Sunday, July 27, 2008

Four Alternatives to Windows Media Player

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Once upon a time, Windows Media Player (WMP) was a lean and not-so-mean audio and video player. It did a specific job, and did it fairly
well. It was pretty much an cheap MP3 player (and a couple of other formats, too) for your desktop computer.

But like a lot of software (not just the stuff out of Redmond), WMP got a bit too big for its own good. Now, it doesn’t just play audio and video. It’s also a DVD player, an iTunes wannabe, a CD ripper, an interface to MP3 players, and more. Sometimes I wonder if WMP packs a death ray or a connection to my blender that will help me make smoothies. 

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Sunday, July 20, 2008

3G – Hype or Hot?

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Recently, the word fanboy was added to the official Merriam Webster dictionary as one of the new words for 2008.  A fanboy is defined by Merriam Webster’s as “a boy who is an enthusiastic devotee (as of comics or movies)” or of cell phones for that matter.  Conversely, there is the word hater - a hater is, according to dictionary.com, someone who has an “intense dislike or aversion toward something”.  Why bring these up in a Tech Tip about 3G cell phone technology?  One word: iPhone. The cell phone world was pretty set with its proponents and opponents to a particular carrier or even technology – but it was the Apple iPhone which seemed to propel the cell phone world into the land of the fanboys and haters. With so much fanfare about the recent launch of the second generation iPhone, we thought it would be appropriate to try to clear up some of the muck.  What exactly is 3G? Also, just what is all this GSM and CDMA stuff anyway?  Finally, does it all really matter?

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Sunday, July 13, 2008

Backing it up with External Hard Drives

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In the olden days when hard drives were counted in megabytes and the floppy disk was king, backing up a hard drive and transferring files between desktop computers bordered on insanity. Those days of ancient computer history are long gone. These days, when we want to back up a computer, maybe archive some important files, or simply want to transfer data from one computer to another, we have the external hard drive.

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Sunday, July 06, 2008

Moving from Analog to Digital TV

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By this time in 2009, television as you know it will have changed. It’s not that the quality of what you’re watching will be any better or any worse (although you’d hope that TV shows will get better!). It’s how you’re getting those programs over the air that’s going to change.

This TechTip looks at the coming changes to the way in which you get your over-the-air TV and what you can do to adapt.

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