we attempted to load the Vista driver for our Kyocera network printer, we were greeted with Operating system not supported . We can work around this by using the printer in PostScript mode, but we consider the driver-compatibility claim to be false. To be fair, this may have been Kyocera s doing. * * * Has Microsoft has fixed sleep and hibernation as promised? We don t think so! After allowing the system to enter sleep mode (after 30 minutes of idle time) and waking the system up, we could move the mouse pointer, but little else. The network support did not wake up (couldn t ping the computer), and open windows would not respond to clicking, dragging, or closing. Sounds like the same old problems we ve seen in previous Windows OS s. * Both the above experiences were with the newly installed OS with no 3rd party software (except device drivers) installed. Notwithstanding the above, I like the look, feel and feature set of W7, and think we can make our peace with it. I think maybe I ll roll the dice and try an in-place upgrade of my Asus Laptop from Vista Business x64 to W7 x64 . or maybe not! Question: Why would someone ever choose 32-bit W7 for a clean install over x64? Rob from Sedona ************************* Hey Tom and Rafe, I know you guys are doing a road test episode this week so I figured I d contribute. I got the infamous Seagete Momentus 500GB 7200 RPM 2.5 in HDD for my Macbook Pro. I was worried about the reported clicking noise but Tom s good experience and Newegg s deal convinced me to get it. I ve been using it for about a week now and I have no problem with it. The drive is performing very well and I hear no clicking noise yet. So there s one another person who got a good batch of the drives. Thanks, LTS, Sang Park EMAIL QUESTIONS Hey Tom, Lately I have been hearing this new term Network neutrality and am kinda confused on what exactly it is and who is taking sides and why? Just a little lost and want to learn more about the reoccurring topic. Thanks, K-ski Answer: We ll explain. ********************** I ve actually got a problem with my external hard drive that I thought you might be able to help me with. I ve got a 500 GB external USB drive with an HFS partition (for time machine backup) and a FAT32 partition. While I was restoring my information from the time machine backup to a new hard drive I installed in my MacBook Pro, somehow all the data disappeared from my FAT32 partition. I ran a recovery program and it found a partition that was not recognized by OS X that was the same size as my FAT32 partition and it still has all my data on it. The program costs $100 to actually recover the data is there a free program you could recommend or a command line utility I could use to mount and restore that hidden partition? Thanks for your help. Austin Answer: PhotoRec http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec ************ Hey real deal, If I wanted to buy a mac and run a virtual windows 7 on the machine as well, what do I need? Yours truly, Cameron Tora Answer: You need a virtual machine. I use VMWare. VirtualBox is free. You need a legal copy of Windows 7. I d recommend as big of a hard drive as you can afford. And get the max on RAM. COMMENTS I know your thinking only 18% of the market has vista and doing the upgrade from Vista is quite easy and painless so a how to video about this is almost pointless. (I will try to avoid making the comment that Apple only has 5% market share and everyone talks about them! woops!) Well your almost 100% right, as compared to the XP upgrade path it is easy. That said I did notice that items placed on your taskbar in vista don t move to your Windows 7 task bar. (No idea why that is other then I did it a few times to make sure and they don t move.) So taking all your taskbar shortcuts and dropping them in a folder called taskbar on your desktop is a great idea before the upgrade. After the upgrade you can pin them back (and set the icons to small) if you want to return to the look at feel you had before. One other small item I don t see many people talking about is the fact that the old look and feel of the Windows 95 style menus are GONE from 7. So for some people (like me) who always kicked it old school menus it requires adjustment. Or a utility exists that allows you to get the XP start menu feel back in 7. (More info: http://www.askvg.com/how-to-get-good-old-classic-start-menu-back-in-windows-7/) NOTE: I didn t do that but some people may wish to. I am sure there are quite a few other tips and tricks you can show people about the move from Vista to 7. Keep up the amazing work And feel free to ignore my e-mail I don t take it personally All the best, Joe Dawson IT Security Consultant Canada ******************* Now live Thursdays at 4 PM Eastern / 1 PM Pacific on http://live.cnet.com/ Call live! 888-900-2638 (CNET) Next time: Essential software for a new PC realdeal@cnet.com forums.cnet.com

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Terry's Timescroller app gets noticed by Leo LaPorte, first look at Apple's Magic Mouse, what I learned at Blogworld & New Media Expo. Donald Burr tells us about ScreenSharingMenulet program from klieme.com. Tom Merritt of the Real Deal Podcast (cnet.com/real-deal-podcast) loves the Nosillacast audience. Ramblin' Rosie tells us about Cash Tracker from intelligentartifice.com and Crazy Listener James gives us a handy iPhone tip on how to download podcasts even when they're too big for 3G downloading. Jim Sewell explains why it might be dangerous to listen to your iPod with only one earbud. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart explains what's dangerous about using open wifi hotspots and what's not dangerous.

