CNET Live: June 19, 2008 Video
CNET Live: June 19, 2008 Video Transcript
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>> Coming up on CNETLive we got Fire Fox fever.
>> Oh, that hurt. Including Fire Fox tip created out of bare necessity.
>> And he doesn't mean Disney. Plus a last minute surprise guest. All that and more coming up on CNETLive.
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>> Hello, drinkers.
>> Hello, drinkers, how are you?
>> Drinker one, drinker two, right here.
>> We're just saying hello to ourselves.
>> That's like a Dr. Seuss thing.
>> Don't have to be obvious at that point.
>> Wasn't that Cat in the Hat; drinker one, drinker two, thing one, thing two; anyway.
>> Hopefully it's -- sun's over the yardarm somewhere --
>> Somewhere.
>> -- but you'll be able to dial a phone and give us a call because we're here on CNETLive to answer your questions about technology. Need help picking out something to buy? If you've got a question on how to make that computer work a little better?
>> Yep.
>> Make that phone work a little better? We'll try to give you a hand.
>> If you're building a blade server array and the dashboard running [inaudible] we got that covered for you.
>> We have the hang-up button ready -- I mean, we'll try to help you.
>> Get a hold of us and make our lives miserable that way by calling 888-900-CNET, 888-900-2638. Then what happens?
>> Then you get to talk to our call screener --
>> Andrea.
>> -- who will get you all set-up.
>> Who's in there?
>> Andrea is there, and Andrea is there, actually, Jeannie is back there too.
>> Look at this, it's just fantastic.
>> It's a crowd, you get to talk to all kinds of great people.
>> Oh, wait, wait, happy birthday who? Wait, go back. Go back to Camera 9, guys. Happy birthday, dad. That's awesome.
>> Happy birthday, dad.
>> Her dad is Alan Hale Jr., the Skipper from Gilligan's Island.
>> That's not true.
>> That's true.
>> Is that true? Really?
>> You didn't know that did you?
>> No, I had no idea.
>> See.
>> All right.
>> Anyway, before we do all that, let's look at a couple of things we crave.
>> These are some of our favorite things from the Crave Blog, at Crave.CNET.com.
>> I'm craving the in-seat iPod charger. United Airlines noticed that you, as an iPod user --
>> That's me.
>> -- are very upset about that $15 charge to check a bag, so they're giving you a free commercial level iPhone dock in your seat.
>> This isn't just charging it's a feed to the monitor on the seat back also.
>> Yeah, you'll be able to stream your shows onto the screen on your seat back.
>> This is cool, yeah.
>> It won't be available on every plane right away, of course.
>> Yeah.
>> And it may start out in just business class -- [Both speakers] of course.
>> -- but it's pretty cool. Now obviously not that great for a Zoon user.
>> Great.
>> And not that great for a Creative Zen user.
>> Yeah.
>> Or a Samsungs or any other kind of phone or a laptop.
>> Yeah, to you, United Airline says up yours.
>> But you know what --
>> But for the rest of us.
>> -- I'll take what they're giving.
>> And here's what I like, Panasonic Avionics is doing it that division could easily leak that technology over to Panasonic automotive --
>> Oops.
>> -- which builds a lot of the head units in a lot of today's cars, at the factory level.
>> Really.
>> So I'm going to be looking for this to show up in some cars.
>> All right.
>> That's just the way I like to roll.
>> What you are rolling with today?
>> Wireless HD.
>> Ah, this is finally here, I've been waiting for this since I first saw it at CES.
>> Yeah, this past January.
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah.
>> This is from a company called Aztec, you know the folks in the funny bronze helmets.
>> Well, and other people have been saying that they're going to do this for years and then it wasn't really HD or wasn't really working.
>> This is real, this is 1080P.
>> Nice.
>> This is the big res, but you've got to have 1080P files if you want to move them across this wireless --
>> Oh, oh, that's safe.
>> There's a problem.
>> No one has enough battery to download 1080 files.
>> It works sure, but it will do 1080P. It's basically an 80211N router, but it's optimized inside to keep the bits moving in an isochronous way so it doesn't break up. About $240 bucks for this guy, and you see it's got a little funky remote that comes with it. So --
>> I was wondering if you could use -- can you this as your wifi router in your house, as well as your AP streamer?
>> I believe so, they call it a multi-media streamer so I'm not sure if it supports standard IP data as well, at the same time.
>> 'Cause that would be the brilliant solution is like, hey, you know, I've got my old G router I've been waiting to upgrade. Get this, get two things at once.
