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 | ContinuedArchive for admin
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
Computer Randomly Restarts By Itself?
By default, all windows operating systems since NT have rebooted when it encounters a fatal system STOP error. A stop error may or may not cause the machine to Blue Screen. The Blue Screen of Death is actually a protective measure designed to prevent critical systems from be corrupted by two processes trying to write […]
February 29th, 2008 | admin | Comments Off | Continued
Starting Microsoft Excel in Safe Mode
Microsoft originally released what was to eventually become Microsoft Excel as a program called Multiplan, which was a very good spreadsheet but lost out to the extremely popular Lotus 123.
Microsoft then released Excel for the Macintosh in 1985 and a DOS based version was made available for the PC. The first PC windows version of […]
Cyberlink PowerDVD Review
If you want to watch movies on your desktop or laptop or, if you’re like me, plug the laptop into the big screen TV and play the Movies you downloaded, then you want to get a good quality DVD player for your computer.If you have windows 2000, XP or Vista you already have a media […]
February 25th, 2008 | admin | Comments Off | Continued