Brandon Anderson

Vancouver, British Columbia – May 36, 2009 – CCIPO (Cybercrime Investigations and Prevention Organization) launches, and “opens for business”. CCIPO has been under stategic development over the past months, and after the finishing touches have been finally made CCIPO, is now open.

CCIPO has partnerships with various companies and organizations to help widen our area of protection, we work with other organizations with similar objectives as ourselves to form new strategies and methods for responsive cybercrime investigations and prevention.

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Press Contacts:

Brandon Anderson
President and CEO

brandon@ccipo.org
1-877-701-4749, extension. 6

So as everyone knows, Microsoft has released a release candidate/beta of the new Windows 7. Windows 7 is suppose to be filling in for the things that Vista absolutely destroys. My views on Microsoft and Windows Vista are very bad, as many of you know.

I have tried Windows 7 (the reason at which isn’t impressive but for Microsoft, they are on a “somewhat good track”). Windows 7 RC at the moment isn’t visually stunning, I’d rather they just keep the Vista look at be done with it. All us geeks want are the background updates, a new look isn’t that great for me. Since they have a very ugly dull theme right now.

I came about to testing Windows 7 when I was asked to fix some one’s computer that was running Windows 7. So like I said not all that impressive that I had to fix it. Mainly there were network issues, and some issues with clicking icons, it would pull up Command Prompt.

Overall It’s a good track Microsoft is on, and I look forward to seeing what else they do in the final release.

(Note: I wrote this in about 5 minutes, didn’t edit it either. So don’t yell at me if it makes no sense.. Im in a hurry :P )

- Brandon Anderson

Many people believe an air embolism, can happen very quickly and easily. An air embolism is when an amount of air is put into your blood stream typically through use of a syringe or IV. Many believe that even the smallest amount of air put into your blood stream can be fatal or near fatal. When in fact this is incorrect. An air embolism takes place after a large amount of air is put into your blood stream, approx. 20 cc’s is needed to be fatal to you. Tiny air bubbles in a syringe or IV tube are no cause for concern. Air in a syringe when injecting into a muscle is absolutely safe, the only reason MD’s will squirt out the small amount of air, is to ensure that they are using the exact amount of that particular medication. Unless your doctor is a cold blooded killer, then there is no reason to be concerned that they will make a mistake large enough to be fatal, in the context of air embolisms of course.

- Brandon Anderson

Jon Engle, a graphic designer well-known for creating graphics on TV shows such as CSI, Lost, Alias and others has been accused of stealing artwork & designs. A popular stock-art website (stockart.com), billed Jon Engle for a sum of $18,000 charging him for art-work he “stole” when in fact, he created it and owns full copyright to the designs. They have now started a law-suit against Jon Engle, to the fact that he has refused to pay for his own work (I would have to). The lawyers have done irreparable damage to his reputation, and business by contacting each one of his past and current clients to inform them that Jon has been “Stealing” others art-work, and has a law-suit against him.

Support Jon Engle on Twitter. Using #SaveJon, and @relevantstudi. Follow up on this by reading Jon’s blog, here.

I’m sorry to inform everyone, but I wont get a chance to blog at all today.

1. I’m busy writing a post of why I wont be able to post today.

2. Ever hear of that term “sleep”? I know! I haven’t either.

3. Some people think I procrastinate and go off topic.. do you?

4. What day is it?

5. Coughs.. sorry back to the topic at hand.

6. April Fools! Of course I will blog today.. I am addicted to blogging!

7. Ok, so seriously what day is it? Because I have a feeling I missed April fools by about five hours. hmm..

8. I forgot what I was going to say for number 8…

- Brandon Anderson

Have you ever been infected with malware/virus? Well if your using Windows as your operating system you most likely have, even if you don’t know it. Typically these days, anti-virus wont save you, and you will most likely end up having to format and re-instal windows. But I have put together a list of anti-virus packages that might be able to help, in some cases – not all of them though. Do you have Norton on your computer right now? Well if you do, here are a few steps. Un-install Norton – place the Installation CD in the box it came in – and now for the crucial step! Take that box, throw it on the ground, stomp on it, destroy it, do whatever is necessary. Just make sure it is no longer usable, or in your possession. Okay, yes – I’ve had some issues with Norton, and Im not a fan of it.

Ad-Aware – Ad-Aware is developed by Lavasoft, and I have worked with some of their employee’s – Ad-Aware is a must.

AVG – AVG is a very user friendly anti-virus application that does not take up that many resources. Another must for the average user. AVG should be used with Ad-Aware to provide stronger protection.

Blink – Blink from Eeye Software is Free however extremely powerful and easy to use. Blink is used by many corporations & large companies. Blink should be used on its own and not with any other Anti-Virus packages.

- Brandon Anderson

Back in the day, I wrote this code out of applescript. I developed a really easy to use application that quickly enhanced your photos, automatically. I used a Quartz Composition for it, so its really fast – but if pretty effective. Now of course, you can do this with just about an image editor out there no problem, but I just wanted something quick and easy.

