Tech Tips and Reviews
Well Kevin and the gang finally opened the new digg for the public.
We no longer have to go the long way to get there and we don’t have two separate versions of digg. It’s all in one now.
So if you didn’t get an invite a week ago, No worries. You can now see what we all were buzzing about.
Submit it to Google buzz. lol
A Little to late. But hey now facebook is dropping all embedded outside aps. So this could be perfect for Myspace or now could be the time that everyone is tried of the flood of Social networks.
Exciting new things at MySpace
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Don’t waste time visiting so many sites – our new sync function allows you to update all your friends from just one place.
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It’s cleaner, easier to use, has better design tools, and if we can be perfectly honest – is ridiculously good looking.
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Sync Myspace with Facebook and Twitter
Played a bit with auto cad autodesk today.
Tech Reviews
Face it, The first Wide screen (not in a theater) for public purchase that was for any decent use, was on our laptops. You can give huge thanks to the laptop computer creators for your new wide screen television, or wide screen monitor on your computer. sure there were a few devices out before the laptop computer that had flat screens . But this whole post is about anything greater than 8bit. I am talking about something that evolved into a nation wide demand for higher resolution to be broadcast for television purposes.The better the laptop monitor got, the more appealing it got want that kind of thin screen on your personal desktop computer. And the more you wanted a flat screen monitor, the more you wanted a flat-screen television. This would lead to so much more real estate on your desktop and your entertainment center. With all of this extra space we could now see ourselves with wider monitors. That of course triggers the gears in your head. You find yourself saying “hey, at the beginning of all of the movies, they say the movie has been modified to fit my screen”. Now we have an idea.
So everyone has one these days, except for a few people. The world treats them as if they are leaving themselves behind. Or they are just stubborn. But really, are they? Could they just have better things to spend their money on?
I was using a 25 inch crt Monitor and had a 62 inch crt television. Now I am on a 19″ widescreen monitor and a 42″ widescreen television. Some how I tell myself I am better off because the videos fit my monitor and television. The truth is, it’s not any wider now. In fact I lost the whole top section of my monitor and top section of my television. Instead of the video being made to fit my tv, my tv is now made to fit the video. Sure the tv is now at a higher resolution than the old one. Now the colors are crazy now. One show is what they call “hot” while another is not . So the red or the yellow bleed out.
I do know one thing, my desk isn’t bowed in the middle like it was with that big glass monitor. I am happy to move the television upstairs on a whim. Much lighter now. A bit more expensive still.
Do we really need wide screen monitors and wide screen televisions? or are we just happy with flat screens and our movies fitting the view area?
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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Patch 1.0.3
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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Patch 1.0.3
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue preventing some players from accessing offline play from the login screen.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Patch 1.0.2
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue where campaign mission victories would not always trigger properly.
Fixed an issue where some players were unable to access single-player features.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Patch 1.0.1
Bug Fixes
Campaign saves have been optimized.
Fixed an issue with sound not playing on some 7.1 systems.
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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Parche 1.0.3
Corrección de errores
Se ha corregido un error que impedía que algunos jugadores pudieran acceder al juego offline desde la pantalla de inicio.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Parche 1.0.2
Corrección de errores
Se ha corregido un error por el cual las victorias de las misiones de campaña no siempre se activaban correctamente.
Se ha corregido un error por el cual algunos jugadores no podían acceder a las características de un jugador.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Parche 1.0.1
Corrección de errores
Se ha optimizado el guardado de la campaña.
Se ha corregido un error que provocaba que no se reprodujera ningún sonido en algunos sistemas 7.1.
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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Parche 1.0.3
Corrección de bugs
La pestaña Amigos de la página Ligas & Escalas ya funciona correctamente.
Hemos corregido un problema que ocasionaba que algunos jugadores no pudieran jugar como invitado desde la pantalla de inicio de sesión.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Parche 1.0.2
Corrección de bugs
Hemos corregido un problema que ocasionaba que no siempre se activaran adecuadamente las victorias de las misiones de la campaña.
