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Items of Note: The Apple store in Lake Grove, NY had a fantastic grand opening. Enjoy some audio from this event.
Hello to Mr. Weiss who recognized my voice while I was at work. It was great speaking to you and I appreciate the kind comments you made about the show!
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Tech news:
Nintendo Wii to ship on November 19th. The worldwide debut will be in the Americas, the same place as Nintendo DS. The Wii will be in 25,000 retailers with an MSRP of $249. There will be one price, one configuration, and it only comes in one color: white. Nintendo’s shipment goal worldwide is 4 million consoles during the 43 days between launch and Dec 31.
Apple store Fifth Avenue surpasses 1 million visitors. The Fifth Avenue Apple store saw Customer # 1 Million at 2 p.m on September 9th, a record time since the grand opening. Elizabeth Rodriguez received a prize package including a MacBook, iPod, iPod Hi-Fi, and an Apple ProCare membership for Personal Training and other special services.
Disney iTunes movie downloads a success. Walt Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger on Tuesday said the company sold 125,000 movie downloads worth $1 million in revenue through iTunes in the first week Disney movies were offered. Iger told a conference of analysts the company expects to take in $50 million in added revenue during the first year of the iTunes movie download program, which was unveiled by Apple on Sept. 12. Iger said the number of films on iTunes would increase as Disney clears the broadcast rights to move them to the Web.
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Test a geek: This segment will return on a future episode of The Geekcast.
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How To: Incorporate Google Calendar into Outlook
As time goes on, Google’s calendar is gaining popularity. If you’re one of the many people using Microsoft’s Outlook, you know that it’s a fantastic program for the corporate environment. If you’re using both these great applications, you can now combine them into one and maximize your time.
1. First you need to close all instances of Outlook.
2. Download the Remote Calendars program from https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=144247. Then extract and run setup.exe from the downloaded zip file. If you get an error message saying “The Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Runtime is not installed.”, you’ll have to download and install VSTO 2005 from Microsoft’s Downloads Center then run the Remote Calendars setup again. You can get that here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f5539a90-dc41-4792-8ef8-f4de62ff1e81&displaylang=en
If you get an error message saying “The Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies have not been installed.”, take a trip back to Microsoft’s Download Center; This time to download and install the Redistributable Primary Interop Assemblies. It’s just a simple download and install.
3. Once you have Remote Calendars installed, open Microsoft Outlook. It may take a while to load the first time you run it after installing Remote Calendars. When Outlook opens, you’ll be presented with the Options Screen. You can tweak these as you like, or leave them as the defaults.
4. You’ll notice a new toolbar and you’ll want to click on the “Subscribe a remote calendar” button (the +.)
The dialog prompts you for your Remote calendar’s url.
5. In a separate browser, go to calendar.google.com. Click on the down arrow next to the name of the first (or perhaps only) calendar you want synced with Outlook and select Calendar Settings. Right-click on the icon next to Private Address and select Copy Shortcut.
6. Go back to Outlook and paste that url into the “Remote calendar’s url” field.
7. Enter whatever you want for a name for this calendar, and adjust any other settings you like then hit Ok.
8. Click on the “Reload all iCalendars” button in the plug-in’s toolbar (second from the left) and all your Google Calendars will be imported into Outlook! Click this button whenever you make changes to your Google Calendar that you want imported.
Now all your Google Calendar items will work with your Outlook alerts, and you can sync them with your phone or PDA.
Tip from Grinn’s blog, http://www.grinn.net
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Ask A Geek: This segment will return on a future episode of The Geekcast.
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Hack: How to bypass Windows Genuine Advantage easily without patches or scripts
Microsoft loves treating all of its users like thieves. From Windows XP’s activation until now, there have always been hoops a user has to go through just to use the software they paid good money for. In the great wisdom of Microsoft, they invented Windows Genuine Advantage that allows you to download perks and special add-ons for Windows but only if you have a genuine copy. As time went on, Microsoft began requiring WGA for more and more until today, where you need it even to download Windows updates. This is a big hassle and we can get around this pretty easily. If you don’t want to bow to Microsoft’s power, follow these steps:
1. Open Internet Explorer
2. Go to the Tools menu and choose Internet Options.
3. Click on the Programs tab and then click on the Manage Add-ons button.
4. Scroll to near the bottom and click on Windows Genuine Advantage, then choose Disable below, click OK and OK again.
5. Close all Internet Explorer windows and reload it. Windows Update should now work fine!
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