The Next Window

I sure could have used “tethering” on my iPhone last Wednesday eveninng. I rushed home from the office so I could watch LSU play Texas in the College World Series final game.

As soon as I parked, my neigbor popped out of her house to warn me that the power was off. We’ve had no rain for about 2 months, but a storm with lightning rolled through late in the afternoon, and it knocked out the electricity service to my neighborhood.

If AT&T offered tethering for the new iPhone GS, I would have been one of the million customers who bought an iPhone GS during its first weekend. Then, I could have watched the game — or at least kept up with it — from my notebook computer.

Continue reading iPhone Tethering — Waiting on AT&T

Subscriber Bill DePierri wrote recently to ask about using a PC to record television. I’m already doing that with my home theater pc, which Bill has seen:

Terry:

We recently got a Cox DVR. It is pretty clunky with little flexibility. This got me to thinking about your comments about your PC-based DVR’s, especially since I have an old Dell machine that is about to go out to pasture.

This machine is a Dell Pentium 4 with a 2 GHz Intel processor. The computer has 8K of primary cache and 512 K of secondary cache. It has a 100 MHz bus, 1GB of RAM and two 80GB Disc Drives (EIDE).

If I made the conversion to a TV recorder, I would purchase at least one large (500GB?) drive and install it in the computer.

Questions:

1. Does this machine have enough power to handle one channel of video recording?
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Continue reading Digital Video Recorder or Home Theater PC?

UPDATE — October 3, 2008:

The coupon codes in the original posting are long expired.

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If you’re using Google’s Adwords pay-per-click ads to advertise products or services (or your web site!), there’s a great tool to help you in figuring out the right prices for your ads.

It’s AdwordAccelerator and I’m using it with my Adwords campaigns. It’s been closed to new memberships for a while, though.

This Wednesday, September 13th, they are opening the doors to allow 50 new members into AdwordAccelerator

Based on recent experience with its sister product AdsenseAccelerator, AdwordAccelerator should sell out on these memberships in a very few days (AdsenseAccelerator opened up for 75 mew members on a Friday and sold out on Monday).

I have found that Adwords is a very easy way to spend money on advertising. AdwordAccelerator helps me spend it more effectively!

AdwordAccelerator is a desktop program that runs on Windows and that has access to an online database of Adwords keywords, bids, and competing ads. Without signing up, you can watch the video tutorials on the website. You can also sign up for their free “AdWords Power User” tutorial.

AdwordAccelerator gives me a great keyword tool to find alternative keywords for your product — and to figure out which keywords are worth my time and money. I can see the numbers of clicks and prices for various keywords. Also, I can even see the ads from the competition and estimates of how much they’re paying per click.

Read my review of Adword Accelerator.

Then, if you’re advertising (or ready to advertise) with Google Adwords ads,
Sign Up Here.

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I got some exciting news from Sunbelt Software this week — Computer Shopper and Windows IP Pro magazine agree with me!

Sunbelt Software’s antispyware product CounterSpy won Computer Shopper magazine’s Best Buy award for antispyware this month. Not only that, but Sunbelt’s having a Labor Day sale to make it an even better deal!

To celebrate, they start a 4-day sale today, Friday, September 1st,2006.

The Labor Day sale runs from September 1 to September 4,2006 (Friday to Monday). Use the coupon code LABORDAY06 to get $5 off the regular price of $19.95. The coupon can also be used to get $5 off your order if you buy one of the discounted multi-computer licenses for CounterSpy.

As I’ve written a number of times, I believe that all computer users should have an anti-spyware/anti-adware program that runs all the time. Periodic scans are not a precaution — they are an attempt to identify a problem after it already exists and then to try to cure it!

Prevention is the key. Why let your computer get infected and then try to clean it? An always-running program can prevent many spyware/adware infections from occurring. CounterSpy also has a deep-scanning program to periodically scan your hard drive to see if anything got through. CounterSpy checks for program and signature updates every time you reboot, too.

CounterSpy is my #1 recommendation for anti-spyware. CounterSpy is also my personal choice for anti-spyware for my family’s computers and mine. We’ve been using CounterSpy since August 2005 and I have no intention of changing to something else.

