About my Youtube Usernames and other stuff

This video is how I picked my Youtube usernames

Video location
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNhzxUflYuM

My youtube channels

ComputerPimp
http://www.youtube.com/Computerpimp

Basiccomputerhelp
http://www.youtube.com/basiccomputerhelp

To my ASP or PHP question
http://allaboutwilliam.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-is-better-aspnet-or-php.html

Bonus: to my Windows Live Writer Review
http://allaboutwilliam.blogspot.com/2008/12/review-of-windows-live-writer.html

What is better ASP.net or PHP?

I have been working on Designing a few new sites, and I was wondering what is better ASP.net or PHP?

If you know of a website or article that reviews the performance of both that is good i am reading a few sites now.  I have experience with PHP 4 but will be using the new PHP5 now, so will need to learn it.

 

Remember i allow anonymous comments so please post your recommendations and subjections for websites on articles on this topic.

Review of Windows Live Writer

I have been playing around with Windows live Writer now for a few days. I have to say that I really like it.

• It has a very good spell checker, good because I am a very bad speller.
• It got my blog layout so now I can see what my blogs will look like before i publish them. With bloggers built in writer you have to use the default template.
• Never in my life did I ever think I would say this. Microsoft Windows Live Writer makes Standards Compliant code and bloggers code is a nightmare when I have to edit the code by hand after.
• Bad thing is it keeps updating the preview in the embed window when. I type that is a little distracting to me. I would rather have to hit the preview button myself
• here is a video that I embedded with WLW.
• A feature that I would love to see in this is a auto save. You know incase i have a error and have to exit the program. I don’t what to lose a lot of work, but it does not matter because I make sure I save every 5 minutes.

So I would have to say that WLW is a good program. I can use it when I am at my Grandparents house or on the road to create a blog entry. You can download it here http://download.live.com/writer

How did spam gets its name?

youtube video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVRU73y0O9M

How did spam gets its name?

a good article i just found about SPAM
http://hkentcraig.com/HowInternetSpamGotItsName.html

wikipedia artical on SPAM
http://tinyurl.com/9k2y2

Posted as a responce to HappyCabbie's video here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34siCA9_QWY
William McCormick

how to use the Disk CleanUp Utility

youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vZjYkOC7KY

i will show you how to use the Disk CleanUp Utility on Windows Operating Systems

William McCormick
http://allaboutwilliam.blogspot.com/

a conflict of interest on my part

I just read a post from prwatch.org that has me at a personal conflict.

this post here wrote:

Virginia Slims new, pink "purse pack"Philip Morris (PM) hopes to make cigarettes even more appealing to women by introducing a new, pink "purse pack" of its Virginia Slims brand in the first quarter of 2009. ...

The conflict I am having is 2 things. One if was was Philip Morris i would maybe do the same thing to try to make money. But the other is I am kinda against Smoking.

on another note as a Libertarian i do support what they are doing.

The original post is here http://www.prwatch.org/node/7919

Whats in My Dock? responce to FoolonComputers

Youtube URL http://tinyurl.com/3rm6ql

Whats in My Dock? responce to FoolonComputers

to get rocketdock
http://rocketdock.com/

download it
http://rocketdock.com/download

my blogtv
http://www.blogtv.com/People/ComputerPimp

yours, William McCormick

Are you a puppet? Palin/Rove/O'Reilly get owned.

this is a good video i think everyone should watch video is from here http://tinyurl.com/6jr7d9

"I by no means am suggesting Republicans have a monop...
I by no means am suggesting Republicans have a monopoly on this, it does go both ways. That being said, it has been my experience that the vast majority of it does occur on one side- both in frequency and severity.

Yet again, it becomes clear certain people couldn't care less about the truth, and are only interested in relaying marching orders for their agenda."

what do you think about it

My Discloser Policy

This policy is valid from 13 September 2008


This blog/vlog is a personal blog/vlog written/produced and edited by me. For questions about this blog/vlog, please contact William McCormick (w112785 At gmail Dot com).

This blog/vlog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.

This blog/vlog abides by word of mouth marketing standards. We believe in honesty of relationship, opinion and identity. The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog/vlog. That content, advertising space or post will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content.

I am compensated to provide opinions on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though I receive compensation for our posts or advertisements, I will always give my honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog/vlog are purely my own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

This blog/vlog does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.