Hemos corregido un problema que ocasionaba que algunos jugadores no pudieran acceder a las características de la campaña.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Parche 1.0.1
Corrección de bugs
Hemos optimizado la forma en que se guardan los datos de la campaña.
Hemos corregido un problema que ocasionaba que no se reprodujera el audio en algunos sistemas 7.1.
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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Patch 1.0.3
Correções de Bug
O guia de Amigos na página de Ligas e Rankings agora está funcionando corretamente.
Corrigido um problema que impedia que alguns jogadores acessassem o jogo offline (desconectado) a partir da tela de login.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Patch 1.0.2
Correções de Bug
Corrigido um problema onde vitórias em missões da campanha não eram processadas corretamente.
Corrigido um problema onde os jogadores eram incapazes de acessar funcionalidades do modo individual.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Patch 1.0.1
Correções de Bug
Jogos salvos no modo campanha foram otimizados.
Corrigido um problema com o som em sistemas 7.1.
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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Patch 1.0.3
Behobene Fehler
Es wurde ein Problem behoben, das einige Spieler davon abhielt, vom Login-Bildschirm aus auf den Offline-Modus zuzugreifen.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Patch 1.0.2
Behobene Fehler
Es wurde ein Problem behoben, bei dem die Auslöser für Siegesbedingungen in Kampagnenmissionen nicht richtig ausgelöst wurden.
Es wurde ein Problem behoben, bei dem einige Spieler nicht auf Funktionen des Einzelspielermodus zugreifen konnten.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Patch 1.0.1
Behobene Fehler
Das Speichern von Spielständen in der Kampagne wurde optimiert.
Ein Fehler, durch den auf einigen 7.1-Systemen keine Sounds abgespielt wurden, wurde behoben.
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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Notes de mise à jour 1.0.3
Corrections de bugs
Correction d’un problème empêchant certains joueurs d’accéder au contenu hors ligne à partir de l’écran de connexion.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Notes de mise à jour 1.0.2
Corrections de bugs
Correction d’un problème intermittent empêchant le déclenchement correct de la victoire lors des missions de la campagne.
Correction d’un souci empêchant les joueurs d’accéder aux fonctionnalités du mode solo.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Notes de mise à jour 1.0.1
Corrections de bugs
Les sauvegardes de la campagne ont été optimisées.
Correction d’un souci de lecture des sons sur certains systèmes 7.1.
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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Patch 1.0.3
Correzione problemi:
Corretto un problema che impediva ad alcuni giocatori di accedere al gioco offline dalla schermata d’accesso.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Patch 1.0.2
Correzione problemi:
Corretto un problema di attivazione delle vittorie nelle missioni della campagna.
Corretto un problema che impediva ad alcuni giocatori di accedere alle funzioni per giocatore singolo.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Patch 1.0.1
Correzione problemi:
I salvataggi della campagna sono stati ottimizzati.
Corretto un problema di assenza di sonoro su alcuni sistemi 7.1.
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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – обновление 1.0.3
Внесенные исправления
Вкладка «Друзья» на странице «Лиги и рейтинги» теперь работает корректно.
Исправлена неполадка, из-за которой некоторые пользователи не могли получить доступ к одиночной игре без подключения к Интернету.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – обновление 1.0.2
Внесенные исправления
Исправлен механизм проверки условий победы в заданиях кампании.
Исправлена неполадка, из-за которой некоторые пользователи не могли получить доступ к режиму одиночной игры.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – обновление 1.0.1
Внесенные исправления
Оптимизирован процесс сохранения в режиме кампании.
Исправлена неполадка с воспроизведением звука на некоторых системах 7.1.
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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Patch 1.0.3
Poprawione błędy
Poprawiono błąd, w którym niektórzy użytkownicy nie mieli dostępu do gry offline z ekranu logowania.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Patch 1.0.2
Poprawione błędy
Poprawiono błąd, który nie pozwalał na poprawne zakończenie się misji w kampanii.
