Help, I am Out of Hard Drive Space
We've all been there! You want to do some work on your Computer and you keep getting a warning telling you the Hard Drive is Full. Going through your drive and deleting files would be the nice thing to do, especially those ones that just seem to be duplicated throughout your Hard Drive. If you don't have time to do that, adding storage is always a great solution. In fact, with the pricing on Hard Drives currently, it is really to your benefit to plop down a few bucks and get that deal on the 1TB or 2TB drive you ...
Whats Happening today at TechtalkRadio
A Few Days Left to enter the Contest for a Copy of System Mechanic 10 from iolo technologies, today around 3pm we'll give you a chance to win with a trivia question on our Twitter Account http://www.twitter.com/techtalkradio Thats Today Around 3pm Pacific! Also - later this morning tune in for new Audio from Outsourced at we talk with Actor Ben Rappaport and we talk about trends in business with CNBC. We will also feature a new Plug in software for your Video Editing from New Blue!
Congratulations to our Winners of System Mechanic 10
[caption id="attachment_877" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Enter to Win"][/caption] TechtalkRadio is back with some great Contest! Congrat s to our Winner Stuart W of Tucson who won a copy of the System Mechanic 10 Software and to Rey in Phoenix who won while listening to the show. We also gave away a copy of the Software on Wednesday to a follower on Twitter, Leonard L in New Jersey! The Software for the PC is designed to speed up and correst issue in your system that can slow down start up time and cause problems with programs to run. Both Slick and Andy Taylor recommended this ...
New Video FX Plugins – Great Price and Features
[caption id="attachment_977" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="NewBlueFX - Easy to Use and Inexpensive"][/caption] I was fortunate through my years growing up to have attended a high school in Southern California that offered a video production class to which I became a TV Nerd spending time before and after the actual class creating shows and segments for the TV news-feed at school. We had much fun creating Wipes and Dissolves and getting our fellow classmates in front of the Blue Screen and Chroma Keying them into strange backgrounds. It was very basic but fun to do. Our editing was done on a Sony RM440 3/4 ...
Great laptop cooler/stand for notebook computers
We received the USB 3.0 version of the CM Storm Strike Force SF-19 laptop cooler... Until it's removed from the box, it's not apparent how sturdy it is! Made of plastic, metal mesh, and thick rubber...I expect this can take a beating. Notebook computers of up to 19-inch notebook can fit on it. The SF-19 is 1 foot 7 inches wide at its top. On the left side is a "LED ON/OFF" switch, a "MULTI-LIGHT SHADER" switch...and a speed control for the fans, which can also turn them off. On the right side is: the 12 volt power socket, four USB ports, ...
Practically Free Things To Do
Like many of you, I get tired and irritable and just need something to do that is not one of my daily tasks or work related in any way. I usually will break out into an “I’m So Borrrred!” or something like that. Also like many of you I do not have a ton of cash for that dream vacation to the Bahamas or that short jaunt to Greece for my olive oil facial and dreamy Greek masseuse to give it. OK, dreaming aside; Heck! I don’t even have enough time or money to afford to go to El Cheap-O ...
Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), is now in Open Beta and free to download and play.
From the press release:
“Set in The Forgotten Realms, players explore and defend the iconic city of Neverwinter, travel beyond the besieged walls of the city once known as The Jewel of The North, to subterranean passageways in search of forgotten secrets and lost treasure.”
“…rebuild the city of Neverwinter, saving it from Valindra Shadowmantle’s evil forces…”
“…Neverwinter’s Gateway is a web portal that allows players to remotely access in-game status information via their desktops, tablets, or smartphones…”
A video of the game is at http://youtu.be/D_Uzka-2Mz8
The website for the game is http://www.playneverwinter.com (which will take you to http://nw.perfectworld.com/ )
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WinPDFEditor is free…until May 5, Pacific Daylight Time.
It can allow users to:
rotate pages…
add and remove content…
change font sizes and colors…
add color to the files…
embed watermarks…
and convert files to WORD(*.Doc), Text(*.txt), Images(*.JPG, *.TIF, *.BMP, *.GIF, *.PNG), Web page(*.HTML) and Flash(*.SWF).
It’s available from http://www.winpdfeditor.com/giveaway.html
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Like fashion? Like headphones? Like Pinterest? Well, then…
A “MOMENTUM for beautiful people” contest is now in progress. Prizes are Sennheiser MOMENTUM headphones, and Drykorn clothing vouchers. Per the press release:
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To enter the competition…create Pinterest mood boards that showcase designs, fashion ideas and products that they feel complement the new MOMENTUM headphones and this season’s Drykorn styles.”
