Ask The Tech Guys 144

On this show…

• Today's news items
  • Bob in Santa Ana - Wireless routers
  • Mark in Santa Ana - locked address bar
  • Jake - Firefox bookmarks disappear
  • Paul - startup error
  • Bruce - larger cluster sizes for video
  • Don in Houston, TX - Belkin's Pre-N is da bomb
• Noon-1p
  • Matt in New Jersey - podcast production suggestions
  • Steve in Corona
  • Larry in Manhattan Beach - slide show software
  • Dean in Oceanside - getting video onto computer
  • Alan in Studio City - upgrading to USB 2.0
  • Jay in Orange- spyware infestation
  • Matt in Brea - Toshiba laptop video problem
  • Aaron in Fullerton - Bluetooth controller for Mac
• 1-2p
  • Matt in Brea - Toshiba laptop video problem
  • Tony in Ontario - Verizon FIOS
  • TJ in Palmdale - PSP video
  • Gaylene in Moreno Valley - Toshiba blank screen
  • Barbara in Encinitas - connecting to the cable internet
  • Heidi in Monterey - new Mac user and artist

Today's news items

Apple is hosting the trailers for the new Harry Potter film out this Fall.

And Bill Gates is on the offensive against the iPod. He told the German newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "I don't think the success of the iPod can continue in the long term, however good Apple may be. I think you can draw parallels here with the computer — here, too, Apple was once extremely strong with its Macintosh and graphic user interface, like with the iPod today, and then lost its position." Sour grapes?

Two security flaws in Firefox have been patched. Click the update button to the right of your address bar to update your copy to 1.0.4. With that said CNN reports that Internet Explorer usage dipped below 90% a 6% drop since June of last year while Firefox had a 3 % increase as of October of last year. Firefox has roughly 6.8% of the internet browser market share.

The MPAA introduced a new round of lawsuits aimed at bittorent tracker sites according CNET.com 6 Bittorent Tracker sites have been targeted: ShunTV, Zonatracker, Btefnet, Scifi-Classics, CDDVDHeaven and Bragginrights with most of these sites homepages displaying notices of closure.

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