BNI Tech Tip - May 27, 2010 - Lifehacker

Hi All -

Bud Freund, your BNI tech guy with a web site tip.

Lifehacker.com provides suggestions on everything from cooking to, yep, computers.

Its information is short and concise. . .

kinda like the lead I'm looking for. . . 

which is someone at Bottom Line Publications on Tresser Blvd

Bud Freund, your BNI Tech Guy, number 8 on your list..

BNI Tech Tip - May 20 - Wireless Security

Hi All -

I'm Bud Freund your BNI Tech Guy with today's tip about the cost of wireless safety.

There is a new law in Germany:

Password protect your wireless network to prevent free internet access or face a fine of 100 euros ($126.00).

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100512/ap_on_hi_te/eu_germany_wireless_passwords 

Good thing we're not in Germany.

If you've got a friend or family member who wants to stop offering free eats, send them to me, Bud Freund, your BNI Tech Guy, number 8 on your hit parade.

BNI Tech Tip - 5/6/10 - OiPad

Hi All!
 
Bud Freund, your BNI Tech Guy here to tell you that Apple's brandy new OiPad is actually a 38 year old idea from Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center.
 
So are all those pretty icons that you look at on the desktop of your Mac or PC.
 
If you know a small business owner looking for straight up computer information about their network or their machines, send them to me, Bud Freund, your BNI Tech Guy, number 7 on your list.

Ubuntu discoveries - Music

So my web sensei suggested "blips" on Facebook and blogs on (you guessed it) here.

So here goes:

I like listening to music in the kitchen while puttering.

I used to play my OiPod, but found myself listening to the same things over, and over, and. . . you get the picture.

So I started with Pandora, but found that after an hour, they were playing the same Motown tunes over again. . . and the library's gotta be pretty big.

So I found on the Optonline home page, a link to their music page.

On their music page are 2 choices:

Music Choice - The optonline feed that also goes over the cable TV signal - but it's out of sync with the internet feed so their songs have reverb, reverb, reverb if you try to play out of your TV and your computer.

Rhapsody - my new fave. Too many "radio stations", lots of weird names and lots of choices. . . Essential Classical, Smooth Jazz, 70's, 80's. The list goes on.

And best of all, I've been pulling the music without a logon to optonline! In short, free for anyone (please let me know) who finds it.

Anyway, the Ubuntu discovery. . .

I logon to the kitchen PC and start playing music. Screen saver comes up. . . My kid logs on. . . and the music keeps playing!

Try that in Windas!

April 29 Tech Tip - Military Power Point Less

Hi All!

Bud Freund, your BNI Tech Guy.

Today's tip could not be invented.

Coming from Tuesday's New York Times, the following phrases were extracted to describe  military PowerPoint presentations:

“When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war,”

“PowerPoint makes us stupid,”

“I have to make a storyboard complete with digital pictures, diagrams and text summaries on just about anything that happens,”

“death by PowerPoint,”

“just agony,”

And my favorite. . .

“hypnotizing chickens.”

If you'd rather hit your thumb with a hammer than watch that co-worker's PowerPoint, send them to me, Bud Freund, your BNI Tech Guy. Number 7 on your list.

April 22 Tech Tip - Don't Lose Your OiPhone

Hello All!

I'm Bud Freund, your BNI Tech Guy.

Today's tip is really just common sense.

If you go drinking after work, and  show off your new cell phone, don't leave it behind.

Especially - as reported in The New York Times - if you're a technician working on the prototype of the next generation iPhone.

Yes it's true, the ninny left it at a bar in Redwood City and now photos are all over the internet.

If you know a small business looking for a designated driver for their technology, please send them to me, Bud Freund, your BNI Tech Guy, number 7 on your list.

Oh and Rich, Julie, I may have a lead for you on a not-so-hot-shot technician looking for work.

April 1 Tech Tip - Oi mail

Hello All!

I'm Bud Freund, your BNI Tech Guy.

Today's tip is for those getting frustrated with email.

As of yesterday, anyone with an ATT Worldnet email address was shut down because ATT turned off the Worldnet email server.

Dumping ATT and getting a Gmail or Yahoo account will allow you to keep that email address - something like budlyapi@gmail.com - forever.

Then you can switch internet providers whenever you get tired of giving that irritating organization your money every month.

If you know a small business owner getting overwhelmed with email, please send them to me. . .

Budly, your BNI Tech Guy.

Number 7 on that roster you deleted from your inbox.