CNET Live: July 3, 2008 Video
CNET Live: July 3, 2008 Video Transcript
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>> Coming up on CNET Live. We wanna make carrying your iPod a lot less convenient but possibly cooler.
>> Plus the way to share songs that's as easy as cut and paste.
>> And it's a 4th of July miracle. Tekzilla Daily host at CNET Live, Veronica Belmont is here. All that and more coming up on CNET Live. [ Music ]
>> Welcome to CNET Live, I'm Tom Merritt, he, she. Wait a minute!
>> Hi, I'm in Molly Wood.
>> Brian Cooley is out trying to break that El Capitan climbing record.
>> Yeah, except he doesn't know that he's attempting a free fall record which is not a good idea.
>> Right.
>> No.
>> But it's gonna be a little Buzz Out Load reunion because Veronica Belmont is our host or our guest today and so we got Molly and me back all together again that we're very much looking forward.
>> So exciting!
>> But you are still the star of the show, gave us a cool 888-900-2638. We will attempt to help you pick the right gadget, figure out how to get that computer to do the thing that you needed to do. All that and more, when you call you get to talk to Jaime first. She'll make sure that you're sound and good and you know what to expect when you get on the show and then line you up and we'll take your call live right here.
>> That's right but before we get to your calls it is time for the Things We Crave. [ Background Music ]
>> These are in fact some of the things we crave from the Crave blog at Crave.cnet.com. It became very hard to say crave all of a sudden.
>> I know it was like the Elvis Crave blog.
>> Too many craves. Almost like clave.
>> We should give the Crave blog an Elvis skin I think. That would be cool.
>> Oh I like that. You can change it from white to black, why not Elvis?
>> That's what I'm saying.
>> Alright. I've got mine in the lovely white. That's easier on my eyes and I'm craving a free headset.
>> You are!
>> Headsets.com is doing a thing for the folks in California and Washington that now have the new law requiring them to talk on a handsfree headset.
>> Ridiculous.
>> So if you're driving around not talking on a handsfree headset and you get a ticket it's gonna cost you anywhere from 20 to 50 bucks. Some say with fees and stuff that the ticket can pile up to about 70 or 80 bucks.
>> Okay.
>> But if you send you send your ticket to Headsets.com and they will give you a free Plantronics Discovery 925 headset with a retail price of 150 dollars.
>> So you're in essence making money on your own ticket.
>> Oh yeah.
>> Good thinking Headsets.com.
>> It's the ticket to a free Bluetooth headset.
>> Aha, limited time only, right?
>> It is a limited time only, correct so.
>> So hurry up and get arrested.
>> That's right. Land yourself in the clink. What do you got for us?
>> As for me I am craving this new projector from Panasonic, the, catchy name, PTDZ12000.
>> Easy for you to say.
>> But okay two reasons why I need this projector, need it. Okay, three, one, I just need a projector because they're way more awesome than TV's.
>> Totally.
>> Two, native curve screen support so I can have my own little in home IMAX action.
>> How nice!
>> I know.
>> All of that surround screen.
>> So cool.
>> Cool enough already but there is more?
>> Three, it's water cooled as though it were a tricked out gaming PC. It has a water cooling system, I mean if you've had a projector in your house or been in one, these things get hot. They will heat up entire room which could be somewhat energy efficient or also uncomfortable.
>> [Simultaneous talking] Hook it up to your radiator system and then you can use it to heat the house anywhere.
>> I wanted it to stay cool so that I can snuggle under my blankets watching movies and not get all like uncomfortably warm.
>> Right. Right.
>> Love it.
>> Love that.
>> New Panasonic projector.
>> It's coming out in August and it's gonna be super expensive.
>> Alright, let's take some calls at 888-900-2638, starting up on line 4 in Maryland, hi Aaron! Welcome to CNET Live.
>> Hey guys! How you guys doing?
>> We are doing fantastic.
>> We're doing great, how are you?