This week we look at ColcaSac Sleeves, Band-in-a-Box, Melon Golf, Freeware plus much more. I want to thank you for downloading and listening to the podcast. We have the best in Mac hardware, software and websites reviews. We have a lot of great folks on today s episode with their reviews and comments on software, hardware and websites that make using the Mac special. Plus I ll have the top freeware Mac apps of the week and much more. You can email me at surfbits at Gmail dot Com. I love to hear from you. Here is the freeware and shareware I look at during the podcast: MailSteward: http://www.mailsteward.com Gruml: http://www.grumlapp.com Flip4Mac: http://www.telestream.net/flip4mac-wmv/overview.htm GarageBuy: http://www.iwascoding.com/GarageBuy Timer Utility: http://jrproductions.no-ip.org David Sparks from MacSparky joins us this week and reviews: Band-in-a-Box: http://www.pgmusic.com Gazmaz Joins us again this week to review: TextEdit from Apple in all OSX systems. Robert Lachman, L.A.Times Staff Photographer joins us. His Web site is PhotographyandtheMac.com, and he talks about: ColcaSac MacBook Sleeves: http://www.colcasac.com Michelle Lopez joins us today from the The Portable Gamer and iCasual Report to review the iPhone/iPod Touch game: Melon Golf: 2up Games, http://www.melongolf.com Jeff Powell joins us and talks about: Layar Reality Browser: http://layar.com Screen sharing with iChat: http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/ichat.html Sharing sites with friends and co-workers: http://delicious.com Firefox add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3615 Safari add-on: http://delicioussafari.com Try the new ENHANCED version of the MacReviewCast: And now we have the Podcast in Bit-Torrent Feeds! You can either click on the podcast link on the left and listen to it via QT from the browser, or you can right click on the podcast link and choose to download linked file . That will download the mp3 and you can play it from you hard drive with iTunes. The right link below is the URL for the podcast RSS feed. Just right click it and choose to copy the address and then paste it in your podcast reader, or ipodder, or newsreader that will download enclosures automatically. Please Click Here to vote for us on the PodcastAlley Website. Thank you! techpodcasts.com Technorati Tags: software, review, mac, apple, iTunes, Mac mini, podcast, Macreviewcast, podcasting, maccompanion, OSX, iPhoto, Exposure 2

Easily turn off your laptop's screen and save power.

At this point in the tutorial series, we can start putting programs together from the previous tutorials. We will use the classic game Guess My Number. It is a very boring game to play, by today s standards, but programing the game can be interesting. These are the requirements of the game: The game will prompt the user to select one of three games. The games are 1-10, 1-100, 1-1000. If the user does not enter the right selection, the program will display the selection again. Once the user selects the game, the program will randomize the number and prompt the user for a guess. The guess will be checked with the computer s number. If the guess was not correct, the computer will prompt the user to guess higher or lower. If the guess was correct, the computer will display the number of times the user guessed, and the game will be over. The computer will prompt the user to play again. If the user does want to play again, the program will return to the game menu. If the user does not want to play again, the computer will quit the program. Before we get to the code, there is are built-in functions called clrscr() and UpperCase(). Clrscr() clears the screen and needs the crt unit added to the unit section to work. UpperCase() converts the text to uppercase and needs the sysutils unit loaded into the unit section to work. UpperCase() is used to prevent the program from being case sensitive. The computer sees A differently than a . By converting the case, the user can enter both lower and uppercase answers and the computer will respond to the input the same way. This program can be downloaded for free at http://www.schoolfreeware.com Diagram Designer can be downloaded for free at: http://logicnet.dk/DiagramDesigner

Locate recently saved files and folders

This is the first video tutorial from a new series of tutorials demonstrating the powerful features of IrfanView freeware. For additional free video tutorials please visit http://www.Free-VideoTutorials.com

This video show how to resize pictures on the Mac. This tutorial uses iPhoto and Resize from KStudio. Resize is a free program that does batch file conversions of pictures (folders of pictures). Resize can be downloaded for free at KStudio.net and works with Windows, Mac X and Mac Classic (OS 9). The nice thing about Resize is that it leaves the original folders and files alone while making a new folder for the converted photos.