- General Motors vehicle safety engineer Howard Gandelot, 1954.
(via the
Monday, December 30, 2013
Today’s Poor Prediction
"I
find it difficult to believe that the seat belt can afford the driver
any great amount of protection over and above that which is available to
him through the medium of the safety-type steering wheel if he has his
hands on the wheel and grips the rim sufficiently tight to take
advantage of its energy absorption properties and also takes advantage
of the shock-absorbing action which can be achieved by correct
positioning of the feet and legs."
- General Motors vehicle safety engineer Howard Gandelot, 1954.
(via the@920KVEC daily newsletter)
- General Motors vehicle safety engineer Howard Gandelot, 1954.
(via the
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
A Voice from the Past
Keep
away from the people that belittle your ambitions. Small people always
do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become
great. - Mark Twain
Monday, December 16, 2013
Computer America Show lineup for the week of December 16, 2013
Monday
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Hour one: Wright Business. With the explosion of bring your own device (BYOD) to the workplace, companies may find this to be a cost cutters dream but doing so could send your company straight into the depths of hell....violating security, opening your systems to hacking and the harvesting of high security databases. Now your employees cell phone, Kindle, wireless tablet are all viable avenues to hackers everywhere...To learn more about what types of security breaches BYOD can expose a company to and for solutions when it does, Stephen Wright of Wright Business Technologies is the man to call. We have him for the hour!
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Hour one: Wright Business. With the explosion of bring your own device (BYOD) to the workplace, companies may find this to be a cost cutters dream but doing so could send your company straight into the depths of hell....violating security, opening your systems to hacking and the harvesting of high security databases. Now your employees cell phone, Kindle, wireless tablet are all viable avenues to hackers everywhere...To learn more about what types of security breaches BYOD can expose a company to and for solutions when it does, Stephen Wright of Wright Business Technologies is the man to call. We have him for the hour!
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Monday ---------- Hour two: Craig and Charles do Computer and Technology News, brought to you by Slimware Utilities, the Official Optimization Software of Computer America, and answer your computer questions! |
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Tuesday ---------- Both hours: It's our all Linux Show with Computer America Correspondent Larry Bushey, the Host of the Going Linux Podcast! Tonight's topic is: "So you want to use Linux every day..." Join us! |
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Wednesday ---------- Hour one: Intel now appears on every third Wednesday of the month in this special Intel Sponsor Hour! Each month, we will have an Intel representative speaking on new Intel products, services and news stories! You don't want to miss this show! |
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Wednesday ---------- Hour two: Craig and Charles do Computer and Technology News, brought to you by Slimware Utilities, the Official Optimization Software of Computer America, and answer your computer questions! |
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Thursday ---------- Both Hours: Charles Tendell. Charles is a Certified Ethical Hacker and one of our Computer America Correspondents! Now Charles invites one of his Hacker friends to join us on the show! |
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Friday ----------
This is our LAST SHOW OF THE YEAR!
Both hours: Michael Miller.
Mike is one of Computer America's Special Correspondents. Michael
Miller is a proven and successful non-fiction writer on a variety of
technical, business, and lifestyle-related topics. He has written more
than 150 books in the last two decades that have collectively sold more
than one million copies. His best-selling books include The Ultimate Web
Marketing Guide, YouTube for Business, and Facebook for Grown-Ups for
Que Publishing. He has established a reputation for being able to
explain difficult concepts to everyday readers in easy-to-understand
language. |
Monday, December 09, 2013
Computer America Show lineup for the week of December 9, 2013
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Friday, December 06, 2013
Just a few useful links:
For checking the weather, you might want to look at the local weather radars:
http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=vbx&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=no
Or for the whole country, you can bring up this:
http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/
From there, you can click anywhere on the map to bring up the local radar view.
Traffic has been getting busier lately, so here's the California Highway Patrol site with incidents they respond to:
http://cad.chp.ca.gov/
Just click the drop down menu under Communications Centers and pick the area you want. They also post information on road closures and Amber Alerts. Some of my favorite incidents are "Cows Loose on Road." Or as I like to call them, "pre-tri-tip."
CalTrans also posts traffic information. Live video cameras from the south to the north along major routes.
http://video.dot.ca.gov/
Or for other information about roads:
http://www.dot.ca.gov/roadsandtraffic.html
You can also listen to many of the local radio stations via the Internet:
KVEC
KSMX
KINF
KCBX
And from Los Angeles or San Fransisco:
KFI
KNX
KGO
KTLA 5 from LA streams its news shows during the day.
The newscast live stream is available during the following times: Monday-Friday: 4 a.m. to 10 a.m. | 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. | 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. | 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.Saturday: 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. | 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. | 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.Sunday: 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. | 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. | 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.We also stream breaking news as it happens, movies and other KTLA programming.
