The Next OS is Coming… Who Cares?

Windows 7 is coming soon and so is snow leopard. But really dose it really matter. I guess it dose right now but I think by the time windows 7 reaches end of life I think that it wont matter because no one will be running applications on there PCs like they do now. They will be doing cloud computing. Using web apps. More and more I know I find my self using the web to do things that maybe a few years ago I would have to go out and find software and install it on my PC. Lets look at Microsoft for a sec things keep getting striped out of windows and sooner or latter there going to end up with just windows that can run a browser witch will be a true cloud OS. There are many people that are a bit scared of this (myself included) that it will be a security and just a plan pain to keep everything on the web. By this I mean that if we keep every thing in the cloud then when we need what we need up there it may not be there when we need it. For now everything is safe on my PC and just my e-mail and a few small documents are up in the cloud right now I still think that Microsoft will be the first with a true cloud OS.

We Follow

About a week a go Kevin Rose lunched his Twitter directory site we follow. I didn’t get it at first I will admit and I didn’t bother with it for awhile but last night I thought I should add my self to it and see what happens. Well about 30 minutes latter I started getting adds on twitter ya they were just promotional things and clubs but it worked and one of them I will talk about when it comes out. But back to we follow. We follow is pretty simple to set up you just @wefollow and make tags as to what you talk about on your twitter stream like I put @wefollow #tech #blogger #photography and I was then put on those categories on we follow. We follow makes it so much easier to find people that are going to talk about things that you want to see on your stream on twitter. They rank them too so you know who is worth following but the ranks change from category to category so Kevin Rose is number 1 under #tech but he might be number 50 under #tea.  If you are looking to find more followers on Twitter then add your self to the directory and see how many you get you got nothing to lose.

What is the next Twitter?

Twitter the micro blogging social network we all love and some of us have loved for awhile is now all grown up. Its popular with people in Hollywood and the geeks like leo Laporte are now pushed way under by well famous people. So what dose that mean the early adopters need to find something new. But what is it? I think it could be friend feed. Why do I think this well it brings all the social media stuff together as your life feed and I think makes it all a little bit more mange able. I have a friend feed account that my best friend @thevixty made for me awhile ago but I just never really got into it. I think though with twitter being so popular and soon my friends probably using it its time to find something elts. Not that I’m leaving twitter I love twitter and with friend feed I don't have to choose I can still twitter using it and all the other things I can do I still use just with friend feeds end. So I will be looking at Friend Feed all this week and trying to get into it as much as I can.

When you need a back up computer

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A few Tips to Secure your New PC

Im sure allot of you who read this blog our the family tech support or neighborhood IT department. So you probably have to set-up a new PC now and then I think you should do a few things to make sure that your not being called back a million times because there PC is Loaded with spy ware.

1. Take off any Crapware on the PC. Allot of times when people buy new computers it loaded with crap that they will never need.
2. Run windows update as soon as you get a connection. Most of the PCs coming out now have Vista with SP1 although that is good there are allot of dates since then and they are all important. You may also want to set windows update to download and install for them as well.
3. Make two user accounts on the PC one admin and one limited. Although yes even as admin on Vista your really limited you still should do this because if you were admin you might just hit continue with out looking to see what you were giving admin rights. With being limited you have to use a password to do it and that gives you time to look and see what it is.

I hope these tips help you with setting up these new computers.

Welcome To The New Mega Tech Blog Site

I’ve been saying and saying that I was going to change the URL to the mega tech blog for awhile now and finally last night I said I was going to do it so here it is I did. I changed the look too but the important thing all the old post are right here. So I hope you like the changes I made and if you have any questions or suggestions please e-mail me at samlikecoke90@gmail.com. I hope you all like the changes =].

Networking

Recently a friend of mine got a wii. She wants to play it online but she cant because they don’t have there router set up. Why is that well cause they didn’t know how so I’m hoping to fix that with this little tutorial. so here it is.

1) you need to unbox it there should be a Ethernet cord in the box.

2)  look at the back of it there should be at least 5 Ports in the back 1 for the cable/DSL modem and 4 for computers.

