Direct MP3 Download: Podnutz Daily #216 – Ready For A Technology Adventure?
Steve is joined by Chris Barre oftechnologyadventures.com
Computers worked on:
- 9 year old Dell desktop running slow with 256 megs of ram
- 2 year old acer aspire 4250 laptop that was cleaned out for resale
- Pentium 4 computer not turning on, fixed power button, system then not booting properly, pulled data off hard drive, transferred to newly built computer.
- Reloaded two laptops from scratch
- Compaq laptop very virus ridden, used hitman pro, malwarebytes, after which there was no internet, created new account which worked
- Desktop Dell 530 freezing at vista logo during boot, able to remove data, did a reinstall and returned the data, also checked the drive with Spinrite
- Mac G4 tower not powering up, power supply tested OK, found a burnt hole on the CPU, pulled the data off the hard-drive to another Mac
Topics Discussed:
- Google Adwords
- Steve releases his long awaited Website Builder product
- Chris uses NCIX.com to get his parts (they also have local stores in his area)
- Chris subscribes to Microsoft Technet to evaluate and test microsoft software for $350/year
- Hitman pro is a anti-malware scanner
- Winsock XP fix offers a last resort if your Internet connectivity has been corrupted due to invalid or removed registry entries.
- Chris uses GoToAssist express for remote operations
- SyncBack, Acronis, Shadow Protect, and SyncToy can be used for backups
- DisplayFusion you can add a taskbar to every monitor that works and looks just like the Windows Taskbar. Or take advantage of advanced multi-monitor wallpaper support
- ESXi is a baremetal virtual machine system from VMWare that is free
Voicemails/Emails:
- John asks for good tools on organizing favorite books, Steve likes XMarks, Chris likes LastPass for organizing passwords
- Bob talks about HTML5 as a way to avoid Flash Video
- Mike writes about NirLauncher which is a package of more than 100 portable freeware utilities for Windows
- Mike Duncan from SuperAntiSpyware announces a portable scanner
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Music provided by Evan King
Notes by Mike Evans at datamike.net
