Iron Wil

InfoWorld article

Please to not be going to a phishing Apple site and enter SSN, mother’s maiden name, credit card number, and security code…please.

technolust

So, I was listening to Net@Night with Leo and Amber this morning and they did an interview with the CEO [I think] of Disqus [pronounced discuss]. This is a commenting add-in primarily for blogs. This is a plug-in and takes very little time to install.

There is only 1 part that I didn’t understand and if I had not listened to Leo talk about his install, I am not sure that I would have made the correct selection. The second radio button in the Disqus options allows you to keep all previous comments and insert Disqus for all your new comments.

I have added it here at IronWil in hopes that as my site grows it will add value for commenter’s and other readers. The concept is that the reader carries their own comments across several blogs and websites. If the site goes away your comments are preserved with your Disqus profile. You can attach it to your Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Delicious, Flickr, or Tumblr account. Disqus also provides/allows users to put up video comments, which I think is very cool!

I am looking forward to using it and seeing how well it works. If you want to hear the NetCast, get it here.

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About a year ago, friend and reader, Technolust bought an 8gig Flash Drive. I was quite envious of the acquisition; however I was not willing to part with the 80$ for a new drive. I decided that I would have to wait until the prices came down enough that I felt it was a worth while purchase. Last week, thanks to NewEgg, I bought the Patriot Xporter for about 35$.

I have to say it is nice to have enough room to carry software packages I recommend and install on my clients computers. i even have all the Apple “Get a Mac” ads and half a dozen of the Heroes Graphic Novels. However, Technolust filled up her flash drive in about 2 weeks. I don’t have any idea what she has on that thing; but I am sure it is important.

If you hit my mac/pc pics pages you will get an idea of what I am carrying around on my flash drive.

Thunderbird & FireFox, ClamXav, AVG Free, TrueCrypt [Win & Mac], Filezilla, 7-Zip . . . etc.
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Rasberry Crazy Ants

Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Jason Calacanis, Patrick Norton, Dwight Silverman, and Doug Kaye

Special Guest: Frank Eliason of Comcast’s customer outreach

Microsoft-Yahoo redo, CBS buys CNet, Comcast Burst/Blast, ZDTV’s 10-year commemoration, and more.

get your here.

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That Thing Out There

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Service packs, Xbox 360 vs. PS3, Small Business Server, and more.

get yours here.

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Question and Answer 41

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

Our regular mailbag episode with questions and comments from our listeners.

For 16kpbs versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve’s site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

get yours here.

iron wil

AVG has released a new version of their free anti-virus client. This is a manual download and install. This will not come down the pipe with the usual updates. Once you download and run the install. it will uninstall the last version and install version 8.

get it here.

iron wil