Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Once a staple of AOR stations, Twofer Tuesday seems relegated to the Classic Rock stations now. Fear not! I’ve got Two Twofers here 😉

Microsoft
Windows 8.1 Reliability update. Hit up Windows Update (look in the optional section if you don’t see it).
Microsoft Message Analyzer 1.1 – TechNet blog post here.
“Message Analyzer enables you to capture, display, and analyze protocol messaging traffic; and to trace and assess system events and other messages from Windows components.”

Adobe
Adobe Reader updated.
Adobe Acrobat updated.
Security Updates available for Adobe Reader and Acrobat

The Week Ahead
Adobe Reader will be updated tomorrow.
iOS 8 comes out on Wednesday. Speaking of Apple…
👿

Would You Like Some Cheese With That Whine?
Apple has actually created a tool for all the cry babies that don’t want the free U2 album:
Remove iTunes gift album “Songs of Innocence” from your iTunes music library and purchases
:bigcry:

Because beating up on Apple/iSheep is fun…
Apple Pay is as safe as your selfies, says PayPal ad
Dear iPhone 6 users, welcome to 2012!
A brief history of Samsung mocking Apple announcements

OCAU
TweakHound.com has been around for over 12 years now. In that time I’ve seen darn near every tech/computer site that was around back then disappear.
One site that has hung on and still does it old school is Overclockers Australia. I’m glad they are still around.
:clink:

Google Chrome Software Removal Tool
This is a weird one.
“If you notice Chrome behaving strangely (for example, showing you unusual startup pages, toolbars, or pop-up ads you can’t get rid of), it may be due to an unwanted program on your computer.”
Well gee wiz. Ya think?
“You may be able to fix the problem by downloading and running the Software Removal Tool. Think of this as a “factory reset” of Chrome. It restores Chrome’s original settings and removes programs that affect its behavior.”
Um…OK…

Windows 9
Microsoft announces ‘Windows 9’ event in San Francisco on September 30th

Software
Firefox 32.0.1

Cool Links
Here are some interesting links that were brought to my attention this week:
How to determine the appropriate page file size for 64-bit versions of Windows
How to easily delete your online accounts

Reader Email
This one was kinda long but the gist of it (as I understood it) was this guy has 2 raided SSD’s and 2 raided 2TB hard drives. He wants some software that will basically make the SSD’s cache for the hard drives. Essentially creating a hybrid setup.
I’ve got no clue on this one. If anyone has a suggestion, let me know.

Sept. 10th is the Internet Slowdown

Headlines
Google probes alleged theft of 5 mln Gmail passwords
OneDrive now supports 10 GB files
Franklin ship discovery solves ‘one of Canada’s great mysteries’

Microsoft Security Essentials
MSE was updated to version 4.6.0305.0. As usual no release notes.
Download it or get it via Windows Update.

VirtualBox
VB 4.3.16 is out. “a maintenance release which improve stability and fixes regressions.”
Download
Release Notes

BleachBit
BB 1.4 released. “has much better support for Winapp2.ini, Firefox, and Google Chrome plus other improvements.”
Download
This program is a CCleaner alternative for Windows and Linux.

iTunes
iBloatware updated to version 11.4. Updates for iOS 8.
Download
Be sure to see: Ed Bott – The unofficial guide to installing iTunes 10 without bloatware

The Apple Event
The only news worth hearing? We get a free U2 album!
I’m listening to it now. Digging the songs Volcano and Cedarwood Road.

Cool Case
[H]ardOCP looks at a cool looking mini-ITX case.

Net Neutrality
TweakHound.com will be participating in Sept. 10th is the Internet Slowdown.

Top Secret 😉
Shhhh… Firefox 32 is officially released tomorrow. As usual sites are starting to post the links.
English(U.S.)(windows) is here. Other folks go here, right-click the appropriate file > copy url > paste url > replace 31 with 32 and go.

Social Networks Are Bad For You
Captain Obvious says: Evidence Grows That Online Social Networks Have Insidious Negative Effects
I tried the social networking thing. I just don’t get it.

Still Want Your Stuff In The Cloud?
https://www.google.com/#q=icloud+hacked+photos&tbm=nws
oh my 😯

Etc…
LibreOffice 4.3.1 is out.

Haswell– mEh
The new, fastest CPU’s are out. As usual it seems the best bang-for-buck is 2 notches down from the top. It seems most of the gamer/overclocker community are unimpressed with Haswell-E. As someone who is currently stuck on a 6+ year old Core 2 Quad I am absolutely salivating over this thing.

[H]ardOCP – Intel Haswell-E Core i7-5960X CPU & X99 Chipset
“With these big CPU launches, the cold hard fact of the matter is that if you primarily use your PC for gaming and overclocking, the Haswell-E is not likely for you…The new Haswell-E processor is a great piece of engineering and technology from Intel. I am extremely happy to see that it did not let the marketing department run off at the mouth this time around as well. Most of Intel’s technology does better at the introduction without a plume of BS being pumped in from behind. However, the most of us would never see an advantage to using it on our normal daily desktops, especially for gaming.”

Anandtech – The Intel Haswell-E CPU Review: Core i7-5960X, i7-5930K and i7-5820K Tested
“The most promising member of the three CPUs launched today is the i7-5820K, as now the lowest end CPU for the extreme Intel platform has more cores than the highest member of the mainstream platform, the i7-4790K…Most people moving from a Sandy Bridge-E or Ivy Bridge-E will not see a day-to-day adjustment in the speed of their workflow on the new platform, and the real benefit will be for those that are CPU limited.”

openSUSE And The Last Great KDE 4 Release
KDE 4.14 is now in the openSUSE Current KDE SC release repos.
KDE Announcement:
“The KDE Community announces the latest major updates to KDE Applications delivering primarily improvements and bugfixes. Plasma Workspaces and the KDE Development Platform are frozen and receiving only long term support; those teams are focused on the transition to Plasma 5 and Frameworks 5.“

Site Stuff…
All the Freeware Machine articles have been updated:
The Windows 8 Freeware Machine
The Windows 7 Freeware Machine
The Freeware XP Machine
If you got a suggestion for these guides. let me know.

A Legend Moves On
Website owner/editor and Geek legend Anand Lal Shimpi is signing off.
Sad to see him go.
Update – Now we know why: Veteran Tech Journalist Anand Shimpi Headed to Apple

Beautiful Alien
The new Alienware Area 51 case looks awesome.