Picture Fixer Download

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and up.

Let me know what you think!

We have all been there, after typing out 6 e-mails all ending with something like this “With best regards,

Brandon Anderson

brandonanderson.org
brandon@brandonanderson.org” And you think.. I should really automate this!

Well you can! Its very simple actually. Now you can do this from within Apple Mail (mail.app). Or you can use a third party application called TextExpander that will extend your productivity of typing repetitive things out site of Apple Mail.

First is the built in option of Apple Mail, called “Signatures” you can create a new signature and select the e-mail account you will be using this signature on.

Second is the application called TextExpander, developed by SmileOnMyMac Software. Using TextExpander you can add simple text commands that when TextExpander is running will, essentially expand your text to a phrase, sentence, or long document, whatever you choose. For example when I type “bwwbr” it will automatically change that text to “With best regards,

Brandon Anderson

brandonanderson.org
brandon@brandonanderson.org” Its a simple solution, to help out your productivity and make typing out long repetitive word combinations easy!

I really do hate this posts title, makes it feel like I am “George of getrichsuperfast.com! In this post you will find 5 easy to follow secrets to bringing you millions of dollars within just the first week! Now just sign up for our e-mail newsletter, and getrichsuperfact.com will begin to spam your inbox with hundreds of messages a day on how to make millions within weeks! As well as some messages on where to get your credit card information stolen and get your computer hacked! that and much much more!”

Ok, so now for the real blog post =)

Everyone’s been there, they are in the middle of a heated debate with your friends, someone from your hate list, or some fellow podcasters and you are starting to make a point, and getting it through to them. When all of a sudden Skype crashes and your disconnected from the call.. don’t you hate that? I certainly do, that’s why I decided to write out some info on what you can do – to help avoid this.

1. Keep your e-mail closed! E-mails are like downloading files, they run in the background and take of precious memory, and download speed.

2. We all do it, while listening to the annoying person in the Skype call. We open up our web browsers and watch a few useless YouTube tutorials, created by some guy in his basement, while drunk. Don’t! Its just like e-mails, its slows your download speeds down a LOT! If hes really that annoying, then use the famous tool called *mute*.

3. I know, I know you are a geek and you keep 40 apps open at once. I do to! (join the club) but seriously, do you really need to have every single web development tool, programming app, graphic design program, along with two web browsers, all while uploading some files using FTP? Also do you really need to do a screencast of you and your friends audio level going up and down? Well yeah, you do. But try not to! :)

4. If your on a Mac use activity monitor to close down any applications running in the background. If your on that thing we call “Windows” sigh.. then use TaskManager and see if you cant close down a few apps without them going “Not Responding” or having a “Fatal Error!” or getting that fun blue screen, and cant forget a few drivers messing up, and having your LCD go wacky, and make you need to boot into SafeMode.

5. Use Ethernet! don’t use wireless. Especially if your recording a podcast. Using wireless would be what we in the bizz’ call “Pulling a Joey” (Joey is going to hate me.)

Notes:

- Joey, please send all hate mail directly to. ihatebrandon@brandonanderson.org (Whats sad, is the fact that – that is a real e-mail address.)
- getrichsuperfact.com – is a random domain I came up with, and I have no idea what it is.
- Leave some comments! Tell me what you do, to help your Skype Life.
- I dod nit edit this post! its 4 aM, ind I dint feewl like it. If your reaalyi upsset, emails thea bafoore stited emaiil addess’ss. Twanks!

- Brandon Anderson

How do I choose the right CMS, to suit my needs?

Lets start by defining what a CMS is exactly, a CMS (Content Management System) is a web development product that allows you to separate content, from design of a website. CMS software are commonly free (genuinely free, no charge what so ever) and open source. However some commercial CMS systems are on the market. At current there are three very popular CMS systems those being, Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal. First I will make it clear of these three CMS’s are most used for, and which ones will best suit particular needs.

Wordpress is typically used for personal/professional blogs, using Wordpress.com you can have a free wordpress account and website. On a wordpress.com sub-domain. For example: nickssuperduperblog.wordpress.com. Wordpress is more user friendly and less tech savvy users. You can find many free Wordpress Themes, free, and premium (for charge).

Drupal is a more powerful CMS, more commonly used by do-it tinkerers and people who want to do it themselves, from content to design. Drupal supports what are referred to as modules. Modules allow you to extend to power and uses of Drupal. You can find many free themes for Drupal, however many are low quality. Its better to develop or have them developed your self.

Joomla is a very powerful CMS, that has many free high quality themes that are more close to the quality and amount of themes of Wordpress. Joomla can power everything from a corporate website, to a social network.

Some things to keep in mind when choosing a CMS:

Your skills, are you a web-uber-geek? Or an average user that is willing to learn?
What are your needs? Do you need user accounts on your website? Do you want other users to be able to post content and not allow users to create accounts?
Are you able to design your theme yourself or hire someone? If not, it may be wise to go with Joomla, or Wordpress.

- Brandon Anderson