Day: June 22, 2007

Vacation Bible School at FVC, Greensboro – Was High Tech and Awesome!

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Here’s the image I promised in the last podcast of my son, the GameMaster, (Benjamin Bailey) as “Robert” the robot in the SonForce Kids Vacation Bible School that just ended this evening at Faith & Victory Church! Click on the link below to watch a video of a scene from the VBS play! It was VERY cool!

SonForce Kids Vacation Bible School Flash Video

And, by the way, here’s a link to our Church web site:

Faith & Victory Church Web Site

The VBS was AWESOME! Check out the flash video scene and you will see what I mean! Benjamin was a GREAT robot, and the other actor in the scene is my nephew, Jonathan Wood. Way to go, guys! Oh, the rest of the cast was awesome too… here’s a shot of the cast below: (From left to right) Jessica Taylor, Shannon Taylor, Benjamin Bailey, Rashon Lee, Jonathan Wood!

iTunes is the #3 Music Retailer!

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Talk about market share! iTunes is number three behind Wal-Mart and Best Buy. Pretty cool! AND, you can get the Dr. Bill Podcat there for free by clicking this link:

The Dr. Bill Podcast iTunes Subscription!

Here’s the BetaNews article on the story!

NPD: iTunes Now #3 Music Retailer

“iTunes’ dominance in the music industry continues to grow, data from the NPD Group showed Friday. Apple surpassed Amazon as the third largest retailer for music sales in the first quarter of the year, with 9.8 percent of the overall market. Apple is also gaining on leaders Wal-Mart and Best Buy, who finished the quarter with 15.8 and 13.8 of the market, respectively. Analysts at NPD say Apple’s strength is surprised considering sales are down by a fifth over last year. However, they also pointed out that both Wal-Mart and Best Buy are behemoths in the music industry, and will be hard to catch.”

Geek Software of the Week: OpenDNS!

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Wow! That is my review. WOW! This is SO cool! OpenDNS is a great FREE service that allows you to set your local PC (or PC network behind a router) to their DNS servers. They then allow you to choose to block all adult sites in your OpenDNS web site account logon. So, if you set your PC to their DNS servers, you are then protected from ALL adult and questionable sites! After following their instructions on their web site, and if you are getting your settings from your local router’s DHCP server, you can then type in “ipconfig /release” at the PC command prompt… then do a “hard reboot” of the local PC system. After it comes back up, check again using the command prompt and type: “ipconfig /all” and look for what the DNS is set to. It should be set to:

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

If so, you are good to go! If not, follow their instructions for setting up and individual PC. I have tried it, and it rocks! This is a great service to be FREE!!! Here’s the link to their web site:

OpenDNS Service

“OpenDNS is a safer, faster, smarter and more reliable way to navigate the Internet. Our service is free and requires nothing to download.”

They also have built-in speed enhancements to the DNS lookups, and auto-spell checking of your addresses typed in the URL address box in your browser… how cool is that?! Also, OpenDNS intercepts phishing attempts. OpenDNS customers will be warned if they attempt to visit a phishing site!

Red Hat Has Also Done the Right Thing!

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I saw today in Mary Jo Foley’s Blog that Red Hat is also in the list of Linux vendors to refuse Microsoft’s “Protection Racket” scheme! Way to go, guys!

Now three Linux vendors won’t sign patent deals with Microsoft

“For a while, it was looking like Microsoft threats (and money) would convince a substantial number of Linux distribution providers to sign “interoperability and IP protection” pacts with Redmond. But as of today, the ‘deal/no deal’ count is even. Novell, Xandros and Linspire all have signed deals that Microsoft and those companies say will protect Linux users from the threat of Microsoft lawsuits over alleged patent infringements by open-source software on Microsoft products. Executives at Red Hat, Canonical/Ubuntu and now Mandriva all say they have decided against signing similar deals.”