Archive for the 'Tutorials' Category

Microsoft recently added support for Divx and Xvid video to the Xbox 360 via a Dashboard update. This article compares Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player 11, two applications that help stream video content to Xbox 360.

This article will explain more specifically how you can interact with TextMarks, including using your own web application to send and receive text messages.

Desktop sharing is an incredibly useful approach for collaborating on ideas, holding presentations, or simply accessing remote computers. Zoho Meeting meets the needs of desktop sharing for small businesses and independent entrepreneurs. The product is straight-forward and practical. And did I mention it’s free?

Testing websites and web applications that are optimized for iPhone is not possible everywhere unless the remote web resource thinks the client is an iPhone. Web-based and OS X applications exist to test iPhone compatibility, but this tutorial describes how to set Firefox up to fake the iPhone user agent.

Microsoft Photo Info is a tool for adding metadata to your photos. Released in January 2007, this is a free tool for Windows XP SP2 or Vista (32-bit versions) that will help you update batches or individual photos with titles, keywords, descriptions, locations and other information. I’ve been using Photo Info to add metadata to photos I’ve shared on Flickr for 2 days, and it has worked better than any of the other Windows solutions I’ve tried thus far.

Here’s a quick tutorial on how to create a calendar of events that you’d like to share with others, specifically users of Apple’s iCal, Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook.

My winter basketball league recently released the schedules on their web site. We like the web site, but it’d be nice to be able to view the events (each game) in our own calendar applications.

This article is a tutorial that explains the process of backing up a DVD on a PC using DVD Shrink. While there are many software solutions for backing up DVDs, the one on Windows I like is DVD Shrink. The program I use to burn CDs and DVDs is Nero. This article assumes your computer is already equipped with a burning program. An explanation of DVD Shrink and its features is available in a previous article. DVD Shrink will use Nero for burning if it is detected, but does not require Nero.

After taking some short video clips with my Nikon Coolpix 4300 I wanted to splice them together into a small production. The problem was that my camera only records in QuickTime, and my editing software doesn’t accept that format. So the seemingly simple task of converting the .MOV files to a workable format (such as .AVI) began. I quickly learned that most conversion programs are not free, and the demos typically have a banner at the bottom of the converted file advertising their product.

This article was created in response to a visitor’s request from a Matt Thommes article titled Using Paths to create smooth, rounded corners in Photoshop. The visitor requested a write-up on how to create images with rounded corners in the GIMP, a free, open source image editing and manipulation program.

RSS is a form of content syndication, excellent for tracking a large number of sites or for simple notifications.

With the surging popularity of “blogging” tools, such as WordPress and Movable Type, many users underestimate (and take for granted) the inclusion of RSS capabilities.

This article will show you how to create your own RSS feed, from scratch - to track any type of data or information.

There are many different types of syndication formats available, but this article will only focus on RSS 2.0.

A quick overview