Either your on the phone or in person. You can make those long-distance calls a lot more personal though, by setting up your living room TV to act as a video phone.

And really, setting up a video chat session on your living room PC isn’t all that hard. We’ll show you how you can get started video chatting with just three simple steps: Finding the right connector, setting up a webcam, and installing video chat software.

We’ll warn you ahead of time: this guide is written to be a little more newbie-friendly then our usual how-tos … so lets get started shall we?

Connecting your laptop to your TV

The trickiest part of the process can actually be connecting your laptop to your TV, which can require one of several different cables and adaptors, depending on your TV and laptop hardware. To find out what connectors you need, start by looking at the back of your TV. Look for the following connectors, in this order, and keep track of which ones your TV has:

HDMIWell good for you, you’ve got an HDMI port, which has the most bandwidth of any standard plug and is found on the newest TVs.

Now connect your pc to your tv with one of these cables

Plugin your webcam and install a chat webchat program like skype or msn and your off. I personaly recommend this new microsoft cam due to its first of a kind 720p Resolution. It runs around 40 to 50 $ so its not too pricey and a flex grip on it also; here is a pic so enjoy guys

Rumors are out that Apple is going to release this new product in January 2010. Its a mix between a netbook and a very big Iphone .  Let me know if anyone gets one of these to tell me the pros and cons Thanks Gotya.

GotyaCam is a new program that will recognize if a webcam is available and workin on your machine. This program is part of a new chat program we are developing. Further details and downloads at a later date!

Soon Struct_DJ and myself will have Piggy and Kermit updated.  I wanted to give you a sneak peek of the possibilities of new buttons and some new features that might be on Kermit soon. We will keep you posted thanks and tell me what you think of the buttons.

Here is a solution i found that does work some in slowing down these syn floods or DDos attacks.  These guys use IRC bot net attacks. Google it if you dont know how they work.  But for all you Server providers i been helping some people on some programs to stop these guys from attacking there servers any longer.

Heres the step by step

Download Now or go to the Downloads section under Servers

Tooladex release this weekend(address book).  This Tool is a rolladex that will search by picture and by name.  So now all your contacts online can be organized and there is a print option and note options weather your running a business or just personal use this is a very handy custom made tool for free. Hope you enjoy programmed by Gotya.

Just add a new record and make sure you fill in anything thats red. Then use the arrows or type in the search the name of the contact.

Download  here today:  Download Tooladex Now

Happy Thanksgiving to all the GotyaToolz fans and family.  And A Special Thanks to a woman that really has made me very happy>>> Ronda  thank you hunny !!!

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Someone was bound to connect the dots, even if the dots weren’t intended to make a pattern. With Microsoft working with the National Security Agency (NSA), the nation’s biggest, most top-secret spy agency, some suspicious were bound to be raised. But, not to worry, Microsoft assures us: It did not plant deep in Windows 7 code a backdoor for the NSA to spy on you.

Microsoft’s story is the NSA helped Microsoft with the “Security Compliance Management Toolkit.” The toolkit, which rolled out after Windows 7, allows enterprises, government agencies, and large-scale organizations the ability to manage levels of security risk beyond those of regular users. The NSA is a happy partner in such ventures because of its concerns for cybersecurity.

But there lurks behind the story the NSA’s need for gathering intelligence, which a backdoor into an OS would greatly aid. Cisco, for example, has built into it’s products, such as its Internetworking Operating system (ISO) and VoIP lines, lawful intercept capabilities. (Which require a court order.) It’s not a big leap to conclude that perhaps Microsoft might have done the same.

Some have questioned the wisdom of Microsoft’s working with the NSA, including Marc Rothenberg, the executive director of the Electronics Privacy Information Center (EPIC). Said Rothenberg: “The key problem is that NSA has a dual mission, COMPUSEC, computer security, now called cyber security, and SIGINT, signals intelligence, in other words surveillance.” He added that it might be tough for any company, even Microsoft, to turn down an NSA “suggestion” for a backdoor.

Roger Thompson, chief research officer of AVG, sides with Microsoft. “I can’t imagine NSA and Microsoft would do anything deliberate, because the repercussions would be enormous if they got caught,” said Thompson.

For now, Microsoft says it isn’t there. Whether that curbs your paranoia or not is another matter entirely.

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