Have you ever wondered what your ancestors were like? Were they noblemen, peasants or pirates? Genealogy or the study of family history was originally developed to determine the legitimacy of heirs of noble families to be used to determine who had a legitimate claim to the property and power of the family.
Eventually as feudalism disappeared […]
Archive for March, 2008
Family Tree Maker Review
Macromedia Shockwave Multimedia Player
Shockwave is a multimedia player originally unveiled at a trade show in 1995 by Macromedia. This newest movie player was designed to run movies created with Macromedia Director after being encoded by an application called Afterburner. In 1998 Macromedia released a product called Director 7 Shockwave internet Studio. Shockwave could be used to create stand […]
March 26th, 2008 | admin | Comments Off | Continued
Adobe Flash Player
The Adobe Flash player is a free web browser plug in that is distributed by Macromedia, now a division of Adobe products. Flash was introduced in 1996 by Macromedia as a follow up to their extremely popular shockwave movie player. Unlike shockwave, flash was built from the ground up to be used to play and […]
March 24th, 2008 | admin | Comments Off | Continued
Getting Started With Microsoft FrontPage 2003
Web pages are coded in HTML which is a page description language that instructs a web browser where to place objects on a page and what the properties of those objects are such as color, size, length, width, height, etc. The language uses tags to identify specific objects. For example <p> indicates the start of […]
March 19th, 2008 | admin | Comments Off | Continued
Upgrading From Windows Millennium Edition (ME) To Windows XP
Released in 2000, Windows ME is the successor to Windows 98, and unlike Windows 98, was aimed specifically at the home market since Windows NT professional had taken over the business workstation market. Windows ME is a hybrid 16/32 bit DOS based operating system with a small UNIX kernel primarily used for scheduling the […]
March 10th, 2008 | admin | Comments Off | Continued
Easy Media Creator 10 Review
A descendant of Roxio’s Easy CD Creator, Easy Media Creator 10 by Roxio offers a CD copying option but only allows you to copy non-protected CDs and DVDs. The program has numerous other capabilities. The suite seems designed to put all the tools you need to manage your digital life into one software application. Basically, […]
March 7th, 2008 | admin | Comments Off | Continued
DVD Cloner 5 Review
DVD Cloner is software program that lets you make backup copies of your movies, music and purchased software from your original DVDs so you can protect that original from damage, loss or theft. The DVD Cloner 5 program won a gold award from the TopTenREVIEWS website as being one of the best DVD copying software […]
March 5th, 2008 | admin | Comments Off | Continued
How To Speed Up A Slow Computer
Is your computer running slow? Frustrating, isn’t it? There are several things you can do to speed up you windows PC. The hardware suggestions in this article apply to most computers. However, since some flavor of Microsoft windows is running on over 90% of all PCs, the operating system suggestions are for windows and specifically […]
March 3rd, 2008 | admin | Comments Off | Continued