If you are citizen of an European Union member nation, you may not use this service unless you are at least 16 years old.
You already know Dokkio is an AI-powered assistant to organize & manage your digital files & messages. Very soon, Dokkio will support Outlook as well as One Drive. Check it out today!
Does your registry need defragged or optimized? My best non-expert guess would be YES. Since the Windows registry is kind of like a central control point, it makes sense to try to keep it running smoothly.
In the past, I've used NTREGOPT for this job. Auslogics Registry Defrag is a much nicer and faster alternative. You may also want to try the more popular Auslogics Disk Defrag for defragging your hard disks. I use it quite often.
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The Registry is very much like hard disk drives. Programs on your computer access the Registry thousands of times per second. That means that the Registry, just like disk drives, gets bloated and fragmented with time. Defragment and compact the Windows Registry in less than a minute. The program will scan through the registry to remove slack spaces, reducing the registry size and ultimately the amount of RAM the registry takes up, and improving your computer performance.
If you are looking for a way to post your video to a website, this is a great tool. It even creates the HTML code for you to paste into a web page.
Just so you know, there are other alternatives to using this or other video converters. You can use a converter website like Zamzar or Media-Convert. Some of the video hosts like YouTube and Fliqz also convert the files for you if you upload them at their site.
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Free Video to Flash Converter. Convert video to flash (SWF or FLV) to publish video on your web site or blog.
Convert *.avi, *.mpeg, *.mpg, *.mp4, *.m4v, *.wmv, *.asf, *.mov, *.qt, *.3gp, *.3g2, *.dvr-ms. *.flv video files to ready for web *.flv and *.swf files.
For example convert avi to flv, mp4 to flv, mpeg to flv, mpg to flv, wmv to flv, mov to flv, 3gp to flv.
Free Video to Flash Converter contains no spyware or adware. It's clearly free and absolutely safe to install and run.
I first tried this day-planner clone back in 2005. The authors haven't changed it much at all since then. There isn't much need to. It's just a simple and very familiar way to keep track of your daily, weekly and monthly appointments. It doesn't offer any fancy alarms and it also doesn't let you import data from one year to the next.
I still like it because it looks just like the physical cardboard and paper planner I use at work.
Do you have a better suggestion? Tell me in a comment below.
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We have offered this amazing digital yearly Planner and Address Book for several years now. It has generated quite a "fan base" - many thousands of folks that just love it! It allows you to add/ edit addresses as well as appointment entries (you can even print it out if you want): very handy to install/ use on your laptop or any other system you have "contact" with often.
Supporting file: you MUST have THIS small reader installed before the Planner will display properly!
There are many free calendar and reminder programs to choose from. This one isn't anything special except for one thing. It can also play MP3 play lists while it sits in your system tray.
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We are offering this great "Digital Calendar" Windows software to any of you folks that want an easy, convenient way of keeping tracks of birthdays, your appointments, or dates.
But wait, it's not just a digital calendar: it even has a MP3 Player embedded within the software! Also has the option to have it activate at Windows startup - sits in the system tray as an icon at "the ready".
I tried this program a few days ago. It is very fast at creating FLV or Flash files for use in publishing movies on the web. There are no settings to mess with, it works well and it's free. If you are a webmaster with limited funds, this might be a good tool for you. On the other hand, it does seem to use a default bandwidth and you'll see some degradation from an original movie in some cases. You may want to look at Free Video To Flash Converter if you'd like more options.
Before you download it and install it, I should probably let you know that there are simpler alternatives to using this program. Most video hosting websites, like YouTube or Fliqz, will automatically convert those movies for you and generate embeddable HTML code for you. In this case, there is no need to install any software, but you may need to register at the hosting sites to use their services.
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If you're like me - you've spent hours surfing the net looking for a simple to use, software program that converts WMV, AVI and MPEG's to FLV or SWF (flash). Well.. surly there's one out there but we couldn't find it so we rolled our own: it's a "one trick pony", so to speak, but it does it's job well!
Has been tested to be compatible with Windows 98, 98SE, ME, 2000, XP & Vista (not tested on Vista 64-bit).
Do you have a "guest" login on your WinXP machine? Do you want to keep them from changing the settings on your machine? This little utility is free for home use. All you have to do is log in as the user you want to change the settings for and then run this stand-alone program. When you run the program you'll get a wide variety of Windows features that you can either turn off or on. If you get a license for this you'll be able to change all user settings without logging into them.
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Download Windows XP Security Console. Double click the ZIP file you downloaded and extract the contents to your hard disk. The EXE and CHM (Help) file need to be in the same folder. There is no uninstaller, but be advised, any restrictions that have been put in place will remain in place, even if you delete the application. So, if you're going to remove the application, make sure that you change any settings that you want to, before you remove it. For additional security, this utility and its help file are small enough to fit on a floppy disk. Extract the files to a floppy, run the utility from there, change the settings you wish, then put the floppy away somewhere safe.
Despite their very generous offerings, I've never tried the services offered by Microsoft in their Office Live suite. However, we do have a friend who has tried it and compares it with Google's online suite.
Let's see what Sarah in Tampa has to say ...
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Office Live Workspace beta is publicly available for everyone to access. The site, a free web-based extension of Microsoft Office, lets you access your documents online and share your work with others. Some say that the service's launch is a direct response to Google's entry into the web office space with their Google Docs online service. If that's so, then the question now is: did Microsoft just trump Google Docs? Or does Google Docs still rule online office suites?
