Analog’s twilight: Slowly, digital trumps physical

October 14, 2008

Sometimes, in the decades after he came home from World War II, it seemed as if the movie camera was surgically attached to Christoffel Teeuwissen’s hand. He carried it everywhere, trained it on everything. When they widened the street in front of his house in Florida, there he was. When a septic tank was installed in West Virginia, there he was. High school football games, construction sites, the building of a swimming pool — there he was, camera in hand.

Film ebbed into video, and he kept recording. When the VCR arrived on the scene, history programs joined the collection, as did episodes of “The Lawrence Welk Show” and TV biographies of Glenn Miller. Then, in 2005, Christoffel Teeuwissen died at 88. And when Jon Teeuwissen and his two sisters began going through their parents’ ranch house, another story unfolded. Read more

PlacesBar Editor: Windows XP Utility Review

July 25, 2008

PlacesBar Editor: Windows XP Utility Review

Sometimes it’s little software utilities that make a nice difference to their productivity, and one they do at present our work a little more light each day is Melloware of PlacesBar Editor.A wee little whippersnapper of a program to only 900k, PlacesBar Editor corrects an annoying obstacle to the 2000/ME/XP/Vista Windows and Office dialog boxes that serve only until the option to save files in predetermined locations.

That’s all very well if you’re satisfied with doing things like Microsoft tells you to, but if you like swimming against the tide, sock man, combat system, being your own man, Walk the Line etc etc, then Editor PlacesBar can help a little along the way. Read more

Showing Message at startup for Windows Xp

June 24, 2008

This tutorial will show you how to display a message on your computer before Windows XP loads.Use this trick if you want to show any message to anyone logging into your computer.

  • Go to Start->Run.
  • On the Run window type regedit and press Enter.
  • Navigate to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon.
  • Modify the key legalnoticecaption and write the name of the window you want to appear.
  • Modify the key legalnoticetext with what you want the window to say.
  • Restart your computer.

Now when your computer starts a window with the name and text defined by you will appear on the screen before Windows XP is loaded.

Creating a dual-boot vista and others operating system

June 23, 2008

Creating a dual-boot vista and others operating system

The creation of a dual-boot system with Vista is almost the same as with any other operating system.

First, make sure you have a free partition on your hard drive or a second hard drive available. If you can not use a program like Partition Magic to split the current partition into two or backup all your files, erase your hard drive and start fresh.

Next, place your Vista DVD into your DVD-ROM drive and reboot your computer. Read more

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