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Get Yahoo Toolbar
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Continue reading →: Get Yahoo ToolbarYahoo! Toolbar. YOu have to get this tool for the antispyware. Been working through what’s wrong with Connie’s computer and despite the fact we run IE 6.0, Google Popup Blocker, Zonealarm, Norton Antivirus and Spybot Search and Destroy. On running Lavasoft Ad-aware that I found zillions of spyware programs that…
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XP Hangs and Reboots
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Continue reading →: XP Hangs and RebootsTroubleshoot Windows XP Professional. Been getting an amazing number of hangs (e.g., mouse freezes) and random reboots (no blue screen, just blown to the restart). Feels like there is instability in at least two machines at the driver level. As an old NT guy, I know that the only way…
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Reinstalling XP
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Continue reading →: Reinstalling XPSniptools ?| Tips/Tricks | Reinstall Windows XP without product activation. A bunch of my XP machines are getting random crashes. With the NTFS file system, it is easy to corrupt things and one machine is now dead. Things chkdsk fine, but that doesn’t mean the operating system files themselves aren’t…
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SP2 Required
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Continue reading →: SP2 RequiredSymantec Support. Now that Microsoft is going to discontinue support for the “gold” XP, they are forcing everyone to upgrade to SP2. Interesting, this is the hardest core shift I’ve seen lately, but it makes me worried about the machines I have that aren’t SP2 yet. Here’s a note on…
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dBpowerAMP
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Continue reading →: dBpowerAMPdBpowerAMP. OK, after much experimenting, this looks like the best of the bunch for setup and also for quality. First, it doesn’t make a mystery what codecs you need. You can download the Windows Media 9 Codecs (confusing that Windows Media Player is version 10, but but the codecs are…
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WMA Conversion
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Continue reading →: WMA ConversionWMA to MP3 converter, WMA MP3 converter, MP3 organizer, MP3 tagger, CD burner. I tried CDEX to convert from WMA to MP3, but it complains incessantly about a DLL missing even though I downloaded it. Here is a whole site devote to WMA to MP3 etc. These are mainly shareware…
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WMA fiiles
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Continue reading →: WMA fiilesRe: WMA to MP3 Transcoding Software? – MP3. Ages ago, I ripped a few CDs in WMA format, but MP3 is the standard. Here’s a quick way to transcode so that in my core libraries I have complete portability. Note, I also have songs in FLAC for archiving (it is…
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Gizmodo Portable Media Reviews
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Continue reading →: Gizmodo Portable Media ReviewsGizmodo : Portable Media Archives. They seem to be most up on portable gadgets. Heard there are reviews of: * “Apple Flash iPod”:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/15/apple_flash_ipod/. This will be a lower cost and much slimmer version presumably the idea it is cheaper than the iPod Mini which has a hefty $250 price point.…
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Unsharp Mask
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Continue reading →: Unsharp MaskVivid Light Photography Online. One of the more confusing topics for image fixing is this Unsharp Mask. That has got to be one of the most confusing names for a feature. It actually means sharpening the image by wiggle it. Also confusing are the paramenters. There is percentage (between 100-250%…
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Alias Soundtrack
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Continue reading →: Alias SoundtrackOK, I admit it, I got addicted to this show last year when I blew my knee out. When you watch 3 years of episodes in a week, it does something to your head. The main thing is that soundtrack is just amazing. Maybe it is me, but I thought…
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