My World of Technology

4/22/12

Track Your Favorite Shows

Want to track your favorite shows online so that you can setup your Tivo or DVR to record when your not home. Here is a website that caters to your needs.They're are so many alerts that can easily be setup to remind you when your favorite shows are playing.

Direct Link

4/21/12

School Stats

Here is some interesting statistics on school. It's just amazing to see how much profit and funding goes into getting a higher education. I am just over amazed on how every year they keep on increasing my tuition.

Google Drive

Google recently released news that it's going to compete against DropBox and other online storage facilities. It's a plus for Google and it's going to keep their image current in the business environment. Give it a try if you haven't already.

4/20/12

Gmail Copy & Paste

Did you know that you can copy & paste in Gmail. Well if you didn't know that you could do it, you now know. All you have to do is use the mouse second key option to copy image and to paste you use again the mouse second key to paste image. You should be able to copy almost anything, give it a try.

4/19/12

Change Printer Automatically

Here is a great tweak to change your printer every time you change networks. It's built into Windows 7 and all you have to do is to adjust the managed default printer. Now where ever you go, your printer settings will adjust automatically.

4/18/12

Comm Test

Want to test network speed among two computers. Here is a software that will test your network connections. Easy to use and monitor over time if you want to bypass using the command prompt option.

4/17/12

At Home Wifi Android App

Here is a great at home Adroid application to keep your phone unlocked. It detects your WiFi when your at home and triggers the application to keep you phone unlocked when your at home.

4/16/12

Save Cash on Ink

Here are some good examples of saving cash on ink cartridges. To this day I still don't understand why so many people print everything, when most of the information can be easily saved as a pdf and stored on a flash drive.

4/15/12

Clean a PC

Here is some steps that everyone should take when cleaning out a computer. It's not every day that we encounter static electricity. But you should be aware of it. This is still not an excuse not to clean up your computer and remove the mounds of dust balls inside of it.

4/14/12

AC Clothes

Don't laugh it could one day happen. What seems to many as a joke, the old Sony technician is making it happen. Air Conditioned Clothes are coming. It's still far from perfect but it's a step in the right direction. Hey why not, the astronauts have this type of technology and one day we will too.

4/13/12

BlueTooth Horror

Here's a very interesting Bluetooth experience.

I was driving by on the Highway and my phone which is connected to my car Bluetooth went off.
What happened next, just amazes me, someone changed the user ID on the Bluetooth and cloned my id to the car Bluetooth like nothing happened. Even though nothing was compromised a threat is still present. Anyone with the right tools can easily tap into your Bluetooth device and clone your phone, copy your personal contacts, retrieve personal information stored on your phone and if you have bank applications, even steal you banking passwords.
Bluetooth has no guard against these threats yet and it could be sometime before you ever do see this. So if you don't use your Bluetooth device on your phone, just turn it off until you need it.

see also:
Popular BlueTooth Hacks
Protect Yourself

4/12/12

4/11/12

Ultimate Windows Tweaker

A must if your interested on Tweaking your Windows Vista & Win 7 OS. It just makes tweaking so easier to do.

4/10/12

Hard Drive Testing Tool

Download the Fujitsu Hard Drive testing tool to verify if the hard drive is working or not.

4/9/12

Google Public Weather Alerts

Call this an awareness site, but Google now is taking weather alerts serious by incorporating first alerts to it's maps. It's Google first play at weather maps and it things go right. Let's just say other sites my follow suit.

Silence Scheduler

Hate to have your phone ring when your at work in school. Here's a great Android application to helps silence your phone and abide by a schedule so that your not interrupted while working.

4/8/12

Goodbye to Norton & McAfee

Here is an article regarding the popular Norton and McAfee Antivirus. It's unfortunate that they haven't surpassed the losing market on making an effective antivirus software.
I try every year to convince myself to want to pay for the premium service, but who can resist with freewares like Microsoft Essentials.

4/7/12

Windows Update List

Trying to figure out if you have a specific Windows patch on your computer. This Windows update list folder will give you just that with the associated updated files.

4/6/12

Fix the Installed Memory usable error

To fix the installed memory to read all the installed RAM on your computer.

1. Type msconfig in the search box
2. goto Boot tab
3. click Advanced Options
4. Tick Maximum memory to your full ram. (in my case 4GB, so 4096)
5. Then press OK.
6. Double check it again by click the Advanced options again. If you found out that the Maximum memory reset to 0, then change it to 4095.
7. Restart your computer.

Font

Every once in a while I accidently find websites online and share them with others so that it can be used later on. Here is another great site to bookmark for fonts. At least now you can style your next book report.