Hey YouTube, What's up! I promised you something interesting coming up from my last video.
It's been a little while since I uploaded video, so sorry for that. I'm going to try
and do some more, a little more often; but I want to share this with you, that I
actually had the opportunity to be showcased as a local tech expert in
Toronto, on Breakfast Television. So check this out! Enjoy!
Instead of talking maybe you wanted text. I don't know, Twitter... I'm just saying, you
could do it now with the help of this man. Time is 8:44 Good morning everybody.
Daniel Gauthier joins me with TwinBytes Inc. We're talking about this book. I love
the little pun. Tech-Knowledgy, everything you need to know about getting started
whether you're a small business, student, family... So we're gonna go through all the
categories, cuz it's very daunting. There's so many choices out there.
Good morning Daniel. Good morning Dina thanks for having me. Oh thanks for
being here. Let's begin with the student. If someone's going off to
college, or they just want to get started, what sorts of things do they need is a
start-up? Well, for students for one thing they want to keep things very
inexpensive and it's got to work for them. So the netbooks now that they've
been out for a little while, they are a lot less expensive than a regular laptop,
and they're portable, and it's it gives them everything they need. There's only a
couple things that they might need to be aware of; is that you can't easily plug
in a lot of external devices that you can with a regular laptop. But it's
lightweight, it's the size of a small notebook, so for lecture halls and things
like, that it's super convenient. Yes, and the backups are important for them
as well. So I've included a couple of things like an external hard drive you
can plug in with a USB cable, or even a couple of USB flash drives, or pen drives,
they're called different names; and very easy to store a little bit of information so
they don't lose their homework. okay so what we're looking at is about $300.
The backup and the USB that's all they need. Okay so up next small business, you need
a little bit more. Larger laptop, more memory. Yes ,it gives you a lot more as
well as I said now you can plug into peripherals. So you have a CD/DVD player
where the netbook doesn't have that. okay So that's very important for the
business as well. One of the things is having the portability, taking it from
the home to the office. But at the same time, they want to connect in to the
office, or if you have branch office locations you want to connect, it used to
be really expensive to do that, and you'd have to buy expensive equipment and have
a technician that's highly trained and how to hook all this up. You don't need
that anymore. Now with some software you can download, it's very easy most people
can do that on there own. Awesome. Up next the young family introducing technology.
So what are we looking at for the basics here? I got a couple simple little things.
I've got a digital picture frame, which is so simple.
You can use a USB device, or take the camera memory card out of your camera,
and put it directly into the frame turn it on you've got a slideshow going
instead of is still frame. So it's really cool to have. The other thing is
telephones. Everybody's talking on the phone all the time now introducing video
chat into that you get a headset like this, a webcam, plug it into your laptop,
or your desktop. Download a free program, again free like Skype or MSN messenger,
and now you've got instant video chat with friends, family... We should incorporate this...
See! We don't have to pay for the expensive landlines anymore. Kim's like no, no...lol
Hey Jen, I see you! lol. Okay up next we have the media loving family. Yeah, this
now i put a desktop system here, because usually you'll need more power, and
you're going to want a bigger screen to watch video on. You can also do it with
the netbook even or a laptop, one of the smaller things, but this gives you more
power, more room for growth, and the cooling capabilities are greater, and the
expansion capabilities. Just too much to talk about. They're built for use!
Yeah, now, the thing is a lot of people also have a Wii system, or an Xbox in
their home. I've put a Wii system there and you can now link the two
together. So your television can now access the TV... or your television
can access the computer and the computer can access, you know, vice
versa. And if you need help with that, make sure you go with the service that
offers that, as well as any backup. I remember the days when your computer
would crash, right as you're finishing that 20 page paper. Make sure you have
somebody there who can help you recover and protect against viruses and things
like that. Right? Reputable company. Yes. For more information everybody,
TwinBytes.ca or www.tech-knowledgybook.com
as in, K.N.O.W.
or BreakfastTelevision.ca Thanks Daniel. Oh, oh, Kevin's had his eyes on the prize!
Shopping...Shopping... This is the guy I was talking about
getting off the grid. Never gonna happen! We'll be back with more BT after this...
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