LEHSYS Side Notes…- The fight to save Windows Live WriterThe bumbling dance moves Microsoft makes in their existence is just astounding... When Windows Live Writer was released, I'm sure it was meant as a complement to the blogging service that Microsoft was planning to offer to its users/members, in the form of Windows Live Spaces. Overall, Microsoft has a real problem with project concept and follow through […]
- Use Google Drive to sync blog posts with Windows Live Writer 2011I believe everyone has the same issue with Windows Live Writer; it's sync'ing the blog posts, recent and drafts to some place that can be sync'd across machines. Well, now that Google has released Google Drive you can now use Google drive to sync your data with them; beating Microsoft to the punch on their own service [postulating]… What you n […]
- Wow. There was an update to Windows Live Writer 2011…I was surprised to see there was an update to Windows Live Writer before Windows 8 came out. Honestly, I'm not able to even fathom why they did this, but only to find out if there's any bugs in it from the Windows Live Essentials team. The previous version of Windows Live Writer was v15.4.3538.513 the new version is 15.4.3555.308. In the grand sche […]
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They continue to muck with entertainment – and pirates still don’t care…
Posted on May 9, 2012 | 2 CommentsThis is a little bit of a rant, BUT… I believe everyone is aware that copying a DVD or a Blu-Ray disc is incorrect; it’s against the law… I rented me a DVD the other night, Underworld – Awakening, and I noticed that it had this new warning on it. Thank goodness for the Internet so that you can go online and research this new ‘information’. It’s almost to the point I really miss the days of VHS; at least with VHS you could fast-forward tape, jump past the crap and watch the movie that you paid for, but with DVDs and Blu-ray it’s a little harder… Over the years, the movie companies have been taking away people’s DVD players abilities to skip past the movie trailers, special notices and various other things. From the earliest VHS movie, I can recall seeing the legal warnings about copying the movie— I think everyone has, but now the US government has added another set of notices that can be skipped over; each one being 10 seconds. -
Pay-Per-View TV Suffering Because of the Web
Posted on March 30, 2012 | No CommentsMajor sporting events have long been a money-spinner for pay-per-view television channels, with millions of TV viewers willing to shell out a significant sum of money every year to see the big occasions. The rights and wrongs of charging extra for such entertainment can be debated for hours at a time, but pay-per-view is here to stay, whether we like it or not. Interestingly, there has been little to make broadcasters nervous about such arrangements over the years, but the Internet may just be making life difficult for them. The proliferation of websites which offer illegal streaming of the big events has encouraged the viewing of top events is likely to cost the TV companies dearly if something cannot be done about these operations. -
Uploading images to Facebook [easy]
Posted on March 21, 2012 | No CommentsIn a previous post I talked about things with Facebook that are lacking and one of those things is the ability to upload images to Facebook. Now, apparently Facebook finds it more important to provide an Instant Messenger for Facebook, but not an easier way to send photos. In relation to that, I had a relative asking me how to upload photos to Facebook. Contemplating that process of how photos are actually uploaded to Facebook, and then contemplating how to upload them with the method they have now; it doesn’t sound fun. But there applications out there that can help you, and they can make it really easy… I have a really easy option for you… -
Three Fictional Films 3D Printing has made a Reality
Posted on March 18, 2012 | No CommentsIn many cases of the futuristic fiction genre (especially Sci-Fi), we hear stories where an advanced technology has evolved or has been created, and said technology plays a huge catalyst to the plot or memorable scene in the film. An example of this would be in the 80s and 90s, when we had the internet and super computers making us speculate what technology was around the corner. With it came many films where breaking technology played a huge part to tie in with topical trends and the market. Examples would be films like 2001: A Space Oddessy where a super computer called HAL 9000 evolves to consciousness and goes on a mission to wipe out anyone who tries to shut it down, Jonny Mnemonic where Keanu Reeves plays a man with a large percentage of his brain replaced with computer memory, and The Matrix in which it turned out that all of reality as we know it was actually a computer generated simulation. -
‘Disc-to-Digital’ — you’re kidding right?
