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>> Coming up on CNET Live, more reasons to be suspicious of elected officials.

>> And, a way to charge your cell phone anywhere that you have light.

>> Plus, the secret history of Star Wars. Tom will do that, not me, all that and more coming up on CNET Live. ^M00:00:24 [ Music ] ^M00:00:32

>> Hello folks, Brian Cooley with--

>> Hi, Tom Merritt right here.

>> It's Tom Merritt, right there. Good to see you on Thursday. How are you doing?

>> We're already down with one question.

>> We saw...we talked to a guy on the phone beforehand because he had a very interesting question to iPhone 2.0. He's got a hold of the developer's software for the iPhone.

>> He's way out of the front.

>> And, he is having a problem getting to his home screen and I was like, "dude I haven't played with the SDK. I don't have 2.0 yet. He wants to be able, you know, be ahead of the game and be playing with it. So, anybody out there that's got the 2.0 Developer version of the firm ware got their hands on it who has had that problem getting to the home screen and has figured it out. Give us a call.

>> We want that person to call us.

>> Yeah.

>> So we're throwing up a pitch out here at the top of the show, give us a call if that sounds like a problem you've been through, you know what to do, you gotta have the 2.0 SDK, you're way out of front of RS keys on this one, 888-900-CNET, same number, all of your call with your questions and problems.

>> Or, you can send us an email, cnetlive@cnet.com. If you phone, though, they will talk to Andrea.

>> Where is Andrea? There is Andrea.

>> There she is.

>> Hello, Andrea.

>> She is waiting to set you up right there.

>> Waiting for your calls.

>> To find out what your question is, and to get you on the air in here.

>> We call her the gatekeeper, but before you get to us through her, we're gonna show you a couple of things we crave. ^M00:01:45 [ Background Music ] ^M00:01:49

>> These are some of your favorite things from the [inaudible] favorite things from the Crave blog.

>> We're making up your mind for you now.

>> At crave@cnet.com.

>> Where are those craveables?

>> Let me put it up here.

>> Come on crave boy [simultaneous talking], show what we got.

>> This is what I'm talking about at the beginning of the show.

>> This is--

>> Uhuh.

>> From ProFolio actually, I think it's from Juice Bag but it's called the "ProFolio."

>> Yeah.

>> Solar-powered bag.

>> That is going on to the side there.

>> Yeah. So, you got a solar panel on the side. This gonna sell for 299 dollars introductory price, but will go up to 399 dollars. It's a little trying to get you an early sort of deal.

>> But it's still a reverse iPhone pricing there.

>> This will charge most mobile devices. It's got a laptop or it's got a battery built-in--

>> Uhmm.

>> That it charges with the solar panels when you leave in the light, then it could charge your cell phone while you're on the go. It will carry a laptop. It won't actually charge a laptop.

>> No, not enough voltage.

>> Yet, you need the Voltaic Generator.

>> Now we're talking, uhmm.

>> This thing can actually charge a laptop on the go because it's got the photovoltaic--easy for me to say to charge on-the-go.

>> Not really.

>> This one is 599 dollars.

>> You're photovoltaic bag crazy, aren't you? You love this idea.

>> If I had 600 dollars left--

>> You'd be all over this.

>> I'd be buying it.

>> Yeah, I like this idea because I think we're all getting sick and tired of being out of a charge. All right, my little gadget is a whole lot less, well, [bell sound] strategic, isn't it? Well, of course I have it.

>> Oh, I got it. Do you want me to have it? I got it.

>> There you got it. Bring me to it. Do you have it?

>> Oh, there we go.

>> Here we go, shishan-- the Flip Mino. The owner of the Flip USB camera, the one that you take simple video on, you plug it into your camera with USB, well, the new Mino changes it in two ways. First of all, it has a USB stick that sticks straight out, instead of on the sides so ergonomically; it's a lot easier to deal with. And secondly, it doesn't look like some piece of crap you're gonna get off a hook at Walgreen's while you're standing in the cash register line. This actually has "There I say it" kind of a piece Apple design to it. Now, Apple is not gonna like that.

>> I'm a big fan of this Flip video.

>> Really?

>> There are many others is just a better looking Flip video, right?

>> Basically.

>> We got different USB thing.

>> It's still VGA quality so it's that same kind of hey, hey quality. There is it right there. And it has a nice little tripod jack. It has got a nice looking, you know, still smallish, but a nice looking screen on the back, big red button there to activate it. It's got a red tally line on the front. It's a redone industrial design but people are starting to really take this seriously.

