Tech Tips

November 2005

iPod Video Formats

by Barbara J. Feldman November 29, 2005

Apple’s fifth-generation video iPod supports three video formats: MPEG-4, H264, and M4V (the copy-protected format used for videos sold through iTunes.) To convert a your own videos to an iPod format, you can use QuickTime Pro,

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Tagging

by Barbara J. Feldman November 22, 2005

Tags are pieces of information separate from, but related to, a data object. Frequently, tags are descriptors assigned by individuals to help the community sort and organize information. For more on tagging, read Research Buzz’s Why I Love Tagging. Amazon recently introduced tagging. To see it in action, log into your Amazon account, go to [...]

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Free Windows Anti-Virus

by Barbara J. Feldman November 15, 2005

For free anti-virus protection on a Windows desktop, radio and television personality Leo Laporte recommends AVG. For more of his Windows safety tips, read Must Have Security Apps.

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Email Graphics

by Barbara J. Feldman November 8, 2005

Posting your email address on a web page in a machine readable format is simply asking for trouble because thousands of robots crawl the Web looking for email addresses to add to spam mailing lists. One way to avoid this is not use text or HTML (which is machine readable) but instead put your email [...]

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Guess-the-Google Game

by Barbara J. Feldman November 1, 2005

Google Image Search returns dozens of pictures based on a keyword word or phrase. Now turn this idea upside down, and imagine trying to guess the keyword based on the images! That’s the premise of Grant Robinson’s addictive Guess-the-Google game. Start the game, view a set of twenty images, and see if you can guess [...]

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