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Surface computing. Great new technology, or just another way to spread germs?

Microsoft’s Surface computing looks and sounds cool — no question. But, can you imagine how many germs and viruses this thing will spread? This thing could start a whole new category of illness if we’re not careful. The “Surface Flu” would be fitting. Some enterprising individual...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 05-31-2007
Filed under: Hardware, Health and Fitness, Miscellaneous Nothings, Industry News, Chimping
Palm's secret innovative technology is out. It's a -- laptop???

I’m sure that someone, somewhere will benefit from Palm’s latest release , the Foleo , but the build-up was just hype. The blurbs in the news indicated that Palm was releasing something new – “innovative”. What they actually released is a laptop that connects to the PDA...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 05-30-2007
Filed under: Hardware
Listen to music stored on your PC in any room in the house

I have to say, this is pretty neat and I may have to shell out the money for it. Creative Labs Xmod Wireless Music System Play all of the music from your PC wirelessly in any room Enjoy a wireless media system that's made for music Make your MP3s sound better than CDs Connect in seconds—no...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 05-30-2007
Filed under: Hardware
Getting closer to figuring out my Wifi issue

I’ve been having this problem for a bit. Today, something interesting happened. After NO Wifi activity for a few days (and not enough time to troubleshoot further) I popped my Windows Mobile device into it’s cradle to sync. Lo and behold, the wireless card in my laptop turned on! Did the...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 05-21-2007
Filed under: Hardware, Networking, Windows Mobile
Finally changed my mouse battery today

When at home, I use the Microsoft Wireless Laser Desktop 6000 . It’s a great combination and I’ve never had any problems with it. I wondered when I bought it (which was close to 8 months ago) how long the batteries for both the keyboard and mouse would last. Today, I finally had to replace...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 05-19-2007
Filed under: Hardware
More Wifi woes...

Yep — you guessed it…I’m back to using a wired network connection. Even after Alexander’s suggestion , which seemed to work at first, my internal wireless card is gone again. Yesterday, when it happened, I restarted, went into the BIOS setup, accepted BIOS defaults, rebooted...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 05-14-2007
Filed under: Hardware, Networking, Windows
BIOS Flashed - Wifi back on

Thanks to Alexander Larkin for suggesting I update my laptop BIOS . I had thought about doing that, but BIOS updates always scare me for some reason, so I only use them as a last resort. In reality it had come down to a last resort scenario. During the BIOS update the Wireless card powered back on. After...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 05-12-2007
Filed under: Hardware, Networking, Windows
The saga continues - Wifi in Windows Vista

So — my wireless card worked for two days in a row, incidentally, after applying the recent updates from Microsoft. Today, I booted up to NO wireless card activity again! One of these days I’ll have the time and get real serious about figuring this out.

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 05-11-2007
Filed under: Hardware, Windows
PMC -- we hardly knew you...

The Windows Portable Media Center is dead , Jim , so says Microsoft in a newsgroup posting . In the event the link ever disappears, here’s the message: Microsoft is no longer licensing the PMC software. Here is an announcement that was sent out last year to our PMC partners: In early 2006, Microsoft...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 05-08-2007
Filed under: Hardware, Windows, Windows Mobile
Wireless connectivity is gone again

So, I posted over the weekend about my internal wireless card disappearing from my laptop . Well, it happened again. It worked for a couple days, but then on boot-up today, it’s gone again. I went through all the same steps I performed before, but it’s decided not to show up today. After...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 05-07-2007
Filed under: Hardware, Networking

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