To get your own policy, go to http://www.disclosurepolicy.org


edit 28 December 2008: fixed a grammatical error and made the disclosurepolicy website a link

Changes are coming

I am going to be posting a long message on September 13th 2008 at 8 PM eastern time this new post will be my new Discloser Policy. It will be Text and a Video of me reading the new policy. The time is set so i can script out the video and shot the video. This will be my Policy on accepting payment in exchange for a review of peoples services. More information will be posted later today on it

chrome IE8 and c# updates

http://tinyurl.com/4jo675


Why does IE8 sometimes not pass Acid 2 test
http://tinyurl.com/397bl4

IE8
http://tinyurl.com/6nl26k

Google Chrome
http://tinyurl.com/6otjsk

William McCormick

Ubiquity for firefox

Vimeo video with more discription:
http://tinyurl.com/6cerkv

Ubiquity website:
http://tinyurl.com/5zbbr6

to download ubiquity:
http://tinyurl.com/5sqh5t

Questions to the Readers?

What would you like to see video's of in the future? You may leave comments and anonymous comments are allowed.

Delay's Delay's Delay's

Been having Delays because of House work and Regular normal work. Hoping that i will be able to do at least 2 blog posts a week. with one being a video post.

My Youtube Video Accounts
ComputerPimp
Basic Computer Help

What is the Most important Operating System

this video is to hold over tell i can get chapter 4 finished.

If you what to get into programming this video is important


I Do not own the video Microsoft does

Link to a URL in a Youtube description box

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hyJfRMyKeI

Link to a URL in a Youtube description box

my e-mail address BasicComputerHelp (at) gmail (dot) com

Basic Computer Repair Tools

Video Location
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po3J8-jMIQM
Some of the Basic Tools i use to Fix computers

Questions put answers in comments or leave video responces:
What are some of the weirdest computer repair jobs you ever had?

also not in video:
What are tools you use and are not in the video?

my next video will be on monday july 21,2008

Q&A

Video Location
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqc6A_1SwyQ

Questions that I have received about the other videos I have created

My General Blog
http://allaboutwilliam.blogspot.com/
C# Programming Blog
http://learncsprogramming.blogspot.com/
SourceForge website
http://sourceforge.net/projects/learncsprogramm
ComputerPimp Channel
http://www.youtube.com/computerPimp

FoolonComputers my youtube partner
http://www.youtube.com/fooloncomputers

William Edward McCormick

QUESTION

Leave Your Comment Below

New to FireFox version 3

Showing off some of the features of firefox 3

http://allaboutwilliam.blogspot.com/

My other Youtube Channel
http://www.youtube.com/ComputerPimp

My Youtube Partner
http://youtube.com/FoolonComputers

How To use Ad-Aware and MS Windows Defender

to download Ad-aware
http://lavasoft.com/

to get MS Windows Defender
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secur...

Also not in the Video i have partnered with FoolonComputer so please check out his videos and subscribe please!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqDvjpkAnkk

FireFox 3 RC 2features

Showing off some of the features of Firefox 3 rc 2.

location of the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuoznHM9c9g


William Edward McCormick

What is "hiberfil.sys"

one question i get from some more advanced users is

What is this "hiberfil.sys" file in the root of my C drive? and why is it so big?

this is easy if you have hibernation enabled than when you hibernate your computer all the data in your ram goes into this file. Now it is so big because it has to fit your ram card into it if your ram is 512 MB then you will notice that the hiberfil.sys will be about 513 Mb, min mine (if enabled) is 2 GB, if you need the space than you can disable it in power management

In XP

1. Right click on your desktop and click Properties.
2. Click the "Screen Savor" tab (on the top)
3. Click the power settings button
4. Click the "Hibernation" tab, then uncheck the box next to "Enable Hibernation"
5. Click ok, the Click ok again.
6. You May have to restart your computer.
   

In Vista It is a lot more complicated

1. Click on the Start button (the little window button, normaly in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen)
2. in the search box type cmd and Do NOT PRESS ENTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3. Right click on "cmd.exe" and click "Run as Administrator"
4. Click Continue when the UAC prompt appears
5. Type powercfg -h off and press ENTER...

William Edward McCormick

Using CCleaner

This Video will show you how to use CCleaner to free up space on your harddrive

something that made me think

this is something that made me think

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

How to Defragment your Hard Drive

This Video will show you how to Defragment one or more of your hard drives on both windows XP and on windows Vista

reasons for Defragmenting your HD:
1) Defragmentation can result in a 200% performance gain on a single computer
2) In some, rare, cases it increases Hard Drive Space.

Original video Location
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXty5sPWT7c



Copyright (C) 2008 By William Edward McCormick

High Speed

Well one

Common question i get is I am trying to get high speed internet what do i do?

This is a easy question first compare what options are available to you some area's only have one option, i personally have only two options (AT&T and Comcast) but have seen as many as 10+ options in a area and that is only about 2,000 feet (609.6 meters) from my house. After you get what options are available to you go to this website to compare the price, service speed. Go to this website http://www.ispcompared.com/ sorry i am not sure if they are USA only or not.