Read more at http://ktla.com/live/#p7EtEoq5sAs2qBZ7.99
Read more at http://ktla.com/live/#p7EtEoq5sAs2qBZ7.99
The newscast live stream is available during the following times: Monday-Friday: 4 a.m. to 10 a.m. | 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. | 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. | 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.Saturday: 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. | 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. | 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.Sunday: 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. | 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. | 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.We also stream breaking news as it happens, movies and other KTLA programming.
Read more at http://ktla.com/live/#p7EtEoq5sAs2qBZ7.99
Read more at http://ktla.com/live/#p7EtEoq5sAs2qBZ7.99
The newscast live stream is available during the following times: Monday-Friday: 4 a.m. to 10 a.m. | 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. | 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. | 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.Saturday: 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. | 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. | 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.Sunday: 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. | 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. | 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.We also stream breaking news as it happens, movies and other KTLA programming.
Read more at http://ktla.com/live/#p7EtEoq5sAs2qBZ7.99
Read more at http://ktla.com/live/#p7EtEoq5sAs2qBZ7.99
The newscast live
stream is available during the following times:
Monday-Friday: 4
a.m. to 10 a.m. | 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. | 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. | 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Saturday: 5 a.m.
to 7 a.m. | 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. | 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Sunday: 6 a.m. to
9 a.m. | 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. | 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Broadcastify offers live scanner broadcasts from police, fire, EMS, air traffic and other sources. CalFire, and SLO County Sheriff are broadcast over it.
Live streaming audio from NOAA.
And then just for something fun, the Abbey Road web cam.
Monday, December 02, 2013
Computer America Show lineup for the week of December 2, 2013
Lineup for the week:
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Monday ---------- Hour one: Opera. When faced with something that's not a computer, nor a mobile phone, what must a web browser company do to innovate? Enter Coast by Opera, the browser that is so elegant, intuitive and refined that it should have come with the iPad. This web-browsing app is the result of its designers tossing out 20 years of preconceptions about what a browser should be, locking themselves in a room and not coming out until they had answered the question, "What should a tablet browser be?" Join us as we interview Huib Kleinhout, our guest direct from oslo! |
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Monday ---------- Hour two: Craig and Charles do Computer and Technology News, brought to you by Slimware Utilities, the Official Optimization Software of Computer America, and answer your computer questions! |
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Tuesday ---------- Hour one: Craig and Charles do Computer and Technology News, brought to you by Slimware Utilities, the Official Optimization Software of Computer America, and answer your computer questions! |
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Tuesday ---------- Hour two: Avast. We'll be joined by Avast's CTO, Ondrej Vlcek. Prevent having your credit card or online banking data hacked and your money stolen. Use SafeZone, an Internet Security feature that secures sensitive transactions. Set your favorite banking or shopping sites to automatically launch SafeZone to ensure that all of your sensitive financial transactions stay private. |
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Wednesday ---------- Hour one: Mike Cermak the Owner/Operator of Techguy.org joins us in our first show of the year! It's Wednesday Madness and we answer ANY questions you may have about Computers and Technology! |
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Wednesday ---------- Hour two: Chamisa. Pctechmate is a computer repair solution designed to automate the sequence of tasks that a technician would have to perform when repairing a malware ridden machine. Some of those tasks include running diagnostic tools such as rkill, combofix, TDSS Killer and Malwarebytes. Their solution automates the core functions that all of these tools perform. They have also added a pot full of special sauce that ensures even the sickest of PCs get back to running as they should. It debuts in June! Check it out! |
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Thursday ---------- Author Steve Nicholls is well-versed in many different forms of social media. Hear Steve¹s insights on the future of social media. He is coming out with his second edition of his book Social Media in Business in January 2014. Steve has been quoted in Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Engadget, among other outlets. Tune him in! |
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Thursday ---------- Hour two: Craig and Charles do Computer and Technology News, brought to you by Slimware Utilities, the Official Optimization Software of Computer America, and answer your computer questions! |
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Friday ---------- Hour one: Mr. Excel. When it comes to spreadsheets, no one knows more about them that Steve! Hear how Microsoft messed up in their recent Excel ad! Hear about the latest in the word of Excel! |
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Friday ---------- Hour two: Craig and Charles do Computer and Technology News, brought to you by Slimware Utilities, the Official Optimization Software of Computer America, and answer your computer questions! |
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Saturday ---------- Both hours: On BlogTalkRadio this Saturday, it's time for Bond... Ralph Bond joins Craig and Charles with computer news and special topics. For many years, Ralph was Intel's Consumer Education Director and he continues to be the voice of Intel for Computer America's Intel Digital Minute. Ralph is now with Autodesk and he is an official Computer America correspondent. Join us! |
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
This Date, 1968
1968 - While returning to base from another mission, Air Force 1st Lt. James P. Fleming and four other Bell UH-1F helicopter pilots got an urgent message from an Army Special Forces team pinned down by enemy fire. Although several of the other helicopters had to leave the area because of low fuel, Lieutenant Fleming and another pilot pressed on with the rescue effort. The first attempt failed because of intense ground fire, but refusing to abandon the Army green berets, Fleming managed to land and pick up the team. When he safely arrived at his base near Duc Co, in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam, it was discovered that his aircraft was nearly out of fuel. Lieutenant Fleming was later awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions.