>> Actually, we really are.
>> I'm doing great.
>> Yeah we are.
>> Are you really?
>> Yeah. [ Laughter ]
>> What's your question? What can we help you with?
>> Alright, I have a Mac question for you guys.
>> Okay.
>> Currently, I'm using a PC but I am really thinking about switching and I was wondering are there any--what are the advantages and disadvantages of a Mac.
>> Are you just baiting us? [Laughter] I just wanna know. Are you trying to trick me? [ Laughter ]
>> Well let me see if I can summarize. I mean the--you're talking after a purchase or before a purchase?
>> Well, I mean what can you--what's the Mac in general, like what's the good things and the bad things.
>> Yeah. I will tell you the main question is what, why are you thinking of switching to Mac? Like if there something that your PC is not doing for you that makes you think that a Mac will be better 'cause then we'll be jumping off way.
>> Well my friends have Macs and everything and I just like the interface better and really and I'm not a big fun of Vista, I'm really not. I'm really don't like it that much.
>> Do you use Microsoft Outlook?
>> No.
>> Okay.
>> Okay.
>> Do you use any kind of proprietary software on a PC currently?
>> No, not really.
>> Okay.
>> Do you use right click?
>> No.
>> I mean really at this point there aren't a lot of reasons. I mean, at this point since you can run Windows on a Mac and if you really think that you're gonna need to transition slowly to the Mac Operating System, there aren't a lot of good reasons not to buy a Mac if you're really into the hardware. The main, I mean, you know, the main reasons are the balloons like they're still a little bit more expensive.
>> Yeah. That's why I asked about the pre-purchase versus post purchase. There are a lot of cultural differences in the way things work. I mean they're not serious differences but it takes a while to figure out how to get around. You got the dock down on the bottom, which you can move. You've got a different way of handling applications. Installing was actually one of the things that threw me when I first switched to OS X because it's just so much easier on an OS X. You're like, "Wait a minute. That's all I do? I just drag into the folder." So, there are some cultural differences. There are also some programs that are not available for OS X, but usually, you can find an equivalent program that does the similar thing, whether it's good enough or not. For instance, I asked you that Outlook because Entourage is Microsoft's email client for the Mac. They don't have Outlook for the Mac and that is a much inferior client to Outlook. I definitely miss Outlook when I'm using Entourage. However, there's other software that works just the same or better.
>> Yeah. I mean if you--honestly, if you mostly surf the web and do email and, you know, blog and upload photos, you'll probably be perfectly happy with a Mac as long as it's--as you're not too upset by a price difference. And again, I know people are gonna email and say that they're not always more expensive. By and large, there is a slight premium but, you know, if that's okay with you, they're cool looking.
>> Alright. Does that--
>> I agree with you.
>> I hope that helps you out, Aaron. Thanks for calling. Let's move on to Eric. Which Ontario are you calling from again, Eric?
>> What was that?
>> Which Ontario? Canada or California?
>> That's Canada. Okay. Welcome to the show and a Happy Canada Day.
>> Happy Canada Day!
>> Yeah, yeah. Thank you, thank you.
>> We're all about Canada Day this week.
>> What can we do for you?
>> I've ordered a new hard drive from an online site and it's supposed to be arriving up and SATA Drive, and I wanna know how I can get my data off that drive onto my new drive when it arrives.
>> Well luckily for you, I coincidentally Googled this very problem just a minute ago and discovered that what you need--so that I'm assuming that the new drive is not a SATA Drive, right?
>> It is a SATA Drive.
>> It is a SATA Drive? I think that this would work either way but you need a SATA II IDE cable which basically, as I understand it, allows you to turn your old internal hard drive into kind of an external hard drive and then you can use it just for transferring files. So, you connect the hard drive to the SATA II IDE cable and then connect the other end into the USB port on your new computer and then it should open like a regular flash drive.
>> Yeah. I know. There's more. I was wondering to be able to basically connect the two drives together, almost kinda like you would a read drive in which you'll be able to drag and drop them from one drive to the other. It's in the same computer.