>> It's a multi-media wireless router streamer thingamabob.
>> Love that.
>> That's over at Crave, at Crave.CNET.com. Let's jump into some of your phone calls now 'cause that's the way we build this show. I think we want to go right off the bat to Alan in New Jersey.
>> Sure, let's go.
>> He has an online mail question, not your usual one though. Hello, Allen, welcome to CNETLive.
>> Yeah, guys what's up. First thing, just wanted to compliment on the new web site. Really like the new CNET TV look.
>> Excellent
>> Well, thank you very much.
>> Thank you. You're a man of taste and distinction.
>> Not everybody is getting to see that new look, so you're --
>> You're one of our earlies.
>> -- you've won the lottery, so to speak.
>> Yeah.
>> It's rolling out slowly.
>> [Inaudible]
>> Good deal. So what's your e-mail question you got for us?
>> I'm looking for an online e-mail client something like Thunderboard -- or Thunderbird or mail-to-the-Mac that works on the internet. Also like Meatball-for-aims so I can go online, log in --
>> Okay.
>> -- and I get my AOL, my Gmail, my exchange, all that in one.
>> All right. He wants to get all of his mail together in one web-based interface, what you got?
>> Right. There's a couple ways to go around this. Now I don't know if there's some web ware thing that Rafe Needleman knows that I'm not aware of but a Mail2web.com has been doing this since the 90's. They allow you to just put in your e-mail address, they'll figure out the POP mail access --
>> I like it.
>> -- and as long as there is POP mail access to that account, they'll pull it all in. They even give you a personal home page that allows you to aggregate different e-mail services all together on one page which is kind of what you're talking about.
>> And I like that they sniff out the server settings for you that's always kind of a hassle though not for our audience. I've got one here called a Jump2mail which does largely the same thing. Let me ask you this, Alan, do you speak French?
>> No, I do not.
>> Okay. Well, if you speak a little of it, you'll be glad because --
>> Would you be willing to learn?
>> -- you've got to know French to use Jump2mail because check out the FAQ, it's all in French. What's wrong with these people? Anyway Jump2mail is another option.
>> There's nothing wrong. They're just French.
>> But it's not a .FR domain.
>> Anybody can have a .FR even French.
>> I know that but it's like, if you're in French, put it in .FR, don't screw with us. Anyway, Jump2mail with the little strawberry logo is another option, and I guarantee you're going to hate it. Let's go to our next call, let's jump onto to --
>> Actually, there's an English version down at the bottom.
>> Oh, is there?
>> I just discovered it --
>> You just discovered it.
>> -- just this second
>> You're not trying to --
>> No, no, no, no, I just found it, there's a little British flag down there at the bottom.
>> Not trying to make me look stupider than I already am?
>> Yeah, yeah.
>> Let's go to James --
>> I didn't see it before either.
>> -- He's in Pennsylvania, hello, James, welcome to CNETLive.
>> [Inaudible]
>> Whoa, you got to turn that speaker down there, brother. You got the bad feedback. Turn down the speaker.
>> Yeah, the internet does not solve the problem when you call into a radio station and you have a delay.
>> Makes it a whole lot worse. Okay. James, now we're good what's on your mind today?
>> Okay. I was wondering if there was a good effective way to speed up my XP computer?
>> XP or Vista?
>> No, just XP.
>> XP machines.
>> Oh.
>> Well, well, well.
>> Ready Boost.
>> Good old Ready Booster.
>> You can get -- there's a freeware program at download.com that will help you reclaim some of your RAM. It will help you identify what processes are using up so you maybe kill some of those, uninstall some programs. We talked to you before the show and you said you'd already tried CCleaner, right?
>> Yeah.
>> So that for anybody who's also trying to speed up XP who's done that, you can try CCleaner.
>> That's the old standby.
>> For XP you got any other process -- like he's talking about not speeding up bootup he's talking about --
>> Yeah, actually performance well, there's all the usual stuff but I'm sure you've tried that. I'm sure you've gone through your processes and shut down any that have snuck in there. What is the little routine we used to shut those down, is it something config.MSC?
>> Oh, MSconfig. You go: Run, command, type MSconfig.
>> MSconfig will get into your processes. You know all this and, of course, RAM it up. How much RAM you got on this box?
>> I think I have about a little bit less than one gig.
>> Well, I'd go to a couple gig to be honest.
>> Yeah, you might want to upgrade RAM if you can afford it --
>> Choose a sweet spot.