Monday, November 25, 2013
Computer America Show lineup for the week of November 25, 2013
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May Your Hard Disk Never Become Floppy! See you next week!
Monday, November 18, 2013
@ComputerAmerica Show lineup for the Week of November 18, 2013
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Friday, November 15, 2013
Reminder About Computer Phone Scams
Computer Scammers Taking a New Route
A
south county woman recently received a call from someone claiming to be
from Microsoft who says he needed to conduct a scan of her computer to
look for viruses. To do that, the caller says he needed remote access to
log in to her computer. Once these scammers have access to the computer
they can install malicious software, steal personal information, or
direct consumers to fraudulent websites where they are asked to enter
their credit card information.
In this case, no information was given and no loss occurred. The Sheriff's Office cautions the public to avoid these types of calls. Microsoft will not call you to conduct this type of service. To protect yourself, the Better Business Bureau recommends contacting your service provider directly, install virus detection software, don't trust cold calls, and find a computer repair company you can trust.
(from the KVEC 920AM daily newsletter.)
A
south county woman recently received a call from someone claiming to be
from Microsoft who says he needed to conduct a scan of her computer to
look for viruses. To do that, the caller says he needed remote access to
log in to her computer. Once these scammers have access to the computer
they can install malicious software, steal personal information, or
direct consumers to fraudulent websites where they are asked to enter
their credit card information.In this case, no information was given and no loss occurred. The Sheriff's Office cautions the public to avoid these types of calls. Microsoft will not call you to conduct this type of service. To protect yourself, the Better Business Bureau recommends contacting your service provider directly, install virus detection software, don't trust cold calls, and find a computer repair company you can trust.
(from the KVEC 920AM daily newsletter.)
Monday, November 11, 2013
Computer America Show lineup for the week of November 11, 2013
Monday
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Hour one: NETGEAR. Tune in and hear all about NETGEAR's latest, most amazing Router, the Nighthawk wireless router. Got game? Well, this is the router for you! Built with gaming, streaming and mobile devices in mind, this next generation 802.11ac Dual Band Gigabit WiFi router has a 1GHz dual core processor and delivers the fastest WiFi currently available so you enjoy less lag and less buffering. No matter where you WiFi, Nighthawk has you covered with Beamforming+ and built in high powered amplifiers and external antennas. With NETGEAR Nighthawk, get ready for the extreme! Also up for introduction is NETGEAR's latest VueZone Remote Cameras.
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Hour one: NETGEAR. Tune in and hear all about NETGEAR's latest, most amazing Router, the Nighthawk wireless router. Got game? Well, this is the router for you! Built with gaming, streaming and mobile devices in mind, this next generation 802.11ac Dual Band Gigabit WiFi router has a 1GHz dual core processor and delivers the fastest WiFi currently available so you enjoy less lag and less buffering. No matter where you WiFi, Nighthawk has you covered with Beamforming+ and built in high powered amplifiers and external antennas. With NETGEAR Nighthawk, get ready for the extreme! Also up for introduction is NETGEAR's latest VueZone Remote Cameras.
