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>> Coming up on CNET Live, an extremely feature-rich
high performance product for Enterprise customers.
Really, it's just virtualizing LINUX on your OS X.
>> Wow. That sounds like an awful lot of fun. And I'll
show you a crave that I really wish I didn't crave.
>> And your calls and e-mails. CNET Live starts right
now.
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>> Hey folks, good to have you here on CNET Live. Brian
Cooley, Tom Merit, Brian Tom --
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> Yep, 888-900-CNET 8888 --
>> Only three 8s.
>> Boy, you messed up that one.
>> That's right. Only three 8s. 900-888-2638.
>> Before we get to your calls though, it's time for a
couple of things we crave.
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>> These are some of our favorite things from the crave
blog at crave.cnet.com. Starting off with 3D based
[Inaudible] actually both of us craving this one.
>> Yeah, you got to it first, so the hell with you. You
get it.
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>> I was fast with the Google docs. Captures -- they're
the touring test that tells if you're computer or a
person when you're signing up for a new service. And
usually they're those warped letters that you can't even
read.
>> Right.
>> And so you have to put them in about three or four
times before you get them right. This is ingenious.
It's 3 dimensional objects that you have to match up
with the objects that are presented, which makes it
really hard for the computer, because it's trying to do
pattern matching, and I think these things spinning
around, if I am not incorrect, maybe --
>> Hence the 3D.
>> But it's easy for people to do this.
>> Yeah. Sure, because I could easily figure out how to
match what's at the bottom and just do it and go. None
of that vagueness of that mangled text that's such a
pain.
>> Yeah. So you select a matching object from the one
-- I mean, the one -- the thing that's weird about what
they're showing here is that none of the stuff on the
right actually matches any of the stuff on the left.
>> Not entirely.
>> Click on the boxes above and select in the same
order. Oh, okay --
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> If you look, the fork has already been selected.
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> In a different position, but you can tell it's a
fork. A computer is not going to be able to tell that.
>> It's a different object to a computer.
>> Because you can move it around in your head and go,
oh, that's a toilet. I recognize that any time in the
morning.
>> And you grab an airplane, and woot, move it over
there and you're all set.
>> And so yeah, you're looking for the airplane over
here, right here.
>> A lot easier to do.
>> Doesn't match up, though, if you do bit map to bit
map percentage.
>> Different object.
>> I think it's ingenious.
>> It is. And very easy to grasp.
>> And the problem with this accessibility, still have
to have a way for blind people to get through the
[Inaudible] and that's always difficult. You've got to
fall back on audio recordings and [Inaudible] --
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> Doesn't solve that, but it does make it better for
people with vision.
>> Ever had a crave you wish you didn't crave?
>> Is that what you're doing now?
>> Yeah, going to do this dumb thing, but I like it for
some reason. The peak pronto, the peek's been around
for a while. It's an e-mail-only one purpose portable
device -- not a phone. But they added unlimited text
messaging for $17 a month, $79 for the device, one time
fee. It connects up to four accounts, including
exchange mail.
>> This is just e-mail?
>> That's all it does.
>> You mean, it's this. Remember this?
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> Remember pocket mail, check out pocket mail here. If
you look here at this picture you can see that pocket
mail has the acoustic coupler on the back that you hold
up to the phone. Remember this? The flip out piece on
the cell?
>> Yeah. So you set -- who has a phone that has that --
that big --
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> That big handset before --
>> That was the idea, you just hold it up there and it
would get your e-mail anywhere in the world.
>> So I kind of hate it, you know, because it's really
kind of dopey, but I kind of like this pocket peaker
pronto presto, peak pronto --
>> Peak pronto.
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> The purity of a device I like. So if you're looking
for an e-mail tablet only, an e-mail portable only, they
still make them. And this one looks a lot better than
that damn acoustic coupling one.
>> All right, let's get to your phones while we're here.
888-492638. On the line first up is Max. Hey Max,
where are you calling from?
>> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
>> How are things in Philadelphia?
>> Good, a little rainy.
>> Yeah. What can we help you with today?
>> I'm looking for a free web site creator, download or
on the Internet. Because I'm looking to start off a new
web site and I need it to look good.
>> So you want something that's going to allow you on
line to create your pages and all that sort of thing?
