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Adobe on Thursday announced Voice, a new animated video app designed for the iPad. The software lets you create a video story complete with your own narration, imagery, music and motion graphics. It's free and it's available for download now from the App Store. Adobe envisions the app as suited for anyone who wants to build a more compelling presentation on their iPad — nonprofit organizations supporting a cause, for example, creative professionals prototyping a project, small business owners, even students trying to create a school report. The app includes story starters to help you get going. A "wheel" of story ideas prompts you along the way, and example videos…

Essentially I installed a Win 7 64 bit Ultimate on an Azus 64bit which had Vista, but then discovered Azus had no sound drivers for Win 7!!! So I have to get back to xp pro 64. I am in need of a Full version, but do not know who to believe. Can someone help? I have been told by people selling their "Student" version on eBay that it is the FULL version -- but what is the truth, the real difference between that and the other "Full" DSP version -- which of course is 5X the "student" price? (However the expensive version could simply be overpriced). Can someone help? Continue reading...

Here are 2 great sites for real XP users. This guy is smart. Microsoft should hire him. http://xpwasmyidea.blogspot.com/ https://twitter.com/UXGaurav Least he knows how we XP users feel. Continue reading...

Hello, i hope someone can help me solve my problem. I have a web camera "ms industrial 2001 venus usb 2.0 webcam" which works fine on other computers. But on my computer (windows xp sp3) when i plug it in, she starts to install her own driver, but the sudenly USB video class driver takes over and replaces it. So while i'm pluging it in and looking at device menager, under imaging devices, first shows up as "venus 2.0 web camera" and after 3 seconds it disapears and shows it as "USB video devic #1 or #2 depending on usb port, where i plugged it. How can i solve that problem, the main thing is that, some programs don't see camera, and i can't get image from her. I'm so…

hello, i have an asus vivo that uses winows8 32 tablet but couldnt join it my domain. I now copy my windows 8 32bit pro (not RT) to a micro sd card and installed it. It installed fine but couldnt proceed to do other configuration because i used the wrong windows. i m supposed to use rt. pls how do i reinstall the windows because the tablet has been rendered useless. Continue reading...

Hi, i bought 2 years ago an HP 2000 NOTEBOOK PC, it came with windows 8 and when i turned it on today it was like new, there-s nothing left, except some programs in my desktop, but they are like new (example: when i opened word it asked my named) everything is like if i have never used it before, and i couldnt find any of my documents i remember this happened like a year ago, but restarting it all came back to normality, but now it wont fix doing that i-ve been reading this page in search of a solution, but since these documents are REALLY important to me because is my work, im here to see if anyone could help me, id be very thankful (im still learning engl…

I would like to get the address for check out of GMAPS & FILE EXPLORE TILE Moved from Community Participation Original title: i don't know how to do,so, i came to you,this is my first time here.hopefully you can help.thank you very much Continue reading...

Hi, My computer is using desk top now after upgrade as default page on booting up. How do I get my page to be back to the tiles and the start screen in the windows 8? Thanks for the help. Continue reading...

so ive checked a few other questions relating to this one but the solutions haven't worked, the head phones don't show up at all in the playback device or recording devices, even when disabled devices are being shown. when I first got my windows 8 computer my headphones worked perfectly. now when I plug in my head phones the sound just continues to come out of my laptop's speakers. Continue reading...

Original title: Internet Explorer Virus / Malware By using the Microsoft Security auto update feature has the latest virus /malware 'fix' already installed? How am I notified? I checked for updates and response was I'm up-to-date with important fixes. Continue reading...

I have a computer at work that is connected to duplicate mapped drives. We discovered a network path error when trying to make relative links in Acrobat. The computer folder showed all the correct network paths. When I used the 'net use' command in cmd it showed duplicate mapped drives without out assigned letters that didn't appear in the GUI. Below is an example (Leaving out most of the drive names for security purposes). The two drives at the bottom are duplicates of the P: drive. I deleted these duplicates in in the cmd window, but it has happened again and we can't figure it out. Can anyone tell me why? Status Local Remote Network -…

I was connected via Remote Desktop to a computer and everything was working. Person on the other end decided to turn off the computer and not I cannot reconnect. I went (physically walked) to the computer in question and restarted it logged in as the Admin, but I still get a message that "Remote Desktop can't find the computer because it may not be part of the Network anymore. What now? Continue reading...

Hi, I was using GParted to shrink my Windows 7 partition and now some of my images will not open. I have tried opening them with Image viewers, Paint, Photoshop, jpg recovery tools and nothing. Can someone help? Continue reading...

