Rename Digital Photos Automatically

You have a collection of digital photos which you want to rename. It will be difficult for you to rename each and every photo serially or in identifiable groups. There is a very simple way to rename photos. Perform this method to rename all or some photos automatically.

Download ‘FastStone Photo Resizer 2.5’ from www.download.com or any Software Web Site. It is a Freeware. Open it by double clicking its Shortcut. Read ‘Help’.

After it opens, click ‘Batch Rename’. A list of the folders etc will appear in the left panel. Select the folder in which your photos are stored. Double click it. The list of photos will appear in the left panel.

Select the photos, you want to rename. Click ‘Add’ button. A list of the selected photos will appear in the right panel.

Batch Rename Read ‘Tips’ given below the right panel. Write the name and the symbols in the ‘Rename As’ box.

Click ‘Rename’ button and confirm the action. The selected photos will be renamed and saved in the same folder. (Previous names will be replaced by new names).

If you want to rename all the photos of the folder, highlight the folder, click ‘Add’. The selected folder will appear in the right panel. Click ‘Rename’ button and confirm the action. All the photos of the folder will be renamed serially.

Recover a Lost Administrator Password

Have you ever forgotten or lost your login password? Then this article or how to is for you. NOTE: This process will only work with Windows XP Home and Pro Editions.

When you are booting up your computer, you need to press F8 in order to get into the per-windows start-up.
Once you are in this stage , you will need to boot your computer into safe mode. This will give you access to the basic programs of Windows XP.

Once you have booted into safe mode. You will have to access the administrator account and create a new account or you can reset your admins password from this location.

Prevent Your Computer from Being Hacked

Today more and more people are using their computer for everything from education to online bank accounts. It would be great if there were no risk online, but there are! Hackers are a major problem when it comes to your personal computer files, follow these steps to make sure your safe!

Always make backups of your files and folders and store them in a separate place than your computer.

Make sure you have a good firewall. This will prevent worms, Trojan viruses and spy ware from infecting your system. Some applications require that you disable your firewall, so use good judgement.

Review your browser and email setting for security. Make sure to constantly erase your "cookies" folder. Cookies pose almost no threat for damaging computers however; they do track your daily actions online. Set your "internet zone" for high and your "trusted sites" for medium low security.

Watch out for Active-X and JavaScript files as hackers can plant viruses and other harmful elements in your programs.

Norton is the way to go! Install some kind of anti virus software and make sure to set it for automatic updates. New viruses are found everyday, so make sure you update regularly.

Don't open attachments! Don't open unknown email attachments, many of these contain viruses and allow hackers to get into your system.

Only run and download programs from places you trust. Never send these files to friends and co-workers due to the high virus risks.

Turn off your computer and disconnect from the internet. Hackers can't get into your system if your computer is off.

Choose an Excellent Computer or Laptop

It is not too hard to choose a computer or laptop when you know what you are going to use the computer for. That is the key, knowing yourself, and knowing the use you intend to give the laptop. Here is the email box and comment box; please do leave at least one comment. Let me know that you are reading here? And then there are the tips and warnings at the end.

There are some things that you need in a laptop or computer --that are considered necessities rather than luxuries.

If you shop around at a store, the salesperson there will point you to the computers that he or she wants to sell. So, you are not getting an unbiased opinion of which computer to purchase.

In this article, I give some helpful hints and suggestions to those who are going to choose computers today, this month or next month.

First decide how you will use your computer. Most people use it this way--either for everything or for practically nothing. You decide how much you use your computer.

If you use it for practically nothing, that means you might check email, send email and maybe do a little of the net surfing (shopping, browsing, and checking out the news or weather online). If this is your computer profile, then you need basics and can get by with almost any brand new computer there is on the market today.
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However, if you want to do a little more with your computer. You want to browse, surf, send email. You want to send pictures or scan pictures into your computer from a scanner. Or perhaps you want to put pictures onto your desktop (on your computer) through a cellular phone or through an external camera. Then you need a little bit more than basics. Sometimes you might want to transfer pictures to a disk ( a cd), and or other times you might want to download music to a disk or to your computer. The more and more that you intend to use your computer, the more features you need.

If you want to use your computer for all those activities and tasks and more, and if you want to compose documents with your computer and use other graphic or word-processing programs, then you will need these at the very least:

1. Laptop (preferable but a desktop is acceptable)
2. USB ports (preferably three or four of these, though one might be acceptable--depending on use).
3. CD and DVD-Writer (Now, you can transfer files, music, pictures plus videos right onto a disk. You can take almost everything off your hard-drive and keep it safe on disk. I recommend doing duplicates, just in case. You will always have your important files and pictures that way).
4. You might want an extra or a long-lasting battery for your laptop. If you intend to travel with it, or even use it on the road locally , a lot, then you would want to purchase that long-lasting battery, or that extra battery. Sometimes these can range about two or three hundred dollars depending on the laptop.
(Some batteries last two hours while there are rare few that promise to last five hours. Obviously, if yours lasts five hours, you might not need two batteries).
5. If you live in an area that is stricken with tornados, earthquakes and blackouts on a regular basis, an extra investment in that extra battery might be quite helpful to you--especially if you work from your home computer.

6. Security programs: Most modern, brand-new computers have some security programs built right in. For example, most have "McAffee" or "Norton" with a free three-month trial basis. Personally, I do not like either of these two programs. You can try out an awesome program online--for free, called, "Zone Alarm". This is a very cool security program which actually captures offending ISPs and also keeps logs of everything. There is just something about Zone Alarm. I believe it is quite a helpful program.
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Recommendations are helpful. And, in keeping with that statement of fact, I recommend ACER. Acer is a very cool computer company. I have used their computers for a number of years. I am very satisfied with the company.

I found an advertisement once in a magazine and thought, "I have never heard of that company". But, I decided to take a chance and try it (since it was on sale, anyway). I am so happy that I took the chance and tried Acer.

Probably, other than Apple, I would not choose another company for computers other than Acer.

Compaq is a great computer company also. A number of years ago, I used their customer service and I was completely satisfied with their company.