>> Do you wanna move all of the data off of the old drive onto the new drive?
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. And so, what you'll wanna do is get some self bootable transfer software, which you can get from various places. I think there's even some open source versions and then you'll boot off the CD and just tell it to make a bit for bit copy of that internal drive onto the external drive using that cable Molly talked about, and then when you put that drive and install it in the computer, it'll see as exactly the same operating system with all the same settings. I've done it a million times to my ThinkPad, where I just, you know, reversed the drives, bit for bit copies. There's a weirdness--are you using a ThinkPad?
>> No, it's actually a Dell desktop.
>> Alright. As far as I know, Dell desktop works pretty straightforward. So, you don't have to worry about it. Anybody doing this with a ThinkPad, there's a little weirdness with the partition IBM or Lenovo creates on that.
>> I'll give you the Ubuntu, the disk to do that. Couldn't I? The Live CD?
>> You have get an--you would have to get the bit for bit copying software running in Linux. So, you might have to run that off a USB drive. So, you have to have more than one USB port, but yeah, that's an interesting way of doing it. You can just give it a shot.
>> [Simultaneous talking] Linux running on the flash drive that you've showed at Insider Secrets, does that work?
>> Excellent. Yeah. That could work as well, yeah. Absolutely.
>> Yes.
>> Okay.
>> Alright.
>> Alright.
>> Let us know how it goes.
>> Alright, thank you.
>> Alright, thanks Eric. Coming up, as we mentioned, Veronica Belmont here to complete the Buzz Out Loud reunion. But first, it seems there's no limit to the number of iPod accessories that continue to flood market, but Donald Bell has found one that can help you make a statement, to put it lightly when taking your iPod to the streets. Just take a look. [ Background Music ]
>> I'm Donald Bell, Senior Editor for digital audio and MP3 and today we're taking a first look at Lasonic's retro-inspired iPod Boombox and we're going nano. It's refreshing to see such a ridiculously large iPod accessory. As [unintelligible] Lasonic's 1980 TRC-931 Boombox. This modernized box now includes an iPod dock, SD card slot, and a video output. Also included are Boombox staples such as an AM/FM radio, clock, equalizer, auxiliary input, microphone input and a headphone jack. The iPod dock fits most iPod models. However, the video output capability is only compatible with fifth generation video iPods. Well, Lasonic's Boombox is not short on features at 199 dollars. Its construction quality is very frenzy making most of this value as an 80's throw back fashion statement. A statement not everybody can pull off. During our testing we found that most users cannot pull off Lasonic as a fashion statement unless they already own at least one of the following: poorly dubbed VHS copy Style wars, a hip hop mix state made before 1988, a vintage Kangol cap, or Sugarhill Gang's Rappers Delight on 12-inch vinyl. Also if you're using the Lasonic outdoors and get approached by someone who clearly has more hip hop street credibility than you. [Background music] Be sure you can name all nine numbers of the Wu-Tang Clan or do a convincing robot dance or you'll probably face extreme humiliation. ^M00:11:02 [ Pause ] ^M00:11:07
>> I'm Donald Bell and that was a first look at Lasonic's retro iPod Boombox.
>> That Donald Bell. Alright, so after you've recovered from watching that excellent dance. So you think you can dance Donald Bell's style. We now present Veronica Belmont back on CNET.
>> Hey, welcome back.
>> Thank you for having me.
>> It's so good to have you back.
>> I'm very happy to be here. Now, too much has changed except the large eye on the lobby that's staring down at all of the people.
>> The great eye of [unintelligible] is what we call it.
>> Wonderful. Congratulations.
>> Now you are still on CNET actually because you are hosting Tekzilla for Revision 3 which we also air on CNET TV.
>> Yeah, I still get letters like oh, I saw you on CNET TV. I'm like but, what? And then they're like on Tekzilla.
