Listening to a song with lyrics

To do this, following the following steps:
1) Download a program called “lyricsplugin for window media player”. Type the key word “lyricsplugin” in a search engine.
2) Next you must have the song  and song lyrics in your computer.
3) Play the song with window media player and you will find three words below the title of the song.
4) Go back to your lyrics page and highlight the complete song text, using copy and paste.
5) Go back to your window media player (wmp) and click the word “edit”.
6) Right click mouse and paste the lyrics onto the wmp.
7) This song you have selected will, from now on, have the lyrics whenever you use wmp to play.

Speakers have no sound

Under Vista OS, sometimes the speakers suddenly have no sound.
One possibility is ….. follow the steps to verify:
1) Open the windows media player
2) Click “Now Playing” and click “devices”
3) Select “speakers” and click “Properties”
4) Click “advance”
5) Ensure the check (tick) is on “Speakers” and not on the “Digital output”
6) Click “OK” this normally will solve the problem

Funny Thing about being Crazy …

Crazy Not Equal to Stupid … read on

One truck driver was doing his usual delivery to IMH (Institute of Mental Health).

He discovered a flat tyre when he is about to go home. He jacked up the truck and took the flat tyre down.
When he was about to fix the spare tyre, he accidentally dropped all the bolts into the drain. As he cann’t fish the bolts out, he started to panic.

One patient (from the hospital) happened to walk past and ask the driver what happened. The driver thought to himself, since there’s nothing much he can do, he told the patient the whole incident.

The patient laughed at him and said “cann’t even fix such a simple problem … no wonder you destined to be a truck driver…”
Here’s what you can do, take one bolt each from the other 3 tyres and fix it onto this tyre. Then drive to the nearest workshop and replace the missing ones, easy as that”. The driver was very impressed and asked, “You’re so smart but why you are here at the IMH?”

Patient replied, “Hello, I stay here because I’m crazy not STUPID!”

Fake Path

Recently my gmail account cannot send email with attachments. Whenever I attached a file, the attachment path will start with fakepath/filename/… When you try to send, an error message will occur. However, you can still receive all your emails with attachments. What happens is that someone has altered your registry. To resolve this, you have to “restore” your computer with the last known working resgistry. Good to install a registry management program in your computer.

Burning a DVD using Vista OS

The latest Mircrosoft Operating System (OS), Vista, comes with many features and sub-programs. One is the Movie Making – a program which you can collate all your tour pictures and present it as a Slide Show – just like using Mircosoft PowerPoint in Microsoft Office. The other useful feature I found out is burning data or pictures onto a blank DVD -R disc. Here is how you go about it:

1) First, organize all your data or pictures into a “Folder”, preferably in My Document Folder.
2) Next, ensure you have a DVD Re-writerable CD-Rom.
3) Put a blank DVD -R disc into the CD-Rom drive.
4) After a short while, a menu will pop up, called AutoPlay.
5) Select “Burn files to Disc – using Windows”
6) Next, “Burn a Disc” menu will come out – change Disc Title as required and click Next.
7) Computer will then automatically “format” the blank disc and when completed will bring you directly to the File Directory.
8)  Go to the Folder where you have stored the data or pictures and click on the Folder.
9) All the files in this Folder will be transferred to the Right Hand Side of the page.
10) If what you wanted to burn (all the data and pictures) is all included, you then can click the word “burn” on the top of the menu bar.
11) Once completed, you can eject the Disc and re-insert into the CD-Rom drive to check that the Disc is burnt correctly.

How to Burn a DVD Movie Disc

You bought a camcoder, took some movies in an event. Now you want to burn your movies into playable DVDs on standard DVD players. Here is one of the ways to achieve it.

Download your video movies from your camcoder
1) Make a new folder in My Videos in My Document Folder, say call it “Birthday Party”.
2) Put your camcoder disc in CD-Rom drive and copy and paste it into the Folder you have just created in My Videos (in My Document). [If your camcoder storage media is not on CD but on tape, then you have to connect your camcoder (with a suitable interface cable) between the camcoder and the computer to allow proper transfer of the movie files from your camcoder to the computer.]

