Date registered: March 15, 2014
Feb 25
Computers – Replacing My Desktop with a Rebuild In January 2010, I purchased an HP Compaq Presario FQ 5218 desktop computer –a mini-tower – to replace an older PC which literally gave up the ghost after a Windows 7 update. One night, I completed a lot of work on the computer, then downloaded and installed …
Jan 02
Windows Video Editor | Roxio Creator NXT First, let me re-state what I mean when I say “windows video editor”. A windows video editor is a piece of video editing software that is designed to operate on a Microsoft Windows-based operating system. Having said that, I have used several different windows video editor software …
Dec 27
Blu-ray player|The Saga Continues In my previous blogpost, entitled Blu-ray Player|My First Blu-Ray Experience, I described my very first experiences with blu-ray players, both in terms of hardware and software. As I was just getting to understand the technology, I had to use the KISS principle, which means to “keep it short and simple.” This …
Dec 23
Blu-ray Player|My First Blu-Ray Experience I admit from the get-go that when it comes to Blu-Ray technology, I have been a bit of a Luddite. I don’t relish the idea of mu DVD collection, painstakingly built up over the years, being relegated to obsolescence. However, with the launching of Drewsim.com a couple of years ago, …
Sep 06
Nero 2014 Platinum|Multimedia Suite Nero AG has been publishing excellent video editing and multimedia suites for several years now. They just keep getting better. Nero 2014 was released last year and comes in two different varieties, or as I like to call them, “flavors”. Staring with the version that contains the most advanced features, …
Aug 14
Satellite C55 Series Laptop|Toshiba For almost four years, much of my computer work has been done on what I called my first proper laptop, which was an HP G62-DX255 model. It had a bronze finish and was powered by an AMD Athlon II 2.0 GHz processor, and it originally came with 3 GB of …
Apr 12
Media Converter|ArcSoft Media Converter 8 Over the course of the past few months, I have downloaded videos from YouTube.com and converted them into formats that were (and are) playable on portable devices such as the Apple Ipod Classic and the newer Ipad. For this purpose, I used two media converters – one of them …
Apr 09
Media Player|CyberLink PowerDVD 14 Ultra Well, it’s about that time again when the major video software publishers start releasing the latest version of their software – be it media player, video editor, or what have you. CyberLink seems to be the first out of the gate with PowerDVD. They are introducing the fourteenth version …
Mar 30
CyberLink|PowerDVD13 Media Player CyberLink introduced its top-of-the-line Media Player, PowerDVD 13 about a year ago. When it was introduced, it was touted by CyberLink as “The ultimate Media Player for Blu-ray, 3D Video and HD movie Playback across PC, Tablet, Smartphone and TV.” Having used the program for almost a year now on my …
Mar 26
Toshiba Toshiba has been around for a long time, since 1939 as a matter of fact. A product of the merging of two companies – Shibaura Seiskusho and Tokyo Denki – the mewly merged company was known for some time as Tokyo Shibaura Denki. The company soon received its nickname – Toshiba – but …
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