Posted on March 15, 2012 | No CommentsMedia companies are the worst when it comes to being progressive with technology. Using a few short examples, DVD shrink and RealDVD are just two packages of software that were shut down by the media industry as forms of pirating; this is back in 2008. The problem the media companies had with software packages like this was that private individuals to take their DVDs and make copies of them, and do whatever they wanted to with the digital copies. But even though the studios went after companies that made software like this, the practice kept going; just about everyone has the ability now to insert a DVD into their computer, ‘rip a copy’, and then play that disc/DVD anywhere. Now Wal-mart and their VUDU video service wants to get some cash for you going digital… -
The Best and Worst of Windows 8 Consumer Preview
Posted on March 12, 2012 | No CommentsThe Windows 8 Consumer Preview has given all of us a much clearer picture of what Microsoft has in store for its next-generation operating system. This time around, it truly is “next-generation;” in fact, it’s the biggest change since DOS grew a GUI. Already, the spectrum of responses have ranged from gushing love to seething hatred — with plenty of room for gray-area confusion in the middle. Let’s take a quick look at five of the biggest reasons why Windows 8 is (or will be) a success, followed by another five indications that Redmond has made a terrible mistake. And keep in mind we’ve still got at least half a year before the finished product. -
Evolving: Google Market is now Google Play…
Posted on March 8, 2012 | No CommentsLeave it to Google to keep changing how they integrate services… the Android Market is being changed over to Google Play. As everyone knows, the android market had evolved to include electronic books, music, videos, but the android market has really become something much more for Google and the Android platform. Now they’re pushing the boundaries even further, adopting some of the same features and functions that were touted with the Kindle Fire, and the mixing that with some of what Apple is doing with the iCloud. Over the past couple of months, is below changes with Google, with their services, with their privacy settings, and with their new initiative to have cloud storage; this is a result of that effort. Movies that you watch, songs that you purchase and books that you read with the Android operating system will now be synchronized in the cloud. -
The Netflix Syndrome: Not enough new content
Posted on February 22, 2012 | No CommentsDoes anyone remember the early days of HBO and Showtime? When cable start presenting the services; man everyone thought it was awesome, playing movies all the time with no commercials, no editing, and getting new movies every month— always getting like two to five movies a month, per channel… Back then it was pretty cool. But that was back in the early-80s… Once the newness of movie services like HBO and Showtime wore off, other movie services started popping up, showing the same movies in the same reruns and then one day, almost out of the blue, HBO and Showtime started coming up with their own original content. They started making their own movies and their own miniseries. The reason I’m mentioning this is because I’m a Netflix customer and over the last two months I noticed that I’m not really getting a lot of new releases, and I’m not getting a lot of new content that I’m finding interesting. My son loves the service because he can watch cartoons and kid shows on demand, but for something other than kid shows I’m not really finding a lot of stuff it’s interesting. I would’ve assumed that anything that I can... -
![Back in June of last year, I was discussing the point that video chat protocols were a mess and that there needs to be a standard. Anyone with video chat should be able to go from [say] Skype to a Google+ hangout, or use WebEx. And to reiterate: ‘…The way I see it, there’s nothing wrong with Comcast, Skype, Google or Apple coming out their versions of video chat protocols; ones that work better for their phones, their customers or do things the way they want to do them— it’s ok, really. But as long as you can fall back on the standard protocol for a video call, that’s fine.’ So, now we have this new article from the BBC… …”Cisco does not oppose the merger, but believes the European Commission should have placed conditions that would ensure greater standards-based interoperability,” Cisco’s video conferencing head Martin De Beer wrote in a blog post.’ Were they reading my posts; reading my mind, or are they starting to see the light?](http://www.lehsys.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/tzgdvdmv-115x115.jpg.pagespeed.ce.yQd0r0f215.jpg "No doubt: Video Chat standards are finally being discussed")
No doubt: Video Chat standards are finally being discussed
Posted on February 15, 2012 | No CommentsBack in June of last year, I was discussing the point that video chat protocols were a mess and that there needs to be a standard. Anyone with video chat should be able to go from [say] Skype to a Google+ hangout, or use WebEx. And to reiterate: ‘…The way I see it, there’s nothing wrong with Comcast, Skype, Google or Apple coming out their versions of video chat protocols; ones that work better for their phones, their customers or do things the way they want to do them— it’s ok, really. But as long as you can fall back on the standard protocol for a video call, that’s fine.’ So, now we have this new article from the BBC… …”Cisco does not oppose the merger, but believes the European Commission should have placed conditions that would ensure greater standards-based interoperability,” Cisco’s video conferencing head Martin De Beer wrote in a blog post.’ Were they reading my posts; reading my mind, or are they starting to see the light? -
PC Games Show Resurgence in Sales; Consoles not so much
