2008
03.05
03.05
Final fundraiser episode. We cruised to the goal pretty easily and by show’s end we had exceeded it by over $500. Yay Tech Bytes!
Technology Bytes
We RTFM so you don’t have to | 8-10 p.m. Wednesdays, 90.1FM KPFT in Houston
2008
03.02
03.02
Another fundraiser episode.
2008
02.23
02.23
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Dwight Silverman impersonates phliKtid while showing off his MacBook Air
2008
02.21
02.21
We’re in fundraising mode this week and for the next two shows. Lot’s of begging. We actually come close to making our goal in the final 15 minutes of the show. Exceptional Barrett Time segment at the top of the second hour.
2008
02.14
02.14
Again with the technical problems! This time it was our Internet connection that was going up and down. Good show though. Barrett was back after missing the last two weeks due to illness.
2008
02.08
02.08
Jay, Peter, Dwight and phliKtid present.
Barrett was out sick.
2008
02.06
02.06
I was recently contacted by a woman named Emily from Digital Enterprises, Inc regarding the Technology Bytes web site. In the e-mail she complimented the web site and began to speak frankly about driving Web traffic to our humble enterprise. It was real friendly and seemed actually personable…
I run a website also, and would like to see if there are ways we can work
together to benefit both our businesses
She went on to say how great our site is and that is was deemed “worthy” of this offer
We feel your site meets our quality guidelines and would be a good fit.
The gist of the contact was that Digital Enterprises, Inc hosted a site called Instant-Registry-Fixes and that they wanted to provide content to Geekradio.com in the form of unique and topical articles for the site. As she went on to explain, these articles would contain 3-5 embedded Web links and all we had to do is agree to leave these links in place when we published the articles on our site.
We are willing to supply you with “unique” content for your website in
the form of keyword rich articles written on topics related to both our
sites. All of your articles will be on interesting topics relating to the
windows registry or related computer topics and of course, will be search
engine friendly. These quality articles will help you in your search engine
rankings, and will never be published on another website. We are offering
you unique high-quality content for your website. In return for the free
articles, we want the links within the article to remain intact. We will put
links (3 to 5) into the article.
I took a little time to investigate and it turns out that Instant-Registry-Fixes is simply a portal run by Digital Enterprises, Inc to push a program called Regcure which is put out by a company called Pareto Logic and that Digital Enterprises, Inc is nothing more than a web marketing firm.
This is the kind of thing I truly despise. This type of marketing works very hard to make sure their web sites show up when computer users search the Web looking for solutions to their problems. If you go out and search for a solution to a registry problem you might stumble across Instant-Registry-Fixes site and find a few possible solutions. But what they want you to see if the download option for the Regcure program.
The site, and many others like it, serve only to sell the reader on the idea that a registry cleaning software is the best solution.
Once they get you to download and install the program it scans your computer and reports a ton of errors.
Sure the software and the scan of your system is free, but guess what? You’ll have to pay for the program before it will fix these so-called “errors.”
According to various articles I have read, the software is not very good and can actually be difficult to remove once installed. There have also been some web reports that indicate sites offer to sell the program for $9.99, but when the bill came the buyers discovered they were charged as much as $40.00. Google search Regcure Scam for some very interesting reading.
I have said it before, and I will say it again. I don’t believe in any program that claims to fix registry issues. They simply don’t work as advertised. Do not be suckered into this type of scam.
And for the record, we won’t be accepting any content for Geekradio.com from these modern day snake oil salesmen….
*note: Many sites offer Regcure for download. Most of them don’t mention the name of the product and just offer a download link. Be aware the downloadable file for Regcure is RegCureSetup_1_5.exe. If you see that file, cancel the download immediately!
2008
02.03
02.03
Since the announcement of Apple’s Macbook Air there’s been a lot of discussion about the pros and cons of the ultra-thin, ultra-lightweight laptop. One of the more persistent complaints is the lack of any built in optical drive.
I’ve always contended that an external USB device would do in a pinch and to prove my point I give you the Infosafe External Slim USB 2.0 DVD +/- RW Dual Layer Drive from Startech.
Weighing in at 12.35 oz [350 g] and needing no power adapter for CD / DVD-ROM use (you will need the supplied adapter for burning CDs and DVDs) you could easily toss this into your laptop bag if you need access to an optical drive while on the go.
And this is no lightweight optical drive, either. Dual Layer means you can burn up to 8.5 gigs of data to a single DVD and at 24X the CD performs quite well with the DVD clocking in at 8X for single layer and 4X for dual.
Just to be clear, you don’t have to buy a new Macbook Air to benefit from this piece of hardware. This drive makes for an easy to install addition to any desktop or laptop computer and can even jump to the rescue as a replacement device for exiting equipment that has failed or is just under-performing.
2008
02.01
02.01
Barret was out with the sars.
2008
01.29
01.29
Jay Lee was interviewed by Jeff Ehling for ABC 13 (KTRK) about the new music service Qtrax that claims to be offering free and legal music downloads…
You can see the whole story here: Free online music downloads?
