Sage Lewis

So today, April 1, 2007 is a day of crazy emotions. Yesterday, my Acert Aspire 5670(I think) melted down. Literally melted down… there were times I couldn’t actually touch it, it was so hot. So I took it into Compusa for the 3rd time because I’m 90% sure the hard drive died. I did that at 8:30 on a Saturday night. So I went out today and got another computer. My Acer was less than a year old.

I happen to LOVE technology. So, while I was exhausted from the idea and process of losing my computer yet again. I’m totally jazzed with my new computer:

It’s a Sony Vaio VGN-AR300
Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 @ 1.66GHz
2046 MB of Memory
32-bit Operating System
142 GB Hard drive

In an effort to help my sanity in the future I wanted to record everything I do to this computer to get it to where I like it.

So, here are my customizations:

• Installed Firefox 2.0.0.3
Extensions:
• ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox)
• SEOpen
• del.icio.us Bookmarks
• StumbleUpon
• Web Developer
• PDF Download
• Image-Show-Hide
• Macromedia Studio MX 2004 - The disk for this is in the box along with the serial number
• Pinnacle Studio 10 - I installed it from the box. Then I went online and got the update which is currently Studio 10.8 BETA. The edition I have from the box does not work on Vista at all.
• I bought some “Pinnacle Premium Titles”. If you do a search in gmail you’ll find them.
  Product Name: Titles: Professional
  Amount: $9.99
  And they gave me a “Dream Glow effect”. Doing a search in gmail should find that too.
• I installed VZAccess from one of the multiple cd’s I have for this to let my Motorola Q run as a modem.
The version I had doesn’t appear to work. I got a new version:VZAccess Manager Version 6.1.8 from here: http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/mobileoptions/nationalaccess/index.jsp
• I downloaded Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center 6 (32-bit) from Microsoft for Vista for my Motorola Q. This was instead of the Microsoft ActiveSync 4.2 on the Moto Q disk. 4.2 doesn’t work with Vista. Doing a search for “Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center” turned it up.
• From the Moto Q disk, I installed, “Dial-up Networking Software” to get the Motorola q drivers to use it as a modem on my computer.

SlingPlayer for my Slingbox. Found here: http://us.slingmedia.com/object/KB-005296.html

• Added Google Notebook to my personalized Google homepage for reminders.
• Installed Picasa
• Installed SmartFTP
• Installed ISO Recorder v3 from here: http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/Vista.htm to burn iso images to disk.
• Installed HyperCam2 from I:\Downloads
• Installed Switch Sound Converter - PAID from I:\Downloads - this is used to make audio files for Asterisk.
• Installed Xilsoft3GPVideoConverter-Paid from I:\Downloads - this is to convert video files from my Motorola q to editable video files.
• Installed putty.exe
• sftpdrive installed to map a drive to the sagerock file server through ssh
• Installed WinSCP to access ssh like ftp. It’s free and pretty nice.
• I bought and installed SftpDrive to map the SageRock files remotely through shell access.
• I just bought Flash Video MX to convert movie files into Flash. It’s in the Downloads folder with its access codes.
• I just bought YellowPagesCrawler to crawl Yellow Pages files for mailing and calling. It’s in the Downloads folder in it’s own folder.
• I turned off “User Access Control” (UAC) in my user account. YellowPagesCrawler was trying to access an .xml file in the root C folder. I’ve also had some trouble in the past accessing some other files in the root folder. This seemed to take care of that.
• I just bought TotalRecorder for recording audio presentations. It’s in
• the downloads folder in it’s own subfolder.

Installed RoboForm to manage passwords. I’m creating a backup of the RoboForm files in “Documents/Backups” and in the Vault on my Flash drive.

Removed:

• Napster
• Quickbooks starter edition
• Norton Internet Security