Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

I’ve used a whole lot of CD burning software programs in my day. I recently download the Ashampoo Burning Studio Free software program, and I’m extremely happy with it! Moreover, it’s free! It can be downloaded from Download.com here. Once installed, the program starts right up. I have Vista x64, and have had no problems [...]

I spent the better part of the weekend in computer repair work. I helped my pal in Virginia clean his computer of a nasty virus (we did it through long distance telephone, that was fun :-p). And then I had my own problems to fix. Last week, a lot of my software programs got “updates” [...]

My kids have discovered the delights of digital video. I have a Samsung digital video recorder that I use for business, so I don’t like them to use it. But my cell phone has a video recorder, and the latest craze amongst the kids is taking short “Lego animation” videos with it. Problem we’ve encountered [...]

I do a ton of writing, and some of the articles I write require a certain amount of words in the content. I love the WordPress software for this– it has an automatic word count feature. I think this WordPress added this feature in this year, because people used to have to use a plugin [...]

Most computers now have partitions on the hard drives. A partition is like a room. You might have two partitions on your hard drive, say C Drive and D Drive. C Drive is the portion of your hard drive that has all your stuff– the operating system, your files and folders, etc. D Drive is [...]

I’ve got another goody coming out of my grab bag! I found this very cool site that will fix your text– called Text Fixer. It will fix all sorts of things: Put text in alphabetical order Capitalize sentences Remove line breaks and whitespace Create Javascript pop-up windows And more… I love the alphabetical order and [...]