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Embrace digital technology. Join the Tekzilla crew and make your tech work better for you. Or you can go live in the woods with an axe. Every Saturday, Patrick Norton and Veronica Belmont deliver product reviews, computer help, tech tips on everything from iPods to camcorders, HD to the Internet, plus do it yourself projects. Read more

The latest from Tekzilla: Episode 54 - Thrifty HDTV Options, Vista Mods. Do Data Safes Work?

Robert Heron picks the Best HDTV Ever, Blu-ray players. Protect Your Data from Fire, Flooding and Old Age. DIY HDTV Calibration. Fix a Broken LCD Screen. Vista Start Menu Mods. HDFury HDCP Bypass.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip - Episode 179 - OS X: Close All Windows at the Same Time!
September 12th, 2008 - Are your Finder windows piling up? No need to close them one by one! Veronica will show you how to make them all disappear at once.

Tekzilla Daily Tip - Episode 178 - Windows: Change Windows Explorer's Default Location
September 11th, 2008 - Tired of Windows Explorer opening to a folder you don't want? Why not have it default to a location of your choosing instead? We'll show you how on today's Tekzilla Daily!

Tekzilla Daily Tip - Episode 177 - Gmail: One Click Attachment Access
September 10th, 2008 - Get to all your Gmail attachments with a click of the mouse. Veronica shows you how to set it up in today's Tekzilla Daily.

Tekzilla Daily Tip - Episode 176 - Windows: Shutdown Windows like a Pro
September 9th, 2008 - Skip the tedium of clicking the start button and mousing over to "System Shutdown" in Windows. Turn off Windows like a pro and use a simple key combo instead.

Tekzilla Daily Tip - Episode 175 - Firefox: Secure Your Passwords
September 8th, 2008 - Did you know your saved passwords in Firefox are vulnerable to prying eyes? That's right: guests and other users are a mere 3 clicks away from uncovering your passwords. So tighten up Firefox and lock down your passwords...

Episode 49 - Avoid The Comcast Cap. SIP vs. Skype. Chrome
September 6th, 2008 - Veronica's back! Track monthly Internet usage across all your devices. Should you burn in a new Hard Drive?

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Diagnostics Tool

Posted by winstonliang on 10/12/2008 at 09:24:18 am in Tekzilla

Hi,

A while back there was a diagnostics tool that was mentioned on the show as the freebie download of the week and I can't remember what it is called.

help recovering hdd data

Posted by therage800 on 10/11/2008 at 11:54:50 pm in Tekzilla

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Exactly, it's not a good permanent solution, like I wouldn't use it for backups, but it's a good tool for recovering data off bad hard drives or doing one time transfers. Also it works with 2.5 and 3.5 IDE hard drives and SATA hard drives. Actually it'll work with any IDE or SATA interface (CD burner, etc.)

Episode 54 - Thrifty HDTV Options, Vista Mods. Do Data Safes Work? [Discussion]

Posted by fishtoprecords on 10/11/2008 at 10:05:00 pm in Tekzilla

Roger is very knowlegable, but he's just not as interesting as Veronica, Dr Kiki, or even the Swedish Intern.

Solar charger for a laptop

Posted by dtkflex on 10/11/2008 at 01:50:34 am in Tekzilla

I don't have experience with the solar powered devices for notebooks, but do remember that Patrick did construct a portable battery pack that probably could be modified to work with PV panel(s).

As far as the rugged notebook, is there a budget? Not expensive varies depending on the person.

I've seen Panansonic has new business rugged and semi-rugged notebooks that don't have the full mil-spec requirements, but appear to be better built than your typical business class notebook. Most of these notebooks don't have built in webcams though.

Otherwise, Dell, HP, or Lenovo (business class or workstation class) would be the ones that I would look at depending on the features. Some have integrated webcams while others have better battery life and some have magnesium chassis, while some also have shock mounted or protected hard drives.

Malware Gone To Terrorism

Posted by computoman on 10/10/2008 at 11:15:34 pm in Tekzilla

i was going to comment, but I changed my mind and I did not think to go to the previous page to abort the comment to begin with.

adding information to avi files

Posted by burkhartmj on 10/10/2008 at 12:20:28 pm in Tekzilla

Short answer is no. AVI is a very simple container, and it can't even hold subtitle tracks, much less extra file info. You might have better luck with MP4 or M4V, but I've never tried, so I have no clue.

What is usenet?

Posted by davmoo on 10/10/2008 at 07:35:27 pm in Tekzilla

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And damned proud of it :)

File sharing

Posted by Ddave_73 on 10/11/2008 at 04:56:12 am in Tekzilla

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Whatever method is used you will always be limited by your own upload speed, if for instance we wanted to send a 500mb file to one persons and one person only it would be faster using torrents because the recipient does not have to wait for the file to be completely uploaded before they can start downloading it, so as soon as the file is uploaded once (has to be uploaded once with torrents or ftp) the recipient has the file immediately after its been uploaded once, he does not have to then download the file from the ftp, so torrents would be faster than ftp under certain circumstances.

Browser - Stop putting files on my desktop

Posted by xcorvis on 10/11/2008 at 07:02:28 pm in Tekzilla

Most of those browsers are just defaulting to save on the desktop and that can be changed in the browser settings. Just choose a different folder.

ODB device/sensor show

Posted by mikec on 10/08/2008 at 11:44:35 am in Tekzilla

Come to think about it, the episode I was thinking about was the one where Patrick added night vision to his truck. (The show with his kid.)

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