Digital Technologies have substantially changed the way we are living nowadays. New digital ideas and electronic gadgets come out rapidly everyday. The changes have helped us a lot in our daily works. Having said that, the changes brought about by digital technologies also carry the possibility of theft, sabotage and other forms of criminal acts. There is a worrying rise in information security breaches. For […]
For Western English Windows users who plays non-English songs and musics in Foobar2000 music player, the main challenge and also the annoying process is how to get the non-English language song title and artist or singer name to be displayed correctly. Although Foobar2000 supports Unicode (UTF-8) character encoding, however most songs are using non-Unicode ANSI codepage for non-English foreign language characters such as Asian Japanese, […]
Windows Vista Start Menu contains a list of recently opened and frequently used programs (aka recent program list) which will be shown once Start button is clicked. Whenever users launch a program, Vista will keep track of this information and build a list of recently run applications on the fly, and rank them according how frequently the program has been accessed and used. This recently […]
Windows XP and Windows Vista has a Start menu pin list which appears on top of the Start menu when clicked. The pin list allows users to put shortcuts to programs and other items that users for easy and fast access. The process to place an item in the Start menu pin list is called ‘pin’. To pin a shortcut to a program (.exe or […]
Hotfix KB938979 Vista Performance Update intends to improve performance and reliability of Windows Vista system, however, some users reportedly that some problems have been caused by KB 938979 update. Other than failed uncertified driver signing issue, the reported issues are unable to rename or move folders after applying the patch.
Windows Vista comes built-in with a free screen capture or screenshot utility named Snipping Tool. Snipping Tool is available as a standard feature in Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, Ultimate edition. It should be installed by default by each supported Vista edition installation as standard feature, and can be found under Accessories folder. However, for some reason, some Vista does not load this useful […]
A video plays fine and properly when played directly in originating video sharing and hosting sites Youtube, MetaCafe, Google Video, CNet Videos, DailyMotion, iFilm, and Revver themselves, complete with the sound heard nicely. However, the audio is lost and no sound is heard when the Flash video is played on another third party or external sites or blogs that embedded these Youtube and other sites’ […]
When user logins to Windows Live Hotmail (previously known as MSN Hotmail or more commonly been identified with simply Hotmail) via http://www.hotmail.com, the first page that the user sees will be Today page, where various news items, recent updates of contacts and spaces, plus newsletter subscriptions and featured offers together with ads and occasional reminders about features of Hotmail are displayed. Today page which always […]
Adobe has released an upgrade for its Photoshop Lightroom software, Lightroom 1.1, for windows Vista users. This update supports the import and processing of RAW data from 13 additional digital cameras from manufacturers such as Nikon, Canon and Olympus. Adobe has includes a few features in this update such as flexible image management for multi-computer workflows, improved noise reduction and sharpening technology, Windows Vista compatibility, […]
When Windows XP and 2000 freshly installed from clean state, normally the default must have codecs to play sound in Windows will be installed for each installation. However, if Windows setup does not find or detect a sound card, these default Microsoft built-in codecs may not installed. When the sound card is added or the sound card driver is installed later on, some cheap low […]
Windows system does not gives you sound and audio suddenly or despite sound card or audio device is present and working previously? Windows XP, 2000, NT, 2003 or even Vista computers may lost Windows audio and system sounds output due to the mess on file system or registry that created or left by third party utilities after installation and uninstallation, or corrupted and missing codecs, […]
Occasionally users may encounter problem that there is no sound output from the Windows system especially when trying to playback a Flash based contents by installing the latest version of Adobe Flash 9. The symptom is obvious when viewing video clips on online video sharing sites such as YouTube, MetaCafe, Daily Motion, MySpace Video, Google Video and etc. Video can be played back, but no […]
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