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CNET Mailbag: Running programs at startup, cat crazies, and

2008-08-07
hey everyone I'm Mollywood and welcome to the cnet mailbag the show where we take your feedback about the stuff we do here at cnet and we have an exciting announcement to make after hundreds of emails including a poem from a guy named Dan that he sent in about ten times we have finally realized hey you liked our show and you wanted every week and I want to do the show every week and I don't know why these forces have kept us apart for so long but dang it we're doing mailbag every week but with all good news comes a little bad news the bad news is that in order to do mailbag every week which you have been clamoring for we have to kill today in tech history although honestly not that many of you have been clamoring for that so I know there will be some of you who are disappointed but try to remember at least you get mail bag and I'll be doing more insider secrets and quick tips so keep an eye out for those as well okay so yay for that let's do some mail Tim al wrote in to say I just wanted to point out that when talking about cool the search engine and the July thirty-first buzz report you said it has over 120 million pages indexed when I think cool deserves the credit for over 120 billion pages I'm not harping on you about this mistake because I know you just read it off a script so please don't be mad at me oh yeah no I'm not mad but yeah it's me you're harping on I write all my own scripts and sometimes all my own scripts have typos in them lame thanks for noticing though little bucko wrote in and said i was watching the latest insider secret tether your cell phone to your laptop and i was wondering who is markless Thea is he the new guy had seen it just wondering and you know what how rude we should have introduced mark he was our intern in New York and he's made a couple cameos on buzz report and loaded but he is now our new associate producer and occasional loaded interviewer and host of some insider secrets he's great and we're really happy to have him so keep your eyes peeled for mark konstantinos had a question this week I was wondering if there is any way to make a program run on startup I recently disabled my pointing device application eight points for my laptop's trackpad and now i have to relaunch it every time i start my system in order to be able to scroll so if there is a way please let me know oh yes there is a way and it's not very hard in fact I am going to shoot a scene at quick tip on that and we'll put it up on scene at TV this week watch for it coming soon see I have more time already Brian was not the only person to read in about this next subject so I was watching hulu the other day when i came across the visa ad with brian cooley I was like whoa Brian Cooley does ads now not only was i amazed about that but the number of cats he has and why he's always wondering what they're doing when he's away he isn't some like crazy cat lady is he there's a kind of camera called a network camera connects directly to the internet or your home network my wife and I wanted to know what are the cats do all day when were away we realized after we install them there do anything they just sleep um yeah he kind of is there's a lot of things you don't know about Brian Cooley and finally let's see what's up today in hair male Brandon wrote with all these crazy teams these days and their new hairstyles loitering on my lawn and whatnot it is refreshing to wake up and see Tom's responsible hair on bol the density the color the vibrancy is truly a work of art who is Tom's hairstylist obviously not the same as that hip new Bryant on character what shampoo does he use does he make his own probably do you know what he calls his shampoo if he doesn't have a name I would suggest responsible Tom shampoo he could make some big money if he teamed up with Johnson & Johnson or bestbuy tell Tom I love his hair today and Tim wrote in to say as I was watching the july twenty ninth edition of planet seen it i thought wow Cara's hair looks great someone should tell her somali if you could tell car that her hair looks great I would appreciate it it really complements her facial features nicely ah Tim and Brandon I will let them know I like their hair to their hairs anyway that's it for this week everyone I'll see you back here next week keep that feedback coming and tell your friends to watch we still need them mailbag at cnet com or send me a postcard to 35 second street san francisco california 94 105 see you next time
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