Show Notes: Episode 104
Security Expert. www.grc.com
I created the first Personal Firewall Leaktest, now there are dozens. But what do they all do? How do they work? What do they test? What does it mean that ALL personal firewalls FAIL at least some of the leaktests that have been written? Leo and I will discuss the topic Firewall Leaktesting. We show charts of leaktest performance, and talk about whether or not users should be concerned if their personal firewall is “leaky”.
Photographic Artist, Mobile Media Producer
Well produced digital slideshows with the right images and the right music can create compelling and evocative viewing on your HiDef TV. But done badly, it will drive people away. In this segment, Jim Everett covers the art, techniques and software for you to create and display slideshows that will have people wanting more.
Methods for displaying slideshows – movie, package, media+player, DVD
Resolution options – DVD, HiDef DVD, Hard Drive, 720 HD, 1080 HD
Choosing pictures+music, assembly, transitions+timing, image qualityRELATED WEBSITE LINKS
www.itookthat.com – my photography blog site with links
www.jamesgordongallery.com – my online galleryPRODUCTS SHOWN:
* Adobe - Photoshop CS3 $649, Elements $99 - www.adobe.com
* Kekus – LensFix $25 - www.kekus.com
* PictureCode - Noise Ninja $45 Pro $80 - www.picturecode.com
* Pantone – Huey $80 Pro $120 – www.pantone.com
* Boinx FotoMagico $49 Express $129 Pro – www.boinx.com
* Roxio – Toast 8 Titanium $80 – www.roxio.comSmartsound –Sonicfire Pro $200 - www.smartsound.com
LQGraphics - PhotoToMovie $49.95 - www.lqgraphics.com
Nikon – D200 SLR
Apple iLife08 – iMovie, iDVD – www.apple.com
www.mrexcel.com
Excel 2007 offers amazing new data visualization tools such as icon sets, data bars, and color scales.
Data bars are tiny cell-sized bar charts that can be applied to a range of numbers.
Color scales allow you to apply a gradient to a range of numbers; think largest numbers in green, smallest numbers in red
Icon sets allow you to apply traffic light icons to a range of numbers.
In the example on the show:
Apply a red-yellow-green icon set to column A
Apply a cell-phone power bar to column C
Apply checkmarks to column E
Filter the dataset to show only green and yellow in A
Filter to show only checkmarks in E.
Sort to bring all the best power bars to the top of C.* I will post show notes at http://www.mrexcel.com/tip148.shtml
PRODUCTS SHOWN:
Excel 2007 Miracles Made Easy
$24.95
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Air Date: November 7, 2007
TranscriptCaller Questions
- David, Adelaide, SA
- Alexander, Toronto, ON
- Paul, Oakville, ON
Yewell's Jewels
- Jigsaw Puzzle Promo Creator 2.0windows
Jigsaw Puzzle Promo Creator is a wizard that will help you simply and quickly create your own custom jigsaw puzzles. These small jigsaw puzzle games can contain your logo, banner, picture, corporate colors, and a link to your web site, all in one short executable file. All texts are localizable or changeable. Promote your Web site, services, or products with your jigsaw puzzles
Sean's Shinies
- Running Cap/Knit Cap for iPod Nano
$30 / $23
Looking for a place to store your iPod? Why not on your head? iXoundWear has a couple of new hats that are designed to hold your iPod Nano while keeping your head warm too. Both the Running Cap and the Knit Cap have pockets for the iPod, plus small cable management systems designed to tuck away the extra headphone wire between your iPod and your ears. It’s not the most attractive solution in the whole world but hey, it works.Pro
- tucks iPod away
- cable management system built in
Con
- not that attractive
Kate’s Tips
- Mini Map Sidebar
Firefox add-on by Tones.
The Minimap Addon gives you a suite of in-built maps and mapping tools for your web browser. Create and save a sidebar map using the addresses or address links you find on web pages (highlight then drag and drop), or by manually adding locations. View traffic Info, drag and drop kml files, local search, Google, Yahoo and Live Local directions, view in google earth, tagzania, platial, geourl and many more. Address/Location points are stored locally for later use.
This extension comes with two mapping components, the main and most powerful one being a minimap sidebar. In this sidebar you can drag and drop addresses or locations you find on web pages and they will be automatically located, and added to your saved address list. The sidebar is launched from the toolbar icon (customise toolbar and drag in), a statusbar icon and the view sidebar menu. The extension also comes with a main browser Map Tab for viewing a larger map and this is accessed from the statusbar or by highlighting an address, and selecting ‘Map Tab: Locate Address…’ in the right click context menu. A few of the extension features available:
* Map an Address: Drag and drop addresses or links (the view in google/yahoo type) to show on map, which is added to the address list (hold shift when you drag to just display a temporary marker). Manually add an address. Build up a list of locally stored addresses.
* Map a Coordinate: Manually add a coordinate which is added to the address list.
* geoDiscovery: The extension will automatically discover geoURL’s and in-line geotags and populate the geoDiscovery list as you browse. Alerts you to the discovery via a status bar image.
* KML File: Drag and drop kml file links to show on map.
* The Crosshair and Lat/Lon box: Map has a centre cross hair which displays the latitude and longitude in the top right hand corner of the map.
* Navigation: Map, Satellite or Hybrid views. Pan and zoom.
* Address list: Build up a list of locally stored addresses and kml files.
* Directions: Get google / yahoo / microsoft directions to/from an address list entry and/or set a locally stored ‘Home Address’ to get directions to/from an address list entry.
* Tagzania.com: View tagzania.com/near and post address list entry to tagzania.
* Platial.com: View Platial Today Nearby entries based on an address list entry. View Platial Places based on an address list entry. Add an address list entry to Platial Places.
* Google Earth: View an address list entry in Google Earth.
* Loc.alize.us: View loc.alize.us flickr photos based on an address list entry.
* Googlesightseeing.com: Drag and drop googlesightseeing links to view the image of interest.
* Localize: Change Google geocoder source to help improve address results, as well as change the maps domain for directions.
* Miscellaneous: Toolbar launcher available.