How it works? Just repin one of the MOMENTUM versions with complementary clothing or accessories from Drykorn. Then, its time to exercise your good taste! Find 5-10 items to pin on your personal mood board that best reflect the lifestyle and look of our signature items. Make sure to tag all the items pinned to your board with the hashtag #MOMENTUMforbeautifulpeople – then you’re ready to submit the URL of your board to us. As inspiration, Sennheiser has created pinboards for both the MOMENTUM Black and MOMENTUM Brown including matching Drykorn items, showcasing the pure design language and vision behind the award-winning headphones.
…Four winning style boards will be chosen and each winner will receive a pair of Sennheiser MOMENTUM headphones and Drykorn vouchers worth $650.
…Follow Sennheiser on Pinterest (www.pinterest.com/sennheiser) or Facebook page (www.facebook.com/Sennheiser). The MOMENTUM Style competition on Pinterest will run between 22 April and 6 June.
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“Warner Archive Instant is the new streaming service of the Warner Archive (WarnerArchive.com). Film and TV enthusiasts can instantly view hundreds of rare and hard-to-find movies and TV shows, culled from the Warner Bros. library – the largest entertainment library in the world. Now is your chance to discover – and rediscover – rare movies and TV shows you can’t find anywhere else (and some favorites you can) from Warner Bros., MGM, RKO, New Line, Monogram, Allied Artists, Lorimar and more.”
Well…that’s nice. I’m sure there are shows and movies I look forward to seeing…
“…you’ll need Silverlight powered by Microsoft…”
Wait…WHAT???
“…exact technical system requirements for Warner Archive Instant…Microsoft Silverlight installed…”
I’ll pass on this service…because:
Microsoft shuns its own Silverlight
“…Silverlight sites can’t strut their stuff in Windows RT or the Metro part of Win8…”
I’m not a fan of Adobe Flash…and, because Microsoft seems to lack commitment to it, less of one of Silverlight.
Although…they do have Black Belt Jones…
Jim Kelly, Scatman Crothers, Eric Laneuville, Malik Carter, Ted Lange…
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Get the game The Mystery of the Crystal Portal FREE for iOS, Mac, Android, and Kindle Fire through April 1…
About the game:
Meet Nicole Rankwist, a journalist for a small paper in New York in the late 1920′s. After making a huge archaeological discovery, her father mysteriously disappears! Nicole finds his diary and sets off on a quest around the world to track her father down…
As Nicole retraces father’s steps, she will visit seven exotic locations…Striving to unlock fragments of the Crystal Portal key, players will search for hidden objects and solve unique and intriguing puzzles. The seek and find aspect of the game requires players to first find “container items”, which show a menu with more searchable objects. In each location there are special items – pieces of puzzles for mini games which lead to unlocking a partial key for the Crystal Portal. The Mystery of the Crystal Portal has neither time limits nor penalties for random tapping, and there are time-based hints available…
7 Picturesque Settings
22 Levels and Mini-Games
Use pinch to zoom in and out to find all objects
Free hints when you are stuck or buy them to speed up your progress
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If you are affiliated with a college, you may qualify for a four-year subscription to Office 365 University from Microsoft…
Though, it appears you must have an eddress that has an “edu” top-level domain.
It can be installed on two computers (Windows or Mac), and some mobile devices.
Office 365 University includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher, and Access.
The supported operating systems include Windows 7, Windows 8 and Mac OS X 10.6 or later. But: “…you can install Office applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook on your Mac…” (Based on that statement I assume there’s a chance OneNote, Publisher, and Access will not function on a Mac.)
I read:
“Office 365 University is a four-year subscription for full- and part-time enrolled university and college students, faculty, and staff in accredited institutions…”
As I’m understanding it: you can install it once on two different computers within three years. What if a computer becomes unuseable? Or a licensed user wants to remove the product from one computer, and install it onto another?
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The cost of the four-year subscription is only $79.99. Overall, it seems like a great deal to me…
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(The current, “better”, licensing terms are in the section below with the header “LICENSE AGREEMENT”…)
First…where we came from…
Microsoft announced that a purchased copy of Office Home and Student 2013, Office Home and Business 2013, and Office Professional 2013 would only be allowed to be installed on one computer…ever.
According to their statement: “…Office 2013 suites have consistent rights and restrictions regarding transferability as the equivalent Office 2010 PKC, which was chosen by a majority of Office 2010 customers worldwide.”
It needs to be proven to me that customers chose and preferred those specific rights and restrictions…I just don’t believe people would select that option over others.
