PC Cybertek

I got a new host and have started 4 new websites last month. This one had become neglected but I will probably revamp this. I’m now using Word Press and love it. Blogger was great to get me started, but having my own host running Word Press is so much better. I believe I can import this into Word Press. Then I’ll host it myself.

The other sites I started aren’t finished yet. One is a personal blog that I just set up so I can keep my family and friends current on what I’m up to.

Another one is a site for my music. I haven’t done a whole lot with this one yet because I’ve been too busy. Once it’s open I’ll post a link here.

Another one is a political blog. I’ve never been big into politics. Mostly because I’ve been so disgusted with our government. But things have changed and I find myself quite interested in our new President. This is the latest of my website projects. Just started it a couple nights ago and have been working on it full steam. This one I hope to generate some revenue with eventually. That makes it different from all the others. I’m even going to give Google Ad Words some money to promote it.

And last, but not least, the wife and I are making a site for our art. But this one is also neglected at the moment. We have done some more art but I haven’t posted any of it. This one will also run on Word Press.

There is also a blog I am suppose to build for my family once I get a little more time (hah).

So many things have happened in the tech world that I need to talk about. I’ll be back here soon…

I’ve always only put advertisements on here from companies I support, use and believe in. Which is one reason you won’t find many ads on this site. And as you can see I have Amazon MP3′s on here now.

The reason I have them here is they are better than iTunes and I hope they catch on. First off, let me say I’m not an Apple hater. I started out with an Apple ][+, which I loved. I made the switch to PC's because Apple quit making the Apple II's with the Apple ][GS and when the Macs came out, they were $5000 and a PC could be had for around $1000. I also use Macs at work to edit video for our TV news broadcast as well as any other video editing I do there. So I don't hate Apple. Now that I've cleared that up, let me tell you why I like Amazon.

All the MP3′s at Amazon are DRM free. That means Amazon’s MP3′s don’t have that nasty digital rights management, that keeps you from playing the music you’ve paid for, on more than 1 computer or portable music player, at a time. I really hate the fact that you have to “Deautorize” a song before you can move it to another computer or player. I have several computers, a Sony PSP and a couple of mp3 players. When I want to transfer a song, that I bought, I want to just transfer it. Not go through the hassle of “deauthorizeing” and removing it from my other computers or music players. If I get a song from Amazon, it’s .89 or .99 cents and I can put it on all all my computers, and media players. They are also encoded at 256k. iTunes are not mp3s, but aac and they are encoded at only 128k. Apple has responded to the Amazon “threat” by offering some music, EMI’s catalog is the only ones I see currently, in a DRM free, 256k AAC file, for $1.29. You get the same thing on all of Amazon’s mp3′s for $.89 or $.99

What iTunes does have over Amazon is convenience of buying. The iTunes program makes it pretty easy to buy songs. iTunes also has a bigger library of available music. If you’re capable of downloading music and copying it to your portable player than I suggest checking out Amazon first, if they don’t have what you’re looking for, than you might want to try iTunes. For me, the choice is easy, less expensive, higher quality and DRM free, that’s how I like my music.

I got a client who wants me to build a new video editing system. So I’m going to go through it with you. Show you what parts I chose and why. I’m going to head over to newegg and and pick out the parts. Then I’ll be back to show you what I have decided to use.

When this month started, I was fairly excited. Computer security is a subject that I’m very interested in. It’s also a subject I know a quite a bit about. So when I said this month would be dedicated hacking, I was really talking about computer security, and I figured I would have a lot of material to post. Then something called life came into the picture. A bunch of problems cropped up, and seeing how there are already too many blogs that are about people’s lives, I figured I’d spare my readers, both of you, the boring details.

Never fear. The cool thing about having my own blog is, I can do what ever I want with it. I’m going to make April computer security month also. And with any luck, I’ll post something tonight that actually deals with that topic.

I’m home for lunch and I got a TV show to edit. I don’t think my boss would appreciate me being late because I was busy blogging. So I got to head back to work before I’m even later than I am now.

It’s been a while since I’ve updated anything here. Recently I took over as video editor at work. So on top of my I.T. job, which can be quite time consuming on its own, I’m editing the news broadcast everyday and pretty much everything else. This leaves me pretty spent by the end of the day. On top of that, there has been a lot of work to do around the house. Add to that the lack of interest this blog has generated; I don’t know that anyone even visits here. I just didn’t feel like there was much point in continuing it.

While watching some hacking podcasts I felt inspired. I decided I will devote the month of March to the topic of computer security and hacking.

This month I will show you some of my favorite sites, tools, podcasts and blogs that deal in computer security and hacking. I plan on doing a lot of posts this month. Hopefully I’ll get a comment or two so I know there is someone out there and have a reason to continue updating. If so, I will continue to be more active here and devote each month to a topic. There are so many topics I would like to cover. This way, there will be some sort of theme each month and not just random bits here and there.