Andy Taylor

August 23, 2008 Andy TaylorLeave a commentUncategorized

Text Messaging the VP Running Mate Announcement

A First for a Presidential Campaign as the Democratic Running mate to the U.S. Senator Barack Obama was announced via an SMS Text Message.

Sprint sent out a press release this morning which stated traffic rose 255 percent following the announcement which was texted shortly after 3am EST.

The text was read as:

Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee. Watch the first Obama-Biden rally live at 3pm ET on www.barackobama.com Spread the word!

Just how widely used is text messaging? More than 48 billion text messages were sent each month in the US as of Dec 2007 according to CTIA- The Wireless Association.

Sprint hasn’t played favorites here and has also stated that they would be standing by to share the news of U.S. Sen. John McCains pick later this month.

It’s impressive that we’ve come to sending a Text Message to announce a Running Mate, Let’s not picture Sen Obama sending this text message while driving. It’s become standard place to send Text Messages, I would have been even more impressed had he twittered it!

August 22, 2008 Andy TaylorLeave a commentUncategorized

Wallace Wang Audio interview at TechtalkRadio

We talked with Wallace Wang today about his most recent book, My New Mac. 52 different task on working around the Mac are laid out in this easy to read Task Book. Listen in to why many technology users may have started to shift to the Mac and what drove the author to move in that direction.

It’s all up on the Website at http://www.techtalkradio.com/books/mynewmac.html

August 21, 2008 Andy TaylorLeave a commentUncategorized

Xplore Technologies iX104C4 on TechtalkRadio

We talked today with Patrick Gray of Xplore Technology on the new iX104C4 Rugged Tablet for the Computer User looking for a Rugged Portable Solution. The device builds on the success of the previous iX104C3 and doubles the memory capacity and triples the storage while delivering performance in a Strong Sturdy form factor which, according to the company, can handle a 4 foot drop onto Concrete!

Tune in to hear more about the iX104C4 on TechtalkRadio
http://www.techtalkradio.com/hardware/xplore.html

August 20, 2008 Andy TaylorLeave a commentUncategorized

BSOD at the Beijing Opening? Not quite…

A blogger onsite at the opening caught a couple of shots of one of the huge displays surrounding the stadium at the Beijing Opening for the 2008 Olympics.

While the typical Microsoft Naysayers are blasting BSOD jokes over one of the screens displaying blue with white text at the opening of the Beijing Olympics, it is, in fact, not OS troubles, but hardware (this error screen shows up as a prevention, stopping potential system damage; caused in this case by some USER error or hardware/driver error and not Windows OS)

Regardless…I wonder how many people Balmer called on the carpet over this mishap?

August 20, 2008 Andy Taylor1 CommentUncategorized

My First Video!

I’ve been working pretty hard these last couple of weeks putting together this website for a client who is in Florida. The site is about 100 pages. It took me rougly two weeks to get it done.

So, tonight, or should I say this morning… I decided to take a much needed break… I was browsing around the net to find out how I can add some 80s music to my myspace page… I found a really cool player that I could just add music too and upload to the myspace… I wanted to post the player in the myspace blog, but realized I couldn’t do it. So I came to blogger and realized I couldn’t do it there because it was only for myspace…

Then I saw that you can post videos in blogger. Andy is pretty much the “video” guru around here. So, I wanted to see how easy or hard it was and what better video to make then a video that includes “music”… The music, of course, that I grew up with and I love… the 80s!

Then I thought, well, I don’t think I have a program on my computer right now that can do it… I looked around the home office and saw that I could load one program or another on the computer but then I wanted to see if they had anything free I can download quickly.

I found out that Windows XP includes a free video program called “Movie Maker” so I decided to take a stab at it… I only did about 5 songs and added some video effects and transitions.

It took me about 3 hours and about 25 minutes to encode the video, but here it is, My First Video…

Thoughts and comments are welcomed.

Author: Andy Taylor