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Monday ---------- Hour two: Craig and Charles do Computer and Technology News, brought to you by Slimware Utilities, the Official Optimization Software of Computer America, and answer your computer questions! |
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Tuesday ---------- Hour one and two: It's our Gamer Tuesday Show with Computer America Correspondent Grayson Hamilton! Topics include more on the amazing Steam Box, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 News! Plus new Game titles for the upcoming holidays! Don't miss this show! |
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Wednesday ---------- Both Hours: Sandy Berger. Sandy is our Consumer Electronics Expert Correspondent on Computer America. She talks about the latest technology gadgets and trends in the industry with us. You don't want to miss this show! |
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Thursday ---------- Hour one: Scheduled is Chris Cope is the CEO of SlimWare Utilities and he is here every month as our Chief Technology Correspondent! Every month, Chris discusses the latest Computer Technology and new items that enhance your computing experience. And remember that SlimWare Utilities maintains your PC, keeps it running smoothly and keeps it running as fast as it was when it was new! You can update drivers, make Image backups while preserving your documents and so much more! With SlimWare Utilities, you do it all and do it for FREE!! |
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Thursday ---------- Both hours: Due to last Friday's Show pre-emption for the Stevie Awards, we have Ralph Bond joining Craig and Charles with computer news and special topics tonight! For many years, Ralph was Intel's Consumer Education Director. Ralph is now with Autodesk and he is an official Computer America correspondent. Join us! |
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Friday ---------- Hour one: ShirtPocket Software. Join us when David Nanian, the ownwer/Operator of ShirtPocket joins us to discuss the latest version of his SuperDuper! This Clocning Software is the ultimate in making backups for your Macintosh computer. Now that Mavericks is here 9and it's free), you REALLY need to backup your hard drive BEFORE you upgrade to Mavericks! Tune in and hear why! |
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Saturday ---------- Both hours: On BlogTalkRadio this Saturday, Sandy Berger. Sandy is our Consumer Electronics Expert Correspondent on Computer America. She talks about the latest technology gadgets and trends in the industry with us. You don't want to miss this show! Join us! |
Monday, November 04, 2013
Computer America Show Lineup for the week of November 4, 2013
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Saturday, November 02, 2013
Frosty Cavalier
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| Screamin' Mini, my 1986 Chevy Cavalier CS 2.0L EFI sedan, with the optional 5 speed manual, over sized tires, radiator and heavy duty suspension. Served with honor for 125,000 miles. |
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
What's happening with @creativepatches
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| Block of the month at Creative Patches. |
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| And the pattern it's made from. |
Monday, October 28, 2013
Computer America Show line up for the week of October 28, 2013
Monday
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Hour one: Gene Steinberg, Apple Expert talks about Apple's newest. Mavericks is FREE., New iPad Air and iPad Mini and much, much more!
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Hour one: Gene Steinberg, Apple Expert talks about Apple's newest. Mavericks is FREE., New iPad Air and iPad Mini and much, much more!
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Monday ---------- Hour two: Craig and Charles do Computer and Technology News, brought to you by Slimware Utilities, the Official Optimization Software of Computer America, and answer your computer questions! |
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Tuesday ---------- Hour one: Siber Systems. RoboForm Password Manager and Form Filler has been saving time and making life easier for millions of internet users worldwide. A leader in password management since 1999, RoboForm is amazingly fast and easy to use. |
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Tuesday ---------- Hour two: Craig and Charles do Computer and Technology News, brought to you by Slimware Utilities, the Official Optimization Software of Computer America, and answer your computer questions! |
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Wednesday ---------- Hour one: Reevu. Imagine wearing a helmet that lets you see behind you! And that's just the start! Motorbike helmets serve one purpose - to protect. Reevu has taken this concept further, producing the world's first motorbike helmets with an integrated rear vision system that helps prevent accidents. A new age in motorcycle helmets has arrived. |
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Wednesday ---------- Hour two: Dick DeBartolo. Dick joins us every last Wednesday of the month. Dick is Mad Magazine's maddest writer and one of our favorite correspondents! Dick is known as "The Giz Wiz" and he certainly lives up to the name's reputation! Dick finds some of the most unusual items on the Internet and shares the with up! Click on the Link below to see the items Dick will be talking about! |
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Thursday ---------- Hour one: RingMeMaybe is designed to solve the privacy issues in person-to-person and person-to-crowd mobile engagement. Every time you hesitate to share your phone number, generate a new one instead! The best situations examples are when you want to publish an ad on Craiglist or when you start getting into a conversation on Match.com but there is no limit. You can basically generate a new phone number for every occasion! |
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Thursday ---------- Hour two: Craig and Charles do Computer and Technology News, brought to you by Slimware Utilities, the Official Optimization Software of Computer America, and answer your computer questions! |
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Friday ---------- Hour one: Opera. It's the alternative web browser. The worldwide World Wide Web - any device, any platform, any bandwidth, absolutely anywhere in the world. Opera Software was founded in 1994, based on the idea that access to the web should be a universal right. 300 million people (and counting) use the Opera web browsers for computers, mobile phones, TVs and other connected devices. Opera also delivers tools, distribution, engagement, monetization and market insights to developers, publishers and brands around the world. |
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Friday ---------- Hour two: Craig and Charles do Computer and Technology News, brought to you by Slimware Utilities, the Official Optimization Software of Computer America, and answer your computer questions! |
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Saturday ---------- Both hours: On BlogTalkRadio this Saturday, Grayson Hamilton, Computer America's Gamer Correspondent joins us to discuss the upcoming Xbox One, Playstation 4, Steam's new Steam Box and SO much more. See you there! |
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