Poprawiono błąd, w którym niektórzy użytkownicy nie mieli dostępu do trybów dla jednego gracza.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Patch 1.0.1
Poprawione błędy
Optymalizacja zapisanych stanów gry w kampanii.
Poprawiono błąd, w którym dźwięk nie odtwarzał się na niektórych systemach 7.1.
최신 소식이 궁금하거나 다른 플레이어들과 의견을 교환하고 싶으시면, 새로 선보이는 스타크래프트 II 웹사이트를 방문해 주십시오. 게임 가이드에는 스타크래프트 II를 플레이하는 방법이 자세하고 친절하게 설명되어 있습니다. 포화에 휩싸인 코프룰루 구역으로 향하는 여러분 모두에게 행운이 함께하길 바랍니다!
스타크래프트 II: 자유의 날개 – 패치 1.0.3
버그 수정
일부 플레이어가 게임 접속 화면의 ‘가족 계정으로 플레이’ 메뉴에 접근하지 못하던 문제가 수정되었습니다.
스타크래프트 II: 자유의 날개 – 패치 1.0.2
버그 수정
캠페인 임무가 가끔 정상적으로 완료되지 않던 문제가 수정되었습니다.
일부 플레이어들이 싱글플레이어 기능을 사용할 수 없던 문제가 수정되었습니다.
스타크래프트 II: 자유의 날개 – 패치 1.0.1
버그 수정
캠페인 저장 방식이 최적화되었습니다.
일부 7.1채널 시스템에서 소리가 나오지 않던 문제가 수정되었습니다.
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《星海爭霸：自由之翼》 – （版本：1.0.3）
錯誤修正
現於聯賽＆天梯頁面的好友功能按鍵已可正常使用。
修復部分玩家無法於登入畫面選擇離線進行遊戲的錯誤。
《星海爭霸II：自由之翼》（版本：1.0.2）
修正錯誤
修正了劇情戰役下任務在勝利後無法正確觸發的問題。
修正了玩家無法存取單人玩家功能的問題。
《星海爭霸II：自由之翼》（版本：1.0.1）
修正錯誤
劇情戰役儲存已最佳化。
修正了在某些7.1聲道系統下聲音無法播放的問題。
And Google swears they monitor the ads they serve.
Picture of scam email in google
These people in the ads served by Google say they are there to back up your password.
How fricken Gullible are we these days ? is this simple of a scam working now?
Google … wake up
Scan your ads.
Let them have it. only a small group of people even know what foursquare is. This hoopla over how close the two products are, is probably the highest level of notoriety that Foursquare has ever seen. They probably just got a whopping 14 downloads in one day from curious people who just had to see WTF people are talking about.
See I have no idea how to spell 4square.. at all.. I can spell Gowalla, but I am a freak like that.
McAfee sold to Intel for $7.68.
These are two companies I do not like. They are the center of everything bundled with crummy computers. They are the generic item that everyone gets with their new “outa the box” machine. And since so many people have these two, everyone assumes they are the best. ” More people buy Intel than AMD so it must be better” . Well no it’s bundled more often because it’s mass production junk.
Think about it, more people in the world shop at wally mart…………. Why? because it’s there. and convenient.
Mcafee is bundled in everything you buy.
Remember when AOL disks showed up in your mail on a weekly basis? People actually installed it years after broadband became common.
Mcafee calls it’s self an “antivirus” truth is, there is no such thing. There is just software that tell you when you have an active virus on your computer… The virus scanner installs it’s self so deep that you the computer owner can’t unintsall it. So most virus programs are written to attach themselves to the “antivirus program”. This in turn causes the “antivirus” to ignore the virus, because removal of the virus would be suicidal for the antivirus. So let’s just call it a “virus alerter”.
This merger/sell is just a nice way to get all the garbage in one spot.
Now I have to go use a-squared to remove 1829 trojans off of my bosses computer. Neat how symantec 360 has only detected (or notified me of ) one virus while 1728 variations of the virus are directly attached to symantec.
