From WMA To MP3

April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Some folks have portable music players that do not support the popular WMA file format.

If that’s you you can always convert your NON-DRM .WMA files into the MP3 format with this free software:

http://nch.com.au/switch/

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Windows Live Photo Gallery

April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Windows Live Photo Gallery is a photo management and sharing application released as a part of Microsoft’s Windows Live initiative. It is an upgraded version of Windows Photo Gallery, which is a part of Windows Vista. Windows Live Photo Gallery also supports Windows XP and facilitates viewing any image format supported by the Windows Imaging Component (including HD Photo) on Windows XP, if the appropriate WIC codecs are installed.

Windows Live Photo Gallery provides management, tagging, and searching capabilities for digital photos. It provides an image viewer that can replace the default OS image viewer, and a photo import tool that can be used to acquire photos from a camera or other removable media.

Windows Live Photo Gallery allows sharing of photos by uploading them to Windows Live Spaces and Flickr.

Windows Live Photo Gallery includes all the features of Windows Photo Gallery in Windows Vista. It adds several new features including:

#  An improved photo/video import tool, providing the ability to view, select, and tag photos that are automatically grouped by date-taken.
#  Ability to view a photo’s color histogram with shadow and highlight adjustment, or to adjust a photo’s sharpness.
#  Panoramic stitching using technology developed by Microsoft Research.
#  Batch resize of photos and rotation of videos
#  Support for displaying QuickTime videos when QuickTime 7 is installed.

Although it is an upgraded version of Windows Photo Gallery, some features (such as themed photo slideshows) which use Windows Vista-specific technologies are not available on Windows XP.

Get it here:

http://get.live.com/photogallery/overview

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Memory Diagnostics Tool

April 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Usually, Windows automatically detects possible problems with your computer’s memory and displays a notification that asks if you want to run the Memory Diagnostics Tool.

Running the Memory Diagnostics Tool

When you receive a notification about a possible memory problem, click the notification so you can choose between two options for when to run the Memory Diagnostics Tool:

# You can restart your computer and run the tool immediately.

# You can restart your computer and run the tool later.

If you choose to restart your computer and run the tool immediately, make sure that you save your work and close all of your running programs. The Memory Diagnostics Tool will run automatically when you restart Windows. While the Memory Diagnostics Tool runs, you will see a progress bar indicating the status of the test. Once the test is done, Windows will again restart automatically.

Getting the Results of the Memory Test

If the Memory Diagnostics Tool does not find any errors, you’ll get a message that no errors were found.

If the Memory Diagnostics Tool detects errors, contact your computer or memory manufacturer for more information or speak with a PC tecnician.

Run The Memory Diagnostics Tool Manually

In the Start box type:  memory

The Memory Diagnostics Tool will then run, simply follow the onscreen instructions!

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