If you do and would love to have these old treasures restored to DVD disks that you can play on your DVD player or computer, contact me, gfreire@att.net or call (803)945-4444.
I have now in my office all the equipment required to make these conversions.
I just finished doing all my old 8mm movies and a ton of old slides. What fun it has been watching events that took place 20, 30, 40 years ago... See my kids growing, my wife and I when we were so young and trim...
I can add sound to the DVD's, like good music or if you send specific outlines for the movies or slides, they can also be inserted.
George Freire
Friday, February 27, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
GADWIN PRINT SCREEN FROM GADWIN SYSTEMS INC.
Here is a great free useful print screen software that enhances the operation of your "Print Screen" key in your keyboard:
Gadwin PrintScreen allows much more flexibility. Usually when you hit the Print Screen button it loads the current screen into your clipboard. To save the image you have to open up an image-editing application, paste it, then save the file. Gadwin's free PrintScreen streamlines this whole process. It sits in your System Tray, and you can set a number of options. When you hit print screen (or whichever button you specify), you can choose to save the screen directly to a specific folder.
Gadwin PrintScreen captures the contents of the screen with a single keystroke. The captured screen can then be sent to the printer, or saved to disk as a file in 6 different graphics file formats.
Gadwin PrintScreen can capture the entire Windows screen, the active window, or a specified area, when the hot key is pressed. The hot key defaults to the PrintScreen key, but users may also define other keys to initiate a capture. Gadwin PrintScreen allows you to e-mail the captured images to recipients of your choice.
All this is free software. However Gadwin Systems Inc. also offers a more powerful version which combines the power of a first-class screen capture application with an advanced image editing and annotation utility - wrapped into one easy-to-use tool. Gadwin PrintScreen Professional is versatile and extremely easy-to-use.
In order to download either program, go to:
http://www.gadwin.com
Select the "Download " tab then scroll down to either "Gadwin Print Screen Professional Version 4.5" or the free "Gadwin Print Screen Version 4.3" and download whichever you want. Full description of the program is outlined.
I use this program almost everyday, it is so easy and practical.
George Freire
Gadwin PrintScreen allows much more flexibility. Usually when you hit the Print Screen button it loads the current screen into your clipboard. To save the image you have to open up an image-editing application, paste it, then save the file. Gadwin's free PrintScreen streamlines this whole process. It sits in your System Tray, and you can set a number of options. When you hit print screen (or whichever button you specify), you can choose to save the screen directly to a specific folder.
Gadwin PrintScreen captures the contents of the screen with a single keystroke. The captured screen can then be sent to the printer, or saved to disk as a file in 6 different graphics file formats.
Gadwin PrintScreen can capture the entire Windows screen, the active window, or a specified area, when the hot key is pressed. The hot key defaults to the PrintScreen key, but users may also define other keys to initiate a capture. Gadwin PrintScreen allows you to e-mail the captured images to recipients of your choice.
All this is free software. However Gadwin Systems Inc. also offers a more powerful version which combines the power of a first-class screen capture application with an advanced image editing and annotation utility - wrapped into one easy-to-use tool. Gadwin PrintScreen Professional is versatile and extremely easy-to-use.
In order to download either program, go to:
http://www.gadwin.com
Select the "Download " tab then scroll down to either "Gadwin Print Screen Professional Version 4.5" or the free "Gadwin Print Screen Version 4.3" and download whichever you want. Full description of the program is outlined.
I use this program almost everyday, it is so easy and practical.
George Freire
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
FROM USA TODAY: INTERNET THREAT, HACKERS SWARM BANK ACCOUNTS
For your information, we refer your attention to this important article in USA TODAY:
Internet threat: Hackers swarm bank accounts
By Byron Acohido, USA TODAY
New and nasty banking trojans are on the rise on the Internet and attacking online bank accounts.
The new trojan programs — which wait on your hard drive for an opportunity to crack your online banking account — are different from traditional "phishing" e-mail scams that try to trick you into typing your login information at fake bank websites.