So you are looking for a monitor for your computer. You are not 100% certain as to what you are looking for. Simply because you are either just coming off an old CRT monitor, or one of the first breeds of lcd monitor. If you are just now coming from the first breeds of flat screen monitors then I have to tell you, quite a bit has changed now. A nice new flat panel monitor will do you some wonders. If you are coming from a CRT monitor ( I will assume it was a very high quality CRT monitor) then you are not looking at better, or worse resolution, . What? what you say? We can feel safe in saying that this is a whole new ball game now. First gen flat screen monitors were no comparison to crt monitors. Now days it is finally a whole new game. It’s low cost high quality now. Wide screen areas. With the advent of High def televisions (HD tv). We got a huge choice in upgrades and tweaks and inventions that shot monitors through the roof in their evolution.
So let’s get into the budget tech review and explanation to help you select a good flat screen monitor. I will make this simple as possible. Bring the Flat Screen Monitor into an easy way to shop. After this you might as well upgrade your television. You can use this review when making that choice also. I just don’t believe the resolutions or image quality will be near as crisp as what you will see with your new monitor.
Here are 4 very important things to look at , Resolution, Scan Types and Contrast ratio and of course the one that isn’t listed on any boxes or manuals: blackness (black levels), view degree, light reflection.
Now to explain these qualities. I will use my best “Redneck definitions”. Well. In a sense.
Resolution
How many pixels across the top by how many pixels down the side. Screen size is not defined by resolution but a key ingredient in image quality is. You can have a monitor that is eleven inches across the top and six inches down the side (small wide screen)(not the right way to measure a monitor, but should be). The resolution for this flat screen monitor example could be 1440×900.
Then you look at a monitor that is 32 inches across the top and 17 inches down the side. This larger monitor could have the exact same resolution of 1440×900.
In this case, bigger is not better. Not at all. a monitor at that size would have to have a resolution of “4320×2700” to even compare. Kinda unachievable. but who wants tiny monitor ?
720p is better than 1080i.
Scans
Progressive scan and interlaced scan.
Progressive is the latest and newest higher quality. you are better off getting Progressive. Some videos and 3d programs still use interlacing so you may want to look into what kind of deinterlacing is used on the monitor or hope it is handled well with your video card.. Think of Progressive as very fast stacked lines to make an image.
Interlaced was dropped for the most part. Think of Interlaced as as static you would see on your old television. Every other pixel or so flashes while the next one is loading. Kinda
Most people can not see the difference between the two flat screen monitors. Unless they use both types of monitors for a while and then switch between them after long use. After using progressive scan, I get a headache when I use interlaced now.
Contrast ratio
There are two terms that get mentioned when talking about Contrast. Static and Dynamic
Static is very important, dynamic is bonus points.
Static is the Native settings fixed contrast.
Dynamic is your contrasts fluctuation range.
The higher the static, the better
If the dynamic contrast ratio is the only thing listed and it says something along the lines of 200,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, it might sound a bit fishy. but I would surely grab that monitor before I would even walk near a flat screen monitor with a 2000:1 static contrast ratio. Typically the static is 75%-90% of the dynamic. Usually. Good luck with that?
My monitor 10,000:1 . Does not list if it’s dynamic or static. I am assuming the static is atleast 8000. While the flat screen monitor in my office is 800:1. poor quality at work.
unorthodox but important, blackness, Viewing Angle, light reflection
If you turn the monitor on while a light is on in the room and the screen goes all white while you are looking at a Yin/Yang Symbol. Well the black levels on that flat screen monitor/ flat panel monitor are crummy
Light Reflection is what you see when you turn a light on and the glass (if it’s glass) reflects back at you so much that you can’t see the display.
Viewangle, stand dead in front of the monitor at a comfortable distance (3-4 feet), step once to the left and twice to the right and see if the imaging gets hard to see, watch the edges and the corners for a looming growing shadow as you move. People who stand dead beside the monitor to check it….. um…. you really have no idea how to use the monitor do you? really, why in the heck would you want to stand next to it while you use it ? but you do want to know it looks good when your loved one looks over your shoulder as you watch a video together.
