Computer 911 e53: Summer of the Geek

The original “Double Rainbow”

In The News

• AppleCare: The iPhone 4 Update Won’t Solve the Antenna Problem – Apple’s tech support service is telling customers that the upcoming software patch will not fix the “Death Grip” problem. It will only make the signal bars more accurate.
• YouTube Leanback offers effortless viewing – This new feature selects a series of videos based on your preferences and displays them to you automatically.
• Google’s Street View ’snoops’ on Congress members – A watchdog group retraces the Google Street View routes and find federal officials and members of Congress who have unsecured Wi-Fi networks at their homes (which, of course, should have been secure in the first place).
• U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies – The federal program would detect cyberattacks on private companies. Is this something the government should be doing?

Feature: The Geek’s Guide to Vacation

• via Life Hacker
  

ROUND TWO: Social Media

• Life in a Day – YouTube, working with directors Kevin Macdonald and Ridley Scott, invite you to upload a video on July 24 for a documentary project called Life in a Day.

• 5 Social Media Trends to Watch Right Now – Use the contents of this article to fake it as a social media guru!

From the Bucket

Tim from Negaunee:

• “What the heck is Twitter?

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• Fring

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Tags: Apple, google, iPhone, Meme, security, Twitter, YouTube

Computer911- 4.3.10:”Here Comes the iPad”

All jokes aside, the iPad drops this week, and we’ve got the skivvy on it.  Also, Scott explains the difference in multiple core processors, and JP has the round-up from this year’s April Fool’s Day internet invasion.  That and a whole lot more in Episode 48 of Computer 911 with PC Medic

In the News

• Here come the iPad
  • Early Reviews
  • App Prices to Drop?
  • Developer Support Soars
• Asus: iPad Rivals on the Way!
• Data sifted from Facebook wiped after legal threats
• Flash Player To Come Bundled With Google Chrome
• For Vast Majority, Driving and Cell Phones Don’t Mix
• April Fool’s Day Round-Up
• PC Pioneer Ed Roberts Dies at 68

Scott Puts You In The Know

• U.S. government taps the agency thet blew up two of their space shuttles to determine the safety of Toyota’s cars
• AMD develops a processor that actually get Windows Vista to run…..Barely
• Wanna fight that speeding ticket? There’s an app for that!
• Hey Apple, Ever hear of Karma??
• Downloaded a newer movie via torrent?, that’s a suing!

From the Bucket

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Mary in Harvey asks about some simple ways to help keep her computer running fast.

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Tags: amd, Apple, asus, Chrome, google, iPad

Computer911-1.30.10 “Back-Up Saturday”

We’ve slacked on it, so we know that you all have as well, but no more!  Back-up Saturday is back, and we’re going to tell you the most sensible…and not so sensible ways to keep your precious data safe. Also, apparently some company named “Apple” had some product debut this week…What’s that all about? Put on the coffee, and grab your Personal Confuser. Episode 43 of Computer 911 with Pc Medic starts now.

In the News

• Google phasing out support for IE6
• Amazon looking at buying Netflix?
• Microsoft roadmap has Windows 8 shipping in 2011
• After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday’s Web Site
• Wikileaks temporarily shuts down due to lack of funds

iPad? So What?

After months of speculation, Apple this week, announced their “industry changing” device: The iPad.  And while it has many rallying support for their bros in Cupertino, more seem unimpressed. Even more so, there is dispute over ownership of the silly name.

How about you? Is this a must-have device, or a clunk not worth the hype?

Back-Up Saturday

Being the last Saturday of the month, its a great time to remind yourself to back-up all your important data.  Here’s some tips from previous shows:

• An external USB Hard Drive.  Generally around 500GB is more than enough for important documents, music, and casual photographers.  Consider a 1TB drive is you are an avid photographer or videographer.  External drives available at Pc Medic. Not sure what size is best, let us help you decide.

• If going the external hard drive route, try SyncToy from Microsoft to help you simplify your back-ups.

  • Synchronize the contents of two folders, either across your home network or on the same PC.

    Great for sync’ing files from your desktop to a USB drive or between two different computers on your home network

• Windows Backup. For XP, checkout the Microsoft How-To article: “Windows XP Backup Made Easy,” For Vista/Win7 its Windows Backup and Restore.

• On the Mac, Time Machine.

• Also you should consider keeping your files off-site like at the office, or a relatives.  If there is a disaster or break-in at your home, and on-site backup won’t do you much good. This falls into the 3-2-1 Back-Up Solution. What’s 3-2-1 Back-Up?

3 Copies of everything that you want to back-up.

2 Different storage media (CDs/DVDs, external hard drives, etc.)

1 Back-Up off site.

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For back-up of all your online media, we’ve got a great deal for you in Backupify. Backupify lets you back-up all your online accounts like Facebook, Twitter, GMail, Google Docs, Flickr, and so many more.  So get on over to Backupify and sign up today, because its only Totally Free until tomorrow (Jan 31, 2010)!

Tags: amazon, Apple, back-up, google, iPad, Microsoft, netflix, Newsday, Wikileaks, Windows