>> -- and I need to correct myself, it's RAM Booster not Ready Boost.
>> Oh RAM Boost.
>> Ready Boost is the Vista client performance.
>> Okay. Good.
>> RAM Booster is the free thing from download.com.
>> But both are good because we got a lot of Vista folks with the same question out there, so Ready Boost for Vista, RAM Booster for XP.
>> RAM Booster 2.
>> Okay. Those are two to try out. And kill your processes. Kill process. That's usually the problem going on here. All right. Try that. Let's get one more in here before we go to a quick turn of the show. I want to talk to Daniel because I have a real love for his -- oh, you got to turn the speaker down there, Daniel. Daniel, is in California. Hey, Daniel, you're reaching back into the history of CNETTV for this question. What's on your mind today?
>> Yeah, I was wondering what happened to the Altaire Show?
>> Ah.
>> The mystical Altaire --
>> You've been in touch with these people?
>> -- used to do some techastrology on CNETTV up until the end of last year.
>> Yeah.
>> Altaire had to take a trip to his homeland Altairistan and meet with his family --
>> Yeah.
>> -- And get back to the source of all of his technology mystical knowledge.
>> Is there a bar in Altairistan by any chance?
>> Also, he got really -- really got depressed because no one was watching his show.
>> Oh, there was that issue.
>> There was that issue.
>> All right. So, that's the ugly truth there, Daniel, you were the viewer but congratulations on that. Okay. We'll get to a more of your calls in just a little bit at 888-900-CNET.
>> Coming up we're actually going to be talking to Natalie DelConti of CNET New York our hostess of Loaded. She's out on the west coast, so we took the opportunity to drag her in -- actually, a bunch of people in the Watch VOL chat room this morning demanded her.
>> They demand her, yeah.
>> So that's why we're having her on. But first we've got some more practical tech for you, an extra pair of earphones that don't cost an ear and a leg. Take a look.
>> Hi, I'm Jasmine France, senior associate editor for CNET.com, and I'm here today with the Sony MDRAS20J Active Head Phones. Now this is part of the Sony active line which all have different kind of sports style designs. What's most interesting about this pair is they cost $20 only. So this is the least expensive pair in the line and, if you're looking for a pair of earphones to replace the stock ear buds that came with your MP3 player something you use at the gym, then these will do just fine. They don't offer the best audio quality. They're fairly comfortable and they will stay secure on anyone who has like an average size ear. However, they're not adjustable, so they might not fit everyone but, again, they're $20, so you can't really complain there. Another design feature of note is the clip here which is actually removable from the cable when you don't want to wear it but this will allow you to clip the cord to your shirt, so that during activity it will be out of the way so that way if you're flailing your arms around you won't rip the ear buds out of your ear. Yep, that's pretty much it $20 ear buds, good for activity if you're looking to replace the stock ear buds that came with your player for the gym use are a good option. I'm Jasmine France, and this has been the Sony MDRAS20J.
>> No, no, no, it's fine, actually.
>> That's actually looks --
>> Oh, we're -- whoa, well, thank you for that that's a very nice compliment. Joining us now is Natalie DelConti who is our senior editor CNET Television especially, of course, dialed into you New York viewers because that's where she's based. Hello, Natalie.
>> Hi.
>> How are you?
>> Thanks for joining us.
>> I'm good. Thanks for having me on.
>> So now you've been with us for how long now?
>> Six months now.
>> That long already?
>> Six months, yeah.
>> So, just give people a behind-the-scenes look, what's it like? How you digging it? What's the New York deal like? I mean how you liking it here?
>> The New York deal is good, it really gives me a jump up on the news because we get up so early to do Loaded.
>> Yeah.
>> And we're doing daily news, so we get up really early and the show is ready by 9:00 or 10:00 a.m. eastern, so you know --
>> Yeah.
>> -- the point is that you can come in and you can watch Loaded and know what you need to know about tech that day. So it's Monday through Thursday, so I really do like the advantage of the time zone.
>> Folks always ask, where do you guys get the news? How do you figure out what to talk about all this kind of stuff.
>> Yeah.
>> What are your secrets?
>> I never -- I never run out. I'm always trying to cut the show down more and more.
>> Yeah.
>> I could, I mean, I could easily double that show and still keep doing it, you know.
>> We were at this long meeting on Tuesday and in the middle of the meeting we took a quick break and she's like what do you think of this story, look at this?
>> Yeah.
>> You were really on it.
>> I am a super crawler like there's almost nothing that escapes me.
