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Category: Computer

  • Vidyo Integrates with Microsoft Lync

    June 2023: Another videoconferencing HISTORY lesson. Enjoy! Facebook friend Ckristian Zoli (he works for Vidyo) posted this announcement on Facebook this morning. Not being in the corporate world anymore, I had never heard of Microsoft Lync…how funny.  (Gee, I feel so left out…..NOT!  🙂 I grabbed this from Microsoft: Microsoft Lync 2010 is truly a unified…

  • iPad 2 and Video Conferencing

    UPDATE January 2023: A HISTORY Lesson from 2011……enjoy! Steve Jobs (YES!) announced today that the iPad 2 will be released March 11th. I went to the spec page, grabbed the screen shots,  and tried to learn a bit more about the cameras (yes there are now two) and video conferencing capabilities. The iPad 2 will come…

  • Facebook Video Chat

    Facebook Video Chat

    UPDATE Dec 2022: A History Lesson 🙂 I tried video chat (video conference) via Facebook about a year ago…it sucked. Now…the good folks at PCMag.com tell me that the co-founder of RealNetworks, Rob Glaser, has developed a new Facebook video chat (video call) application called “SocialEyes”. Very clever name. But it remains to be seen…

  • Motorola XOOM

    Looks like this new tablet from Motorola may cut into the sales of the iPad. Can you hear me know?   Kinda late….but, maybe better late than never applies. It uses the Android 3.0 operating system. I hear it comes with two cameras, one front facing for video chats (video conferencing) and taking pictures of…

  • Toshiba Android Tablet

    It looks like Toshiba is coming out soon with an Android based tablet.  I love Toshiba computers!  See the header picture to see my “Old Faithful” Toshiba laptop (6 years old and still going strong), and am writing this on my new Satellite A665.  Lori and Kristen both love their Toshiba laptops… Before buying a…

  • Google Keywords-A Quick Introduction

    Before you read my drivel, watch this guy explain Google Keywords.  Very nice, very clear… Full-time AltamontCowork member, Joleen is researching how to attract more readers to her blog. During her research, she found this Google keyword site that ranks the keywords according to how often people search for stuff with using those keywords. Sweeeeeet.…

  • Solid State Drives

    Solid State Drives

    July 2023: Another HISTORY lesson in computer technology. Enjoy! 🙂 In the “old” days we had a term for random access memory that did not lose it’s data contents when power was turned off.  Non-volatile RAM…NVRAM. It was cool stuff then, still is. Now the the next generation of non-volatile memory is being used in solid…

  • The Computing World is Changing

    The Computing World is Changing

    Got a call yesterday from a friend who is buying her daughter a computer for college. Once we got through the pricing for the system she picked out (it was a good price for a 4 Gig RAM, 320 Gig HD laptop, with web cam) we moved on to discuss virus protection, browsers, and Office.…

  • Virus Hunter, Part 2

    A long time ago, when I was YeOldeTechy (I am no longer old, so I dropped that silly name) I had a few gigs cleaning up trojans, viruses, and other nasties.  I actually was getting pretty good at it…. The past few weeks, I have had a string of computers that were either: A:  Slower…

  • Living in the Cloud

    OK, this was eye-opening. At last night’s GeekMeet meeting at AltamontCowork, member Phil showed us how he could boot up his new Netbook with several different Operating Systems (Chrome OS, Android OS, Windows 7, and three flavors of Linux) each loaded on their own SD memory card (4 Gig). Very impressive. Since I use Google…