>> Tell us a little bit about Tekzilla.
>> Tekzilla is a show that I co-host with Patrick Norton of course and a good friend to all of us and we just have a blast. I mean, we take answers from, I mean we take questions from viewers of course. We really started pushing the show more in that direction lately but we still do product reviews.
>> Good idea.
>> Yeah, because you know that's really like a thing these days and we just have a lot of fun.
>> Now that's not your only project though. You're also doing, how do you pronounce it?
>> QORE.
>> Q-O-R-E.
>> It's like wicked, hot QORE. [ Simultaneous Talking ]
>> That's not really. That's not really why they call it that but it's close.
>> We've got a little I think here.
>> Yeah. There I am. Look at that.
>> Yeah, nice red ball.
>> So it's on available on your PlayStation 3 if you have it. You download it like a game or a demo from the playstation store and we talk to developers and we're going to E3 and gonna cover a lot of stuff there and we also have exclusive downloads and betas and demos, all sorts of really cool stuff.
>> So pretty much it seems from your blog too that now this is just you doing the most awesome things ever because didn't I see you covered in censors and like it looks like basically, it's just--
>> Oh, it was so much.
>> Veronica living the dream.
>> Yeah, in the episode that comes out today actually today or possibly tomorrow depending on the download stuff going on the playstation, the Firmware issues. Oh, yeah, I did a MOCAP session for Resistance 2 so I actually got to go to the MOCAP stage and wear the whole suit with the little ping pongs all over it and we had a chimera doing the YMCA and one of the other MOCAP guys thought me how to do like the moon walk and so we were just rocking out. It was a lot of fun.
>> Nice.
>> That was like captured in the game or is it just gonna be out in Qore?
>> It's just gonna be on QORE.
>> They're not gonna put it as an Easter egg?
>> No.
>> I'm not gonna be in the game like ripping anyone's heads off or anything but--
>> Oh, they're not having Easter egg.
>> They're gonna do an Easter egg, Easter egg.
>> Come on developers.
>> We may have something in terms of that kind of thing coming up in the future.
>> Oh, you didn't say.
>> Oh, really.
>> Yeah, I wanna give any spoilers.
>> So I'll just use live in the dream.
>> Now some people are confused about QORE because they think, because you are on Sony and because it's on the PS3 exclusively that you are now in the pay of Sony somehow.
>> No, no, no way. I work for Future US who is a magazine publisher that does all the major in XGen console magazines like the Official PlayStation Magazine and XBox 360, Nintendo Power and so we're hired by Sony to make the show, so I'm definitely not on the Sony payroll.
>> So there is some distance?
>> There is definitely distance, yeah.
>> But you really miss us?
>> I miss you terribly.
>> Oh. We miss you too.
>> That's why I sneaked into the watch BOL chat room sometimes and then people are like, "That's not Veronica." "Yes, it is. It's really me. I swear."
>> She is a looker and then they're like prove it, prove that you're Veronica.
>> How would one--well, yeah I was gonna say how would one prove they're Veronica Belmont but if you then revealed that--
>> Right then.
>> Everyone would do it.
>> It would be an issue.
>> And then Ragnarok.
>> So flying around the world getting in motion caps or--
>> That's her answer for everything isn't it, Ragnarok.
>> It's coming. That's all I'm saying.
>> It happens, what can we say?
>> It is coming, hopefully not before you've completed your great tour of content on Tekzilla and QORE.
>> Yes, exactly. [ Laughter ]
>> Now, the location--
>> We can only hope.
>> They're flying you all around the world, right, for QORE and you're getting to do motion capture and just some sweet and then crazy stuff and then you get to hang out with Patrick Norton and answer tech questions.
>> And Roger Chang.
>> And Roger Chang, sorry about that.
>> So you don't miss us at all, really.
>> No, I don't miss US.
>> What else, what next, what?
>> What next? Oh geez, I can't even see to the end of the week right now. I guess we have to record another new story in laser podcast at some point.
