I wanted to let you know what you can expect when opening a freash new iPad. Not much to it, but I still wanted to share my experience.
Category: Product Review
Show #30 – Mini Me (You Complete Me)
Tech News
If you’re a Facebook member and have visited the site recently, you have noticed the redeisnged interface and fucntionality of the site. Unfortunately, a lot of members do not like the new look and feel of it. As a result of this change, Hundreds of thousands of Facebook members gave a thumbs down by starting Facebook groups against the re-design. Just search Facebook for “redesign of facebook” and you’ll find some interesting groups there. Also keep in mind there are some groups that are for the re-design.
In my opinion, the new design is nice. I like the way infomration about your friends are fed to you. You’re able to see a bunch of information about what your friends are doing on facebook. Really neat. I compared the new front page look of Facebook to Twitter.
Listener Question:
Koolguy asked: I dunno what parts I should use to make a good computer for Mass Effect, Bioshock, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 1-2, Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, and Jade Empire. Any ideas?
Thanks, Koolguy
ANSWER: I pointed him in the direction Show #26. On that show, we discussed building a computer (gaming computer). Jay deluco (the guest) had built a nice gaming machine and shared his experience on that show.
Dell Mini Notebook Overview
Alan said “I does actually complete me”. Killed the void that mobile device were not able to cover.
The main thing about the netbook is the small size.
Facts about Netbooks
- 9 or 10 inch screens
- Weighs about 2 to 3 pounds
- Keyboard are about 80 to 95 percent of a normal lapbop keyboard.
- No optical drives, but you can get an external drive for this purpose.
- Some have a typical hard drive in it, however, others have a Solid State Drive
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 – 4 GB SSD, Maxed out of 2GB. Came with Ubuntu 8.041. Can get with Windows XP.
- Keyboard shortcuts help out a lot. Show #12 – Computing Tips
- Alan gets about 4.5+ hours out of his battery.
- SD Slot allows you to watch media on your Netbook.
DaveAC Added links
http://www.notebookreview.com/picture.asp?f=36352
http://www.notebookreview.com/picture.asp?f=36342
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4578
http://www.notebookreview.com/picture.asp?f=36306
Thanks DaveAC and thank you Alan for your time.
Show #28 – Gamejabber.com
I want to thank Alan and Will, members of Gamejabber.com for joining me and providing us with valuable content for the show.
We squeezed a lot of information in on this show, so if there are any questions, please send them to techwithmike@gmail.com or call our voicemail line at 508-471-HELP. Also, if you would like to ask Will (Detrill) or Alan (Tengaport) questions about what they talked about on the show, please go to Gamejabber.com, sign up if you don’t already have an account, and send them a private message. I’m sure they would be happy to answer your questions.
At the beginning of the show, I talked about what Gamejabber.com is all about and what you can expect on the site when you visit it. I gave my thanks to all the Gamejabber members for supporting the site since Saturday August 27th, 2005. It’s been a great 3 years and hope to have many more. The site started off as a Halo 2 Clan site for the ELE clan and evolved to the wonderful community it is today.
We talked about all the different types of gaming consoles that are available, and some that will be available soon. We also talked talked about what games we are looking forward to play this year. In addition to that, we discsussed the hardware capabilities of each console, the differences between the Nintendo DS Lite and the DSI, Xbox Live and Tengaports fetish with the DS (listen to the show for this one).
Please check back with TechwithMike.com to find information about future gaming shows.
Show #14 – Optimizing Vista
Wacom Bamboo Product Review: See the full product review at Wacom Bamboo Product Review.
Optimizing Vista - From Microsoft
- Delete or Uninstall programs that you do not use.
- Limit start up programs.
- Defragment your hard drive.
- Use Disk Cleanup to reduce the number of unneccessary files on your hard drive.
- Run fewer programs at the same time.
- Turn off Visual effects (appearance versus performance)
- Add more memory
- Scan for viruses and spyware
- Disable services that you don’t need.
- Check for updates from your computers manufacturer.
- For more advice, click HERE.
Side Note: We mentioned disabling User Access Control in the show. User Access Control is the anoying messages you get when you want to something in the systems configuration. Here is the steps to disable it.
NOTE: Disabling this will lead to a less secure computer
- Go to Control panel
- Select User Accounts
- Click on ‘Turn User ACcount Control on or off”
- Uncheck the box next to ‘Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer”
- Click ‘OK’
Daveac’s Tips
He talked about setting the priority of a process to limit a program on how much processor power it uses.
- Right Click in empty space on task bar and select ‘Task Manager’
- Go to the ‘Processes’ tab
- Find the process taking up CPU cycles
- Right click process and select ‘set affinity’ then choose the CPU you would like that process to use.
No more sidebar: The sidebar that holds all the gagets can be closed and have the gagets put directly on the desktop.
- Click and drag each gaget that you want to save onto the desktop.
- Right click the sidebar and select ‘Close Sidebar’
NOTE: To get the sidebar back, simply right click a gaget and select ‘ATTACH TO SIDEBAR’ then drag other gagets back into it.
