Computer Guys & Gal
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It's the first Tuesday of the month, and The Computer Guys & Gal are back with all the latest news from the world of technology. We're sharing recommendations for Cool tech ideas for Santa's Gift List and the Best and Worst stories of 2010.
Guests
John Gilroy
WAMU Computer Guy; and Director of Business Development at SolutionsDevelopers
Allison Druin
WAMU Computer Gal; Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab and Associate Dean for Research, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland
Bill Harlow
WAMU Computer Guy; and Hardware & Software Technician for MACs & PCs at Mid-Atlantic Consulting, Inc.
Items Heard on Today's Show
Holiday Gift Ideas for Techies
And a few less festive items
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Is Comcast a "toll-collecting, nuke-wielding hydra"?
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RIM getting more serious about design, acquires The Astonishing Tribe
Cyber-Monday
- One Billion Dollars in Sales
Cybersecurity
- Should listeners connect to their bank from a coffee shop?
Reverse Mentorship
- Why Your Business Should Consider Reverse Mentorship
Competition in Holiday Sales
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Steve Wozniak predicts Android will beat the iPhone
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Tablets expected to give PC sales to take a "shellacking"
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Web 2.0: Google CEO Sees Android Phones Replacing Credit Cards
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How to Pick Your Next Computer
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Apple Ending XServe Sales
YouTube on Mobile
- YouTube Mobile Use Exploding
Washington Post Columnist Reviews New Post App
- Friend of the show Rob Pegoraro reviews Post App
Comments
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I am planning to buy a "UPS" to charge small electronics if we lose power this winter. The devices use less than 20 watts, so the load won't be high. How many years do these UPS batteries last? How many times can they be recharged before they need to be replaced?
A recent caller regreted not purchasing Microsoft Office for his son's computer and laments paying for it now. There is a free alternative, called Open Office that he might use.
In regards to the man that bought a laptop for his son. I use OpenOffice by Oracle. It's free and has basically the same apps as MS Office. Could he have used that?
My father has a computer that has no more space on his windows xp hard-drive. I notice that when he does a cut and paste of a file it does not free space from the ‘cut ‘ and adds additional space for the copy. The total file size is considerably less then the hard-drive size. There is a lot of memory not freed. 1) is there a way to free up the memory or 2) reformat the hard drive with out with out deleting the operating system. The computer did not come with a operating system disks. I have defrag-ed the disk. What to do?
The iPad is a great device but your panel is so dazzled by it that they are not giving good advice! You just advised that someone get one for their mother who wants to do email and web browsing. Ok on the email but as a web browser the iPad is fatally broken by it's lack of Flash. Can you talk to this flaw? Also, I would point out that the tablet market will change radically in the next twelve months as competition starts to hit back at Apple. They have a head start but they wont rule alone forever!
In regard to the mention on the show of openoffice.org: I cannot recommend the spreadsheet program, OpenOffice.org Calc. Instead, I recommend Gnumeric, which is also available for free. I have not tested Gnumeric on Microsoft Windows, although the Gnumeric people say it will run there. I have tested it on Linux and it works fine. OpenOffice.org Calc, on the other hand, crashes frequently for me and that's why I disrecommend it.
On the show this week, one of the "gift ideas" that interested me, which I can not seem to find in the list here from the show was:
a pen for students to use taking notes, and then to be able to go back at a later time to retrieve of review those notes.
What is it called, and where can one be purchased? Any one???