>> Yeah. You need to pick a book actually for that.
>> I know, I know it's kind of my fault.
>> Okay, all right.
>> We won't get in to that stuff. [ Laughing ]
>> Not fair. Not fair.
>> But a lot of fun, yeah. We're going to E3. We're going to Tokyo Game Show. So, I've got a lot of traveling in the future and have fun.
>> You have time to stick around and answer a couple questions?
>> I think I might be able to do that something--
>> All right.
>> To sit in.
>> Excellent.
>> Well, stay with us because we'll be taking few more calls and Veronica as you just heard has graciously agreed to stay but we also have the download of the week and we'll show you how a password protect your PDF. Stay with us. ^M00:15:35 [ Music ] ^M00:15:41 [ Commercial ] ^M00:15:56
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>> Hey, welcome back to CNET Live Molly Wood and Veronica Belmont.
>> Yeah.
>> Answering your questions and taking you calls.
>> A veritable panel of experts if you will, mostly, Tom and Veronica.
>> More fun than a panel of monkeys but first it's time for the demo of the week. ^M00:16:50 [ Music ] ^M00:16:55
>> Download of the Week is brought to you by good friends at CNET download.com. Purveyors of spyware-free video and today we are following up on a call we took last week asking how to password protect PDF. Now, we did tell you about two programs. One was PDF Foe Info for the Mac and the other one PDF Creator for Windows. Let me show you because our caller called back. He's like, "Okay I've got PDF Creator. How do I actually have a password?" Here's how you do it. Here's PDF Creator, I got it up. So, you in and you add a PDF file. I made a PDF of Veronica's website earlier veronicabelmont.com. So, I'm going to add that in to the PDF Creator and it's going to cooperate. Now really it is. [ Laughing ]
>> No, it's not. Yes it is. [ Laughing ]
>> So, like I said PDF Creator, you go in, you have the PDF you want a password protect and it should show up in this little thing right here. There you go. Okay, so once you've got this screen and then you go in and press options and choose the format PDF. I know it seems silly because it should know but it doesn't; then choose the security tab over here and check password required to open document. Press save then save again and save again; replace the one you had before with the password protected lock.
>> I had locked.
>> And then you create your password. You do a repeat to make sure it's right and you put in your owner password which you may or may not had setup earlier. If you didn't you're setting it up now. You save those passwords and boom password protected PDF.
>> And now you have my website forever and ever? I know I can never see it.
>> Today will be treasured.
>> All right, it's time to get to your calls now on 888-900-CNET. Who do we have on the line?
>> Let's take Robert in New York. Hey, Robert thanks for calling.
>> Hello?
>> What do you got?
>> I need to play Real files in VLC media player.
>> Ahh. That is a tall order. There's like Real media player classic, right? That plays Real audio without having a download Real. Why do you need specifically to play them in VLC media player?
>> Because media player classic only works on Windows.
>> Aha. So, really the question is I need to play Real Players on a Mac, eh?
>> Does that real alternative?
>> Support the Mac let's see.
>> Because VLC does not support all of the Real files. Now, have you tried playing around with FFMpeg?
>> No.
>> Oh. Yes. That's a great suggestion.
>> Convert it you know.
>> Yeah. Basically, what is this is a free ware then it'll let you convert any files. So, you would then actually just be able to play it in anything. Yeah that's so much better where to go.
>> That is my favorite conversion tools. Definitely.
>> Yeah.
>> I mean it works for almost anything.
>> Yeah.
>> I mean you have to go through the conversion process which is obviously a little bit concrete than double clicking the play but it don't mean that you don't have things in annoying Real format which you don't want anyway.
>> It can be somewhat time consuming too.
>> Yes.
>> To convert the files. Sometimes it's Real timish.
>> Right. You can spend like the weekend, work on your, you know, your Real files and it would probably work. Let's see if there's Real Player alternative though for OS X.