>> Yeah.
>> Okay, Brian Tom, you've been talking to Josh
[Inaudible] --
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> And talking to our buddies at web wear dot cock. And
there's two sites that you want to check out. One is
Wix.com. That's spelled W-I-X -- dot-com. And it
really allows you to online specifically create, like, a
web page, but you can add widgets, different templates
-- like they'll give you specifications for banner
graphics, you know, the size of picture you need to put
at the top of the banner. You can format it, these are
the blog page or regular web page. And then the other
site we recommend you check out is Yola.com. It's
spelled Y-O-L-A. It used to be Synthacite.com, and I
was even just playing around with some of the tools
there where I found at least just on first impression,
Yola had a -- additional kinds of widgets that you can
literally just drag and drop and start building your
site from scratch. So I think those are two free site
builders that are on line, and also they do offer free
web hosting. If you want more space and more bandwidth
for people coming in and out of your site. You can pay
to upgrade that. But right off the bat they're both
free to use as well.
>> All right, thanks Max. Appreciate the question.
Let's move on to Valenten in Florida.
>> Hello.
>> Hey Valenten, what's going on.
>> Welcome to CNET Live.
>> Yeah. I'm final. I got a question. I buy a mirage
X 5.1 and I want to know if the receiver, the
[Inaudible] are XV 663, that's good for that system. Or
you got the other reference?
>> Well, you're talking about a -- a micro [Inaudible]
surround sound system, in case people don't know the
mirage N X 5.1 system. It's one that we like because
it's incredibly small in terms of the satellite
speakers, and I believe has an 800-Watt powered sub.
That's pretty hearty. There shouldn't be any issues
here connecting any system like that, any sat sub system
with any of the full size, well-powered AV receivers
like this Yamaha 663 you're looking at. Again, the sub
is powered on that surround sound system you have. So
your receiver doesn't need to have a whole lot of oomph
on its sub woofer channel, because you're not relying on
it to power the sub, which is sometimes one of the
issues. But in this case, it should work FBI. I mean,
it's like any other sub set system. You just want to
get a receiver you like that has sufficient power. I
haven't got the specs on that Yamaha in front of me, but
it's -- it's a good unit. None of the Yamahas are
wimpy. So it should work out really well.
>> Okay.
>> All right, good luck with that. Hope you enjoy it.
Let's go to Rick in New York, shall we?
>> All right. I think it's Nick.
>> Nick? Is it Nick or Rick?
>> But I know him well. I call him Rick.
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> It's Nick. Hey Nick.
>> Hey, first of all I want to say I love the show.
>> Good of you.
[ Inaudible audience comment ]
>> We're great.
>> Good.
>> Doing good.
>> Anyway, I am on my last 38 days of my [Inaudible]
anyway, so I'm getting a new hard drive and I'm on the
white MacBook. So I used everything except how to
replace a hard drive. Brian Tom's entire secret, I
don't know how to replace the hard drive on a new
MacBook Pro. But -- so I read the manual on how to
actually replace it. But I was wondering -- I am
running virtual [Inaudible] right now. When I copy over
with Carbon Copy Quoter, two things. One, the hard --
the actual Windows still be there or will I have to
reinstall this. Two, [Inaudible] another machine.
>> What was number two again?
>> Will Windows know it's on another machine.
>> Okay, well here's the beauty of virtual machines is
that you don't have to -- the Windows doesn't have to
know it's on a machine. Windows thinks it's on this
virtual machine that has been created by the virtual box
program. So you're totally cool. When you move that
over, Windows isn't going to know it went anywhere.
It's going to think, hey, I'm in this virtual world that
I live in, a virtual box, which I'll be showing later on
in the show, by the way. So all you have to do is make
sure that the image of the virtual machine was copied
over. And carbon copy cloner is great for doing that,
because it just takes every bit on your hard drive and
copies it right over to the new hard drive. So if that
has gone success fully everything should work, you
should be able to launch virtual box and Windows will be
like, you know what, I'm in the virtual box, I am fine,
everything is cool. Virtual box will be fine with the
new hard drive as well. And you haven't changed
everything else on the computer, so you should be good.
>> All right. Thanks Nick for calling. Coming up,
CNET's gaming and laptop guru Dan Ackerman will join us.
