The DogHouse Podcast

#9 The DogHouse – Fusion Frenzy

Computer Technology News

Homeland Security Advisory Council adds Jeff Moss. Moss is the Defcon founder and is taking his hacking skills away from the “Dark Side.” We discuss our opinions on his new seat in the council and look forward to seeing some great progress in cyber security.

Nuclear fusion is one step closer to reality.

PC Gaming

Bio Shock + Oblivion  = 80 “game of the year” awards for only $39.99!

Technical Corner featuring

Josh sends us some questions regarding Blizzard titles and Nvidia SLI compatibility. We also comment on his questions regarding Dalaran Lag and Network Operations.

Feburis wants to find a bottle neck on his system. He also wants to know what would be the best video card for his price range.

Cory needs a way to stretch his games across 3 displays, we introduce him to Matrox.com.

Charley has questions regarding system overheating and upgrade options. We dig a little deeper to find the best upgrade path for him. Windows 7 upgrade tool also comes up, DogHouse Systems will include an upgrade code with any Vista purchase prior to the launch in October.

Contest WINNER!

Winning entry for last week’s contest – Guard Dog

The new Guard Dog backup system consists of a 500GB or a 1TB external drive and comes with a 3 year warrantee. Let the Guard Dog backup and maintain your data while you game away. Paired with the easy to use Sync toy from Microsoft, the Guard Dog will store your pictures, music, saved game files and more; just perform the weekly backup utility to maintain current files and let the Guard Dog do the rest.”  – Joseph M

New Contest!

We have a WoW trivia question in our podcast, first person to answer it receives the J!NX code!!

What is the first usable legendary item in the World of Warcraft? Contact us via email or phone to submit your answer!

Contact Information
We welcome your feedback, comments, and suggestions! If you would like to submit a question for a future podcast you can leave a message for us at 214-705-3788 . Try and keep your message under a minute so we can play it back on the next show. We can also be reached by email: podcast@doghousesystems.com

Download MP3
iTunes Subscription
RSS Feed

#8 The DogHouse – Tick Tock (Intel Interview)- Direct Download

Computer Technology News
Milton Walker from Intel joins us on the podcast this week to review new Intel products and items to look for in the future!
Palm Pre launch was successful, over 50,000 sold opening weekend.
We review and discuss the new remote friendly Hulu application.
Windows 7 official release date to be October 22, 2009, quick discussion on RC1 and its availability till retail launch.

PC Gaming
Star Wars MMO: Star Wars: Old Republic! Dibs on R2D2!!!
Final Fantasy XIIV to be launched for PC and PS3, hopefully we will see a cross platform title!

Technical Corner featuring
We review some emails from our listeners regarding learning more about computers and computers components, a question regarding the future of SLI and WoW, a laptop heat issue, and a question regarding 3D Vision from Nvidia.

Darrell’s Tech Tip of the Week
Setting up Sync Toy Task scheduler
1. Open Task Scheduler. Click on Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Task Scheduler.
2. On the right hand side, under Actions, click on “Create Basic Task…”
3. Give it a name and optionally give it a description.
4. In this next step, you set up when you want the backup to start. I would recommend “Daily” or even consider “When the computer starts” if you don’t leave your computer on all the time. When you are done with your selection, click next to continue.
5. If you choose daily, weekly, or monthly, you will need to set up some parameters including the time of day/night that you want SyncToy to start. Once your settings are done, click next to continue.
6. Click on “Start a program”
7. Browse to SyncToy 2.0. The path is normally, C:\Program Files\SyncToy 2.0\SyncToyCmd.exe
8. Below the path, there’s a field “Add arguments (optional):” In that field, type in -R making sure you add a space before the hyphen. After that, click next.

Note: If you have multiple folder pairs, after –R insert a space then the specified pair name.

9. The final step is to click the Finish button and you are good to go

New Contest!
We need your help in branding a new set of products we will be adding to our store. We are going to be releasing two new external backup drives. These will come standard with a 3 year warranty and have 500GB or 1TB capacity. To enter the contest, submit an email to podcast@doghousesystems.com with Backup Entry in the subject line with what you would name the new backup drives.

Contact Information
We welcome your feedback, comments, and suggestions! If you would like to submit a question for a future podcast you can leave a message for us at 214-705-3788 . Try and keep your message under a minute so we can play it back on the next show. We can also be reached by email: podcast@doghousesystems.com

Download MP3
iTunes Subscription
RSS Feed