So.. What is 720p 1080p and all that stuff about?
Easily said by today’s basic standards for a monitor’s design, look at the resolution for the side and round down to the nearest res.
So if the resolution of your monitor is 1440×900. Then you have a 720(look at the 900. yep that simple). It didnt use to work like that but pretty much all flat screen monitor companies use the same standards these days. You have a 95% chance of that being correct.
TLDR -(to long didn’t read) Summary below
My flat screen monitor tech specs.
Contrast Ratio 10000:1 (the ratio of the luminance of the brightest color (white) to that of the darkest color (black) that the system is capable of producing)
Brightness 300 Nit (Candela per square meter)
Maximum Response Time 2ms
Aspect Ratio 4:3 (The aspect ratio of a shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension)
Horizontal Viewing Angle 170°
Product Type LCD Monitor
Vertical Viewing Angle 170° (viewing angle is the maximum angle at which a display can be viewed with acceptable visual performance)
I hope this helps you select a good flat screen monitor in your future.
For a project I am doing with a freind I am required to use a keyword search tool. I have checked a few out and see a little bit of an issue. I have a starcraft II website. I used my starcraft II website as a test site for pulling together keywords. I typed in the web address into SKTOOL. and Google it’s self recommended I use a phone name. It also recommended that I leave the II and or 2 out of it’s name because that gets 500 searches a week while adding a 2 or ii at the end will get only 25. ERm. Part ii is new and the first version is ten years old. That is why the old one gets low searches. SO Google’s Database for it’s search engine keyword tool, is old. Because Starcraft II is going on it’s second month. It will be th the most search version of Starcraft out there. My website shows it has well over 500 hits a week from Google search under the term Starcraft II crack. So I tried that exact phrase and got nothing. Squat.
Just now I did this website (truxtertech.com) and used my actual keywords, and Google recommended I use these keywords. “tech deck” and “Tech Desk”. Really, What in the blue %^&* am I going to use those for ? Other than explaining how the keyword thing is wonky.
This post is not to give any expert, pro , or novice computer person even the slightest bit of computer training. This is just a lightweight technical analysis of today’s technical writing.
What do I find to be a better method of Keyword suggestions? Well simple. Write your story, write your page, fill your content. Find keywords in the content so your keywod meta tags match your actual content. Or just write up a huge list of products your really want to sell from your website, and put those words in your meta tags, and write about each item. If you run completely from automated suggested wordings, you have a gobbledy goop website for a dog kennel that is selling cats only because they get better hits in Google keyword search. Now if you are a link farm or a spam site and don’t care about return hits, then by all means. Build your website entirely on Keyword searches. I can understand looking for suggested words or word combination, that is totally acceptable.
What needs to be produced is an Alexa keyword. I know that sounds like a shook up bottle of pew, but Alexa has trends, that fluctuate. Alexa’s count is current and more on time than Google. Clearly by months.
Now I am not bashing the use of keyword search tools. Not at all. but from the results I just got for truxtertech.com in sktool, I now understand why so many websites out there make no sense. It’s people using some tool to crank out everything that gets huge traffic. They don’t care what that stuff is or what it’s for they just want to say it or met tag it. and well…… That junk makes me nuts.
If you must use a keyword search tool or keyword tool. Use it lightly. Don’t go using everything that pops up in the keyword tool. Try more than one keyword tool. Because simply just having the keyword does not generate you traffic. You have to dominate the 1000000001 websites who are using that exact same keyword.
That my friend is the challenge.
How do you do that? by having content that works well with that keyword. You can’t change your content to match that keyword. You have to change your keyword to match your content. Making sure you have better sells of the products you actually have.
Write thorough reports of your products. and make sure you put in the customers face that what you say you have, you really know a lot about. and that you are the person to get this product from. Do not be mechanical. DO not be to human. People want to buy from corporations, Not joe’s garage sale and not from robot Robert’s garage of automated crap. You have to slide in between and sell the people an item they know is protected by more than just the word of stranger. and a product that is not made by slapping two pieces of plastic together.