Windows
Print MP3 Playlist?
Gazette Reader Kathy W. writes: Dear Dennis, I love your newsletter! Thanks so much for doing it – it’s been a great help in the past! Here’s my problem: I have a lot of mp3s stored in the My Documents Folder, and I want to burn them all to a CD and then print out [...]
An HDTV Reminder
You should see what’s on HDTV – not a lot, from the looks of it. Certainly, we have a smattering of shows that look good in high definition – but not enough to make HDTV as essential as it should be. Prices are dropping for HDTV equipment (although it’s not economically sound for everybody to [...]
Your Thoughts On Windows Vista?
Call 1.206.428.6082. State your name, Web site, etc. SPEAK CLEARLY, this is all free promotion for you. Give us your thoughts on Windows Vista: the name, installing it, its features, the release date, its timing, OS X comparitively, will it help Microsoft, etc. Even if you don’t have access to the beta, what it means [...]
Scan2PDF v1.1
Scan2PDF enables you to scan paper documents and save them to PDF format on your computer for digital archiving or backup. In addition, you can also load images from your hard drive and combine them with a scanned document, or combine multiple documents/images into a single PDF file. [465k] [Win98/ME/2k/XP] [FREE] [SnapFiles]
XmailHardDrive.com
One of the most attractive things about Gmail is the amount of storage space that they give to you for free. With that kind of space, you can keep years worth of archived messages in your account. You’re not locked into a certain amount of space, either. If you check out the Gmail Web site, [...]
Need To Free Up Disk Space?
If you are running out of space on your computer, there are a number of different things that you can do. I recently wrote a short tip entitled Which Files are Safe to Delete. As the name would imply, I outlined some of the files you can safely remove to free up disk space. However, [...]
Convert From A Basic Disk To A Dynamic Disk (XP Pro)
Windows XP supports both basic and dynamic disks (as does Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003). You can use the Disk Management console to convert a basic disk to dynamic. Before you attempt to make the conversion you need to keep the following points in mind: There must be a minimum of 1 MB of [...]
Split Large Files For Backup Onto CD?
Gazette reader Lai C. writes: Dear Dennis, I have recently organized all of my critical files into 1 single folder. The rationale for organizing in this manner is so that it is easy for me to locate my files for the purpose of backing them up onto CD recordable. My Critical File Folder contains over [...]
On Dumping Microsoft
Yeah, I know Steve Rubel’s post on Dumping Microsoft is a few days old… but I couldn’t let this one slip by without plunking down my two cents. I, too, have wrestled with the iSwitch. Despite how much I might complain about the state of consumer Windows software, I find myself reluctant to leave the [...]
Newzie – A Different RSS Reader
There are dozens of news aggregators and RSS readers out there on the market today. The only problem I see is that at least eighty percent of them look like carbon copies of the ones before them. Sure, all cars have four wheels and can drive. Why isn’t there a new and different way to [...]