>> You're always --
>> Yeah.
>> -- gobbling stuff up.
>> Exactly.
>> I heard we have a new two-hour show coming up for you, so that will be good.
>> Oh, really thanks.
>> Really, give you a lot of room to breathe.
>> I don't know if I can fill two hours but I definitely could -- I could go ten minutes but not sure that's preferable.
>> Yeah.
>> Now you recently covered the Webbys for Loaded --
>> I did cover the Webbys.
>> -- which were in New York. Tell us a little bit about, give us the summary for those of us who didn't keep up with it.
>> So the Webbys are kind of -- it's an award ceremony for the web, although, some of the awards are just really random like best, you know, to do list application on the web --
>> Yeah.
>> -- where it's like there's only one that can win one or two things that can really win that.
>> That makes it easy to win.
>> So I wasn't really sure what to expect because this was my first time at the Webbys, but it's so different from the Silicon Valley events that we go to out here which are, you know, the same people and the same kind of, you know, start up mentality.
>> Yeah.
>> So it was really different but I liked it. I had a good time and then they had, you know, some kind of marquee names there, people who are making, you know, really great things for the web such as people from Saturday Night Live and, you know, they represent NBC which is, you know, such a success with Who Loo, so it was a lot of fun. It was good.
>> What are you most excited about these days in terms of products that have come across the transom, I mean, things that you've thought about actually getting for yourself. Are you iPhone, yes or no?
>> I am an iPhone person. I'm really hating my iPhone these days.
>> Okay.
>> The operating system locks up on me all the time.
>> Really?
>> But I don't want leave --
>> Did you jail break your iPhone or is it still totally clean?
>> I did not and you know what the reason I haven't jail breaked it is -- broken it?
>> Yeah, what is that term?
>> I haven't jail broked it --
>> Breaked it?
>> Jail broke it, yeah.
>> -- is because it's so wonky that I'm afraid that it's just going to break on me all together and that will ruin my warranty.
>> I was having the same conversation with my wife, actually, and I finally got her to jail break it and it fixed a bunch of the problems.
>> Really.
>> Yeah.
>> Oh, see, I don't know.
>> Her Safari browser was crashing all the time, she jail broke it; fine now.
>> I'm really excited about this small and cheap laptop market. I've been really excited about it for a long time.
>> Yeah. The ultra minis. The "E's".
>> I've kind of played around with the Mini Notes, didn't love it and I like the EPC but I just find the keyboard too small for me and I have teeny tiny hands.
>> It's just too -- and I was going to say you have teeny tiny hands.
>> And even that is like --
>> Hello, imagine this.
>> -- yeah, so --
>> I'll be using a fist to type.
>> Yeah.
>> It's like just not even useful.
>> So I'm looking forward to the Dell.
>> Yeah, that will --
>> See what I think of that, but I really want one of those. I'm just kind of biding my time to find out which one is the best one.
>> Yeah, and I'm not cool with things that are that tacky looking. It looks too much like a the "E" in white looks like a Ken Doll turned sideways.
>> It kind of does.
>> That's not a compliment.
>> Yeah.
>> That's an ugly piece of tech.
>> I mean, who still uses that kind of eggshell color kind of hardware, I mean --
>> And those nasty shaped corners and little weird keys --
>> Yeah, I like the idea of it but, you know --
>> Yeah, the idea is very hot but I think they're going to get their lunch eaten even though they were first out --
>> Yeah.
>> -- with the biggest number of models and kind of set the table for it.
>> Yeah.
>> I think the old blue beard guys are going to come along and eventually take over --
>> Is it going to be kind of like TiVO?
>> Is it going to be like TiVO?
>> Where they kind of hang on as being the first in the market but --
>> And then --
>> -- everyone is always trying to nip at their heels.
>> -- someone does something like it.
>> Or just surpasses them.
>> Maybe, I was kind of into the tablets for a while. I had the Nokia N810 for a while.
>> Oh, yeah, the portable tablets.
>> And then I had the Sony Milo and that kind of thing but it's just like why not use my iPhone, you know.
>> That's the thing, if your iPhone works --
>> Yeah.
>> -- once you get it stabilized.
>> When it works.
>> When it works --
>> Yeah.
>> -- it's the ultimate for that.
>> Well --
>> The other thing that we're looking at, I hear a lot, is, you know, what's happening to people trying to get media into their living room on a computer and get away from this idea of using discs --
>> Yeah.
>> -- and go to online and go to media servers and all this kind of thing.