Posted on February 6, 2012 | 2 CommentsThe popularity of the gaming console, and the profitability of it, have just been astounding. A couple of years ago, you could have hopped on the Internet and read article after article about how PC gaming was dead and how the gaming console was going to be the future of gaming. I would’ve been one of those individuals that you would have to call crazy because I thought PC gaming was still doing very well. And I also would’ve argued the benefits over using a gaming console versus the PC. Video games in general have been extremely popular and very profitable. With everything with the economy doing so bad, and everyone talking about a recession, the gaming industry seems to have had record profits during this time, but PC games sales were still there. Some of the most profitable games stemmed from the PC gaming audience. And their benefits to the PC gaming world; take for instance Battlefield 3… the gameplay for Battlefield 3 is simply incredible, with full HDMI output and able to have 64 players, real players, per game. And some of the PC games simply outperform the gaming consoles when it comes to graphics and the physics... -
![One of the more interesting things that people are being introduced to this year is the processing of the taxes using the computer. The past couple of years processing income tax with the Internet has been commonplace, but this year H&R Block has raised the bar on processing income taxes with the computer. In a recent poll of users, asking which tax-preparation software they like the most, users rated the software packages of TurboTax, TaxAct, H&R Block at home and FreeTax USA. In second place, for text processing, it wasn’t software and all; it was actually the physical process of going to a certified CPA to have your taxes done— in person— with no Internet. And that’s actually pretty interesting… But you if you’ve been watching TV this season [tax season], you may have noticed the commercials for H&R Block at home where the representative from H&R Block is able to punch in to your home PC and are able to have a conversation with them about tax preparation. I think this is a fantastic idea, for taxes. I would never recommend this for tech support…](http://www.lehsys.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/c12igngc-115x115.jpg "Video Chat: Income Tax Preparation is a cool idea")
Video Chat: Income Tax Preparation is a cool idea
Posted on February 3, 2012 | No CommentsOne of the more interesting things that people are being introduced to this year is the processing of the taxes using the computer. The past couple of years processing income tax with the Internet has been commonplace, but this year H&R Block has raised the bar on processing income taxes with the computer. In a recent poll of users, asking which tax-preparation software they like the most, users rated the software packages of TurboTax, TaxAct, H&R Block at home and FreeTax USA. In second place, for text processing, it wasn’t software and all; it was actually the physical process of going to a certified CPA to have your taxes done— in person— with no Internet. And that’s actually pretty interesting… But you if you’ve been watching TV this season [tax season], you may have noticed the commercials for H&R Block at home where the representative from H&R Block is able to punch in to your home PC and are able to have a conversation with them about tax preparation. I think this is a fantastic idea, for taxes. I would never recommend this for tech support… -
Android: TeamViewer 7 – Remote Desktop Access [Free]
Posted on January 23, 2012 | 1 CommentDo you find yourself in awkward situations with friends and family needing you to connect in to their systems and fix their problems? I mean if you don’t have a problem with helping people with their computer problems, but don’t want to be tied down to the desk to be able to help them; you are really going to like TeamViewer 7 and the Android application they offer. I’ve used TeamViewer in the past and found that the interface is so easy to use and the service they offer is top notch; I had never used the Android application before and I figured I had wasted enough time on not using/trying it. So, I got out my Android phone and downloaded the TeamViewer application and I was so completely surprised… -
Google+ hangouts: Odd settings
Posted on January 17, 2012 | No CommentsPeople are always using functions and website and rarely ever really dig in to the settings for those websites; that goes for other sites like Facebook and Google, but today I was starting my Google+ hangout and saw the options for the camera. The layout of Google+ hangouts has changed a bit, so it makes good sense to check on them periodically. What I found in the settings was odd… To me it seemed retro; it was a connection speed selection… -
Video Chats: Skype vs. Google+ Hangouts
Posted on January 13, 2012 | 1 CommentOver the past couple of months I’ve been using Skype with some friends, but I have also been using Google+ hangouts and I’ve to say that between the two, I’ve more fun with Google+ hangouts than I do Skype. I like Google+ in the respect it’s really browser based and I’m able to get people to simply go to a website and just hook up. Personally, I don’t know a lot of people that don’t have a Google account; and if you’ve got a Google account, then you have Google+ account. The difference is with Skype you have to load software on the machine, you have to start it and create a new account. And there’s the catcher right there. When I say Skype, some people look at me like I’m speaking Greek or something. It turns immediately in to where do I find it, do I’ve to download it, is it hard, and then the process of creating an account with Skype. And to be honest, the Skype account serves nothing more than for Skype, whereas having a Google+ account means that you can lots of other stuff, Google e-mail, documents, YouTube, blogger and several other things— all linked... -
Could face-recognition be coming to Apple devices?
Posted on January 10, 2012 | No CommentsAs the battle between Google and Apple rumbles on, new features that find themselves the key selling point for one device could find themselves on a competitor’s within the year. Apple’s Siri, which became an exclusive piece of kit for the iPhone 4S, is likely to become a bigger feature for the firm’s other devices and is driving a desire for more voice-recognition and search features on Android smartphones. Meanwhile face-recognition, a headline feature of Android’s newest update, Ice Cream Sandwich, could be finding its way onto new Apple iPhones and iPads. A patent filed by Apple suggests the firm is looking into technology making it easier to unlock a device simply by looking at it. Face-recognition unlock is already in use on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the first to be powered by Android 4.0. There has been a mixed response to the software, with some users complaining it takes too long for the face to be picked up and it is prone to errors.
