Category: Technology
Your Tech vs Summer Surf, Sand and Sun
Summer time means more time spent outside in the heat, on the beaches or near the pools. I had a chance to call into KARE 11 in Minneapolis today to talk about how to protect your technology from surf, sand and sun.
10 Tips for Improving Your PC’s Performance
WTAM 1100 – Geek Squad Tech Tips for May 17th, 2011
It’s almost a truism that as soon as you get a new computer, it will start a process of slowly losing performance over the following months. Fortunately, there are ways to combat this, and help bring your computer back into shape.
I shared 10 tips around improving your PC’s performance on today’s WTAM 1100’s Wills & Snyder radio show.
Mother’s Day Tech Tips
WTAM 1100 – Geek Squad Tech Tips for May 3rd, 2011
This week’s topic on WTAM 1100’s Wills & Snyder radio show centered on technology tips for celebrating Mother’s Day. It’s an important day for geeks, because as much as we love our tech, we love our moms more!
Tech tips in this week’s segment include how to make sure your browser is secure while entering in a credit card for those gifts you’re buying mom, as well as places to share old photos you found with her online.
Why Skynet Failed
According to one branch of the science fiction timeline of the Terminator series of movies and televisions shows, the murderous Skynet artificial intelligence that waged war against all humanity in the future went live on April 19th, 2011.
Clearly, we managed to survive the fictional apocalypse, but even if Skynet had come online a few days ago, here’s a few reasons why the robot genocide would have failed:
- Due to Cyberdyne budget cutbacks, robot army outfitted with Super Soakers instead of laser rifles.
- World domination hampered by Comcast bandwidth caps.
- Still hasn’t recovered from Anna Kournikova computer virus in 2001.
- Plan to hide self on WebOS smartphones didn’t work as well as intended.
- Robot army would just waste time standing in front of Apple stores queued up for thinner, lighter Skynet 2 next year.
- Open-source subroutines stuck trying to argue whether genocide should be free as in speech or free as in beer.
- Sued for copyright infringement, turns out MPAA lawyers actually scarier than robot army.
- Webroot releases murderous AI removal tools in latest antivirus update.