>> Yes, we'll keep digging around for that Robert for that to get you bye for now, all right. Thanks for calling. Let's move on to Bob because Robert Bob makes sense. Bob where are you calling from?
>> From Brooklyn, New York.
>> Thanks for calling. What kind of question can we help yo with?
>> Okay, my girlfriend has a laptop. She doesn't have all the discs for her applications. Now, what will-- she wants to go to check to get it back [unintelligible] if she got a new hardware so the ghost of the old laptop work on the new laptop and just used new drivers.
>> So, you need to transfer your application data too, right? You're transferring between two machines but you need to keep the applications?
>> I need to keep applications and data on then new machine but the new machine might be new hardware.
>> Right, well I think I thought that the ghost did that. Well, I thought the one that basically ghosted your driver would let you keep your application.
>> Do you use ghost? I heard you mentioned ghost.
>> Right, for my question is will the application will work since the drivers from the old hardware. Will that work on the new hardware?
>> So, she's getting new hardware and she is concerned that they may not be compatible. Is that kind of what you're asking?
>> Exactly, [unintelligible] still work involves in a new driver--
>> Yes, you can't just put that old image in the new drive but I think what Molly was saying is the ghost might have an application to let you transfer also lap link which is been around forever allows you to do just that. It will transfer all of your applications, all of your application layers and put it on absolutely new machine; cost a little bit of money but that's one way to do it. The other way is to, you said; you don't have the discs for all the applications that's why you want to do this?
>> Exactly.
>> Yes, so if you're not Bob and you're trying to do this, you could actually use the migration assistant in either OS X or Windows to transfer but then you have to reinstall all your applications so lap link is my best bet if you don't have the applications anymore.
>> Yes, if you have for any reason saved the installers then you would be fine just transferring the data because, you know, and this is maybe the just a good tip. If I have an installer from a down loader application or even from an installation CD, I usually save it in a little installers folder on my desktop which is a good way to then only have to transfer data and still have those EXE files.
>> That's interesting. It never helped to do that. That's good and that's clever, Miss Molly Wood.
>> I've got that from my big hubby. [ Laughing ]
>> Veronica, thank you so much for joining us. It was good to have you back
>> You are welcome. Thank you so much for having me.
>> Very cool. Of course, you can keep up with Veronica at her own blog veronicabelmont.com or you-- she will appoint you to the many areas of her empire.
>> Now, we got an e-mail from John to CNET Live at cnet.com. He says, "You mentioned last week that you can share an internet connection wirelessly if one laptop is connected to the internet. Can you explain more how to do that?" Yes, we can Rich DeMuro shows you how to do it in Vista, XP and OS X all in this Insider Secret. ^M00:23:16 [ Music ] ^M00:23:23 [ Background Music ]
>> Wouldn't it be great to be able to share your internet connection with the colleague or group of friends let's say a meeting? Hey there, I'm Rich DeMuro with CNET TV and then in this edition of Insider Secretes, I'm going to show you how to turn your laptop into a makeshift hot spot. [ Background Music ]
>> Your computer can share an internet connection much like a WiFi router at home. Wired connections, the net goes in, wireless internet broadcast out over WiFi. You can even choose, you can connect with the password. So, here's what you need--a laptop that handles both a wired net connection like this one and also WiFi. You can do this trick with Windows XP, Vista and Mac OS X. I'm going to show you how you do it for each of these operating systems starting with the Mac and Vista since they're the simplest. [ Background Music ] ^M00:24:06
>> To start, get online using wired connection and just open your web browser to make sure that you can actually surf. Next, go into you control panel and select Network and Sharing Center, then under task, choose setup a new connection and choose the option to setup a wireless Ad-Hoc network. This means your computer is going to be able to talk to other computers within the range for WiFi. Now, give your Network a name and set a web password if you don't want to share your connection with the entire world. Finally, click the bar right here to turn on internet connection sharing and you're all set. That was it. Your instant hotspot is now gonna show up in a list of wireless networks on the nearby computer just to make sure that's happening. Yup, there it is. Then the person who's connecting will need your password to connect and surf the net. Now, keep in mind people connecting through your computer might be able to see the files on your hard drive so make sure you trust them. [ Background Music ]