Bob Constans wrote in with this recommendation. Apparently you can now read RSS feeds while waiting for files to copy, downloads to finish, or pages to print.
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 11:21 AM, Bob Constans wrote:
This is just bloody brilliant
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Are you bored when waiting for your computers loading bar? Popuload is the news feed reader for you. You can set Popuload to appear and disappear simultaneously with your computers loading bar. So while waiting to Download, Copy or Print you can read snippets of News, the latest Sports Score, Celebrity Gossip or news feeds of your choice.
Old Newsletter
I like to look back and see what I was thinking about. Here's another letter from the wayback machine.
TIPS AND FEEDBACK
Frapper - you people live all over the world!
Wow! Over 900 people and still growing! I invite all of you to record your locations on this map. You can include as little or as much information as you wish. I think you'll enjoy seeing yourself there.
I use Picasa as my photo organizer. I'm not a Picasa power user by any means, but when I find time, I'll take a look at this article below that I found recently.
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Google’s Picasa is probably one of the best photo managers available as it makes organizing, managing and sharing photos a lot easier. Its ever growing popularity can be attributed to its simplicity and ease of use. Picasa 2 is currently available as a download for Windows and Linux but a Mac version is expected to be released soon.
Here are some tips for Picasa users to efficiently manage their photo collections:
How many times have you sat down in front of someone else's computer and had to try to figure out how to get into it's BIOS for a tweak you need to make?
Not too many of you have had this problem? I have lost count how often this has happened to me, and I decided to post this so that I can find the right key combination the next time I need it.
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The BIOS can normally be accessed when you start your computer. You may see a reference to "Setup" when you turn your computer on. That’s your opportunity to get into the BIOS. It usually requires the push of a function key, such as F10, to get access to it. That "F" key varies between computers. Sometimes it’s not even one of the Function keys, but the ESC key or DEL key ... A partial list of BIOS access commands by brand is listed at the end of this article.
Bill Webb passed this along to me. I've never heard of Earth Hour. Have you?
Friends and Family,
Earth Hour is a movement that started last year in Australia. Essentially, Sydney shut off all its lights for one hour, saving an amount of energy equivalent to taking 48,000 cars off the road. This year, the movement has spread worldwide, and includes cities like Chicago, Toronto, San Francisco, Atlanta, Manila, Tel Aviv, major cities throughout Australia and Europe, and many others.
There are lots of ways to get involved, from spreading the word or holding your own Earth Hour event, to making Earth Hour part of your everyday life at home and at work.
Please sign up here, and help spread the word: http://earthhour.org/user/Oatt. You also get your own Earth Hour page which allows you to see the direct effect that you are having when you invite friends and family to get involved too. Hurry. Earth Hour 2008 is at 8:00 PM your time on Saturday, March 29. My apologies for getting this to you so late, but I just got involved myself. Please feel free to forward this as is, or modify it as you see fit and sign your own name. (Remember to BCC the addresses as a courtesy to your correspondents.)
This is an excellent way to impress your children with your seriousness about the environment. Many folks have planned candlelight dinners, weddings, vigils for the Earth, and other activities.
THERE ARE ONLY SEVEN DAYS LEFT TO ACT AND GET AS MANY FOLKS INVOLVED AS POSSIBLE!
If you have a blog, connections in the media, run a company, or just a family, please do what you can to get others involved. This is more than a gesture: it's an event to raise the consciousness of everyone who hears about it, and bout the amazing cumulative results of this relatively simple "gesture."
Visit www.earthhour.org to find useful downloads, tools, tips and news updates or get creative and visit Earth Hour's Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and MySpace pages to add your video and Earth Hour pictures.
I agree with Bill. PPS attachments are a waste of bandwidth. It would have been nice if someone else had posted it to a slide service so they didn't have to send it as an attachment.
I uploaded it for you. You can see this slideshow FULL SIZE at the link below:
Gary at Internet Fixes continues to amaze me with hundreds and thousands of tips for your PC. Whatever your operating system, or how you use it, a visit to Gary's site will soon have you saying "So that's how you do this!".
I recently tried out this free file hosting service. It's very nice and they also have a good set of tools you can use to help you share files.
Right now, it looks like each file must be 300mb or smaller. My guess is that they'll bump that size upwards if they are still here a year from now. The file hosting business is full of good competition.
I've tried a few other services like this one. They all work but some are nicer to work with. Try a few to find out for yourself.
COOLSITES is a list of safe, fun, useful, informative and just plain cool websites and programs that are FREE, FREE and FREE. All of the programs and websites I list are free. If I list anything that is so good but isn't free I will list the price with it.
You need a free 6 GB Gmail account to access many of the cool features at Google. After more than two years in beta testing Gmail is open to the public. Just go to http://gmail.com and sign up for an account.
I think Gmail works best in the awesome Firefox browser. It's free, easy to use, and it's way more secure than Internet Explorer. My favorite thing to do is to customize Firefox so that it does much more than IE ever could. You can select new button controls for your toolbars, install extensions to add new features, or change the look of your browser with themes - the way Firefox looks and works is under your control.
I get many of the reviews in the newsletter from the readers. You don't have to be a genius or computer guru. Just answer a few questions and send me a review. I'll probably put you in the newsletter.
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