Personal Software Inspector

While listening to SecurityNow, Steve Gibson recommended the Personal Software Inspector by Secunia. It scans your computer and looks for software that needs to be patched. If you are serious about keeping your computer secure, this is a great tool to have in your toolbox. It tells you all of the programs on your computer that need to updated. It even notifies you of software that is end-of-life. It found several programs on my main computer that needed attention. It even has in depth descriptions and links to the updates. Give it a try for yourself. Let me know what you think.

CTI Open House (June 21, 2008)

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Computer Techniques, Inc. We are all very excited to announce our Open House on June 21st. This will be at our offices at 1100 Sportsman Drive, Taylorville, Il (Next to the High School). Come and join us for some food and fun. We'll also be giving a bunch of stuff away. Including a Asus Eee PC, you know that cool Ultra-Portable computer that I've spoke of on the radio show. We'd be happy to see you, so stop on by and say Hi!

Live Web Meeting (5-18-2008)

Come join us for the live web meeting on DimDim. The meeting will start at 8:00PM. If you have trouble getting in IM me at talktechwithcti(at)gmail.com or jeffrey.durbin(at)yahoo.com. If all else fails post a comment to this post. Stop by and say Hi! Almost forgot you can also use the Digsby chat widget that is on the blog to talk to me. Hope to see you soon.

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Special Guest on Talk Tech 5-13-08

We're happy to announce that we will be having a special guest on Talk Tech with CTI. Should be interesting. Our guest will be Chris Franzen,Technology Coordinator for Nokomis School District. We'll get Chris' take on technology in education.

Also, just want to remind everybody that the web meetings are getting smoother. I'll be having another one this coming Sunday. Stop by and chat or catch me on IM at jeffrey.durbin(at)Yahoo.com or talktechwithcti(at)gmail.com. If you see me on say hi.

Live Web Meeting Results

I'd like to say this has been fun. These web meetings have been interesting. Tonight, didn't get a huge turn out. It was informative though. vicb66 and I talked about free legal online TV sites. I had remembered I had heard of one called http://hulu.com and we ended up being surprised. The site is awesome. Check it out, they have a bunch of cool shows. Of course I was sold as soon as I saw they had The Simpsons. Go to HuLu

Live Web Meeting

If anyone would like to join me I am on DimDim right now. You can email at info@talktechwithcti.com and I will add you to the meeting. Or you can just click on this link: Live Web Meeting pick a name and add an email address and you are in. I am also availble on IM at jeffrey.durbin(at)yahoo.com and talktechwithcti(at)gmail.com

Join me on PMOG

Recently, I started playing a game called PMOG. PMOG(Passively Multiplayer Online Game)is really simple to play and exposes you to loads of web sites you might not have found otherwise. Here's the description of the game from the About PMOG page.

PMOG is an infinite game built on individual network histories, transforming our web surfing into ongoing social play. With a game head-up display in Firefox, players can bomb each other, wage war over web sites, and lead other users on web missions. Ordinary web sites become caches for items and currency. PMOG fuses an MMO into our WWW.

Unsurprisingly, I've found this game highly addictive. It's been fun and I've found a ton of cool sites from playing the game. Come in and join me. If you need an invite let me know and I'll send you one. Just post a comment requesting one or send an email to jeff(at)talktechwithcti.com.

Web Meeting on 5-4-2008

Join our web meeting by clicking here: Join Web Meeting Once you join just give it your email address and screen name you would like to use. If you have trouble joining and have GMail I'm talktechwithcti(at)gmail.com come chat with me. You can also catch me as jeffrey.durbin(at)yahoo.com I've got both logged in to IM. Come join Us.

Web Meeting on 5-4-2008

OK! Where hosting a web meeting on DimDim on Sunday at 8:00PM. Come join us it should be fun. Justin and I are planning on being there and maybe some of the other guys will join us. Ask us questions and chat to us live. Send me an email at info@talktechwithcti.com to resgister in advance. On Sunday I will post the link to the web meeting. Really! Come join us.