Another question i get is:

What is better DSL or cable?

My answer to that is to does not matter to much. 6 in one 1/2 dozen in the other.

My favorite anti-virus

One Question i have gotten from a reader is

What is my favorite anti-virus program? What if money was no object?

Well i use to Recommend Avg no mater what, i now recommend McAfee. If you can afford it, but if money is tight than Avg is a good choice.
Some of the things i like about McAfee are :

• It is has a good anti-virus engine
  
• It stays out of your way
• It has a good firewall
• It catches all the viruses i have ever had
  

Another Software that i have used and like is Avast
The anti-virus software i recommend you never get now is Nortan they use to be good but now they slow down your computer and likes to block certain internet programs that are commonly used.

No Recycle Bin Vista

After my last blog post i got a Email from a reader stating that his/her desktop is set to show Icons and they still can't see there Recycle Bin, after looking into this problem there is a reason for this in Vista you can set the Recycle bin to not be shown on your desktop

solution: Right click on your desktop -> click personalize -> click Change desktop icons (it is on the left hand side) -> check the Recycle bin check box (in the Desktop Icons group) -> aply the settings and exit the windows and you should have a Recycle Bin icon on your desktop

No recycle bin on my desktop

A question i got on from my post here is that thair is no icon for the recycle bin or any Icon for that mater.
Sulution: you Icons are being hidden right click on your desktop and in the "Arrange Icons By" menu click "Show Desktop Icons" should salve your problems

FireWalls

This is not so common of a question but something i believe should be answered here

Should i run more than 1 firewall?

This is simple no. Firewalls work by filtering your internet trafic so it slows down the internet for you by a small amount. Now when you install 2, 3, i have seen them all the way up to 8, you start noticing a difference as one filter filters the other. I will not go into detail about firewalls here but you should run just one. If you run Windows XP sp2 than you can use that firewall without to much worry.

If you would what to read more about firewalls than here



ANY OPINIONS ON THIS PAGE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE ARTICAL

Clean your keyboard

One Question which was extremely common after the MRSA outbreak in the state city of Detroit and maybe the rest of the USA is

How do i clean my keyboard so i do not get MRSA?

answer is clean your keyboard with these steps:

1. Shut off your computer.
2. get a rag and some light cleaner like window cleaner.
3. put the cleaner on the rag and wipe you keyboard with it.
4. use a dry rag, dry the keyboard.
5. wait about 15 min's and you can turn on your computer.

William Edward McCormick

How to Erase your Hard Drive

One Common question i get is this

William I what to sell my computer to my friend, but i do/did my banking on that computer. How do i Make sure that no matter how hard he tries he can never get it?

Short answer is change the hard drive. If that is not a possible solution, which is common, use a program called eraser (http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/), this program has a feature called create nuck boot disk, make sure your old computer has a floppy disk drive. The boot disk will overwrite your old hard drive with random numbers so it will be very extremely hard to recover the old data. you can also use eraser to make sure that just the data you want to erase is only erased but not a secure. there are blogs on more extreme way to protect your data but if your friend is trying to get your information that you need to resort to that level of extremes than well do not sell him the computer .

Some Common Computer Problems

Thair are some Common computer problems that people call me to fix that i am going to post here for the average computer user. these problems are basic and are often times forgotten by the average user.

My computer had low hard drive space even if i delete a lot of stuff why?

OK do not laugh but this is common with the new computer user when you delete a file from your computer most of the time it is just moved to a folder called Recycle Bin, most of the time on your desktop. Just right click on it and click "empty recycle bin". that should take care of the not freeing up space next alternative is to buy a second hard drive and ether have someone install it or install it yourself.

My Computer has a lot of pop-ups why?

This is more than likely spy ware my preferred program to get rid of them is ad-aware and after use windows defender to help prevent further infections, but spy ware is getting more and more complicated everyday so no garentees on if it will work sometimes the computer might have to be completely Reinstalled to fix the problem

ANY OPINIONS ON THIS PAGE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE ARTICAL

Weird Repair solutions I've Seen

I what to talk about why people online keep posting "Speed Up your computer Tricks", Most of the time involving Registry hacks. Now i have no problems with people posting msconfig help they are all good but most of the time they recommend going into your registry and editing some setting. Now the only thing i like about this trick is it keeps me in business when i have to clean the mess up. some of the registry tweaks are just plain stupid like one speeds up the time in witch the menus open up, now let me tell you a safer way to speed up opening the menus, ready, click on them. Most of the novices are going to be using the mouse to open menus anyway so just click. Now in the next few days i will be posting some useful but small advice about computer maintenance and when i get a video camera working i will also post youtube vlogs about computer repair. So `tell next time peace and please post useful tips on computer repair and maintenance.

William Edward McCormick