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They're invisible, can steal data multiple ways and require no action by the victim to be launched.
"Phishing doesn't work as well as it used to," says Patrik Runald, security specialist at F-Secure, the Internet security firm. "Banking trojans provide a very effective and direct means for the bad guys to get their hands on the money."
Banking trojans can be gotten by clicking on a viral link to a greeting card or video that arrives in e-mail spam. Or, they can be picked up by clicking to a Web page that's been corrupted by hackers.
F-Secure tallied 59,177 unique banking trojans circulating on the Internet in 2008, up from 15,969 in 2007. The escalation partly underscores how intensively criminal hackers churn out new variants to escape detection by antivirus programs.
Banking trojans "are more advanced and evolving faster than antivirus solutions," says Gunter Ollmann at IBM Internet Security Systems.
The American Bankers Association acknowledges the rise. Doug Johnson, vice president of risk management policy, notes that most U.S. banks try to make certain that online customers log in from their usual computer.
Losses caused from unauthorized transactions aren't known. Banks generally don't disclose them.
A typical banking trojan remains dormant until the customer logs on to a banking website. It then steals usernames and passwords by capturing keystrokes or copying the log-on page after the victim has filled it out.
So-called man-in-the-middle trojans go further. One type makes illicit cash transfers while the victim is legitimately logged on. Another can reproduce a copy of the Web page showing account balances — except with the balances altered to show the numbers the victim expects to see. This buys time for the thief to drain the account and hide his trail, Ollmann says.
Despite the trojans, Johnson of the bankers' association insists "online banking, on balance, is safe."
Find this article at: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/banking/2009-02-22-bank-accounts-hackers_N.htm
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Internet threat: Hackers swarm bank accounts
By Byron Acohido, USA TODAY
New and nasty banking trojans are on the rise on the Internet and attacking online bank accounts.
The new trojan programs — which wait on your hard drive for an opportunity to crack your online banking account — are different from traditional "phishing" e-mail scams that try to trick you into typing your login information at fake bank websites.
BLOG: ckick here How to keep your account safe
They're invisible, can steal data multiple ways and require no action by the victim to be launched.
"Phishing doesn't work as well as it used to," says Patrik Runald, security specialist at F-Secure, the Internet security firm. "Banking trojans provide a very effective and direct means for the bad guys to get their hands on the money."
Banking trojans can be gotten by clicking on a viral link to a greeting card or video that arrives in e-mail spam. Or, they can be picked up by clicking to a Web page that's been corrupted by hackers.
F-Secure tallied 59,177 unique banking trojans circulating on the Internet in 2008, up from 15,969 in 2007. The escalation partly underscores how intensively criminal hackers churn out new variants to escape detection by antivirus programs.
Banking trojans "are more advanced and evolving faster than antivirus solutions," says Gunter Ollmann at IBM Internet Security Systems.
The American Bankers Association acknowledges the rise. Doug Johnson, vice president of risk management policy, notes that most U.S. banks try to make certain that online customers log in from their usual computer.
Losses caused from unauthorized transactions aren't known. Banks generally don't disclose them.
A typical banking trojan remains dormant until the customer logs on to a banking website. It then steals usernames and passwords by capturing keystrokes or copying the log-on page after the victim has filled it out.
So-called man-in-the-middle trojans go further. One type makes illicit cash transfers while the victim is legitimately logged on. Another can reproduce a copy of the Web page showing account balances — except with the balances altered to show the numbers the victim expects to see. This buys time for the thief to drain the account and hide his trail, Ollmann says.
Despite the trojans, Johnson of the bankers' association insists "online banking, on balance, is safe."
Find this article at: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/banking/2009-02-22-bank-accounts-hackers_N.htm
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Monday, February 23, 2009
GREAT FREE PICTURE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
This picture handling/management software is one of the best, simple to operate and FREE!
Go to:
http://www.irfanview.com/ and download it. You'll have a new tool to handle your photos, enlarge or reduce them, create and enhance etc.etc.:
WHAT IS IRFANVIEW?
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.
