Direct MP3 Download: Podnutz Daily #49 – PCHelpWare is Doing the Job!
PodNutz Episode #22 available on RSS will be up on site later tonight.
HP Pavilion: headphones were plugged into firewire port and computer goes “POOM!”
Symptoms: fans at high speed and no video (huge video card)
Cure: reseated the video card
Email tip from William:
New Free Remote Access Utility
PCHelpWare brought to you by the makers of UltraVNC Single-Click
Remote tech support tool with video tutorial
http://www.uvnc.com/pchelpware/download/
Tips:
Video does not work in FireFox (open in IE)
Do not use UPNP-not secure
Make sure your router has UPNP turned off
Set up an account with dyndns and use it the ipconfig field
http://www.dyndns.com/
THUMBS UP! Slick and I used it twice today!
Thank you William and UVNC guys!
Going through too much canned air?
Alternate ways of blowing out PCs:
Use a light battery-powered leaf blower
DO NOT use a full-sized leaf blower –
it will remove dust AND all of the components!
Tip: Focus on cleaning out the CPU fan and the fins of the heat sink
Sudden bad quality Skype calls related to Comcast throttling?
Email from Mark Cobb:
He mailed AVG a copyof the .exe for AntiVirus 2009
(This is a fake antivirus program that is a trojan)
Grisoft added it to their definition list and AVG8 now detects it!
Wonderful!
Email from CitizenX:
XP Antivirus pop ups also found on My Space
iPod Nano contest ends Friday, August 8th 2008
It will be loaded with every episode of Podnutz
(will be signed if requested)
To enter the giveaway:
Have someone subscribe to Podnutz or Podnutz Daily
Skype call from Dan from New Britian:
Dell Dimension 4600 3ghtz 3g Ram
HD problems reinstalling Windows
Drive has been formatted
Cannot find the boot device
Master/Slaved the cabel select drives
Boot sequence set to read from CD first
Universal Boot CD loaded – no change
New HD did not solve the issue
Tips:
Make sure the CD drives work
Restore defaults to the BIOS
Replace the cables
Episode 7 of Podnutz covers slipstreaming
http://www.podnutz.com/episode007.html
Tomorrow: Trivia Question for the iPod Nano for extra odds to win!
Saturday August 2 I took part in a live show
with Mike Smith from Mike Tech Show
You can listen to it at Mike’s Site
http://www.miketechshow.com/2008/08/mike-tech-show-podcast-199-08-02-08….