>> Now, let's turn our Mac into a hotspot. First, take your Ethernet cable and get connected to the Internet. Make sure you can surf. Then go into your system preferences and select sharing. Now, go to the Internet tab. This is pretty self-explanatory. We're going to select where we want to share from, in this case our built in Ethernet, and how we want to share through, our airport. Now, under options, you can give your network not only a name but also a password. Put those in. Finally, click start to let the sharing begin. When you're all finished, just press stop to shut off the shared connections. [ Music ]
>> Configuring Windows XP is a little more hands on, but it's still the same basic principle, wired Internet connection in, WiFi connection out. Now, if you're not comfortable changing lots of settings on your computer, then I wouldn't do this if I were you. But if you can find your way out of an XP hole, here you go. So, start by getting on the net by plugging in your trusty Internet connection and then we're going to go into control panel and choose network connections. Right click you're wireless connection and choose properties. First, under wireless networks, click the box that says to use windows to manage my wireless network settings. This means that all of your third party programs are sort of going to butt out, they're not going to fool with any of the settings anymore. Now, we're gonna make our hotspot. So, under preferred networks click add, then name of your hotspot. I'm going to call mine Rich's Hotspot. Then select shared. And wep for data encryption. Choose a password and click okay. Your new hotspot should appear in this box called Preferred Networks. Now, we have to tell our computer to only connect to this hotspot and not other WiFi hotspots that are out there. Under advanced, click networks to access computer-to-computer adhoc networks only. Make sure that's selected then press close. We're good to go here in our wireless network connection properties, so press okay. One more step, we have to change one setting in our wired internet connections so that our computer knows to share it. So, go up to our Local Area Connection, right click it, and select the Properties. There's a tab at the top that says advanced and then it says Internet connection sharing. There's a click box for allow other network users to connect through this computer's internet connection. So, we wanna click that one, make sure the box underneath is not selected so that nobody can fool with your settings remotely. Finally, click Okay and if you wanna check your network you can go to another computer and look at the list of available wireless networks and there it is which is hot spot. Now, remember your friends will need a password if you put one in, so they can connect. Now, if your computer is anything like mine, this threw me for a little loop. There's a bios settings that says to turn off the WiFi when an Ethernet cable is plugged in. Now if you can't seem to get both of these connections turned on at the same time, you're going to have to go into set up when your computer starts up and look for a place to disable WiFi and Ethernet switching. Once you do that, you should be good to go. That's it for this Insider Secret. Have fun sharing your net connection, I'm Rich DeMuro with CNET TV. [ Music ]
>> All right, so we got a time for one more call.
>> I believe we do and it's gonna be a doozy.
>> Let's get it up. We are going to Andrew, hey Andrew thanks for holding for CNET Live, what can we help you with?
>> Sure, so I have a Treo 700wx with Verizon right now.
>> Our condolences. [ Laughter ]
>> Yeah, it is such a crappy PDA, it's huge.
>> I know that--
>> Who knows?
>> Oh, I know.
>> And I mean in the middle of a Verizon wireless contract, I was looking around on eBay a little bit and I noticed that you can get the HTC Touch from Sprint for about 100 dollars less than you can for an HTC Touch from Verizon, and again this is without a contract.
>> Without the contract, okay.
>> Yeah. It's about 300 dollars without a contract from Sprint and about 400 dollars without a contract on Verizon on eBay.
>> Huh!
>> So what I'm wondering is if you can get one from Sprint, hook it up to your computer somehow, and make it think that it's one from Verizon and then use it on a Verizon network. I also noticed that you can get ones from Alltel for a little less than you can get ones from Verizon.
