Andy Taylor

March 20, 2008 Andy TaylorLeave a commentUncategorized

Updates to the Website

We’ve made some updates to the TechtalkRadio Website! Our Faq page is now posted and will be adding some of the most frequently asked questions about the show. Have one for us? Shoot away. Also, The contact page now has a form for sending us a note. Wally Kniaz now has his bio info posted on the about us page.

More features and changes coming!

March 20, 2008 Andy TaylorLeave a commentUncategorized

Digsby Opens Public Beta With a Ton of New Features!

Digsby, the Instant Messenger & social network manager program that has been in private beta for the pc, released its public beta today. (soon to be adding support for Mac OS X and Linix!)

But todays release brought a slew upgrades and additional features to boot! Support for Twitter has been added, as well as:
* Added audio/video chat across IM networks
* Added inline spell checking in English with more languages coming soon
* Added a “Listening To” status to show what song is playing in Winamp or iTunes
* Added Block/Unblock to the right click menu of a buddy and the dropdown menu in an IM window
* Added preferences for what Digsby should do when running full screen applications like games

For a complete list of features and to view the evolution of this program, check out the changelog Digsby’s website.

Be sure to let us know about your experience with this uber tool!

March 18, 2008 Andy TaylorLeave a commentUncategorized

HP Blackbird Video

Posted the HP Blackbird Video on Website and right
here on the Blog. Noticed we said the system had a
Intel Core 2 duo Extreme, the correction is a Core 2 Extreme
Processor. This is a Core2 Quad system. Sorry for picking on
you Scott but couldn’t help it!

March 18, 2008 Andy Taylor4 CommentsUncategorized

Vista Service Pack 1 – Available for Download

Everyday about 1pm I get a text message sent to me about what’s new in Tech. So, today’s “Tech Tip” was “A major package of updates and security fixes for Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system will be available for download.” I thought it would be at least a couple of days.

I immediately went on Ustream to see if Andy was randomly broadcasting. I browsed around some other tech show to see if anybody might be talking about it.

I stumbled upon “The Tech Buzz” where they actually called Microsoft to find out if the Service Pack was available. They told them that it was available. They are doing an official install of Vista Service Pack 1. It took them about 45 minutes to install it.

If anybody is interested in downloading Vista Service Pack 1, here is the link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b0c7136d-5ebb-413b-89c9-cb3d06d12674&DisplayLang=en

If you install it, let us know how it goes and if you had any issues!

Good Luck!