http://blog.edthecomputerwizard.com A tour of tech, gadgets, and general musings from a real life Computer Wizard. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:47:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today is the release of a print version of one of my all time favorite podcast novels! For those of you who are not familiar with podcast novels, I would invite you to take a look at PodioBooks.com They have some stellar up and coming authors as ... http://blog.edthecomputerwizard.com/?p=230 Good news! I have my netbook back. It came back with a note from the repair guys stating that they replaced the motherboard. Gee, didn't I tell the support techs that I had a bad mother board? Yeah, like about 20 times! So I plugged it in ... http://blog.edthecomputerwizard.com/?p=228   So, I was working on a post detailing how I had wiped Windows 7 off the drive and installed OS X 10.5.7 from an iAtkos DVD. First off, it was working great! Sound worked out of the box and so did the wired network, which I seldom use. ... http://blog.edthecomputerwizard.com/?p=227 Steve Jobs was once quoted as saying "Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?" It is in that spirit that the OSX86 Project thrives. I have discussed turning my HP Mini 1000 into a Mac Netbook for some time now, and I think the ... http://blog.edthecomputerwizard.com/?p=223   I have been testing Camtasia Studio on my netbook and made a little video showing some of the cool things that Windows 7 is offering.   So I was watching the video, and it had no sound.  It was a little dull.  So I sent a twitter out to MC Lars ... http://blog.edthecomputerwizard.com/?p=203 I was fist exposed to Opera back in early 2002 when I started using Opera 6.01. Back in those days the only other real alternative to IE was Netscape or Mozilla. Firefox didn't come about until a few years later. I remember a February day in ... http://blog.edthecomputerwizard.com/?p=191   What is the deal with this drive-by SPAM?  Luckily DISQUS is catching the comments and asking me to approve them, otherwise there would be links to a lot for questionable sites all over my comments.  The funny thing is that the the post "The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets" ... http://blog.edthecomputerwizard.com/?p=182 Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes   Who here has had to provide technical support for a friend or family member?  Watch the video and read more below...   Isn't it a pain when you try to explain a series of steps to them, and they don't ... http://blog.edthecomputerwizard.com/?p=173 I recently began testing movie playback under Windows 7 and have some interesting feedback. Different players yielded different results on this HP Mini 1000's Atom processor.I installed VLC player to check out the playback issues I documents in my last post. I turns out that the file was ... http://blog.edthecomputerwizard.com/?p=172 I wathched my first DVD rip. I had Hancock so I used a third party program to make a smaller version that I could keep on my USB drive. I don't remember what profile I chose but I ended up with a 740mb .MKV file. Windows media ... http://blog.edthecomputerwizard.com/?p=171 Today I'm explorereing how Windows 7 handles various types of media. Right now I'm listening to "Mad Wolrd" by Gary Jules. I'm copying a movie file from a removable hard drive andI going to watch it it a few differant ways.What I hope to gain from this is ... http://blog.edthecomputerwizard.com/?p=170 I ran across a link to some great Windows 7 Themes today.  I really like the Earth Space and Homer and a Doughnut themes. Windows 7 Themes These themes for Windows 7 are free for personal use. Don’t bother on trying them with Vista or XP because they just wont work. All ... http://blog.edthecomputerwizard.com/?p=166 Lots of back end upgrades to the blog lately.  Updated my theme to the latest version (Inanis Glass 1.3) and changed a buch of options.  The default theme has been configured for this nice dark colord theme called "Void" but you can change it to one of six other ... http://blog.edthecomputerwizard.com/?p=155 I had my Windows XP set up the way I wanted it and everything was working. So what do I go and do? That's right,I wipe the drive and install a BETA operating system. Windows 7 BETA is still available to anyone that wants to give it ... http://blog.edthecomputerwizard.com/?p=149 I stumbled across this blog post by Tim Sneath that shows lots of tips and tricks for Windows 7.  Since it is currently installing on my Netbook (It's been running for about 45 minutes) I thought I would take a few minutes to get myself up to speed with this ... http://blog.edthecomputerwizard.com/?p=71 Like thousands upon thousands of others, I have registered for the Windows 7 Beta Program.  I have my key and I downloaded the ISO, and now I have to decide where to try this out.  I have an old Dell desktop that wouldn't run Vista, but I don't feel ... http://blog.edthecomputerwizard.com/?p=66 As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, I ordered a 4GB memory module for my new netbook. I had an Amazon.com gift card, so I obviously wanted to use that as opposed to using any of my cash. I search around the site looking for memory that ... http://blog.edthecomputerwizard.com/?p=64 I was at a WiFi hot spot earlier today, and I of course was trying to get iATKOS 5i 10.5.5 to move pas the 6% mark (it's at 6.5% now).  I have a few new themes for WordPress that I wanted to upload.  For some reason, my FTP client kept ... http://blog.edthecomputerwizard.com/?p=59 I ordered more memory for my netbook a few days ago and it's already shipped. Now, I think I'm going to set this netbook up as a dual boot with Mac OS X 10.5. Step one, I looked around online and found a retail version of OS X on ... http://blog.edthecomputerwizard.com/?p=57 I have just updated the WordPress version from 2.6.2 to 2.7.  I made backups, but it looks like all I have to do is disable and reactivate Featurific.  I also have to change some permissions to make that work again.  All in all, pretty painless. The Admin ... http://blog.edthecomputerwizard.com/?p=41