3D entertainment has been with us at least since 1838 when Sir Charles Wheatstone invented the Stereoscope – basically a viewer that looked a lot like a pair of glasses that you would stand on a desk and slide a Stereoscope image under to view in 3D. You can also see 3D on these images by allowing your eyes to become unfocused, similar to viewing a “Magic Eye” picture (autostereogram)… Continue reading
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Monday, October 4th, 2010jetAudio Basic Media Player
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010If you’re looking for a new digital media player, capable of ripping and burning CDs, along with most other features generally found in quality media players, jetAudio Basic may be for you. In addition to a full range of features, you might also find the price appealing…free.
jetAudio can be installed on Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Windows 7 and supports mp3, wma, avi, along with many… Continue reading
Using Documents on iPod Touch
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010Mary Ann from Florida asks:
“I bought a new iPod Touch 64 GB and I’d like to load in some of my MS Word and/or Excel documents for referral when I’m away from my home computer. Is there any way to accomplish this?”
Although the iPod touch would potentially make an excellent PDA, the capability to view documents on it is possible, but not the ability… Continue reading
SketchUp Basics
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010I’ve always found navigating through the three actual dimensions difficult. Numerous bruises and scrapes finally forced me to quit trying to walk and chew gum at the same time. My early attempts at navigating three virtual dimensions in Google SketchUp offered similar challenges (with fewer injuries). Once I got my bearings though, I found Sketchup to be a wonderful, user friendly tool. However, learning some basics helped make that transition… Continue reading
Display The Play Menu Option On Windows Media Player
Monday, August 30th, 2010Mark H. asks:
I have Windows Media Player 11. There used to be a place at the top where I could click Play. I can’t find it anywhere. Where is it?
A. Hi, Mark! You would think it would be right there all the time, wouldn’t you? After all, everybody has to use it.
It’s all about options. If you play a lot of music on your player, you might… Continue reading
Converting Internet Images To Jpeg
Thursday, August 26th, 2010Tom from CA asks:
When saving a picture, Windows always calls it a bitmap. How can I change it so it saves as a jpeg?
The real question here isn’t how your computer is SAVING the picture, rather in what format the picture was UPLOADED.
Many times, website creators will
Make Phone Calls In Gmail
Thursday, August 26th, 2010You can actually feel Skype quaking in their boots. Earlier this week Google announced that users would be able to make phone calls to any traditional number right from the Gmail interface.
Naturally, I had to check this out. I mean, it’s free after all, as long as you’re calling someone in the United States or Canada, and the promise of international calls billed as low as 2¢ a minute… Continue reading
Kindle For PC
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010If you’ve visited Amazon.com recently, you’ve probably noticed advertisements for its new ‘e-reader’, the Kindle. An e-reader is a physical device that displays e-books and other information on its screen for your enjoyment. Kindle ‘e-books’ are often cheaper than their physical equivalents, and are usually ‘delivered’ in under 60 seconds. The only problem is that the Kindle costs upwards of $250! For those on a tighter budget, Amazon offers some… Continue reading
Quick Scan in Windows 7
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010If you’re a Windows 7 user, what do you do when it’s time to scan something? Do you open the program that came with your scanner, fiddle with a bunch of settings, preview the scan and finally commit to scanning the item in question?
Sounds like there should be an easier way, especially if all you need to do is scan something for your records. It doesn’t… Continue reading
iTunes Album Art and DJ Features
Monday, July 19th, 2010I love using iTunes to organize my music – all of my media can be accessed from one place with play counts and everything! However, I sometimes encounter problems which I later learn can be fixed with just a few clicks of a mouse.
Album Art
I often find that paid music downloads from online music stores other than iTunes don’t come with album… Continue reading
Windows Media Player 11 Keyboard Shortcuts Pt. 2
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010Want more Windows Media Player 11 shortcuts? Well, you’re in luck, because here’s part two!
Open Help – F1
Enable Classic Menus (menu bar) – F10
Full-screen mode – F11
Edit information on a selected item in the library – F2
Add media files to the library – F3
Change how items are displayed in the Details pane – F4
Worldstart’s new videos – introduction
Monday, June 21st, 2010In the video above, Steve and Gary announce worldstart’s new video-style computer tips. Here’s a short summary of what is covered in the video.
1. Worldstart will be making new videos to supplement the text and image based computer tips and newsletter. These videos will cover many of the computer tips by giving a video demonstration of the tip. These videos will not… Continue reading
Video Download Helper Add-on for Firefox
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010One of my favorite parts of Windows Vista Ultimate edition is Dreamscene – the ability to use a video from your PC as your Windows wallpaper. The drawback is that it only supports .wmv and .mpg formats. This makes it difficult to use videos from the internet, as most of these are in .flv format.
