Technology never ceases to amaze me. When I was in college, my first computer had 4 MB of RAM, a 40 MB hard drive, a 13-inch monitor (that displayed 256 colors!), and had a processor that clocked in at 23 Mhz. It cost about five times as much as my current computer does. And it ...
How To Open MKV Files Has anyone ever sent you a link to a “really cool video!” only once you downloaded it, the video was in some weird format your video player couldn’t play? Among the video formats there are a few, such as MPG, AVI, WMV and MOV that pretty much everyone recognizes and ...
Looking for an easy way to convert all your DVDs and video files on your Mac? Want to convert them to a different format so you can watch them on your iPod, iPhone or Apple TV? A free program called MPEG Streamclip makes that process a simple one, and you don’t even need to own ...
Linux operating systems are often misunderstood. Those who use them are looked at with disdain and confusion by the majority of computer users. Yet many lack experience with free operating systems. Here are the benefits, and disadvantages, of using Linux. Pros Most Linux based operating systems are free, which is a much cheaper alternative to ...
Linux is an outstanding operating system, with so many different distributions and flavors of Linux you have a very wide selection to choose from. While having so many different flavors to choose from can be nice, sometimes it’s hard to pick which one is the right one for you. In this article I will show ...
I had a simple goal: authoring a DVD. It’s something I’ve done hundreds of times over the past eight years; not a big deal. Typically there are at least three programs capable of making a DVD on my system at any given time. The trouble is none of them were capable of making the DVD ...
One of the problems Mac users occasionally run into when playing audio and video files found on the Internet is that there is no Quicktime plugin available. Because of this, Mac users will often have a handful of applications on their computer, to ensure that whatever file is found will be able to be viewed ...