Computers & Programming: Page 68

Sometimes shit goes down on your home computer and you're just not able to be home to fix it. After all, most of us have commitments such as school, work, and volunteer activities that keep us away from our home computers for most of the day.

In this episode, Brandon Jackson joins D.Lee Beard to present an in-depth review of the Slingbox A/V, explore where to find free downloadable audiobooks online, and to answer viewer questions on using an iMac as a display and how to share files over a local network between a Mac and a Windows PC . Be sure to check out our next video to learn how you can win the Techies' Slingbox and begin watching your home TV from all over the world via the internet.

This is an introduction to HTML using Notepad. While some prefer to use a WYSIWYG editor, HTML can be a great benefit if you want to modify your MySpace profile, embed video clips on your blog, etc. The second part of this video series expands on using HTML, introduces a WYSIWIG (What You See Is What You Get) editor into the mix, and gives a basic introduction to Microsoft Front Page.

Short tutorial on how to run a wide selection of Windows native programs on Ubuntu Linux using Wine.

Expressions are new in SSIS (meaning that they were not in DTS) but they allow you to create extremely flexible packages. Expressions can be used to assign values to variables, help you determine whether to execute a task, and to assign properties. If you ever found yourself writing ActiveX code (VBScript) in DTS to determine which task to execute based on a variable's value, then you probably can forego the scripting all together in favor of expressions! They are very powerful in SSIS and...

Brief 9-minute video demonstrates running "Hello World" Perl script on IIS and Apache Web Servers.

Watch this demonstration on Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise by Quest Software. Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise is a part of the Quest Management Suite for SQL Server as well as standalone offering. This demonstration shows the use of Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise within the Management Suite

Join us and guest speaker, Cary Pochek - ERP Project Manager at Curtiss-Wright Corporation, as we discuss the importance of change lifecycle management when dealing with Oracle E-Business Suite implementations and upgrades. We will focus on best practices around:

It has often been said that the only constant is change. IT's ability to manage change is an important business success criteria in today's competitive markets. Change can either be planned or unplanned. This presentation will help you understand the effects of change, and how to manage change properly. It will help Oracle database administrators better prepare to implement changes and measure the positive (or negative) affects those changes produce on the system.

In this Webcast, Password Management for Windows and Beyond, you will learn how to:Increase security standards cross-organization by easily customizing and enforcing password policies for Windows, Unix, Linux, and Java users.Decrease the cost associated with password resets and account unlocking by allowing users to do it themselves in a secure environment.Log, track and report password and account locking activity with auto-alerts sent to key individuals when certain events occur.

During the installation of ISA Server 2006 you were given relatively few options for configuring ISA Server therefore it is important to understand how to use the ISA Server Management tool. This video helps you understand the 'big picture' of ISA Server management.

One of the uses of an ISA Server is to act as a proxy server. A proxy server allows your Windows XP and other desktop computers to make requests to the ISA Server and the ISA Server will then go and fetch the results from the internet or, if the ISA Server has cached the page(s), it can serve the pages from cache thus speeding up client browsing.

So many newbies to Transact-SQL have difficulties determing when to use a UNION or a JOIN to satisy their query. This video teaches you some guidelines to help you quickly and easily identify whether your query will likely need to become a JOIN or UNION. Disclaimer: these are just guidelines and they will not work in every situation but they are applicable for most SQL developers most of the time.

This video talks about what SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is and designed for the absolute beginner - someone who wants a high-level overview of Reporting Services.

This tutorial demonstrates installing Visual C# Express 2005 so that you can get started with Visual C# programming.

This Visual Basic Visual Studio Express video tutorial shows how to add speech recognition to a simple dictation application.

We look at how to find the existing and new starter kits for VB 2005. We run the RSS Screen Saver starter kit. Next, we will modify the kit and install the screen saver.

This tutorial demonstrates installing free HTML WYSIWYG Editor Software called Nvu so that you can get started with programming in HTML.

This video covers creating and programming a a PHP-based web forum. Topics include basic layout, login and logout, Admin start, creating categories and subcategories, creating topics, and more...

The original idea was to turn a small home UPS into a giant UPS but because the UPS was only able to run the RAID-wielding desktop for three minutes before shutting down, he decided to add two 24V car batteries to the equation (the maximum that his UPS could tolerate). The good news: it worked, and will run his computer for an hour plus.

Design your own font characters for windows, using a hidden application in windows xp. Try it now!

This shows how to install Mac OS X on Intel/AMD PCs as a dual boot with Windows.

Watch this video to learn how you can use folders to better organize your Mac dock. Group together applications in folders and add the folders to your dock instead of each individual app.

Learn how to hack into a Windows PC by using a program called Ophcrack.

How to password protect a folder and make files invisible in Windows XP.

How to create an icon that will shutdown your computer when clicked in Windows XP.

When you're a Windows OS user it's very easy to send out attachments on emails as .doc documents, made in Microsoft Office or Excel. But just because you're a Windows user doesn't mean your friend or coworker is. Or say that you're a MAC user and your friend keeps loading you with Microsoft Office documents. What do you do, other than telling him to stop already?

Gary Rosenzweig takes a look at three ways to make text on your screen easier to read. This could be used by people with visual impairments, but also could be used by anyone wishing to reduce eye-strain or be slightly more productive. Techniques include enlarging font size in Safari, using screen zoom, and using text-to-speech.

Gary Rosenzweig and Molly Stanberry from Macmost show you how to use smart folders in Leopard.

Gary Rosenzweig takes a look at the Leopard finder and discovers some handy functionality and shortcuts.

This tutorial shows you how to clear the MAC OS X desktop using free software called Camoflauge.Download it for FREE at: http://briksoftware.com/

Perform cable management to improve cooling and system layout.

Learn how to assign and change keyboard shortcut assignments on your Mac.

This tutorial demonstrates how to use Disk Utility to verify and repair disk permissions and how to verify your hard drive.

In this tutorial learn how to eject a stuck CD using a terminal command on your Mac OS X computer.

Watch this step-by-step tutorial on how to build your own PC computer for under $1000. This is a great, very thorough video!

This is a Google Tech Talk from March, 26 2008. Timothee Cour - Research Scientist lectures. Movies and TV are a rich source of highly diverse and complex video of people, objects, actions and locales "in the wild". Harvesting automatically labeled sequences of actions from video would enable creation of large-scale and highly-varied datasets. To enable such collection, we focus on the task of recovering scene structure in movies and TV series for object/person tracking and action retrieval. We...

Learn how to write a simple prank program that will make someone think that their hard drive is being formatted and completely erased.

A tutorial on how to turn your laptop or desktop PC into a Wii, for under $50, and in less than 10 minutes. Note* this will not play actual Nintendo Wii games but will allow you to use the Wii modality to play PC games and games made specifically for this setup.

This C++ programming tutorial goes through loops, switch statements, if else statements and applying them to another fairly simple program that creates a calculator.