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5 Places to Watch Movies Online Besides Netflix

Master — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:36:56 +0000

Netflix angered customers this week by charging separate fees for its online video streaming and DVD-by-mail rental services. This raised the price of the average Netflix account from $10/month to $16/month. While $6 does not seem like a great amount of money, thousands of outraged customers have canceled their Netflix accounts and are now searching Post from: 5 Places to Watch Movies Online Besides Netflix

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Rip and Backup DVDs to the Hard Drive in Windows 7 Using Free Software

Master — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:48:57 +0000

Way back when, we published a good, general guide on the software that you need to rip DVD movies to your hard drive.

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Play Ripped DVDs AUDIO TS and VIDEO TS in Windows Media Center

Master — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:00:30 +0000

Previously, we covered the steps needed to rip a DVD movie to hard drive, using free software.

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5 Ways to Connect an iPod or MP3 Player to a Car Stereo

admin — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 11:21:28 +0000

The iPod, MP3 player, and digital music downloading are slowly but surely killing the compact disc; and while CDs are most definitely still used as a method for listening to your favorite music on the go, they are declining in use heavily. If you are an iPod owner/user, you probably do not use the CD/DVD Post from: 5 Ways to Connect an iPod or MP3 Player to a Car Stereo

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Convert Audio Files the Easy Way

admin — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:58:26 +0000

If you have an MP3 player that is picky about the type of audio files it will play, many of your older music files and audio files downloaded from the Web will need to be converted to a compatible format. Several desktop applications can convert these files, but usually one at a time, which wastes more time than most of us want to invest.

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How to Convert MIDI Files to MP3 Files

Master — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:11:22 +0000

It’s easy to listen to MIDI files on your computer, since most media players can play them.

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Fix "This action is only valid for products that are currently installed" Error Message

admin — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:02:52 +0000

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Fix "This action is only valid for products that are currently installed" Error Message

admin — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:02:52 +0000

After installing Windows 7, we found that we got an error message when trying to open Microsoft Word or any other Office program. The error read, “ This action is only valid for products that are currently installed. ” Double-checked the Program Files and yes, Microsoft Office was still there, plain as can be

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Save PowerPoint Presentations as Flash Videos

admin — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:27:31 +0000

PowerPoint works well for boardroom and classroom slideshow presentations, but PowerPoint presentations do not translate smoothly to the Web. Sure, we can save the presentations as Web files, but these end up looking messy and unprofessional

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Save PowerPoint Presentations as Flash Videos

Master — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:27:31 +0000

PowerPoint works well for boardroom and classroom slideshow presentations, but PowerPoint presentations do not translate smoothly to the Web.

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How to Create Animation in Windows Live Movie Maker using MS Paint

admin — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:25:19 +0000

Windows Live Movie Maker is a fun application that is part of the Windows Live suite of applications that Microsoft has developed to give users the ability to jazz up videos to make them look more professional. Unfortunately, there is still no way to create animation in Windows Live itself however.

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Fix Media is Write Protected in Windows 7

Master — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:55:06 +0000

Over the years, one annoying and hard to fix problem I’ve come across in Windows XP, Vista and 7 is the media write protected error. You’ll be going about your day just fine when all of a sudden you can’t write any files to your local hard drive, a USB drive, or an external drive attached via eSata, etc. Common error messages you get for this are: Media is write-protected The disk is write protected Unfortunately, there is no clear cause of this error in Windows, which makes it all the harder to fix! Add to the fact that this error message normally does not have anything to do with ownership or permissions and it really confuses the heck out of people.

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How to Add YouTube Videos to a Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation

Master — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:41:55 +0000

Previously we posted an article on how to add music to a Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation . However, music only does so much for presentations.

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Create High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photos

Master — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:52:04 +0000

High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos have a deeper range of colors and the appearance of added depth as compared to traditional photos. The process is done by taking three pictures—one too dark, one too light and one just right—then merging them into one photo.

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Play MP4 Audio and Video Files in Windows Media Player

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:17:20 +0000

Windows Media player is the default media player for audio and video files in Windows 7.

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Fix Upside Down Videos in VLC

Master — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:32:08 +0000

Last week, we talked about how Windows Movie Maker can fix upside down videos . This time, we will try it with VLC, an open-source and free media player. The difference between the two platforms is that with the former, you have an option to create or publish the movie

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Split and Shrink Large Videos with Windows Movie Maker

Master — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:14:31 +0000

Most of the time, recording videos from a webcam or a camcorder and saving it to your computer will take-up “more than the expected” hard-disk space.

Hide Empty Drives in Windows 7’s My Computer

admin — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:33:37 +0000

My Computer is the icon most clicked on when users of Windows 7 want to access drives such as hard disks, DVD-ROMs, and removable media in multi-read drives. However, Windows 7 displays all drives connected to a computer whether there are any media in them or not. Learn how to clean up My Computer in Windows 7 by hiding empty drives

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Add Transition Animations to a Video in Windows Live Movie Maker

Master — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:47:23 +0000

The proliferation of media sharing sites such as YouTube has been astounding with tens of thousands of homemade videos being uploaded each day. Software such as Windows Live Movie Maker puts the power of video editing into the hands of everyday people

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Use Excel to Figure Out an Effective Interest Rate from a Nominal Interest Rate

Master — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:53:38 +0000

Among Excel’s more popular formulas, the EFFECT formula is often used by financial professionals to figure out an effective interest rate from a nominal interest rate.

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Quickly Create a Flash Slideshow

Master — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:49:34 +0000

Attention-catching photo slideshows are great additions to most Web sites.

How to Create PowerPoint Handouts

Master — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:22:09 +0000

Although PowerPoint is electronic slide creation software, printable handouts serve an important role both for the presenter and an audience. In this article, we’ll discuss your options for creating great PowerPoint handouts and purpose behind doing so in the first place.

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Features of the Avery Template Tab in Word

admin — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:41:05 +0000

Avery is a company that produces a variety of preprinted products to help you make professional looking labels, business cards, invitations, letterheads, and many other documents. Using a template in Word, you can be certain that your Avery product creations will print correctly the first time. If you’ve been using Word 2007 or 2010 for a while now, you know that the Ribbon sometimes changes to include content that is customized to what you are currently working on.

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Add Transition Sounds to PowerPoint Slides

Master — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:32:45 +0000

PowerPoint allows you to add sounds to a presentation by embedding the sound directly into the slide. However, you can also add sounds to a slide that play only when the presentation transitions to the slide. By adding a sound to a slide, you can make your presentation more appealing and also make it more obvious to an audience that the slide has changed

Make YouTube Videos Play Continuously, the Easy Way

Master — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:08:50 +0000

The loop function is common on most DVD, CD and MP3 players, as well as most computer-based video players, like Windows Media Player. This function is completely missing on YouTube, so to watch skateboarding pit bulls more than once, you must click Replay to go back to the beginning of the video. A site called EndlessYouTube.com has found a way to loop YouTube videos indefinitely