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Chinese Text to PinYin
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Continue reading →: Chinese Text to PinYinWell, I use Google to translate Chinese characters to English which works OK, but I really need something that also translates to Pinyin so I can read it. “Ping Asian Imports”:http://www.pingasianimports.com/Chinesepinyin/Translate.asp has such a tool. What I really need is something that takes a web page or a PowerPoint document…
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Phone Geeks for Blackberry, RAZR and CU320
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Continue reading →: Phone Geeks for Blackberry, RAZR and CU320With a shiny new Blackberry 8700c, it’s fun to see what the power nerds are doing to make it fast and personal, here are some great sites to follow: * “Blackberry Forums”:http://blackberryforums.com. This is pretty active and the “8700”:http://www.blackberryforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=52 forum has some good things on problems and new software like…
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Merging M2V and MP2 elemental streams back into MPEG 2
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Continue reading →: Merging M2V and MP2 elemental streams back into MPEG 2Well, I use TMPGEnc Creator to encode my MPEG2 streams. DVD-Labs really likes to have the audio and video streams split into M2V for the video and M2A for the audio (sometimes called MP2 if it is encoded in MPEG2 audio). But, iPod Videola really likes either the complex MPEG2…
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Reinstalling Windows XP Easily
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Continue reading →: Reinstalling Windows XP Easily“Reinstalling”:http://winhowto.blogspot.com/2006/06/how-to-reinstall-windows-xp-easily_22.html is a pain and I need to do that now. I have a 75GB system drive that I want to replace with a 750GB (woo hoo!) drive, but I don’t want lose all the installation stuff. So how can I do this? You need something called the Bart PE
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Ack Windows Geniune Advantage Failure
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Continue reading →: Ack Windows Geniune Advantage FailurePC Hell: Windows Genuine Advantage Problems and Fixes. Ack one of my PCs has been infected with geniune advantage problem. I can’t seem to fix it other than reinstalling which wipes out the entire installation as I think this is a version I got from the Microsoft Company Store. Interesting,…
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Home Movie DVDs to iPod Video
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Continue reading →: Home Movie DVDs to iPod VideoOK, I need to get a bunch of my home movies from their DVD .VOB format back into a long .MPG file so that I can make H.264 files for iPod Video. As usual, there are a zillion formats and it is hard to figure out the easiest way to…
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Shooting Fireworks
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Continue reading →: Shooting Fireworks!New York Institute of Photography – Fireworks Photography – Tips for Great Fireworks Photographs from NYIP. Happy 4th of July, here are some tips on shooting fireworks. The basics are that you need a tripod and you need to be able to take a long exposure. With “digital cameras”:http://www.nyip.com/tips/current/digfirewks.php, you…
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Bob on Canon Lenses
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Continue reading →: Bob on Canon Lenses“Bob”:http://bobsplanet.com is really a great photographer. By his permission, here’s an excerpt on picking lenses. Don’t you love IM? Bob Wise says: good, how are you? Rich Tong says: Goofing off. Scanning 35mm film from 1999 and looking for cameras. Have to leave in 3 minute to go to work…
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