It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.
IrfanView is trying to create new and/or interesting features in its own way, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 8+ years).
IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support.
One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support.
The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.
Some IrfanView features:
Many supported file formats
Multi language support
Thumbnail/preview option
Paint option - to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc.
Toolbar skins option
Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
Fast directory view (moving through directory)
Batch conversion (with image processing)
Multipage TIF editing
File search
Email option
Multimedia player
Print option
Support for embedded color profiles in JPG/TIF
Change color depth
Scan (batch scan) support
Cut/crop
IPTC editing
Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
Capturing
Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
Lossless JPG rotation
Unicode support
Many hotkeys
Many command line options
Many PlugIns
Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired"
No registry changes without user action/permission!
and much much more
Click here to see a screenshot of IrfanView.
USAGE AGREEMENT
IrfanView is provided as freeware, but only for private, non-commercial use (that means at home).
IrfanView is free for educational use (schools, universities and libraries) and for use in charity or humanitarian organisations.
If you intend to use IrfanView at your place of business or for commercial purposes, please register and purchase it. I want to continue working on this program, therefore, your registration will be an incentive for me to add new functions and increase the program's quality.
Any suggestions, feedback and comments are welcome and won't be ignored.
If you are a commercial user and you like this program (or are a home user who wants to support/donate further development), please register/donate by sending US$ 12.00 or EUR 10,- (this is the price for one (single) licence) to the address below.
Please send cash only. (I cannot accept high check cashing fees at the bank)
Address:
Irfan Skiljan
Postfach 48
2700 Wiener Neustadt
Austria, Europe
Commercial users: please contact me by E-Mail for prices and discounts. Note: If you want, you can buy the licenses using PayPal or credit card.
Go to:
http://www.irfanview.com/ and download it. You'll have a new tool to handle your photos, enlarge or reduce them, create and enhance etc.etc.:
WHAT IS IRFANVIEW?
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.
It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.
IrfanView is trying to create new and/or interesting features in its own way, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 8+ years).
IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support.
One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support.
The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.
Some IrfanView features:
Many supported file formats
Multi language support
Thumbnail/preview option
Paint option - to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc.
Toolbar skins option
Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
Fast directory view (moving through directory)
Batch conversion (with image processing)
Multipage TIF editing
File search
Email option
Multimedia player
Print option
Support for embedded color profiles in JPG/TIF
Change color depth
Scan (batch scan) support
Cut/crop
IPTC editing
Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
Capturing
Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
Lossless JPG rotation
Unicode support
Many hotkeys
Many command line options
Many PlugIns
Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired"
No registry changes without user action/permission!
and much much more
Click here to see a screenshot of IrfanView.
USAGE AGREEMENT
IrfanView is provided as freeware, but only for private, non-commercial use (that means at home).
IrfanView is free for educational use (schools, universities and libraries) and for use in charity or humanitarian organisations.
If you intend to use IrfanView at your place of business or for commercial purposes, please register and purchase it. I want to continue working on this program, therefore, your registration will be an incentive for me to add new functions and increase the program's quality.
Any suggestions, feedback and comments are welcome and won't be ignored.
If you are a commercial user and you like this program (or are a home user who wants to support/donate further development), please register/donate by sending US$ 12.00 or EUR 10,- (this is the price for one (single) licence) to the address below.
Please send cash only. (I cannot accept high check cashing fees at the bank)
Address:
Irfan Skiljan
Postfach 48
2700 Wiener Neustadt
Austria, Europe
Commercial users: please contact me by E-Mail for prices and discounts. Note: If you want, you can buy the licenses using PayPal or credit card.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
PREVENT IDENTITY THEFT AND PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
This information came to us from secure sources:
"Magnetic Key Cards" used today in most hotels as a safe way to open the door of your room and protect intrusion by strangers, contain a lot of information that can be dangerous to your personal identity security.