>> Yeah.
>> You're out of the New York office where all that home entertainment stuff is based for CNET --
>> Yeah.
>> -- do they, are you getting any kind of like --
>> I don't really go in there too much.
>> -- aspirations?
>> My card key doesn't work for David Katzmire's lab. I'm always trying to get in there.
>> That's so Katzmire.
>> Yeah.
>> That is just, ladies and gentlemen, that is very Katzmire --
>> I keep trying to get access.
>> -- just in case you're wondering, it's not just Natalie. Okay. He's very -- he's very protective of his world's best television that he's always had.
>> He's got this great studio --
>> He does.
>> -- really black curtains and beautiful TVs and he's got a movie library that would just make your head spin, but he doesn't let me in.
>> You've got to do the behind-the-scenes video of the New York home entertainment lab.
>> It's really great.
>> The stuff that no one ever gets to see.
>> Yeah.
>> Of course, you don't either so you never going to get in there.
>> Yeah, I don't either, so that will be a good excuse.
>> All right, Nat, good stuff, Loaded every day --
>> Yeah, Monday through Thursday.
>> -- of the weekday.
>> Oh, Monday through Thursday.
>> I take Fridays off.
>> Take Fridays off, oh that's sporting.
>> Not really.
>> I'm still trying to work that into my contract.
>> We throw in the Buzz Report on Friday.
>> Yeah.
>> It's a pick up --
>> Balance it all.
>> Well, hardly.
>> Yeah, that's the balance.
>> It's hardly, I'm picking up the slack from the Buzz Report in the middle of the day. The Buzz Report is the pioneer.
>> That's the Friday show.
>> Yeah.
>> One's the bell, one's the ringer, I don't know how it works.
>> You get a full week worth.
>> I'm, yeah --
>> Full week of goodness.
>> -- I'm the sideshow to the Buzz Report.
>> Natalie, thanks for being a great side show.
>> Yeah, my pleasure.
>> Thanks a lot.
>> Thanks for having me on.
>> Natalie DelConti, you can catch Loaded, of course, Monday through Thursday right there on CNETTV. Coming up is going to be our download of the week right after this.
>> Hi, Nigel, you okay?
>> Oh, this is Emma, hold on.
>> Is Kelsy ready, are you ready, Kelsy?
>> Yeah, I'm here. I love what you're doing with my cookies. I'd like to discuss some of my new ideas with you. What about jelly bean cookies.
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>> Here we go. Hey, everybody, how you doing.
>> Hey welcome back to CNETLive.
>> Thanks for dropping by.
>> Brian Cooley, Tom Merritt, we just happened to be standing around using our computers, figured we did pick up the phones answer a few calls.
>> Why not so, 888-900-CNET, 888-900-2638 is the phone number.
>> Do you think they bought that it was just an accident?
>> Yes, but let's go to the phones shall we.
>> Religious battle, what do you say?
>> Well, let's start with a religious battle why not.
>> Let's do that. Okay. Line 4 then. It's Zack in Canada. Hello, Zack, you're welcoming -- you're on CNETLive, we're welcoming you actually. What's on your mind?
>> I really want to know what to expect when I switch from a PC to a Mac.
>> Well, you'll be called names a lot and get beaten up by kids at school.
>> Expect to have an undying faith in your leader that, if anyone ever questions that you can react -- no we're just kidding.
>> Yeah.
>> Are you going to be using Windows on your Mac?
>> Yes, I'll be using Boot Camp I think.
>> And what are you going to be coming from, what was your computer before?
>> A Windows XP machine.
>> Okay. So do you own an in-the-clear copy of Windows XP that you can legally install on that Boot Camp partition?
>> No, I think I'll buy Windows disc set I think.
>> Okay. So that's the first thing you're going to have to do is you're going to have to buy that extra piece of software.
>> Yeah.
>> Installing on Boot Camp is generally very simple, you just have to go find the Boot Camp icon down in utilities in OS10. Are you going to be using OS10 though or, once you install Boot Camp, are you just going to live in Vista?
>> I think I'll use both like equally.
>> Okay. Well, we've got a series of videos on CNETTV that you might want to check out. When you're in Windows, the keyboard is different, there's no Windows key, there's an Apple key.
>> Yeah.