But first Canon just announced a new addition to its
rebel line of digital SLRs, this one has HD video
recording. Here's Lori Gurnin.
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>> Hi, I'm Lori Gurnin, senior editor with cnet.com, and
this is the Canon [Inaudible] T 1 I. The T 1 I is
slipping into Canon's product line above the XXI and
below the 50 D. They're dropping the X T I off the
bottom -- good-bye. The T 1 I uses the same sized
sensor as the 50 D, but not exactly the same. Instead
of a four channel read out it has a two channel read out
which should only effect performance and not image
quality, and it's slightly higher resolution at 15.1
mega pixels versus the 50 D's 14.7. It's the same body
as the XXI. It's got the 3 inch LCD. A couple of
things that are new in addition to the resolution are
Canon has added a creative audio mode which debuts with
the 5 D and then was in the 50 D. But in this camera it
makes a lot more sense, and it provides a simplified
approach to changing your settings. And frankly, it
probably would be a good way for somebody stepping up
from a point and shoot camera into the world of digital
SLRs. The other big thing about this camera is that it
supports video. You can shoot 720 D video at 30 frames
per second, or 1080 P, 1920 by 1080 video at 20 frames
per second. That makes it at this point the least
expensive digital SLR that supports video recording. I
only got a few minutes to shoot with this, but it feels
nice and responsive like the XXI, and of course has one
of the same issues with it that I don't like, which are
those teeny, tiny little focus points the view finder.
I find it very hard to tell if it's focused are if it's
just flashing at me. I to look forward to testing it
when it's expected to ship later this spring. I'm Lori
Gurnin and this is the Canon EOS Rebel T 1 I.
>> CNET editor -- senior editor I should say, Dan
Ackerman has flown out from New York, and boy are his
arms tired.
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> Pleasure to be here with you boys in sunny San
Francisco.
>> Here covering the Game Developers Conference?
>> We're out here with G D C 2009. That's the Game
Developers Conference. It's not as flashy as E 3, the
big video game show, get a chance to kind of get more of
the up close and personal with the guys who make the
games rather than, like, marketing and PR guys.
>> Now all the coverage I read is that this has been a
pretty boring GDC.
>> Well, it's kind of a down year for the video game
industry overall. There aren't a lot of new consoles
coming out, the new DSI is coming out in a couple of
months, that's about it.
>> And that's just like a marginal improvement --
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> That's still the most popular console out there.
They sold about 100 million of these things. And big
game franchise, God of War, we're seeing a little bit of
that. But a lot of people are concentrating on
downloadable games, Indie games, casual games. Stuff
that's not quite as high profile, but can sell in kind
of these recession addled times.
>> Any buzz on this new on live product that rolled out
recently?
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> At the very top of the show you heard about that,
right?
>> That's where you can kind of play a game on an old
wimpy computer because it's doing all the hard core
processing somewhere else, and kind of sending you the
feed from the game. You know, there have been a bunch
of demos that kind of sort of work. But you really have
to see it in the real world, and I'm a little dubious
until we're actually all sitting in our homes or our
offices playing these games, a good substitute, it's
live right now, quake live, which is a browser-based
version of the quake three, the classic shooter we all
wasted our time with ten years ago.
>> Well it's a latency issue with this thing, right?
Because --
>> Right, you can't send the signal somewhere, have it
processed, send it back over the Internet. When you're
just playing a regular online game with other people you
have latency even if you're doing all the processing
here. And if you go into Xbox Live, you're talking to
the guy next to you, he doesn't here you for ten
seconds.
>> Yeah. And that stuff is hard to control because even
though there's plenty of bandwidth on the back bone, if
there's everybody using on live on the node where, you
know, the neighborhood where you're living --
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> Yeah, if somebody's watching Netflix in the next room
on your home router --
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> More video on to home networks [Inaudible] low
latency for gaming.
>> You're on a cable network, you're sharing the
connection with your neighbor.
>> Yeah. That's right.
>> But we're kind of the in the bottom of the bell curve
for consoles. Right?