OK…here’s the initial reason I’ve been against using (a retail version of) Office 2013: “…The Office 2013 software is licensed to one computer for the life of that computer and is non-transferable (consistent with the rights and restrictions of Office 2010 PKC). In the event that a customer buys the Office 2013 software and installs it on a PC that fails under warranty, the customer can contact support to receive an exemption to activate the Office 2013 software on the replacement PC.”
(“PKC” is a product key card…)
Microsoft stated that…after you have purchased the product, and installed it onto a computer…that’s it. By the licensing agreement, you are not allowed to (remove it from that computer and) install it on another computer. Ever.
To me, Microsoft seems to be pushing consumers to Office 365 Home Premium which “works across up to 5 devices (Windows tablets, PCs or Macs) and can be activated and deactivated across devices”.
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If true, that made me wonder why.
I compared some of their suites, based on my interests.
Office 365 Home Premium, Office Home and Student 2013, and Office Home and Business 2013 include OneNote in their suites.
Office 365 Home Premium costs $99…per year.
The price for Office Home and Student 2013 is $139…Outlook is not included.
Outlook is included in Office Home and Business 2013, which is priced at $219 for the product.
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LICENSE AGREEMENT
As Monty Python would say: “And now, for something completely different.”
I’m dizzy from all of the “spinning” that’s been done…
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In the past I had been a big fan of Outlook…and OneNote. But after some changes to the applications…and this licensing drama…if I were to ever again invest in an Office product: I might consider the Professional version because it contains Outlook and OneNote, and would be a better package for me for the cost…or, if I could afford to pay $99 for it every year, I would use Office 365 Home Premium. Or, maybe I would pay for both…but it would greatly depend on my budget.
Now that I’ve said all of that, consider reading “Microsoft Office 365 University only $80!”…
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Jan 13
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Prices to increase for Windows 8…
A Communications Manager at Microsoft, Brandon LeBlanc, has posted some information about the upcoming changes for the cost of Windows 8…
Per “Blogging Windows“:
>If you bought an eligible Windows 7 PC between June 2nd and January 31st, 2013 – be sure to register for the Windows Upgrade Offer and upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for only $14.99…
{The last day to register for the Windows Upgrade Offer is February 28th, 2013.}
>…If you upgrade to the Windows 8 edition or buy a PC with the Windows 8 edition pre-installed and want to move to the Windows 8 Pro edition– you can purchase the Windows 8 Pro Pack (previously known as Windows Anytime Upgrade) directly within Windows 8 by going to the Start screen and typing “Add Features to Windows 8” and at participating retailers for $69.99 MSRP (U.S.) until January 31st. If are running Windows 8 Pro and want Windows Media Center and DVD playback, you can add the Windows 8 Media Center Pack for free until January 31st.
Check for the upgrade offer at http://www.windowsupgradeoffer.com/
Upgrade path information (from Windows XP, Vista, and 7) to Windows 8 is available at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj203353.aspx
Before purchasing, and attempting to install Windows 8, run the Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant. It will scan hardware and applications to try to determine if they are compatible.
Until January 31 (2013), using the Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant, a promotional offer to upgrade to Windows 8 Pro via Windows.com for $39.99 is available. Also (until January 31) DVDs at retailers will cost $69.99. DVDs can be purchased from http://windows.com/buy
Beginning in February, the prices for Windows 8 upgrade editions will be:
Windows 8 upgrade edition (available online and at retail locations) for $119.99
Windows 8 Pro upgrade edition (available online and at retail locations) for $199.99
Windows 8 Pro Pack will cost $99.99
and Windows 8 Media Center Pack will cost $9.99
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First, I alway like to indetify when a product or feature is in the “beta” stage of development, and this is one of them. (“Beta” means that it is not fully supported, and that there can be unforseen problems…the user is a tester.)
Those interested in participating in Skype Click to Call as a business or advertiser using Skype can get more information at http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/advertise/click-to-call/
Skype Click to Call can be downloaded from http://beta.skype.com/en/download-skype/click-to-call/
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“…Youda Survivor…is available at no cost on multiple platforms…till January 21, 2013 the full version of Youda Survivor is available as free download on iOS, Google Play, Kindle Fire and Nook.
“…In this game players get a chance to become a real Robinson Crusoe. They will have to win over the hearts of the native tribe, obtain mystical tribal items with magical powers, learn rituals to control the weather and use special machines to advance in the quest. Indulge in a little resource planning, bird-breeding, and pirate-stomping…Youda Survivor challenges you to prove that you have what it takes to survive anywhere and under any circumstances…”
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