>> Now Boot Camp does some remapping for you but I prefer input remapper to kind of really customize it, give you a print screen key if you use any of those kind of things. So try it out with the Boot Camp remap, you'll have to learn a few different like ways to get around on the keyboard. If that doesn't work, look for input remapper. And then on the OS10 side you might want to look at either Openbox.net or -- yeah, Openbox.net as a freeway to virtualize your Vista partition or you can get the VM ware fusion or parallels which you get a free trial or they cost you some money that way, if you're in OS10 and you realize: Oh, wait a minute, there's that stuff that I have over there that I need to access, you'll be able to go and launch that virtualization to run those programs from Windows. Final thing I would do is figure out how to access the Windows drive read and write in OS10 because in OS10 natively it only can read the NTFS partition from Windows Vista.
>> That's right.
>> It can't write to it.
>> That's right.
>> But there is a google codes project that will allow you to be able to write kind of spottily, it fails sometimes but I think 95 percent of the time it works for me, so you can actually write to those files. That way if all you have is a Word document over there on that Windows partition, you'd actually be able to just open it up in OS10 and edit it quickly and that will give you the flexibility to be able to use both.
>> And because you've said you are going to be using the OS10 and the Windows aps on this that's what makes it worth the effort and the additional cost. I know Apple says no, a Mac costs less than a Windows machine. In the real world that's crap, you can buy a Windows X -- a Vista laptop right now for 400 bucks.
>> Yeah.
>> I was just shopping for them yesterday. You can barely buy a case for a Mac laptop for 400 bucks. So it is an additional investment in hardware and another free-and-clear copy of Windows and three or four buckets of tweaks I just heard blur by, so as long as you're going to use OSX for running some aps that are really native to that or really run well there, it's going to be worth your effort, so hop to it. Good old piece of hardware it's just got some -- some baggage around it if you want to run it both ways. Okay. Where do you want to go next?
>> Let's pick up Isaiah. You're calling back again, this is the Isaiah that's working on the cluster?
>> Yes, it is.
>> How are things going with it?
>> Um, good. I haven't got the cash to get that yet but I've found some great ones that you've suggested.
>> Okay. Good. I'm glad we were able to help. What can we try -- try to help you with this week. You're our challenge every week.
>> Yeah.
>> Because you're out there doing stuff we've never tried.
>> Thanks. I have an old Game Boy Pocket and I've seen that the Pico ITX motherboard fits inside it. I don't have one yet but the dimensions work. I was wondering if I could get a battery and a monitor for that to essentially make a desktop that's portable.
>> A battery and a monitor for the --
>> He actually scares me, you know that. Isaiah, you actually scare me that's amazing. You're out working on a fringe we've never even flown over. You're -- you're very special.
>> So you just want power for that mini-ITX motherboard and then you want a monitor to throw on there, too?
>> Right. And hopefully the power would be rechargeable.
>> Oop.
>> What about the -- do you have the -- do you have the power?
>> Okay. I've got some power for you.
>> 'Cause you can hook up a rechargeable -- any -- you can get a lithium ion battery --
>> Yeah, I would go --
>> -- and jimmy it in there.
>> -- over to power -- Power Sonic in Redwood City, California. I believe they're still there. Power Sonic is kind of the king of rechargeable gel cells. Let me pull them up here, yeah, Power-sonic is their site. These guys have, I think, the most elaborate array of either, I think, lead acid or gel cells are the two major types that they're going to have for you there, and they can do a lot of custom jobs although I don't think you want to go there.
>> Right.
>> So I'd recommend them. I'm familiar with that company from way back, 20 years ago, and they have a good array of batteries for you. Now the monitor, you're looking for what in terms -- what's unusual about the monitor you want to use? You want a small monitor to go with the small case?
>> Right. It's got to be like about the size of a Game Boy monitor or it could just fill up the whole Game Boy front side.
>> All right. So if we wanted a four-inch --
>> Whatever the guys at Bug Labs are using might be something that you want to take a look at.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> Bug Labs is the project we saw at CES where they're selling component hardware, open source, that you can go and grab and plug in together. So it's open source hardware you could actually go to Bug Labs, get the specs for whatever that monitor is and maybe back that out and figure out how to use that monitor in your project.
>> I've looked all over and I've only found non-VGA kind of ones like they're all like pin outs. I'm really looking for a VGA 'cause that's what --
>> Well, I'm pretty sure that Lilliput which makes a lot of car monitors -- I got one up here Lilliput makes a seven inch that has got a VGA right here. Here it is on Amazon it's 300 bucks, sounds a little bit rich to me. But Lilliput is a brand to look at for mini-monitors that do have VGA going in, so that would get you a line there to check out.
>> Okay. Great.