Here is the information these "Keys" store about you:
1- Your name
2- Your address, as supplied by you
3-Hotel room #
4-Date for your check-in and check-out
5- Your credit card # and date of expiration
When you check-out, if you leave the "Key Card" with the reception, it will normally be thrown in a drawer and all the above information will be available to any unscrupulous employee with access to the hotel scanner or even a personal scanner they may keep at home for that purpose.
In most cases, this information will be available to anybody, until a new guest checks-in and the "Magnetic Key Card" is overwritten with new information.
Until this happens, your personal information can be stolen and used to spend your money using your credit card # and all the info the thief has available on you.
Our recommendation is simple:
Never leave your "Magnetic Key Card" with the reception when you check-out; take it with you and then destroy it. Do not throw it in the trash when you get to the airport either!
It is against the law for hotels to charge you for not returning the "Magnetic Key Card", therefore it is up to you to secure your identity.
Keep yourself safe from identity theft.
George Freire
"Magnetic Key Cards" used today in most hotels as a safe way to open the door of your room and protect intrusion by strangers, contain a lot of information that can be dangerous to your personal identity security.
Here is the information these "Keys" store about you:
1- Your name
2- Your address, as supplied by you
3-Hotel room #
4-Date for your check-in and check-out
5- Your credit card # and date of expiration
When you check-out, if you leave the "Key Card" with the reception, it will normally be thrown in a drawer and all the above information will be available to any unscrupulous employee with access to the hotel scanner or even a personal scanner they may keep at home for that purpose.
In most cases, this information will be available to anybody, until a new guest checks-in and the "Magnetic Key Card" is overwritten with new information.
Until this happens, your personal information can be stolen and used to spend your money using your credit card # and all the info the thief has available on you.
Our recommendation is simple:
Never leave your "Magnetic Key Card" with the reception when you check-out; take it with you and then destroy it. Do not throw it in the trash when you get to the airport either!
It is against the law for hotels to charge you for not returning the "Magnetic Key Card", therefore it is up to you to secure your identity.
Keep yourself safe from identity theft.
George Freire
Thursday, February 19, 2009
HOW TO IMPROVE WINDOWS VISTA'S PERFORMANCE
Easy: go to PCWORLD site:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/157312/article.html?tk=nl_wvxvid
and watch the video.
Copy the above address, paste it in your browser and you are in business.
That simple, enjoy it.
George
http://www.pcworld.com/article/157312/article.html?tk=nl_wvxvid
and watch the video.
Copy the above address, paste it in your browser and you are in business.
That simple, enjoy it.
George
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
A-SQUARED HIJACKFREE SECURITY SOFTWARE
Folks, here is another great security and analysis utility for your computer. This utility is very thorough, but you should have good knowledge of computer usage to use it at its maximum efficiency:
Download a-squared HiJackFree now! It's free for private use!
It comes with language packs for English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and many more.
a-squared HiJackFree is a detailed system analysis tool which helps advanced users to detect and remove all types of HiJackers, Spyware, Adware, Trojans and Worms.
Product details
Download now
Manage all types of Autoruns on your system
Control all Explorer and Browser plugins (BHOs, Toolbars, etc.)
Manage all running Processes and their associated modules
Control all Services, even those Windows doesn't display
View open ports and the associated listening processes
View all DNS entries in the hosts file
Manage installed Layered Service Providers (LSPs)
Analyze the system configuration with using our live online analysis
George
Download a-squared HiJackFree now! It's free for private use!
It comes with language packs for English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and many more.
a-squared HiJackFree is a detailed system analysis tool which helps advanced users to detect and remove all types of HiJackers, Spyware, Adware, Trojans and Worms.
Product details
Download now
Manage all types of Autoruns on your system
Control all Explorer and Browser plugins (BHOs, Toolbars, etc.)
Manage all running Processes and their associated modules
Control all Services, even those Windows doesn't display
View open ports and the associated listening processes
View all DNS entries in the hosts file
Manage installed Layered Service Providers (LSPs)
Analyze the system configuration with using our live online analysis
George
VISTA SERVICES OPTIMIZER
Here is a very smart free utility which will help you speed-up your computer if you have Windows Vista as your OS:
Windows Vista offers a lot of functionality--not all of which you need available at every moment. Stop unnecessary services with this useful freebie "Vista Services Optimizer".