Get CounterSpy Now – and save $5 with Coupon Code LABORDAY06

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I’ve updated my review of WinClear, which is a Windows / Internet history privacy tool.

WinClear erases Windows and web browser temporary files, cookies, history, viewing history, and a lot more to clean your tracks.

Read my updated WinClear review

Or, try the free download and scan by WinClear.

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I answered a question from a new Firefox user about font sizes. She had just installed Firefox and noticed that the fonts were smaller than those that she was used to seeing in Internet Explorer.

The “problem” is that we, as users, can change our default fonts and font sizes in our web browsers. Firefox even offers more flexibility than does Internet Explorer.

In Internet Explorer, we can make a temporary change by clicking on View, Text Size, and then pick any of five different relative sizes. By relative, I mean…

Read more in Changing Your Web Browser Fonts and Font Size

A reader wrote to ask:

To improve security when using Wi-Fi at a coffee shop or traveling, I’ve seen advice to uninstall “File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks” on the active wireless connection in the Properties menu of Control Panel Network Connections. Is it necessary to do this – is there any downside to uninstalling this? Would it be sufficient to uncheck the box, or do I need to fully uninstall it?

I guess another way of asking this question is, What is the purpose of this Sharing feature? I’m reluctant to delete something I might need.

Also, do I need to do make this change every time I go to a new hotspot (or even to the same hotspot), or will once do it for all future Wi-Fi logins?

Read more in Wi-Fi Hotspots and Computer Security

The Butterfly Manuscript Is All You Need

Butterfly Marketing proves to be just as powerful in strategies then in the software itself. Below you will find a student and customer of the course.

http://terryscomputertips.com/manuscript

Michael Cheney of “Adsense Videos” applied the the pre-launch strategies and affiliate tools and JV strategies outlined in Mike Filsaime’s Butterfly Marketing Manuscript to the his launch.

Here is what Michael Cheney had to say about what he learned in the Manuscript:

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“Mike – first off I just want to say thank you so much! The techniques I learned from Butterfly Marketing played a BIG part in helping me make $63,249 in sales in 24 hours!!

As I write this I’m still finding it hard to believe. It seems a lifetime ago that the BFM package landed on my doorstep and I started poring over it with my smile getting larger and wider with each new insight as I realized that as long as I APPLIED what I was learning the principles were going to make something BIG happen!

Little did I know just HOW BIG it would be when I launched AdSense Videos…

AdSense Videos – 33 Hours After Launch..

The site went live. My life changed forever – seriously the results have been incredible Mike – we’ve grossed over $200,000 in 7 days!! The site got an Alexa ranking on Launch Day of 351!

AdSense Videos was ranked Number 1 on the ClickBank Marketplace in the Marketing category just 4 days after the Launch!

I’ve also been getting, on average, one new subscriber every minute of every hour for the past SIX AND A HALF DAYS!!!

So – What did I learn from you Mike and from Butterfly Marketing? Where to start! I think one of the biggest things was the step-by-step approach. Everything I created for Affiliates, Joint Venture partners and for people going through the videos themselves has been step-by-step. I made everything as easy as I could and ‘muppet-proof’ as I like to call it!

I also realized that it’s paying attention to the smaller details BEFORE launch that really pay dividends AFTER the Launch. And BOY am I seeing that!

You gave some absolute gems of advice in Butterfly Marketing which have, without a shadow of a doubt, contributed in a big way to the overall success of AdSense Videos.

Thanks again!

Michael Cheney”
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You too can have the same results as Michael Cheney by implementing the tactics and strategies outlined in Mike Filsaime’s Butterfly Marketing Manuscript.

Learn why people are saying that this report changed the way marketing is done on the internet for good!

http://terryscomputertips.com/manuscript

To your success,
Terry

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If you’re still using dialup Internet access for use from home, you should start thinking about “broadband”.

What’s broadband? That’s the term for getting your Internet access via a cable or DSL connection, or even a fiber-optic connection if that’s available to you.

During the roll-out stage of cable and DSL Internet access, there weren’t too many choices. If only one was available in your neighborhood, …

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