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Liberate Embedded Web Media With Firefox

How often have you been surfing the web only to come across an excellent video or flash movie that is embedded in the page? With no way to download your only option is to return to the same page for repeat viewings. That is, until now.

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Take Control of Audio and Video Downloads

One of the bigger annoyances I find with downloading audio and video from Web sites is the default players always trying to automatically play the files instead of letting me download them to my hard drive. It’s bad enough media players are constantly battling for control of my media, but Windows Media Player, iTunes, Real […]

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Saving Movies From A Digital Camera for the Web

Digital still cameras take movies in a variety of formats; some more accessible to a broad user base than others. Kodak, Nikon, and Olympus commonly record movies in the QuickTime MOV format, which is not easily edited by all video editing apps and require QuickTime for viewing (which may be something people either can’t install […]

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Photo Optimization

Do you like to send photos to people often, and they always take a long time
to send? Well you can fix that but optimizing your photos. After you have
scanned or downloaded your pictures, how about opening up a graphics
program like Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop to size your photos down to an
appropriate size? Then you […]

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Grokking the GIMP

“The first part of this book focuses on mastering core tools: layers, selections, masks, and colorspaces. The second part builds on the first by presenting an in-depth treatment of touchup, enhancement, compositing, rendering, and image creation for the web. The following gives a synopsis of what you will find in each chapter.”
Chapter 1 reviews the […]

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Sorting Your Images 31 Different Ways

Have you ever not been able to find an image that you knew was on your PC? Well use this tip the next time it happens and it should help you find it.
Did you know that you have 31 ways to sort and view your images in Windows XP? Open the folder that […]

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Windows Media wmp.dll Error Fix

Via Kashif Khan:
“A lot of people stumble upon my blog due to a variety of reasons - one of them being the search engine query regarding the Windows Media Player’s wmp.dll, which gets confused as to which version number of the program it is actually running. The error message is the following and is encountered […]