>> All right. Call us back next week and tell us how we're doing. Okay.
>> All right.
>> Thank, Isaiah.
>> Mini-ITX.com is a good project place for anybody who's into that same sort of stuff. Or if you don't know what mini-ITX is and you just want to learn about it.
>> Go there.
>> All right. Folks, it is time now for the download of the week.
>> Yeah.
>> Download of the week is brought to you by our good friends at CNETdownload.com purveyors of free spyware, free video and, of course, this week as you know it's Fire Fox week.
>> Fox me.
>> So, let's go ahead and take a look at that big old browser --
>> Big old crafty --
>> -- bar up there.
>> -- thing there it is.
>> I'm going to pull it down there. This is --
>> Now what's everyone bitching about with this awesome bar.
>> The awesome bar on Fire Fox 3. Fire Fox 3 latest version of Fire Fox, you can just type one letter in --
>> Okay.
>> -- boom. The letter "T" obviously gives you Twitter. It already did that right 'cause it's going to say any bookmarked URL -- any recent history URL I'm gonna -- that starts with "T" I'm going to put that in here. But if you look --
>> Yeah.
>> -- it's also getting $15 to check a bag but free of charge 'cause that had "T" in it. So it's looking for likely matches based on just one letter, now I put "W" all right. Now it's like, oh, okay Twitter obviously is a possibility but two-word press box.
>> But what is this?
>> So it's being a little smarter about looking that way you can just put a keyword in --
>> But where's it coming from?
>> -- you don't have to remember the URL --
>> Sure.
>> -- and this is a database --
>> Oh.
>> -- a little sequel database of all of your history, all of your bookmarks --
>> Okay.
>> -- and any other relevant information from your browser.
>> But it's not search?
>> It is a mini search --
>> But of your own universe --
>> -- going on in your own universe on your own computer.
>> Okay. But it's not a truly desktop search is it?
>> It's bookmark and history search.
>> Okay. So it's not searching docks and things like that?
>> I don't think so.
>> All right.
>> Well, unless you open the dock up in the browser --
>> Right.
>> -- it's searching everything you've opened in the browser.
>> Right, its a history cache. I don't see what the big confusion is, some people are really hateful on this.
>> Well, I think they don't like that it's not -- they're used to having it be very literal about what they're typing --
>> They used a predictive text.
>> Yes. And it's not predictive text anymore it's a search.
>> This is a desktop search within a limited scope.
>> Also, people don't like this big old honkin' back button here.
>> Why not? I don't get that.
>> It doesn't bother me.
>> That's what I want.
>> It's a little monstrous but --
>> I wanted it on Fire Fox.
>> You wanted a bigger back button?
>> I want one that's actually the size of here just like so that's what I want.
>> I think we should mod you an external back button.
>> I'd love that -- [inaudible]
>> You can jam on it.
>> I can go bang back, bang forward, I'd love that that'd be cool.
>> All right, folks. We did get an e-mail. We get a e-mail, CNETLive at CNET.com. Wicked has actually sent us a tip --
>> Wicked who?
>> -- instead of a question. He said, I just wanted to drop you a quick tip that your listeners might find useful. After installing Fire Fox 3, I noticed that the address board drops down and shows random URLs from my bookmarks like we were just talking about. He says my wife and I have two adult web pages that we visit sometimes, very long URLs --
>> Oh, yeah they do.
>> So we bookmarked them and buried them four folders down and renamed them something our 16-year-old daughter would click on. No amount of clearing your personal data, however, will clear the address bar of these URLs in Fire Fox 3. Well, Wickednix shared a solution to this little problem and I'll show you how to do it in today's quick tip. Fire Fox 3 has an amazingly cool feature called the awesome bar that magically almost psychically anticipates what URL you're trying to type.
>> How did it know?
>> Okay. That's great but what if you frequently visit a website that's perfectly healthy but you'd rather not let people know you go there if they're borrowing your computer for a minute and using your browser.
>> What's up with people -- adult com.
>> Thanks to Wickednix for sending us this tip: In the awesome bar, as they call it, type about:config, go ahead and agree that you'll be careful 'cause you will, then find browser.URLbar.matchonlytyped, click it and the value should change to true. Exit the browser. Restart and Fire Fox will no longer show your private bookmarks. Then you'll need to clear your history. Go to Fire Fox, choose preferences, press clear now and then say clear private data now, no more embarrassment. That's it for this quick tip, I'm Tom Merritt for CNET.com.
>> Well.
