Podnutz Daily #259 - Black Flag Solutions

Steve is joined by Anthony Glover of BlackFlag Solutions in the San Antonio, Texas Area

Running time: 58:38
Added: 13 Aug 2010

Topics, Tips, and Links Discussed:

• Harmony Remotes from Logitech
• Running Spybot Search and Destroy from the command line
• CCleaner registry cleaner from Piriform
• Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
• Scanning a hard drive with AVG anti-virus as an external drive on a bench computer
• Booting with The Ultimate Boot CD for Windows(ubcd4win) or Knoppix discs
• Using a desktop PC with your big screen TV
• Using Windows Media Center with TV tuner cards
• Element is a free operating system for home theater PCs, media center computers, and set-top boxes
• OpenOffice as a free alternative to Microsoft office
• VLC is an open-source multimedia framework, player and server
• Paint.net is a free image and photo editing software for Windows computers
• GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed software for photo retouching, image composition and image authoring
• Drumming up business in the aisles of Best Buy
• Monoprice or eBay for cheap cables
• Computer service pricing
• Anthony likes the Linksys e3000 router
• Steve likes the Apple AirPort Express router
• Network Magic allows for easy network setup

Voicemails/Emails:

• Nick writes in with a Geek Squad horror story in setting up a home internet connection,also tells us about an article from Laptopmag.com comparing tech support from different companies, and finally tells of the two iPhone 4's that got married but had a lousy reception
• Russ writes about an unusual Windows problem involving random playing of classical music, the solution can be found at support.Microsoft.com/KB/261186
• D.B. asks about using different invertors on different laptop screens for testing purposes

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Music provided by Evan King
Notes by Mike Evans at datamike.net