Photo and Video

How to make your own screen saver

Screen savers used to be more functional. They prevented “burn-in”, or ghostly-looking afterimages that haunted your monitor, indicating you’ve left it displaying the same image too long. A “screen saver” was named literally, a way to keep your monitor constantly changing and moving to prevent monitor burn-in. Monitors today are very resistant to burn-in, but […]

Panasonic DMR-E75VS review: Convert VHS to DVD

You’ve got VHS tapes of your favorite TV shows, little Billy’s first steps or that grade school football game where a linebacker accidentally plowed into the group of cheerleaders. These are videos you’d like to have for a long time, but degradation from viewing or from sitting on the shelf is unpreventable. A VHS tape […]

DIY Wallace and Gromit: How to make free stop motion animated movies

You love Wallace and Gromit. You’ve seen their adventures about runaway “techno-trousers” piloted by evil penguins. You know the real cause of the mutilated vegetables in “Curse of the Were-Rabbit”. And you want to do it too, don’t you? Admit it, even the least creative of us yearns to be a Nick Park, creating lovable […]

Encode, play and compress video movies for playback on handheld Pocket PC and Palm devices

You’ve spent buckets of money on your jazzy cellphone. With email, calendar, digital camera, e-book reader and web browsing, who needs more? Rarely getting out of bed, you work so well with your handheld device, it’s a productivity Swiss Army Knife. But you’ve been working too hard. Relax the right way. Not with fads like […]

How to create photo mosaics with free photo mosaic software: A picture is worth a thousand pictures

Sometimes you need to take a step back to fully appreciate a picture. In this case, you may need to take several steps forward. This is a common requirement for photo mosaics. Not too long ago, my daughter had her first birthday party. My wife and I put together a DVD slideshow of baby pictures […]

Viewing and Editing DVDs on a PC

John asks: “I want to convert a very special VHS to DVD on a DVD recorder. My question is, can I then take the DVD and edit it on my PC? Just wondering if a DVD created on one of these devices can be processed or even viewed on a PC.” So to break this […]

Free and not-so-free image converters

Nancy writes: Back in ’98 I started using a Kodak 200 3.1 digital camera. At that time I did not know the difference between JPG and FPX, so I saved all my pictures as FPX. The problem is, I am on my third digital camera (I’m saving all pics as JPG now) and have upgraded […]

Free graphic editing and rendering software tools: Color your world

When I was young, my art medium of choice was a box of Crayola crayons. The 8-pack was fine. It offered all the basic colors needed for my pictures of helicopters and dragons. I couldn’t believe it when I saw the 16-pack. More was better, I theorized, so you can imagine my excitement when I […]

Pirated TV DVD scams: Protect yourself

DVDAvenue.tv: See this page to read more user experiences with DVDAvenue, or report a problem. DVDDonkey.com: See this page to read more user experiences with DVDDonkey.com, or report a problem. A reader has a big problem with a recent DVD scam: I found a site called “DVDAVENUE.TV”. They advertised various TV shows on their site and I […]

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