>> Hey, do you know what my digital camera does?

>> The casual camcorder takes, video, oh, you know.

>> It's video and hooks up by USB.

>> Yeah, but it's never that easy.

>> Doesn't auto-publish on YouTube.

>> Right. So, the Mino has that whole YouTube connection for folks who wanted to do YouTube easy and now, it's no longer embarrassing to be seen with, there is the crap, the one on your left, here is the new one on the right.

>> It didn't really look that different.

>> Form factor is a little slimmer.

>> Yeah.

>> Design is not...I mean, this is not gonna convince you to that.

>> No.

>> But I'm done trying to be quite honest.

>> I'm unconvinced.

>> Let's go to the phones.

>> Let's see if they can convince us. 888-900-2638 on the line, who we got there?

>> Let's start with the ironic call which is Kevin in Alabama is having a hard time watching, what do you know, CNET videos. Hello Kevin, welcome to CNET Live...

>> Can you see us, Kevin?

>> Hey.

>> How are you?

>> I'm good, how about you?

>> Good. What problem are you having watching our stuff?

>> Uhmm, I can't watch CNET Reviews and I only can get two CNETTV videos out before it just quits on me.

>> All right, so you can't watch Review videos and on CNETTV, you get two and then "pfft".

>> We will talk to our Product Manager, Justin Eckhouse.

>> Yeah.

>> He's in charge of the video and he said "ad blocker, get this question 10 times a week 99.9 percent of the time." So, he has got an ad blocker 'cause there is an ad that rolls before the video on the Reviews section.

>> Yeah.

>> And then there is an ad that rolls two videos in on CNETTV. But then, we talked to him before the show, Kevin, you said you don't think you have an ad blocker.

>> I don't think so. I have Kaspersky, does that going to include an ad blocker?

>> It might.

>> Yeah, good.

>> You might wanna look and see if you've got an ad blocker set there. Also, do you know how to get into the Internet Explorer Extensions?

>> No.

>> Okay. So, do you know how to connect to the Internet Explorer Extension?

>> I don't have Internet Explorer a lot, so I'm gonna have to pull it up.

>> I can pull it up here. It's gonna be under your Tools.

>> Yeah.

>> That's gonna be under our Internet Options. Actually there is possibly something--let me check one thing here.

>> Manage Add-ons. You go to Tools, Manage Add-ons.

>> Yeah, Enable or Disable.

>> You look at those and see if you got some sort of ad blocker in there, or you're going back in.

>> I'll open this up here, yeah. If I can get mine up, we'll show you exactly what it looks like. So, here is the Ad On console, what it looks like, and that's loading up mine now. As you can see, I got a lot of, I mean everything, Google toolbars in there, your delicious thing, your button is in there, all of those things are a little tool add-ons to the basic EIE. Look in there for anything that is an ad blocker. For example, I don't think I have one. I do have spybar. I wonder if that has any ad blocking.

>> Yeah.

>> Alright, just to actually, just to--in my ear said, maybe just tell him to disable Kaspersky--

>> Yeah.

>> To see if that fixes it. Just as a test.

>> Just like you do if you're having what you think it's a firewall problem. Turn off Security for, you know, 15 minutes or just a little while. And then, see if it works, then you know what it is. So, try disabling Kaspersky and then take it from there. Okay, let's go to Richard in Texas. He has an interesting--

>> Richard!

>> Cross DNA issue. Hello, Richard, welcome to CNET Live.

>> Hi Brian.

>> What's your issue? What are you having a problem with printing wise?

>> Well, I have my HP printer plugged into my MacBook Pro and I wanna know how I can share that printer over the network to print from my PC to it.

>> Okay, so it's on your Mac, you want the PC to reach through the Mac to print on a shared printer? Is that an issue? Is that difficult? I go on the other way. We have Windows printers, we reached through the Mac and it's no problem at our place. But, I haven't done the other way around. Dr. Merritt, do you want to do it the other or what, do you want to do it that way specifically like you don't wanna hook the printer up to the Windows box?

>> Yes, I don't want to touch the PC at all.

>> And, you don't want to hang the printer off the network on a little, mini print server or anything?

>> Uhm, not yet.

>> Okay. So, you might try Samba rather than Bon Jour. I'm finding a bunch of people who have tried that. Ah, I haven't done it myself but just, you know, in a quick search looking around, Samba seems to be a way people have had success getting that printer to talk to Windows.

>> No guess, you try that out.

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