By Rick Maybury Published: 7:00AM GMT twenty-eight February 2010
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You can send song stored on iTunes to a Walkman by blazing the marks to a CD and reimporting it in to iTunes Photo: GETTY Face off A great crony has sent me an entice to turn their crony on Facebook. I have no seductiveness in fasten the site, but am unequivocally penetrating to know how they managed to indicate eight alternative people I competence additionally know on Facebook. Has Facebook scanned my residence books? Do I need to do some-more to secure my computer? Roger Savidge, by email
Facebook hasnt been hacking in to your computer. Your friends have since the site accede to entrance their residence books and hit lists, and a little of these lists as if enclose your email address. Facebook all the time analyses and maps users hit records, and uses this interpretation to beget Suggestions alternative people you competence know on the site that formula in the sign-up call in emails sent out to people similar to you. It all sounds a bit creepy and there has been a little remoteness concerns, but there doesnt appear to be majority you can do about it, alternative than to hit the Facebook users referred to and ask them to remove you from their hit list. You should additionally pull their courtesy to a utilitarian essay about Facebook privacy.
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Most video files are already rarely dense and muscle action them serve can outcome in a big dump in distance and quality. If you wish to give a try I indicate utilizing Movie Maker, that is enclosed with Windows (XP onwards). Open the video record in Movie Maker, draw towards it onto the Timeline and take this event to clout out any severe bits, or trim the length. When you have accomplished name the Save to my computer choice from the Task list. After fixing the record and selecting a place click Next to open the Save Movie Wizard. Here you can chose from a range of peculiarity setting, For unequivocally big distance reductions try Video for Pocket Personal Computer but I think the majority appropriate concede in between peculiarity and distance is Video for Broadband. When the movie shave has been processed and saved, you can insert it to an email by right clicking on it and name Send To > Mail Recipient.
Sleep damage I run Vista Home Premium on my computer and have not long ago detected the Sleep mode option. However, it doesnt work; the shade goes vacant but the computer usually shuts down for 3 or 4 seconds prior to powering up again. I have altered the nap time settings around the Control Panel but this hasnt done any difference. Jennifer Loftus, by email
Something is waking up the computer and it could only be a slight transformation of the rodent but there are majority alternative possibilities, such a network tie or Vistas multimedia pity options. You should be means to find out what it is though by going to Search on the Start menu. Type cmd (without the quotes) and press Return. A Command window appears and at the flashing prompt type: powercfg lastwake (again, reduction the quotes) and press Enter and the module or device that woke it up the last time you put it to nap will be listed. Stopping it duty again is an additional make a difference but if it is the rodent you can invalidate this duty by going to Device Manager (Winkey + Break > Device Manager), right-click your Mouse entrance and name Properties > Power Management and uncheck Allow this device to arise computer. If it is Multimedia Sharing the alternative majority usual means go to Start > Control Panel > Power Options and if High Performance is checked, name Balanced > Change plan settings > Change Advanced Settings, corkscrew down the list to Multimedia > When Sharing Media and on the Plugged In options drop-down menu name Allow the computer to sleep.
Music conflict My mother and I both have iPods and we keep the song on iTunes on the family PC. Recently we paid for a Sony Walkman for the son but have been incompetent to send any marks from iTunes to his Walkman since the files are all protected. Is there a approach for us to do this? Richard Pye, by email
There are multiform ways to do this. The attempted and tested process is to remove the insurance by blazing an audio CD from your iTunes marks afterwards reimport them behind in to iTunes or your sons elite song government program. There are additionally assorted program applications that let you synchronise your Walkman and alternative media player to iTunes but they have a checkered story and can infer heavy with a little players. Have a see at SyncMyPortable; the free hearing will discuss it you if the value spending $19.50 on the full version.
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