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A few days ago I posted this awesome 3D light show that took place in the Ukraine. Today I found another, yet more awesome light show that took place in Berlin, Germany. I didn’t think anything could top the Ukraine show but the Germany show does – it leaves me flabbergasted. What do you think?
Professor Randy says: Upload a video and the whole world can see. The magic of the Internet!
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Although I have been unable to post this week due to an increased work load, I’m happy to present you today with the latest tech information. I hope that you find at least one of the links to your liking. Enjoy!
1) Google Pulls 21 Apps In Android Malware Scare
2) Can I Restore The Complete Backup Of One Computer Onto Another And Have It Work?
3) The Echo Nest Makes Pandora Look Like A Transistor Radio
4) Which Tablet PC Should I Buy And When?
5) Microsoft Pushes Anti-AutoRun Update At XP, Vista Users
6) Say Good-Bye To Flash, But Is HTML5 Winning?
7) Steve Jobs’ Reality Distortion Takes Its Toll On Truth
8) Video: Man Upgrades Windows 1.0 To Windows 7
9) How This 19-Year-Old Is Taking On Google
11) How The ‘Social Network’ Saved Mark Zuckerberg
12) Microsoft: Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Internet Explorer 6
13) Cool Video: Painting With Light To Show WiFi Networks
14) Google vs. Microsoft: Lessons On Handling A Cloud Fail
15) Amazon Gives Free Streaming To Prime Account Customers
Professor Randy quotes Oscar Hammerstein: “If you don’t have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?”
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Every once in a while I post a video that particularly impresses me, and today is no exception. If you haven’t yet seen this sensational light show (projected onto the city council building in Kharkov, Ukraine), then prepare to be amazed! Enjoy!
Professor Randy says: Upload a video and the whole world can see. The magic of the Internet!
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Just follow the links in order to stay up to date with some of the most interesting tech information of the day. Enjoy!
1) Mozilla Unfurls Twelfth And Last Firefox 4 Beta
2) Apple May Surprise With Near Immediate Availability Of iPad 2 Next Week
3) Microsoft Notes Windows Update “Inconsistencies,” Provides Fix
4) Queen Of The Mommy Bloggers
5) New Hacking Tools Pose Bigger Threat To Wi-Fi Users
6) What Thunderbolt Means For End Users
7) Bing’s Travel Search, So Much Better Than Google, Gets Even Better
8) Video: A First Look At The Motorola Xoom With Honeycomb
9) Cellphone Use Tied To Brain Changes
10) How My Smart Phone Got Me Out Of A Speeding Ticket In Traffic Court
11) Consumer PC Sales Already Getting Hammered As Apple’s iPad Takes The World By Storm
12) Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Arrives
13) My New Samsung HDTV: Apps Make A Difference
14) “Find Me Stuff I’m Interested In”
15) 10 Reasons To Start A Business This Year
Professor Randy quotes The Book of Proverbs: “It is better to be patient than powerful. It is better to win control over yourself than over whole cities.”
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If you own a small business you will want your employees to have email access, access to a calendar, access to contacts and tasks, mobile and desktop access to the company information, and of course a place to store their data.
If you are a glutton for punishment and you have a top notch IT dept., then you could use Microsoft Exchange Server. It will give you all of the employee necessities that I mentioned above, and it will also give you something else: A HUGE HEADACHE.
If your company is large, and your IT team knows what they are doing, then you will most likely want to use the heavy duty Microsoft Exchange Server. If your running a small business though, your best bet without a doubt is Google Apps.
Google Apps (free), or Google Apps (for business) will supply everything that your business needs without the hassle of running Microsoft Exchange. Google will do all of the work! Why run your own company’s server when you you can let Google do it for you? Google’s professional servers make you feel like you are in your own company’s server but you will actually be in Google’s. Let Google fuss with the servers while you get your work done!
Google Apps will give you data storage, your own business domain name and custom logo, great mobile and desktop contact and calendar sharing, Gmail, and about anything else that your small business may need.
Professor Randy says: Don’t be bothered by running a company server. By using Google Apps you will be free to concentrate on your business while Google handles all of your technology needs!
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Every time you connect to a wireless network (your home, the local wi-fi cafe, your neighbor), Windows adds that location to a list of wireless networks. The list is configured according to the order by which the connection was made. Your home may be third on the list while the coffee shop may be first on the list.
Each subsequent time you attempt to connect to a wireless network Windows will first try the connection at the top of the list and then proceed to go down the list until it connects to the intended network. Are you sure that your priority wireless connection is first on the list? If not, Windows will be slow to connect as it goes down through your wireless networks list until it finally arrives to the connection that you actually want.