3) now place the Ethernet going from your cable modem to the router (it is probably connected in the back of your PC right now)

4) Plug the Ethernet cord that came with the router into one of the Ports in back of the router and the other end plug in ware the cable modem we plugged in to on your PC.

5) Ok now turn on your computer and it may make some noise. now open up your internet browser ( Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari.) and type in 192.168.2.1 in the address bar.

 

6) Now you should see a page find ware it says login and just hit submit because there should be no password.

7) Now go to ware it says channel and SSID and just change the name from the default to something elts. Then hit apple.

8) now go to ware it says Security and chose what kind of Encryption type like WEP WPA. If your doing it to so the Wii can use it probably should do WEP. When you select it it should come up with a long line of numbers and letters write it down some ware you will need it when you go to your wii and set it up.

just hit apple and it should restart again and your online. I hope this is helpful to other people other than my friend.

Undoing the Cable.

More and more lately I look over at my cable box and think why are you still here. I never watch TV on my TV anymore. I’m about to walk out of my room with it in hand say here I don’t need it anymore. Most shows I watch are podcast and any TV shows I want to see are on hulu or the adobe media player. Its had to give it up because there is like one show can’t find that I can legally watch on the web and that is Big Bang Theory. Witch kind of shocks me that its not on the web. Well hopefully it will and there is the pirate bay to get the show if I really want to watch it. Its there fault they should have it on the web I would watch one maybe to ad’s if I have to but no its not on the web so tuff shit to CBS then. I'm almost serten now that I will do this though I’m not paying the cable bill so I probably will keep it.

The Forgotten Virtual PC Software

I listen to alto of podcast and a few of them do tech support questions. A lot of times they get people that want to move from windows XP to Vista or PC to Mac but wont because of one or 2 applications that wont work with the new thing that they want. Well that's when the hosts sagest things like VMware and Parallels. These are good Virtual PC software  but they are so expensive. I don’t see why they don’t tell them to use virtual box its a grate VM software and it is free. I'm sure there are things that VMware and Parallels can do that Virtual Box cant but I think if your still wanting to use older software and want the new thing too its grate.Revision 3’s system did an episode about VM’s it was grate and that is ware I first herd of Virtual Box. So try it you got nothing to lose its free and its grate for trying out Linux OS’s.

The system episode I talked about in the post.

The New Browser War

For awhile now we have been seeing the beginning of a new browser war. What I find funny is that it is with the same two browsers again. Internet explorer and Netscape great grandson Mozilla Firefox. It’s like a horror movie for Microsoft I think. They killed monster once (Netscape) and now in a new form it has come back stronger and better than it once was and now Microsoft has to fight it off again. But it is losing.

For thought’s of you who do not know what I’m talking about the browser war is what it was called when in 1993 Netscape came out with a browser called Netscape communicator and Microsoft soon relies that well maybe they would should get on this internet thing so they came out with internet explorer. By the end of the 90’s they had destroyed Netscape.

Although the original Netscape has been gone for a long time now the sores code floated around the internet and a company named Mozilla witched they then improved and slightly changed to be there first browser Mozilla. Then sometime latter it became Mozilla Firefox.

With Internet explorer 6 so in secure it gave a lot people a wreathen to switch from IE to Firefox. Which is now IE’s down fall and even with their soon to be realest Internet Explorer 8 hopes are not high? IE 8 is supposed to work better with web standers unlike other versions of IE. Although it does the mark of IE has already been made even their own sites do not work right yet with IE 8 because most web servers see IE and render the page how IE likes it to be render.

I think this just show that IE is paying for its sins you could say. I’m not saying there will be a world without IE cause its part of windows and although I don’t use it much there are times when flash or some plug in go’s bad in Firefox and it just won’t work right and I need to get something done and that is ware IE comes in handy cause it has sonority so every web page works with it. Though I’ am glad for Firefox I love some many featchers in it that I couldn’t just name one or two. So who ever winds this time I hope doesn’t become a tyrant like Microsoft did.

-Mike