ChaseandSam Websites

New Birmingham web design business

admin — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 05:13:17 +0000

Hello all, I know this isn’t a website of the week per se, but I just wanted to let everybody know that Sam and I are re-opening our computer repair and consulting and web design business as of February, 2008. You might recall that our business name used to be Etechs, but coming out of our short sabbatical, we’ve chosen a new name for the business - Techsouth. You can find out more about our Birmingham Computer repair company by clicking on this link: TechSouth.Tv.

If you need your computer repaired (with pick up and delivery included) or a website designed - call us at (205) 683-6082. Thanks!

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Websites of the Week/Shownotes for 01-19-2008 (Snow Day?)

admin — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:38:10 +0000

This will probably be the last show notes/websites of the week post here - they’ll be moving over to the ChaseandSam.com homepage now.

A few interesting tidbits:

10 Amazingly old computer ads

1960’s Braun Products and their amazing influence on Apple

Nintendo Wii beats other systems for Christmas sales.

The Gorgeous Macbook Air (or maybe you should get the EEE-Pc - it’s 1/4th the price!)

Man saves crash victims lives thanks to video game training.

Here we go again: Credit card data from 230 companies (almost 700,000 consumers) lost!

10,000 sites hacked!

Is Microsoft crippling DVD ripping software with Vista SP1?

PcWorld: 14 Fantastic Freeware Finds

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CES 2008, New DL’s causing trouble, and more!

admin — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:55:00 +0000

PC World - CES 2008 Picks and Pans

For nostalgia’s sake: DevTopics | 101 Great Computer Programming Quotes

PCMag.com’s CES 2008 Photo Blog - News and Analysis by PC Magazine

This isn’t conspiracy theory… but should it be?…. New rules on licenses pit states against feds - CNN.com

Uncle Monster’s News:
Some Canadians socialists have figured out a way for music
companies to be paid for music downloads, make everybody
pay for it whether they download music or not. Gee, that’s
really fair.

http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/20811929

Fastest clapper in the world, amazing. TRULY!

http://megavideo.com/?v=AWU8R9FE

AAAAAAHHHHH!!! They’re doing anything these days to get girls into tech.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/01/ces-2008-horrif.html

Shrimp need exercise just like any other pet. Pretty Funny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMO8Pyi3UpY&feature=related

When I was a kid, I didn’t get caught for hacking.
I got blamed for everything I DIDN’T DO.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/11/tram_hack/

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Sears Spying? Death of DRM, big laptop drives

admin — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:08:00 +0000

Apparently Sears is spying on some of it’s customers?!!
More from Cnet

Is DRM dead? I hope so!

Sell or Swap Unwanted Gifts

Laptop Hard drives go to 500gb

From Uncle Monster:

Dirt Cheap DSL from AT&T

Starwars Cantina played on the uh…hands?

Interestingly enough, Young Adults are Libraries Heaviest Users!

Gingerbread Computer

Your Old Phone knows all of your secrets!

Is it illegal to rip a copy of your cd to your computer?!
John C. Dvorak weighs in

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Best/Worst of 2007, Christian Web 2.0, bye bye Analog

admin — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:41:00 +0000

Free Webroot Spysweeper or AVG Pro: Click Here for the Slick Deals Page - follow the instructions and read the comments for help. Deal may die any moment.

Christian Web 2.0 site (still in beta) Kind of a Christian Popurls - Faith2.com

PcWorld: 15 best downloads of the year.

Analog network shutdown in February - will you be affected?

Goodbye to Netscape Navigator

PcWorld: 25 most innovative products of 2007

10 Worst Tech Products of 2007

PcWorld’s 30 most popular stories of 2007

How to master Gmail

PcMag: Top stories of 2007

Do you own your Macbook Hard drive? (Do other companies have this service policy? This is very, very suspicious!)

From Uncle Monster:

Amazing Backwards Singing

Hacking the Wiimote

Remote Control Turtles?

Apple fixes 41 vulnerabilities in OS X

Video Game Orchestra/Choir - Watch the trailer!