>> Too far away from the original launch, this still
have a lot of excitement about the original consoles --
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> That is true. And of course the PlayStation 3 is the
one console of the Big Three that's currently
struggling. They're trying to put out a lot of big
exclusive titles this year, like God of War 3, to catch
up with the Wii that's obviously selling the best, and
the Xbox 360, that's down to 199 now. So that's
obviously appealing to a lot of people looking to not
spend as much money on gaming as they used to.
>> Something like God of War 3 going to save them , I
mean --
>> They say that's going to be a simple seller. That's
their greatest hope for, quote, a system seller, which
is when you go out and buy the console just to play the
game. Some people did that with Gears of War, some
people did that with Metal Gear Solid. They're hoping
God of War, which we haven't seen for a couple of years,
is going to be the savior of the PlayStation 3.
>> Well, I -- I -- I feel like this is just a sign of
the times. It's the economics that are keeping it down.
But E3 is getting bigger this year again. Is that also
having an effect.
>> Well, we're going to see what actually happens at E3.
They had a very small show the last two years because
the game companies decided they were spending way too
much money, and not getting, you know, any real value
out of being there for all the press and stuff. They
would get the same amount of coverage even if they
didn't show up and have this multimillion dollar
display. This year they're bringing it back, but in the
meantime since they made those plans, the whole economy
bottomed out. And all these guys had to pay for their
booths last year, kind of like CES. So they were
already invested. I don't know if there's really going
to be the interest there, or they're going to want to
put the money into following it up.
>> Bunch of empty booths.
>> Might be empty booths, might not be as many booth
babes --
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> They're going to get the old guys from around the
office to put on the bikinis and walk around.
>> But you know what, they'll never run out of game fans
who want to try to get in. So the place will be
flooded.
>> Now the other thing you do is you review laptops,
right? And you just did a great thing, which was taking
all of the laptops that you see in the circulars,
because they like to confuse everybody with these model
numbers -- and you did a review that will actually help
people when they're in the stores, right?
>> Most people when they think of laptops, they go to
Dell or HP, the web site, you configure it, you buy it
on line. But what happens is you get the Sunday paper,
you open it up, there's a Best Buy flyer, whatever, you
see a laptop on sale, you type that model in. It's a
slightly different model number, and a slightly
different model than what you get direct. So we went to
the retail stores, we got like 22 retail laptops from
$600 all the way up to $1200. And we reviewed them. So
when you're looking in the store for -- at a specific
laptop you can now find the review here and we picked
out our favorite in three categories, entry level,
budget, and mainstream.
>> That's a great piece.
>> They do that -- they do that model number thing to
stop the price matching, don't they? That's what I
heard.
>> They do that sometimes. But also if you're a big
retailer like Wal-Mart or Best Buy, then the big
companies like Toshiba and Dell and HP, they'll make a
specific model for you and what you need for your
customers.
>> That why when you go to the other store, you're like,
oh, but this --
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> This laptop is, you know --
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> Match the price and this one is $100 less. Oh, but
that one has a Y --
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> This is the 123 C.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> So they can find this at cnet.com or go in the lab
top section --
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> All right. That's a great piece.
>> Excellent.
>> Anything else from the Game Developers Conference
that you're expecting to see coming up?
>> Well, I think we're seeing a real thrust toward
downloadable games, toward things going down through
Xbox Live and the PlayStation network, because what they
do, then, is they get rid of the concept of putting a
disc in a box, putting it on a truck, driving it to the
store, getting rid of those expensive middle men. They
can save a little money, they can sell you the game for
a little less, and they can extend the shelf life of
games you already bought for the sequel for Fallout 3 is
not going to be ready for a couple of years. So for 20
bucks you download a new mission pack, and everybody
wins.
>> We're hearing a lot about Wii and Xbox and
PlayStation, but how about the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Is that more of an Apple world wide developers
conference crowd. Or are those guys over here who are
doing games for those.
>> Actually that's become so huge in the last I would
say even six months. The iPhone is really second only
to like the DS now in terms of what developers are
excited about in terms of mobile game development.
>> And those guys are here at GDC, and they'll be at the
Apple conference, of course.
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> Apple conference, and they're selling so many of
these iPhone game apps, it's become a huge business.
>> Hmm. Interesting.
>> And micro payments is coming up, because of Apple
announcing that on iPhone 3.0 you'll be able to buy --
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> You know, not really micro payments, but it's an
ability to buy stuff from within the game.