To the rescue comes the Video Download Helper add-on for… Continue reading
Moving the iTunes Music Folder
Friday, May 28th, 2010My laptop’s hard drive can only take about 300 GB, so when I bought an external hard drive, my huge iTunes files were the first to be moved off my laptop. However, moving iTunes files and ensuring that all files subsequently downloaded go to the new location can take a bit of work. Here’s how:
If you’re transferring your files to an external hard drive… Continue reading
YouTube User Updates
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010YouTube has updated its look this year! Let’s talk about some other ways you can manage your account while using it. After you are signed in, click on “My Account” under your account name on the top right-hand corner of the page. As you can see, also located on the right-hand corner, you can check your inbox messages, subscriptions, history, as well as upload videos by clicking on… Continue reading
RealPlayer Basics Pt. 2
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010Last time, we discussed how to use the functions listed under the first two tabs in RealPlayer: “File” and “View.” Let’s learn more about what else RealPlayer has to offer its users!
An additional feature that’s both neat and entertaining under the “View” option is the “Choose Visualization” button. By clicking on this, you can select a computerized image that will play in the screen’s… Continue reading
Remote Media Streaming in Windows 7
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010Configuring Remote Media Streaming is same for both the remote and local computer. We have to follow the below mentioned steps:
1.Start Windows Media Player 12 and click Stream>Allow Internet access to home media.
2.Next you have to link an online ID to your windows account. The Internet Media Sharing feature integrated with an online ID provider such as Windows… Continue reading
How To: Convert Audio From A Cassette Or Record Player To CD
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009Is there a program out there that will convert my old cassette tapes or vinyl records to CD?
The short answer is yes. There is a program out there that will record cassette tapes or vinyl records to CD. Today, I will show you how. If you have the right software
Capture Screenshots in Windows Media Player
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009If you’ve ever tried to grab a screen shot of a video playing in your Windows Media Player, you’ve probably run across the same problem that affects many users: you don’t get a frame of video at all; you only get a black square when you paste what you thought you captured into your photo software.
There are commercial software packages available that will allow you to get the frame… Continue reading
Mp3 Super Disk
Friday, October 16th, 2009If you have a DVD burner in your PC and a home DVD player that will play mp3 files, then you can make a super-disk with about 50 hours of music! Since DVD-R disks can hold around 4.7 GB of data, that means you can select about 1000 mp3 files through your DVD burning software and create one mega music disk. This also gives you a… Continue reading
Compose your own Ringtones
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009Did you know that you can compose your own ringtones to be played on your cell phone? Any music or audio file can be made into a ringtone and edited to fade out, echo, or have other effects added to them. You can have the ringtones sent directly to your cell phone, computer, email address, sms inbox or cell phone email address. There is no limit to how many ringtones you… Continue reading
RealPlayer Basics
Friday, July 31st, 2009Are you interested in using the best audio, video, flash and media player out there today? Not only is it easy to use, this media player offers a free standard download for all computer users—just go to www.real.com. Once you have downloaded and opened the program, you’re set to use it. Let’s get started!
I’m going to teach you how simple it is to use RealPlayer by… Continue reading
YouTube Navigation
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009YouTube is one of the most popular sites that exist on the Internet today. It is a search engine for video clips; whether they be music videos, movies, trailers, funny videos, or a work-out tutorial—practically any video that exists can be found here! Next to Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter, it is probably the most visited website out there today. In fact, you can share links from YouTube on your Myspace… Continue reading
Second Picture
Thursday, April 9th, 2009Welcome to one of the best Digital Art, Photography, and Design tutorial sites I’ve come across.
One of my pet peeves is going to a tutorial site on design or photographs that just looks ugly, you may have good information but if you’re not putting your own tips into practice who is going to put any faith in what you have to say.
So I’m giving this site very high… Continue reading
VLC Player
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009I get a lot of e-mails every week about how to open files. I know that there are a lot of file extensions out there and it can be difficult to find the right program to open them all. Well, today I have a program that will help tremendously, at least in the media department.
The program is called VLC player and it opens almost any video file you can… Continue reading
Mp3 Players and You
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009So the progression goes.. We started with vinyl records, moved to eight-tracks and tapes and then, eventually, compact discs came around and made all of them obsolete. Of course, even that doesn’t matter because now the MP3 reigns supreme; bringing music out of the confines of physical media and transforming it into digital data. No longer do we have to worry about our discs scratching, or our tapes… Continue reading
Turn your Photos into a Calendar
Monday, April 6th, 2009Have you ever wanted to turn your photos into a nice looking calendar for display? Or perhaps to give to friends and family as a gift? Well, this is all possible with some simple steps. Read on and find out how you can do this. It’s really quite a simple procedure – anyone can do it within one or two hours.
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