Recently (actually, I don’t know how recently it was, considering I haven’t used my Xbox 360 as a media center extender in quite some time) the Xbox 360 began supporting file types other than Windows Media files (.WMV) on the Xbox 360. I tried connecting my Xbox 360 to my media center and wanted to [...]

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If you’ve read this blog before, you know that I’m a big fan of Google’s Picasa for managing photos, and sharing photos online. A new tip that was recently released on the Google Photos Blog allows you to view a full-screen preview of the picture without having to double-click the photo. Simply hold the “Ctrl” [...]

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For those of you who are fans of Picasa like I am, you were probably very pleased when they introduced Picasa Web Albums back in the summer of 2006. I had never really jumped onto the Flickr bandwagon, so I was very happy when Google debuted Picasa Web Albums. Like all Google products, Picasa gradually [...]

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If you’re like me and the digital camera age has completely changed the way you take pictures – meaning you take pictures like its going out of style – then managing these pictures has probably become a problem for you… or, you just don’t worry about managing them. I like pictures, I like keeping them, [...]

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Creating .AVI and/or .MPG files from PowerDirector – I don’t recommend using PowerDVD. I actually just found another program (that comes bundled with the JVC Everio) called Cyberlink PowerDirector. This program will allow you to export your video(s) as .AVI or .MPG1 or .MPG2 files. Here’s a brief overview of how to do it: Open [...]

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So anyone who has purchased a JVC Everio HDD video camera has probably learned that they chose to use some god forsaken proprietary video format – the .MOD extension. Apparently this is some sort of MPEG2 encoding, however, most major video editing suites prefer not to accept this format… what we need is something more [...]

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