To change the order of wireless connections, do this:
1. Click Start>Control Panel
2. Click>Network and Sharing Center
3. Click>Manage Wireless Networks (located in the left pane)
4. Right Click>The wi-fi network that you want Windows to try first, and select Move Up
5. Move your priority network up to the top of the Wireless Networks list
6. Click OK to close out
7. Done!
Professor Randy says: Speed up your wireless network connection by prioritizing the order of wireless connections shown in the wireless network list. Your computer will then “grab” the connection of choice without having to go through any non priority networks.
Hello everyone,
Enjoy some great tech information by clicking on any of the following links!
1) Westboro Church To Anonymous: Bring It, Cowards [PIC]
2) The Lives And Deaths Of Mobile Platforms
3) Leaving AOL
4) New MacBook Pros Likely To Launch On Thursday, February 24th.
5) If You Can’t Say It In 140 Characters, Say It Elsewhere
6) Digital Age Is Slow To Arrive In Rural America
7) Skype Updates Carrier, Qik Plans
8) Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Is Available (For Some)
9) Introducing The Sleek New Bing Bar 7
10) Computer Wins On ‘Jeopardy!’: Trivial, It’s Not
11) Study: 83% Watched Web Video In January
12) Apple’s New App Store Rules Affect Amazon’s Kindle
13) 5 Facebook For Business Starter Tips
14) Master Google Android: 40 Tips And Tricks
15) Will IPv6 Kill My Internet On Old Machines?
Professor Randy quotes George Horace Lorimer: “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
Hello everyone,
If you have not yet seen this video you are in for a treat. Sony played this video at their executive conference this year. Very cool and extremely thought provoking!
Professor Randy says: Amazing video! The diverse spread and evolution of Information Technology is now penetrating into almost every area of our world. Where will it all lead?
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Another week and another collection of great links that will take you to some of the best tech information of the day. Enjoy!
1) Internet Explorer 9 Is Ready For Full-Time Use
2) Wael Ghonim: If You Want To Liberate A Government, Give Them The Internet
3) Microsoft’s Woes: It’s A Windows-Eat-Windows World
4) Apple’s Jobs Calls Shots From Home
5) Google Docs Secrets: 21 Power Tips For The Productivity Suite
6) Debunking The Facebook Stalker Apps
7) The Real Reason For Botched Microsoft Patch KB 2454826
8) iPhone Attack Reveals Passwords In Six Minutes
9) Flash Player 10.2 Is Now Available For All Operating Systems (Includes The New Stage Video)
10) Wal-Mart Now Carries The Verizon iPhone In Nearly 600 Stores
11) Google Closes In On Next New Networks
12) Windows 7 SP1 Available On February 22
13) Nokia, Microsoft Team Up: Can They Save Each Other?
14) Tablet Madness: iPad 2 Coming, WebOS Launch [Updated]
15) What Is A “Questionable” Or “Suspicious” Website?
Professor Randy quotes Jim Rohn: “How long should you try? Until.”
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Sooner or later your hard drive is going to fail by not booting into your Operating System. Just because the drive will no longer boot up doesn’t mean that your data is gone. It probably only means that the part of the hard drive where critical system files are stored is not working. Most likely the data that is on that drive is still good!
In this post I will show you how to recover your precious data even if you have a failing hard drive. This is going to be a relief to many of you so don’t despair!
1) Take the failing hard drive out of your computer and put it into a computer that is working well.
2) Buy, download, install, run, the great data recovery program SpinRite.
3) Here is what WikipediA says about SpinRite:
“SpinRite attempts to recover data from hard disks with damaged portions that may not be readable via the operating system. When the program encounters a sector with errors that cannot be corrected by the disk drive’s error-correcting code, it tries to read the sector up to 2000 times, in order to determine, by comparing the successive results, the most probable value of each bit. The data is then saved onto a new block on the same disk; it cannot be saved elsewhere. In this sense, SpinRite differs from most data recovery software, which usually provides an option to save the recovered data onto another disk, or onto a separate partition on the same disk.”
4) Here is what I say about SpinRite:
This cool program sifts through your drive trying to recover every single sector. It bangs away and will not give up (it may literally take days) until it gets your data. Once it does recover your data, it takes it off of the bad sector and moves it to a good sector (on the same hard drive), and then continues on looking for more good data on bad sectors.
After SpinRite does it’s job you may be able to boot up your computer and you may not. But even if you still can’t get the computer to boot, you will be able to recover your precious data because SpinRite has placed it onto good hard drive sectors where it can now be read (seen by you), which will allow you to copy it.
Professor Randy says: Don’t fear if your hard drive suddenly fails! The data is still there and SpinRite will recover it for you.