>> There you go, so all those embarrassing sites that you and I go to like --
>> Just like --
>> -- music sheet music people sites --
>> -- people.com
>> -- 70's
>> It's embarrassing.
>> Yeah, anyway you can get rid of them.
>> Let's take a call.
>> Quickly, quickly we need to take a call. This is our last call by the way and that honor goes to John in Pennsylvania. Hello, John, you are our last call on CNETLive. What's up?
>> First of all CNET -- new CNETTV looks awesome.
>> Thank you very much.
>> That's my man right there.
>> And I was wondering if you could do the same pick your plan -- if the pick your plan is going to be available for the iPhone 3G?
>> Pick your plan, let's look at the plans. We got the plans right here don't we, pull them up. Bring them up.
>> I love it when the plans come together.
>> Give me those plans, here they are. So the new plans now have gone -- they've got an additional ten bucks on the data thing, right, and the pick your plan -- what plan -- do you have an iPhone now or is this going to be your first?
>> This is actually going to be my upgrade iPhone.
>> Okay. And what are you doing right now for a plan?
>> I'm using -- I use the 909 trick in iTunes to get the pick your plan option.
>> Okay. So you've done that, so you are using pick your plan right now.
>> I am --
>> And you want to know if you can do that on 3G. Do we know if that's going to be workable on 3G?
>> Well, it's going to be trickier 'cause they're making you -- as far as we know --
>> Go to the store.
>> -- they're making you activate in the store.
>> Yeah.
>> So you can't just put in 999's although it might be easier, in a sense, if you get a sympathetic person and you're like look I, you know, I'm not going to pass the credit check, can I just have pick your plan.
>> Right.
>> We don't know yet.
>> Yeah, so that's going to be the problem is there's no more online activation or online purchase and iTunes activation. One of our gripes is you've got to go back in the store like some schmuck and line up again in front of that dork at the counter who's going to take down all the information about your life and then grind you to buy a case or something to go with it. I mean this is just -- it's just not pretty. So we just don't know. You're going to have to socially engineer this I think is our best advice. Do you have any friends at the Apple stores? Any of your friends work down there at Apple or AT&T stores?
>> No.
>> No. Time to make some friends who do that. Okay.
>> As we get --
>> Also, so my mom has a Motorola Q, keeps freezing up. We know we have a lot of stuff on there but it just -- we can never get it to connect to active sync or anything to delete some stuff and do you recommend what we could do for that?
>> Recommend an iPhone.
>> I'm still trying to find the answer, actually, AT&T has a forum thread about this that I'll included in the show notes at blog.net.CNETTV.com about the pick your plan where they're asking AT&T reps, hey, you know what I've got a SIM that's pick your plan right now in iPhone, how do I transfer that to 3G, so I'll throw that in the show notes for you.
>> I'm not finding anything on the top of my head about being able to clean up that Q although let me see here, yeah, I see a few people have had the same problem, slow between switching aps and things like that is that a symptom you're having?
>> I can't even use -- we can't even use the thing.
>> Oh, so it's like jammed up to death.
>> Yeah.
>> Well, yeah, that sounds like you got to start from scratch. I'd blow that thing out. I just did that to my TRIO. It got so jammed up with aps that didn't unload right and data that was loading up its RAM. I just blew the whole thing out and did a hard reset, but beyond that I don't have any particular Q info. I had a Q for ten days, bye-bye. Not my favorite device in history. Okay. Thanks for the call, you were our last call.
>> All right.
>> Next week we're going to go to David Cifry [phonetic].
>> Yes, our guest David Cifry couldn't make it today. We were holding out hoping he would be able to get here and it just didn't work out but he has graciously agreed to come back next week.
>> Yes.
>> So we'll be talking to him about his new project Offbeat Guide.
>> Okay. That's next week David Cifry here on CNETTV and, of course, your calls. Don't forget the phones open early, 12:30 p.m. Pacific to open the phones and show at 1:00 Pacific, 4:00 Eastern.
>> 10:00 a.m. Hawaii.
>> Oh.
>> See you then.
>> That's where he does it, yeah. ^M00:32:18 [ Music ] ^M00:32:29
>> You eating enough, you look a little thin?
>> Yeah, that's a very mom question. Yeah, yeah, I'm eating enough.
>> I miss you, baby.
>> I miss you too.
>> Love you.
>> Yeah, we love you. We tell everyone about the relief work you're doing you know.
>> Of course you do.
>> Welcome to a network that's bringing countries and families a little closer, SYSCO, welcome to the human network.
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