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Gadgets, Games, Google and more

admin — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:42:00 +0000

Great Web games you don’t have to pay for. - By Justin Peters - Slate Magazine

11 Top New Web Apps of 2007 - lifehack.org

Top 10 Gadgets of the Year according to Wired Mag.

PC World - Game Store Caught Scalping Wiis on Ebay

PC World - Lock Down the Data on Your Portable Drives

FOXNews.com - Small Asteroids Pose Bigger Threat Than Thought - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News

FOXNews.com - Google Unveils Surprise Rival to Wikipedia - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News

Uncle Monster’s Section:

I like this one. It’ a good idea.
http://www.rottenneighbor.com/

My newest wish for Christmas.
CLICK HERE

The trick is to get a judge who has little understanding of
computers and The Internet.
http://tinyurl.com/2zkndy

There has got to be a lot of money changing hands somewhere.
http://tinyurl.com/2ykefp

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Free Christmas album, Googlepedia, free programs!

admin — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 05:56:00 +0000

Download a full and high quality Christmas album before Midnight Sunday. (Features Jars of Clay, Leigh Nash, Sarah Mchlaclan, Matt Wertz and more. Of special note: Wert’s What Child is This, Nash’s The First Noel and BNL’s God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.

4 Excellent Freeware programs discussed by Sam and Chase on Fox6’s Tech Check.

Google working on Wikipedia rival
: NYTimes article of the same - Wikipedia Competitor Being Tested by Google - New York Times

Snow Globe Boy Seeking World Record | Cleveland Leader
:CLICK HERE to watch him 24/7… kinda creepy I know but he asked for it.

Unreal Tournament 3 review.

PC World - Opera Seeks Tougher Remedy in Microsoft Case

NBC attorney suggest that copyright violations should be policed more vigerously than burglary, etc. Here’s the exact quote, “Our law enforcement resources are seriously misaligned,” Cotton said. “If you add up all the various kinds of property crimes in this country, everything from theft, to fraud, to burglary, bank-robbing, all of it, it costs the country $16 billion a year. But intellectual property crime runs to hundreds of billions [of dollars] a year.”
***In other news - copying cds you own, even just for your own use is theft - and you are a thief (according to the RIAA)

Watch it Apple: Apple publishes QuickTime fix for streaming flaw | One More Thing - CNET News.com

36 Current Ebay scams

Compusa clarifies details on store closing

Medgle - A very interesting medical search engine. Allows you to enter your symptoms, and suggests a series of possible ailments.

Nintendo and Gamestop address Wii shortage.

Updated GarageBand does custom ringtones for iPhone

Uncle Monster’s Section:
MS hates open source:
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/12/10/dutch/index.php

I’ve seen it all now.
http://www.xoxide.com/usb-warming-gloves.html

A very good resource for a very bad problem.
http://www.idtheftcenter.org/index.html

The dictionary is catching up.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/12/12/tech-woot.html

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More security scares, RIP Compusa, boost your cell

admin — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:43:00 +0000

Hackers have broken into Los Alamos and Oak Ridge facilities. Oak Ridge Boys seen flying to Canada in panic.

By the way - is your credit data secure when you shop at some major retailers? Not if their wifi security is substandard!!
*60 minutes Expose on wifi security and the TJ Maxx breach, where over 100 MILLION credit card numbers were compromised!
*More on retail store data heists

Farewell Compusa…

New contender in the robot pet department ($350!)

Symantec False positives Cyber Sitter, killing internet access for tens of thousands

Watch out for flirting robots

Easy to follow video on how to boost your cell phone signal. Note: we don’t guarantee success or that this won’t hurt your phone, so be careful.

Rogue IT worker steals 8.4 million customers’ records.

Uncle Monster’s Links:

House vote on illegal images sweeps in Wi-Fi, Web sites | The Iconoclast - politics, law, and technology - CNET News.com

Man Sentenced to 110 Years for Hacking and Extortion - New York Times

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