New Google Software: 13 Free Downloads that You're Gonna Love by James Bradley
IIf you've not downloaded the newest free software bundle from Google yet, then you've gotta read this... This package includes the latest powerful tools with countless features that will benefit you in a number of ways. There's text, photo, music, and video applications, programs that address... Google Video Player is a tool that plays videos that may be purchased and downloaded from the Google Video website. ... Google Pack Screensaver allows you to convert photos from your personal collection into screensavers that may be set up as collages or full screen pictures.

Animation Software Overview, Part I by John Deprice
Looking for inexpensive animation software? There are dozens of great titles on the internet. Here are the ones you should take a look at. SWFText (Ants Soft) SWF Text is an author tool of Flash text animation. It embraces 150+ text effects and 20+ background effects, and users may also... CoffeeCup GIF Animator can also convert JPEG and BMP graphics to GIFs automatically, as well as import AVI files. ... CrazyTalk (Reallusion) Now, without the use of any additional video hardware or software, CrazyTalk enables users to easily and quickly generate professional-grade output.

Convert VHS to DVD by Bob Rankin
You have several options to convert VHS to DVD. Let's look at them one by one and then you'll be ready to choose the one that's best for you. Combo Units If you own a combination DVD and VCR player/recorder, available almost any place where electronics are sold, it's almost painless to pop in... Check out BitYard for a point-by-point, nearly human explanation of using an MPEG-2 capturing device that transfers and compresses the video to a smaller file size. ... Using a Video Camera Just about any video camera (camcorder) can serve as the tool to help you copy directly from your old...

What's In An iPod - And Why Is It So Popular? by Mike Singh
Not only is the iPod popular because of its reception from the public, but also because it was Apple's first and successful attempt at branching out from its iMac products and a reputation of being strictly "computer". Unlike the iPod nano and the iPod shuffle which use flash memory, the iPod is... The newer iPods can also play MPEG-4 (H.264MPEG-4AVC), .mp4, .m4v, and Quick Time video file formats. ... If the iPod is formatted on a Mac OS X computer, it uses the HFS Plus file system format; if it is formatted on Windows, the FAT32 is used because Windows cannot access HFS file systems.

Reloading Windows XP by Bill Nadraszky
If you have been running Windows XP for a couple of years or more you may find that it is not running quite as quickly and smoothly as it was when you did your first install. I am constantly 'evaluating' software and uninstalling and reinstalling beta software on my computer and have always... If you are moving from Windows 98 there will be a spot in the install asking if you would like to format or convert the drive to NTFS, I would avoid this as you can convert after you have switched your PC to Windows XP in Disk Management from the Computer management application in Windows.

Authoring and Encoding for New Media by Jon Mueller
As the technology continues to develop, DVD-ROM and CD-ROM are publicized to be great sources of media for a wide variety of publishing objectives. What is less publicized is how to get from point A to point B in terms of necessary materials and a plan of content organization. ... Authoring is the process of assembling the encoded video, along with other non-video files (PDF, Word, etc.) into an interface that allows the end-user to easily access the information. ... Video footage can be converted to a number of different formats, depending on the media used, software program used, and the...

Guide to Adobe Reader by Cedric Price
Adobe Reader is a software designed to securely view PDF documents. PDF stands for Portable Document Format and its biggest advantage is the fact that it has cross-platform compatibility. You can open a PDF file on a Linux computer, or Windows, or even on your mobile phone if it has Symbian. ... Should you want to convert a PDF file into a text document, go File > Save as Text, and the file will be saved with ‘.txt’ extension. ... To add 3D models inside your PDF file, you need Adobe 3D, which supports a variety of three dimensional file formats.

How A Great New Australian Invention Has Suddenly Made Wide Format Scanners Affordable by Hilton Holder
No one can deny that the experience of working with information contained on real paper provides a lot more comfort and satisfaction than viewing it on a computer monitor. This is not just the case when trying to view portrait oriented office documents on a landscape monitor, but even more so... Vectorisation software is extremely useful for the conversion of engineering plan drawings and GIS information from maps into popular CAD file formats for the purposes of editing or to act as electronic stencils for the purposes of cutting or milling shapes in the fields of product manufacture and...

RAM - What is It & Why You Need Plenty by Steve Perlow
This is the first article in the Understanding Your Computer series from aworldofhelp.com. Our goal is to help people understand how their computer works, not simply tell them what they need to buy or use. When you know how your computer works, buying the right system or upgrade is easy. ... Hard Drive Your Hard Drive is where you store all of your programs, music, video, and everything you keep on your computer. ... When you play an audio file like an MP3, the CPU has to do work to decompress it while it plays.

iPod Capabilities by Daniel Dwase
Software iPod Capabilities include playing: 1. MP3 audio file formats. 2. WAV audio file formats. 3.M4A / AAC LC audio file formats. 4. Protected AAC audio file formats. 5. AIFF audio file formats. 6. Audible audiobook audio file formats and 7. Apple Lossless audio file formats. ... iPod capabilities of the 5th generation version plays .m4v and .mp4 MPEG-4 video file formats. ... MIDI files cannot be played on iPods as well, but can be converted into a compatible audio file format by choosing the "advanced" menu on iTunes.