>> But the game industry for years has been trying to
get you to kick in 50 cents here, a dollar here, five
dollars here for new uniforms, new cars, new [Inaudible]
and finally Apple is the one who are actually helping
them do that. Because we've gotten used to that --
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> Now that they're doing so much stuff on Xbox Live,
the PlayStation network, and the Wii network, will you
can buy the Wii wear games, we're finally acclimating
people to do these micro payments for games.
>> That's what it is. Acclimating them to it.
Excellent.
>> All right, Dan Ackerman --
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> Thank you, buddy.
>> Time to take a quick break, but we'll be back with
the download of the week. Show you how to virtualize
LINUX in OS X. Stick with us.
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>> When the biggest stars -- need the biggest laughs --
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>> Why are we laughing?
>> I'm not sure.
>> Weeknights on CBS.
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>> Why are we even laughing?
>> I have no idea.
>> Must be Letterman.
>> Okay -- welcome back to CNET Live. Keep those phone
calls coming. The lines are open at triple 8, 900,
CNET.
>> But first it is time for the download of the week.
Download of the week is brought to you by our good
friend CNET's download.com. They purveyor because they
are purveyors of --
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>> -- those bars in Amsterdam --
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> Virtual box. You've heard me mention it, you heard
me call is openly box by accident, because it open
source. I keep messing that up. But here it is,
running on OS X. And it's running a [Inaudible] you
see, it looks great.
>> There we go. There it is.
>> It had to refresh the screen. But it's like VMware
or parallels or any of those virtualization machines
where it pretends to be a computer and then you can put
any operating system you want on that computer within
your computer. So I actually have on this machine --
let's see if I can --
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> -- on top of what native OS, a Mac, right?
>> I've got Windows XP running here in VMware, and then
I got OS X running natively, because it's a Mac. And
then I've got [Inaudible] running in virtual box. This
is free. VMware costs you 80, 90 bucks. Virtual box,
absolutely free and works great.
>> [Inaudible] virtual box is available for both the
Windows and the Mac OS?
>> I believe it is just for the Mac.
>> Just for the Mac, okay, so this is for the Mac
environment to run either --
>> You can run Windows in here --
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> Yeah.
>> That's pretty hot. And free, love that.
>> And it works really well.
>> Looks like it --
>> Doesn't have all the features of VMware or parallels
--
>> You've had it running here for some [Inaudible]
during rehearsal and everything, no hangs, no crashes.
That's the real --
>> Just the little refresh problem where it needed the
screen to pop back up.
>> That's the real test. Yeah. Let's get to your calls
now, triple 8, 900, CNET. Triple 8, 900, 2638. Let's
see, we're going to jump on a call here I think is one
of the possible heartbreakers out there in the world of
technology, which is when you get your camera dunked.
Let's help out Tyler calling in from Florida. Hello
Tyler, what's your issue?
>> Okay, my issue, [Inaudible] this past weekend and on
one of the water rides I took a video of it and the
camera got dunked in water.
>> All right, so here's the thing. Did you try to turn
it on after it got wet.
>> Yeah. I mean, I let it dry for a few days.
>> Okay, you did the right thing. First of all, let the
camera dry -- or any portable piece of electronics. Let
it dry naturally. Trying to below it off with a hair
dryer or use compressed hair, yeah, that might force
water deeper into it. You never know. This is not a
science. But letting it sit for several days in a warm
area, not out in the garage or in your car or something,
obviously, where it can evaporate out naturally is the
best possible thing. But if you can remember, folks,
before you do this, don't try and turn it on when it's
wet. That's one of the ways you can fry the little
components because the water will be shorting out traces
on the motherboard, the circuit inside of whatever you
have, whether it's a laptop or a camera. But you're
doing about the right thing. Let it slowly dry out.
Not try to force it dry with a can of air and see if it
works. Because water just takes time to dry out of tiny
crevices like you have on a portable. So did you power
it up after letting it dry for several days.
>> Yeah. I did.
>> Does it work?
>> I found -- I found when it's plugged in the back
light on the LCD works, but when it's not plugged in the
back light is off but the LCD is still on.
