Archive for July, 2007

Jon Gordon had me on his wonderful show “Future Tense” which runs on American Public Media, and can be heard in the US on the CBC program “As It Happens.” We talked about how viruses and computer threats in general differ from the first virus 25 years ago.

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Nostalgia computing is becoming a big deal and growing all the time. Just my opinion, but I call these the most collectible computers of all time.

Thanks to the Download guys, and a few of my own tricks, I think we have a pretty good primer for optimizing hard drive use.

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Messed around with osxfree86 project on my CNET ThinkPad and here’s what I came up with. Granted, the controversy of the issue makes this more of a lesson than a how-to.

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Thursday’s CNET Live featured the very gracious Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose from Diggnation, who hearkened back to their Screen Savers days and took some live calls. It was fun having them on and very cool of them to hang around and answer calls.

If you want to run Ubuntu without booting off a CD, or messing with partitions, try Wubi.

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Avert your eyes if you must. These downloads stink.

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When you set up the iPhone, it prompts you to set up one email account. What if you decide you want more later?

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Got a call from a friend whose number you didn’t have? Here’s how to save it in the iPhone.

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