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Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 11:54PM Want to know what a car crash looks like up close and personal? Check out autotopsy.ca, a site that simulates a horrific car accident. Surpringly solid visual effects and live-action cut scenes combine to give you an entertaining look at how car insurance companies determine who gets paid and who does not.
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 11:49PM Then find out with the Wayback Machine, a website that collects past versions of websites and makes them available for you to see. Want to see what the Post Gazette looked like in 2001, find out..
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 11:46PM Clocking in at 80 Gigapixels (8,000 times the resolution of a typical point and shoot camera) is a panoramic picture of London. Check it out, so good that you can see the whole city and the ability to zoom in and read the license plate off of a bus. Amazing...
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 10:18PM The scam of the week involves people claiming to be representatives from Microsoft cold calling people with offers of free technical support help. After getting unsuspecting victims to believe that their computers are infected, the scammers then convince the victims to buy worthless software. In short, Microsoft and almost every other computer related company on the planet will not call you to do a free security check. Hang up. You can barely understand the conversation you have when you call them, let alone them calling you....
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 10:09PM Hopefully most of you know that when you erase a file, it really is not initially erased. I won't get into the specifics as to how this all works, but if you find that you accidentally erased some vital files (typically pictures), there are many programs on the Internet you can buy that claim to be able to get those files back. Hold your wallet and download the program Recuva (pronounced "Recover" and get those files back. Recuva is made by the great folks that make CCleaner. Simply tell the program what type of files you are looking for, where to look and sit back and let it go to work. Oh, it is completely free.
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 10:03PM Last night I got my invite to use Google Music. For those unaware, it is one of the three new cloud music services in which you upload your music collection to the cloud. Once there, you access it from any Internet connected computer or Android device. Initial impression is that you may want to set aside a lot of time for the initial upload to the Google servers. To start, you download the music manager software. It is the program that does the uploading. You tell it where your music is and it uploads it. Interesting enough, it uploads from anywhere. I keep my music on a NAS (Network Attached Storage, Drobo to be specific). It takes it from there. Anytime you add music, it will automatically upload it. It recognized that I had over 9000 songs and immediately started uploading. 8 hours later, it is up to 1656 songs uploaded. Apparently this will take awhile..... More to come