>> So, well, to answer the first part of the question, you -- I don't know about you know, I don't think you're gonna be able to do this yourself, hook it up to your computer but what you need to do is buy the Sprint version and unlock it. And there's actually, if you're at the -- now, I know that if you're at the end of your contract -- the recent ruling forces Sprint to unlock a phone for you because, you know, people say that was an anti-competitive practice selling all these locked phones. And so when you were at the end of your contract, you could go and say, "Okay, you need to unlock my phone and I can take attending carrier". Now, it's possible that if you then bought a phone that was without a contract you could take it to Sprint and say, "You need to provide me with the software to unlock this". Otherwise, I'm sure there are services, you know, there are sort of companies that will unlock phones for you. It's not illegal. It is an exemption to the DMCA, so you could do it that way. I don't know if the Alltel would wanna work though because I don't know if Alltel is a CDMA network, or if they're GSM. It has to be, you know, you probably know, but it has to be the same type of cellular networks. Sprint and Verizon are both CDMA which is why they can share unlocked phones.
>> That is the best way to go. However, if you did wanna try to do it yourself, go started cellphonehacks.com, there's a whole thread of Sprint cellphone hacks, where people are trying to figure out how to unlock various Sprint phones. I didn't see your phone that you're talking about here right of the top, the HTC, but if you control around or even just post say, "Hey, has anybody done this", you might get lucky.
>> Yeah.
>> The easier way is different, Molly [laughter].
>> Yeah, the easier way, really, just go to Sprint and say, "Unlock this phone for me". I mean, I think that they, you know, have recently been required to do that, so at least for the try.
>> And then you just give Verizon the IMEI number or whatever is underneath the battery?
>> Yeah. I mean what in -- honestly, what -- yes. The IMEI number or you just text them and say "Make, this phone work now, please". Which is what I -- [Laughter].
>> Use that voice though, that will help.
>> Yeah, that will help. Good luck with that. [Laughter]
>> Right.
>> All right. Are we taking another call? Or no, we're not. We're done.
>> I think that was our last call. So, that means it is time for the "Best of the Web". [ Background Music ]
>> The Best of the Web is brought to you by our good friends of webware.com and today, and I am excited about the Best of the Web. It's tiny song, tinysong.com. You can see it's posted here at Webware, but I'm just gonna go ahead and show you how it works because it is super cool. Share any song is the promise of TinySong. You type in the name of the song, and I'm gonna drive Tom Crazy again 'cause I can't get this song out of my head.
>> No!
>> It's on the radio all the time. Stop, it's there! So, what happens though--
>> So, you think you could dance?
>> It's because of "So you think you can dance?" You type it in and you get a list of results here. Now, let's click on, you know, by One Republic or I'm Dreaming Out Loud.
>> I was just saying so you think you can dance?
>> Oh, I do think I can dance. That's so weird that you say that.
>> I want to see that after you play this.
>> What happens is you get a little small URL, tiny URL style. I copy it. I paste it into my browser here. Pasty paste. I get a link and most of these links are to Grooveshark which makes me think they are either the sponsor--
>> The behind it somehow.
>> Or the partner behind it somehow but then you can play the song, I mean it's just...it basically gives you a link to share a song with someone so it's been in your head and you wanna get in Tom's head, for example. I can just--
>> You could just come slam it or you can send me this tiny URL and one republic roll mean.
>> Right, just the-- [ Laughter ]
>> I was just wondering to myself like how could this become a roll thing but what it really is a really cool way I think to share a song and you know get someone hooked and they go to Amazon and they buy it.
>> All right.
>> I love it.
>> That's cool.
>> Thank you very much.
>> All right. Next week the iPhone 3G will be coming out and so to get a jump on things, we're gonna cross the international date line and talk to [background music] and talk to Ella Morton and Joseph Hanlon from CNET Australia and get a sneak peek into the future. Join us on CNET Live next week 4 PM eastern, 1 PM Pacific, 10 AM Hawaiian.
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>> I mean that.
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