To start with a brief history. Bought Toshiba C660 Satellite laptop running Windows 7 home Premium 64bit. Ran for about 18 months with no problems. Then got a message telling me my hard drive was about to fail. Took it to a pc repair shop who told me that the hard drive was on the way out and that's why I got the message (duh!!) Quoted me for a replacement hard drive and transferring all data across from old hard drive. About (£90 in total). Picked up computer next day and all seemed ok - liked the new computer feel!! After 2-3 days, I noticed above message and it hadn't updated windows, so went to start button and tried to run update, but told service …

WMP 9 will load and play DVD video discs #1 and #3 of a store bought set of four but, will not load and play discs #2 or #4. This is the second second sealed set that has failed to load in an identical manner. If WMP 9 loads and plays two of the set's four discs I am assuming that I have the correct codecs installed but am at a loss as to how I may correct this problem. Does anyone have a suggestion or solution that might correct this glitch? Thank you you for any advice that might be of help. Continue reading...

Windows Defender is out of date and system will not allow the update. Is windows defender now incorporated into security essentials or do I have a problem. I am not able to locate an update. Continue reading...

I found this when I started disk defrag. I've seen this type of file, drive, app before a major crash on XP OS. I don't know if this is a contributor or root cause. but I am very concerned that file search, web search, and bing search were unable to pin a source. in defrag it is listed > Drive: \\?\volume{35047d67-a1a2-4378-ba3e-09b3e02cf010}\ Media Type: HardDiskDrive Last Run: Never Run Current Status: OK(0% fragmented). I've highlighted it and selected analyze/optimize and there is no response to any button commands. Should I freak out or find a way to ID it and remove it or just ignore it? Continue reading...

I have lost control of my pc. a few things are --programs being allowed through firewall--many redirections-- e-mail locked in offline---noticed a lot of remote activity-- can someone help before I go to the Arkansas bridge --half way and toss this miracle of man? using windows 7---ie 11 Continue reading...

I want to install Bitnami Moodle Stack but Defender is stopping the installation of the PHP element. I can get around this problem but for future reference I would like to know how to suspen for a limited time. Continue reading...

Hi, My laptop is HP and on which Windows 7 Home premuim(64Bit) installed and a Microsoft Security Essential is installed. Whenever I connect my FlashDrive into another Toushiba laptop on which Windows 7 Home Premium (32Bit) installed and Norton Internet Secuirity are installed, When I unplug my FlashDrive from the Toshiba laptop and plug it my again into my HP laptop, I noticed that there are some threats detected while scanning Flash with MSE. After the scan has completed, I found that all contents inside FlashDrive got disappeared, although the used space on the FlashDrive is still as it was.(screen shots) The used space is still as it was: …

i just found out about a secret easter agg in apt-get while skimming through "ubuntu kung fu". type Code: apt-get moo its funny :P Continue reading...

Hi all, just getting down to writing some code. I have a program that will eventually give me the hash of a string within the program. Unfortunately I've had a problem of locating the proper library with the function. I've included the following: Code: #include <stdio.h> #include <openssl/md5.h> I assume it's missing the library with the compiled functions, but can't seem to locate it. I just have been using "make md5". I get the following errors: Code: dev# make md5 cc md5.c -o md5 /tmp/ccnEzHiO.o: In function `main': md5.c:(.text+0x5a): undefined reference to `MD5_Init' md5.c:(.text+0x7b): undefined reference to `MD5_Update' md5.c:(.…

I've been attempting to resolve this issue for days, with no success. I'm fairly new to linux. I don't know anything about reinstalling the kernel (Although it sounds easy from what I've read). The window manager I'm currently using is KDE. I installed the nvidia drivers with pacman -S nvidia, then tried using startx. The screen goes black and my GPU fan comes on at full speed, then the laptop reboots after a few seconds. I also tried installing the proprietary drivers from NVIDIA's website with the same results. I've tried using nvidia-xconfig and bumblebee. The Xorg.0 log file has the entry Code: Screens found, but none have a valid configuration or something simil…

.... if the client is simply installed on another distro such as Fedora or Debian or whatever.....? Thanks. Continue reading...

Thanks for looking. I am looking for a new command line tool to add into my Linux arsenal of trubleshooting. I often monitor LAN/WAN traffic and sometimes, the big solutions come into play, like nagios and other client/server setups. Sometimes however, I can't go installing lots of packages on some systems so need to rely on those nifty cool command line tools I can quickly yum or apt-get install to achieve similar results. The majority is the systems are debian BTW. My favorite tool is mtr to get some idea of the path to a server then maybe some other tool to see how bandwidth is doing. I often have to find problems over dedicated circuits for example. Using mtr…