>> Oh. Well that's odd. Yeah. You've got some water
in there still, or you smoked something when you powered
it up when it was still wet. Beyond that I couldn't
tell you. But it's always a rough -- it's a rough
thing. I mean, let it dry a few more days and then try
it again. But after that bona cera, time to hit eBay
and pick up another one just like it, which you probably
can do pretty cheap. All right, thanks for the call.
Good luck.
>> I want to say I misspoke about virtual box when I
said it was only for [Inaudible] it is -- it is actually
available for Windows, LINUX, open Solarus --
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> Okay, so it goes [Inaudible] you want.
>> [Inaudible] virtual box and virtual whatever you
want.
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> What I think -- I was thinking of is the fact that
you can't virtualize OS X in it on Windows because OS X
has the EFI thing, unless you crack it, which you can.
>> Which we don't recommend. Okay, Microsoft recently
released the latest version of Internet Explorer 8, web
slices. This tab recovery, private browsing, those are
just a few of its new features. Take a look.
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>> Love Internet Explorer or hate it, it's impossible to
deny that Microsoft has banged out a browser they think
will satiate the Microsoft faithful and draw back users
who left IE 7 for faster pastures. Hi, I'm Seth
Rosenblatt for CNET download.com. And in this first
look video I'll be showing you some of the new features
in Internet Explorer 8. Nobody disagreed that IE 7 was
much safer than IE 6. But many argued that it didn't go
far enough. In IE 8 there's stronger protections
against phishing and malware attacks, and there's domain
highlighting. It's simple, but clearly shows you what
web site you're visiting. Arguably the biggest news
in '98 is that it better supports web development
standards. A long standing criticism of Internet
Explorer, this should go a long way toward making the
web render the same on any browser. It's not a
particularly sexy improvement, but it's a necessary one.
There's a compatibility mode for older web pages that
were optimized for previous versions of Internet
Explorer. IE 8 also features tab recovery, which allows
a tab to crash without crashing Internet Explorer
itself. IE 8 also adds a private browsing option in
private. You can turn off the cache and history
recorders, useful for keeping your private data private
when browsing on a public computer, among other things.
Web slices is a new feature that let's you save
predefined section of a web page for at a glance
viewing. Instead of going to a traffic web site for
updates the latest computing news come to you. The
difference between web slices and accelerators, another
new IE 8 feature, is that accelerators make repetitive
tasks such as finding directions simple one-click
behaviors. Users who've been playing around with
Firefox 3 and Google Chrome will notice that IE 8's
location bar does allow for searchs directly from it,
but it won't jump you to the most likely page you're
looking for. You still need to navigate down the list
to avoid jumping to a search page. A bigger concern for
new IE 8 users is that when you install it, if you
choose to include the optional Microsoft malicious
software removal tool, it will run the tool. This can
add 10 to 15 minutes to your install time, so be warned.
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>> So I have to say most of the people I know who tried
IE 8 have undone it and gone back to IE 7.
>> That's a big --
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> They just find it buggy and they've had bad
experiences with it. I haven't. I've upgraded to IE 8.
It seems to be working just fine to me.
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> And I've -- when I put a note out on Twitter asking
what the best IE 8 tips to do would be for video,
everyone said get Firefox. Because you know --
>> Right. Because they're that way.
>> That's the way -- that's the people that live there.
>> Right. That's -- yeah, that neighborhood, you're
going to find those people.
>> Shall we take a last call?
>> Yeah, why not. Or two.
>> Well, let us go to Chicago. Hey David.
>> Hello.
>> Welcome to CNET Live. What can we help you with.
>> I've been looking around for a long time for a really
good free web host that has C panel and has, you know, a
fantastic light auto installer. And I haven't had much
luck. I don't know -- maybe Brian Tom might know,
because he knew about the Yola and the Wix.
>> You're asking about, like, C panel so you can see
kind of like the metrics and some of the behind the
scenes stats of your web site.
>> Yes.
>> Like, I mean, I don't know of any free ones that
offer that. I personal use Lunar Pages. And I can't --
I locked into it a long time ago, so I can't remember
off the top of my head how much I paid for it. Most of
the free web hosting sites, though, once you use free
web hosting they're not going give you a -- for the most
part, all these kind of metrics or analytic tools.
