My Business Ventures!!!!

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Over the past several weeks I have had several meetings with a friend of mine over Skype. These meetings were about business idea me and this friend have. This idea is about selling t-shirts, I must admit that I am a bit reserved about the idea, but this friend of mine seems to have a business plan, and she has been working on it with me. We will see how this works out.

As some people know, anyone who is observant, I make (very little) money writing blog posts and posting videos to YouTube. Also earn some money fixing computers, in which I am actually trying to turn the fixing computers into a business. I’m happy to report that it is starting to look up for me. I have actually drawn up a plan for next month, and depending on whatever happens in my personal life, I have a full plan that I know will work in my favor.

Computers may be infected with DNSchanger virus.

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reach-hackers-hacking-computer-800x800 This week a disturbing report was shown to me. A virus or worm known as DNSchanger was reported by the FBI to have infected computers over the last two years. A group of Estonian hackers infected hundreds or thousands of computers with a computer virus, this virus will redirect certain calls to websites like Apple, Microsoft, etc. Because this virus alters the way the DNS system works on computers, all systems are possibly infected, this includes, but is not limited to, Windows, Macintosh, and Linux computers.

Here is a link to the article in which I found out about the virus http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/national/hundreds-of-thousands-may-lose-internet-in-july-20120420-ms

There are a few websites you can go to from various security firms. One website is http://www.dcwg.org/detect/ this website contains a list of different websites, in different languages, I have visited every single website in this list and can very find that they are all clean and will not infect your computer.

Signed,
William McCormick
McCormick computers
www.mccormickcomputers.com

Ron Paul May Win the GOP Primary Race

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I have been following the GOP primary race since it started this season, and I must say it does actually look like Ron Paul will win the GOP primary Republican Convention. Now as some of my friends know in 2008 I actually supported Ron Paul’s ascendance to the president of the United States, in 2012 I have changed my position quite radically. The reasons I have changed my views on Ron Paul are for another blog post, that I may do in the future.

Now people are going to ask me how? I elect to receive a lot of political-based e-mail, some are from Ron Paul’s campaign for presidency, some are from the campaign for liberty, and some are from other presidential hopefuls (ex. Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, Barack Obama, etc.). This is how he is doing it.

With every presidential race there are two types of primary states. Some states are called primaries, and the rest are called caucuses. A primary state is simple, a day that elections occur whoever has the most votes wins that state. For this article were going to focus on caucuses only.

In a caucus state the voting throughout the day does not really matter, after the voting is done, party representatives meet to discuss who the delegates are going to Be. These discussions are open to the public and delegates are usually voted by a show of hand. Before voting to choose delegates curse they usually dismiss, most of the public usually goes home. This is where Ron Paul fans, and his campaign in general, are very smart. The people in support of Ron Paul’s candidacy for The Office of President of the United States, they stay behind so that they can vote for the delegate that will say that their state supports Ron Paul. Here’s where things are a little weird. Even though Ron Paul has not won the majority of any state, she has nearly 100% of all state delegates from the caucus states, if he manages to get most of the delegates from the caucus states she will win the Republican nomination to run for president of the United States.

As most of my friends also note I am not a big fan of President Barack Obama, I am also in no way, shape or form a member of the Republican Party, or supporter of any current Republican candidate for President of the United States. At the moment I do not support or endorse any candidate for president, or any political party.
I am a independent.

Signed,
William McCormick

Learn C# direction’s

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I am still trying to reconstruct a way to do Learn C# as i no longer have Microsoft office anymore. Next up in the Series is going to be “if, if…else, and the Switch” statements. Fallowed by the “for, foreach, while, and do…while” I may even break them up into smaller chunks for better digestion. Then i take a break with a game. The first game i ever wrote was a guess the numbers game. with a Blog post on how to apply a cheat code to the game.

After the game i will do classes and Interfaces Then the series will kind of jump around.  Diving into different aspects of the GUI programming.

My question is this (poll):

which GUI environment should i Concentrate on in my Learn C# series

  • WinForms. (67%, 4 Votes)
  • WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) (33%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 6

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Small Kindle Fire Review

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For Christmas i got my mother a Kindle Fire, This is my pro’s and Con’s list on it.
pros:

  1. The screen is a perfect size to be portable yet still very visible.
  2. The screen is very clear, and highly detailed
  3. The system is very responsive, producing a nice smooth interface.
  4. it uses a Standard Micro-B size USB cable for Charging and data connection.
  5. 8 gigs of internal storage, This is somewhat limited by the fact that the System itself takes up that same storage space so you get about 6.5 gigs.
  6. 5 gigs of Cloud storage for free (+1 gig for $1 a month)
  7. With 169 of Screen Pixel per Inch (PPI) It outdoes the IPAD 2 that has only 132 PPI
  8. 8 hour battery life.

Cons:

  1.   No expandable storage, this does not take a SD card or anyother external storage add-ons, so the only way to have extra space is by using the Cloud.
  2. Power button is on the bottom of the tablet, This makes for it to be easily turned off if you just rest it on a table or arm of a chair. but this is easily fixed by turning the Fire upside down and the OS will rotate.
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  3. Built-in storage could be bigger, 6.5 gigs is good, but power users like myself could easily fill that.
  4. No camera for Skype chat,  I have not looked though the app store to much but i did see Skype and Skype is Mainly used for Audio and Video chat. I did see skype compatible apps.


Editors note: I have gotten a kindle fire and skype itself was not in the market.

PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet

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I did have a return video planned but i feel this is important now.
Mirror from http://vimeo.com/31100268

Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! – http://fightforthefuture.org/​pipa/

PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting "creativity". The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites– they just have to convince a judge that the site is "dedicated to copyright infringement."

The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that’s for a fix that won’t work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.

Backround Cycler Codenamed “V6”

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I have developed a code model for the next version of Backround Cycler after version 5 is released. This version will be a complete rewrite of the source code from top down. The language that the program will be written in will also be changed to C++. This next release will be 100% native C++ using Win32++ framework. As Backround Cycler codenamed “cycler” was my journey learning C# so will codename “V6” be my journey though C++.

Not many people know that Backround Cycler started out as a prank, It would hide in my System tray looking like some other program, with code words for me to use it without anybody noticing it. every 10 minutes it would minimize all windows then change the desktop background. Later I put a better (somewhat) GUI on it and gave it to friends worked on the undercode and released it as Background Cycler version 0.8 Alpha (Closed Source). Decided to make this a public journy made the first Beta version open source and on Source Forage.

codename “V6” will not be a version 6 of Backround Cycler. It will do the exact same tasks as Backround Cycler but will start at Version 0 (planning) I have a few Running idea’s for a release Name but have not decided on a given name yet. Will keep you posted over at my Backround Cycler blog.

BasicComputerHelp coming back

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BasicComputerHelp is returning. I know I have said that before, so lets see what happens.
My First video will be about what has happened

As for now here are some of the updates that will be happening.

  • My YouTube channel BasicComputerHelp will also get a Subdomain on this website. It will contain all of the sample code used in my “learn Programming” web series.
  • AllAboutWilliam will be the channel I post Vlogs on
  • Computer Pimp will be something like a Travel and holiday Vlog site (Maybe still not sure what I want to do with this channel, may put more political videos on it)

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William Edward McCormick