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A computer user since 1976, Deck enjoys testing new software and reconfiguring his equipment to squeeze the most out of it. "Computing has come a long way since those early days" Deck recalls "I get a real kick out of watching the industry grow - getting paid to write about it is just icing on the cake!"
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Big Screen EPG Puts the “E” in Electronic Program Guide [Part 1 of 3]
On November - 21 - 2010Comments Off on Big Screen EPG Puts the “E” in Electronic Program Guide [Part 1 of 3]
In the quest for an ever more perfect media center, our focus now turns to the EPG – the Electronic Program Guide – the data that comes with our programs, but is not a part of our programs. When you stand at the back of the room farthest from the TV, they look like this:
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Setup Your Windows 7 PC to Watch TV
On November - 19 - 2010Comments Off on Setup Your Windows 7 PC to Watch TV
Back in article #3 (add a tuner) we talked about the features available in the TV section of Windows Media Center made possible by the installation of a TV tuner card.
In this article we’ll take you through the whole process, step by step, with plenty of screen shots. The tuner for this report is the WinTV-HVR-NovaT .
Without a TV Tuner Card your Windows Media Center menu will give you the option to set it up.
“View Source” Tip: Find Links to Multiple Images for Quick Downloading
On November - 3 - 20101 COMMENT
The Situation: You’re doing some work that requires a bunch of images and you’ve found a site that has some great free images that would work very nicely. To get each of the images, however, you need to go through a bunch of steps. First you gotta locate a screen that tells you what’s available — a “thumbnail” screen usually:
Take “Ego Surfing” to the Next Level with “knowem?”
On October - 9 - 2010Comments Off on Take “Ego Surfing” to the Next Level with “knowem?”
In common parlance – typing your name into a google search box and seeing what comes back.
Here’s a site that let’s you go crazy – and it’s free!
Organize Your Files with an Intuitive and Structured File System
On October - 8 - 2010Comments Off on Organize Your Files with an Intuitive and Structured File System
How many times have you downloaded a file to your hard drive then could not find it again? How many times have you downloaded a file, found it, stored it somewhere, then couldn’t find it again? How many times have you looked at your “My Documents” folder and thought ‘what a mess!’.
The sad truth is that having a great collection of things – be it software programs or even garden tools – is useless if you can’t lay your hands on an item in a timely fashion.
Mass Convert File Names in Windows with a Batch File [How To]
On September - 27 - 20104 COMMENTS
Sooner or later you may face the problem of how to change the names of a large group of files. A case in point is a situation wherein you have a group of files – perhaps a group of episodes from a TV series that have been named correctly, but in a non-standard format – and you need to change those file names to conform with an accepted standard, for example, in the form of SXXEYY where XX is the season number and YY is the episode number, followed by the file type suffix. This code is often referred to as the “Sexxyy” standard.
The Files:
The original files may come from a variety of sources, many of them ad hoc and without regard for the standards, or perhaps named for a different standard (there are several to choose from).
Taking a download from the Internet, you might get a list of files that look like this: