Even though this was a fundrasing episode, we didn’t have to do any fundraising as we met our $1,500 goal prior to airtime. This was due to a generous matching pledge by a listener named Ian and the efforts of our fans via Twitter and Facebook.
During the KPFT pledge drives, Technology Bytes is responsible for raising a certain amount of money toward the overall station goal. This usually equates to about $1,500 during each show we broadcast during the drive. We have always said that once we make our goal for any given episode we’ll stop begging for money and […]
We get a lot of e-mail and phone calls from people who are buying new computers with Windows 7 and the most common question we’re asked is “How do I transfer my files and data from the old compute to the new one?” If you are not connected to a network or you find setting […]
Allright. We’ve got one lone event on the radar this weekend… This Saturday, February 20th, Bob, “Dr. Mac” Levitus, will be giving his State of the Mac Address to the attendees of the February Houston Area Apple Users Group. Special Interest Group meetings kick off at nine am, Dr. Mac’s address happens around eleven, and […]
Allright. I’m back in full swing, with all the appropriate keyboard mappings in place. Last week’s blunder was actually a brilliant segue into what has become known as the Collins Incident in several college communications classes. When Waco’s K X X V’s regular TV sportscaster became ill, college freshman Brian Collins agreed to step in. […]
While working on a co-worker’s computer that was infected with spyware I was able to remove just about everything using the tools I outline in Jay Lee’s Patented Spyware Removal System save for one persistent troublemaker that was redirecting every Google search through something called Triplexfeed. Malwarebytes didn’t detect it. Spybot didn’t detect it. Combofix […]
Discussing the Apple iPad and mobile computing in the first 1/2 hour. Great conversation. Also went back to original intro and bumper segments.
Before the Internet, sayings and memes had to travel by word of mouth, so it’s not surprising that many of the sayings with staying power are still around because they protected their main transmission vector, namely, your mouth. No one’s familiar with the prehistoric saying, “This is how you taunt a t-rex” because the people […]