Burning a Movie copy onto a blank DVD-R disc
1) First you need to have a DVD writer installed in your computer together with a proper “burning” software program – normally a free copy is given together with your purchase of your DVD writer [a Nero program].
2) Put a blank DVD-R disc in the CD-Rom drive.
3) Open “Nero” program by double clicking the Nero icon.
4) From “CD/DVD” option, change to “DVD” option.
5) Select “Photo and Video” and “Make your own DVD-Video”.
6) Close the “Tips” page (if any).
7) Select “Add video Files”
8] Go back to “My Document” and “My Videos” and select the video file or files you have earlier put in the new Folder (called Birthday Party).
9) Open up until you can see all the video files. They look like the following (in some models of camcoders):

VIDEO_TS.VOB
VIDEO_01_1.VOB
VIDEO_01_2.VOB … and so on.

10) Make sure you have selected ALL the video files by left clicking the mouse on the first file and then press shift + left clicking mouse on the last file [in this way, you have selected or highlighted in blue ALL the files], then click OPEN.
11) When asked under “Nero Vision Essentials, answer Yes.
12) The computer will so some conversion [writing] for a few minutes – depending on size of files in the movies.
13) When finish, click Next.
14) When “Tips” menu appears, close it and click Next.
15) Another “Tips” menu appears, closed it and click Next.
16) Nero Vision Essentials page comes out, click Yes and close “Tips” menu.
17) You can click (select) “Volumn Name” and change to any name you wanted, say you name it “Birthday Party” [note no spacing].
18) Now, you are ready to burn disc by clicking “Burn”
19) After sucessful burning, you can test the DVD-R disc on a standard DVD player. It should work with sound and pictures.
Happy recording !

SAR and your Mobile Phone

Radio wave exposure and Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) information.

Nowadays mobile telephone manufacturers have taken the SAR issue into their design consideration. The SAR requirements are based on scientific guidelines that include safety of all persons, regardless of age and health.

The radio wave exposure guidelines employ a unit of measurement know as the Specific Absorption Rate or SAR. Tests for SAR are conducted using standardized methods with the phone transmitting at its highest certified power level in all used frequency bands.

While there may be differences between the SAR levels of various phone models, they are all designed to meet the relevant guidelines for exposure to radio waves.

SAR data information for residents in countries that have adopted the SAR limit recommended by International Commission of Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), which is 2 W/kg averaged over ten (10) gram of tissue (for example European Union, Japan, Brazil and New Zealand).

Some mobile phone models available in Singapore do meet the above-mentioned standard at around 1.5 W/kg (10g).

Wireless Bluetooth Mouse

If your wireless bluetooth mouse don’t work after the computer completed its initial booting, you need “another” mouse temporary to re-established the wireless connection. Ensure the wireless bluetooth mouse is turned on before starting to add wireless bluetooth device. For laptop, you can use the tablet mouse to complete the addition.

Surfing the Internet (Offer of Free Services)

Internet surfing is like travelling around the world – you go from country to country, town to town, shop to shop, places of interest, etc. The only difference is; you are not there in person.

Nothing is free – as the saying goes. So, while you are surfing the Internet, something just “pop-up” and offer you a “non-solicited” offer of a “free-scan” – will you accept it? After all, it is just another computer scan done by another service provider.

You may be in for a surprise! Once you allow the outsider (this service provider) to take control of your computer system, they can say what they want to say to you – like “your computer is infected with da-da-da-da number of viruses, to remove them, it will cost you $xx”. You don’t believe your computer is that bad, so you ignor the comment. Next day, you turn on your computer again, it behaves differently, worst off then before (you accepted the “free service”). You try to find the last thing you have done and to delete it – you couldn’t find or delete it.

Sometimes getting a proper anti-virus program may help to remove the problem. Sometimes you are not that lucky, you may have to get someone to re-install all the programs in your computer again. One of my friends actually got caught this way.

Using Microsoft PowerPoint to make a karaoke song

You can make an english or chinese karaoke song by using the PowerPoint (PP) Program. First you need some images, the song lyrics, the song file (in wav format) in addition to the PP program.
Follow the steps below:
- Create a folder in your hard disk directory.
- Put all your pictures (images) and the song file in this folder.
- Open up the PP program.
- Select “blank” presentation; save file with a suitable file name.
- Create as many blank slides as required.
- Choose color of background for all slides.
- Use first slide to write the title of song.
- Insert picture to each slide and type the lyrics.
- Insert song in the 1st slide.
- Put a “tick” on “Automatic after” only and enter transition time required.
- Check and fine-tune the timing of lyrics to song timing.
- Put an “End” slide to show end of song.
- Playback song to confirm timing of lyrics to song is OK.

View Sample: click link and view http://www.acs61-63.com/it4seniors/movies/Funny.rm