From Smart PC Utilities, Ltd.:
When you install Microsoft Windows Vista for the first time, you will notice the low performance of your system. There are many reasons of the performance problems in Windows Vista, one of them that there are many of Windows Vista services that are running in the background that consume a lot of CPU power and take up much space in the system memory (RAM) which we do not really need them at all.
You can download this utility at:
http://www.download.com/Vista-Services-Optimizer/3000-2094_4-11003997.html.
To do this, copy and paste the above address to your browser and then download and install this great utility.
George
Windows Vista offers a lot of functionality--not all of which you need available at every moment. Stop unnecessary services with this useful freebie "Vista Services Optimizer".
From Smart PC Utilities, Ltd.:
When you install Microsoft Windows Vista for the first time, you will notice the low performance of your system. There are many reasons of the performance problems in Windows Vista, one of them that there are many of Windows Vista services that are running in the background that consume a lot of CPU power and take up much space in the system memory (RAM) which we do not really need them at all.
You can download this utility at:
http://www.download.com/Vista-Services-Optimizer/3000-2094_4-11003997.html.
To do this, copy and paste the above address to your browser and then download and install this great utility.
George
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
MORE GOOD STUFF FROM PC WORLD
Here is another good utility program from PC WOLRD that you all will enjoy:
SIW Standalone Version
Version: 2008.10.28.0
File Size: 1503 KB
Price: Free
Operating Systems: Windows NT, 98, 2000, Me, XP, XP Tablet PC Edition, Vista; Windows Server 2003, 2008
You can ask the SIW tool anything about your PC--it'll give you a list of regional settings or scheduled tasks, or which DLLs are loaded and which are shared. How about which video and audio codecs you have installed, or details about your network or open ports? SIW has everything, offering lists that you can easily access from toolbar shortcuts or from a panel with a hierarchy list.
--Steve Bass
Copy the following web address paste it in your brouser and download it:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,64280/description.html?tk=nl_ddxdwn
Great simple utility.
Post your comments on this, thanks,
George
SIW Standalone Version
Version: 2008.10.28.0
File Size: 1503 KB
Price: Free
Operating Systems: Windows NT, 98, 2000, Me, XP, XP Tablet PC Edition, Vista; Windows Server 2003, 2008
You can ask the SIW tool anything about your PC--it'll give you a list of regional settings or scheduled tasks, or which DLLs are loaded and which are shared. How about which video and audio codecs you have installed, or details about your network or open ports? SIW has everything, offering lists that you can easily access from toolbar shortcuts or from a panel with a hierarchy list.
--Steve Bass
Copy the following web address paste it in your brouser and download it:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,64280/description.html?tk=nl_ddxdwn
Great simple utility.
Post your comments on this, thanks,
George
PC WORLD GREAT DOWNLOADS
Here is another very useful and free software from PC WORLD: "Password Safe".
Password Safe
Version: 3.15.1
File Size: 3719KB
Price: Free
Operating Systems: Windows 2000, XP, Vista
Password Safe stores your login data in a password-protected, encrypted file you unlock whenever you need access to your stored login information. At the very least, Password safe lets you manually cut and paste user names and passwords from its database into Web pages and applications, and is a great place to store any sensitive information.
--Scott Spanbauer.
Go to the following website and install it!:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,23779/description.html?tk=nl_ddxdwn
Let us know if you like it.
George
Password Safe
Version: 3.15.1
File Size: 3719KB
Price: Free
Operating Systems: Windows 2000, XP, Vista
Password Safe stores your login data in a password-protected, encrypted file you unlock whenever you need access to your stored login information. At the very least, Password safe lets you manually cut and paste user names and passwords from its database into Web pages and applications, and is a great place to store any sensitive information.
--Scott Spanbauer.
Go to the following website and install it!:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,23779/description.html?tk=nl_ddxdwn
Let us know if you like it.
George
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