That's kind of the idea where they push you up to
upgrade to a more expensive web hosting package. So I
don't really have one right now for you.
>> Yeah, my general advice when someone wants to get a
free web host is to pay for it. It's not that
expensive. Maybe 8 bucks a month or something like
that. Because you get much more reliable service and
you don't have to take advertisements. A lot of the
free web hosts stick advertisements into your pages.
But I did stumble across a company called
Triplezerowebhost.com. That offers free web hosting,
including free C panel hosting, P HP, MY SQL, all of the
stuff you want. And you pay whatever you feel you can
pay. If you can't pay anything -- you don't pay
anything. They say they have 99.9% up time. Which, you
know, I don't know how much 9s come after that point.
It does make a difference --
>> Only four 9s, not five.
>> And I've seen a lot of people do YouTube videos about
this. I haven't tried them, I can't warrant it. But it
looks a little different than some of the free web
hosts, especially because they don't put any advertising
into it. It's all donation.
>> That's a key one right there. And also go to our
cheapskate blog by Rick Bloita on CNET's crave, at
crave.cnet.com or just go to the cheapskate blog, and
you'll find his offer of free domain hosting we talked
about two or three weeks ago. I believe the offer is
still valid, but this is a Microsoft small business
product. I would suspect that anything positioned that
way is going to have metrics, control panels, things
like that. Because otherwise that won't make sense as a
business product. Try that one as well. There's two
that I think we feel pretty good about. Otherwise,
cheap hosting is a lot better than free hosting, in my
experience.
>> Most of the time.
>> All right, David.
>> Okay, thank you very much.
>> Good stuff.
>> Thanks for calling. Appreciate it.
>> Now the true last call. Who do you want to go with,
guys.
>> Let's go right to California. Stay near by. Mark is
on the line. Hey Mark.
>> Hey. How are you guys doing.
>> Ah, we're doing all right. Just doing a show. What
are you up to.
>> I was just wondering about my iTunes. I just
installed iTunes -- it was installed and the update
froze, and when I came back to the computer I had to
cancel it. And so now whenever I go to burn a disc I
finally reinstalled to the newest iTunes, it tells me
that the CD ROM for the driver cannot be found in
iTunes.
>> Are you in OS X or Windows?
>> XP Pro.
>> You're XP Pro.
>> I would -- have you tried -- I know this is the joke
answer. But have you tried upgrading the Firmware on
the burner.
>> No, I'm not that -- [Inaudible] --
>> Well because if it's telling you it can't find the
driver, maybe somehow during the install the driver got
corrupted. And if you reinstall it or upgrade it that
might help. And then [Inaudible] is thinking, you know,
just going through and reinstalling iTunes as well. But
--
[ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> Yeah, exactly. The preferences are construct or
something. That would be the only thing that could help
it out. So --
>> Yeah. It sounds like -- it may not be an iTunes
problem. It may in fact be a CD burner problem.
>> Could have just gotten smoked. That's always
possible. Does the CD burner work otherwise as a reader
when you pop in a disc, does it recognize the OS
automatically and all that stuff?
>> Yeah. Yeah. And it was working fine, literally a
week ago, up until the iTunes --
>> Still works fine today as a reader. Does your -- you
can still pop a disc in and read any old pre-burned
disc, right?
>> Yes. All right.
>> Do you have another burning software besides iTunes?
>> Or go download something and try it.
>> Normal -- I have a lot. I have [Inaudible] and I
have --
>> I'm just wondering if you can burn a CD with another
piece of software. Have you tried that.
>> Oh yeah. I can do that, yeah.
>> Okay, sounds like iTunes then.
>> Yeah. I would try -- I would try the driver just
upgrading the driver. Because maybe iTunes has some
broken link with the driver. But that's a tough one.
>> All right.
>> Good luck with that. Maybe you'll be calling us next
week saying hey stupids, it still isn't working.
>> Well, you know, we'll deal with that at another time.
So that's it for this week. Next week, the cheap skate,
Rick Broida, CNET's cheap guy, will be joining us. So
you're going to watch [Inaudible] that one and learn how
to save big.
>> That will be on Thursday at 4 p.m. eastern.
>> 1 o'clock Pacific.
>> 10 AM Hawaiian, like we always do.
>> There it is. See you next week.
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