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If you already have photo editing software on your computer, you
may want to know how to convert a number of images at a time to
the format you desire. This feature, batch image format
conversion, may be necessary to send out picture
invitations/announcements to friends and family via email, or
you may be preparing a business brochure and need to find a way
to get the best quality graphics on each brochure that is sent
out. Here are some companies/programs that offer this service
that you may want to take a look at.

www.snowbound.com has a number of format conversion software
programs that will work well with your computer and give you
graphics with rich color and detail. The conversion tools
support a number of formats and file types, including PDF, JPEG,
and Microsoft Word. The programs also allow you to split
multi-page files into single page files, and to convert PDFs, so
the files are easy to see and read no matter how you download
them. The program is best supported by Windows NT and Windows
XP, which are on most computers. You can even provide the
company with an evaluation of your Snowbound or Snowbatch
software once you purchase the image conversion program.

If you’re not sure which company you want to purchase your batch
image conversion software from just yet, or if you want to know
more about what the program should be able to do, you can check
out www.batchimage.com. There are a number of companies that
sell batch image format conversion software on the site, so you
can click on the links for each programs to learn more about
which one would be best for your computer. Programs include
Batch Image Commander, which comes in three modules (command
line, time-based controlled tray icon, and batch timer
processing modules). These features help you to accurately
resize your images while retaining the resolution and quality,
change the JPEG quality, and create captions for your photos.
You may also want to check out Batch It!, Batch It! Pro, and
Batch It! Ultra, which are Windows-based image processors that
are easy to use. You can create HTML and thumbnail galleries
using these programs, and can individually crop or rotate
certain images in your photos. The Pro and Ultra versions of the
program allow you to convert more files at a time, and can also
give your graphics a better resolution. For more information on
these products, or to find out about other companies that offer
batch image format conversion, visit the site for more details.

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Until just recently, consumers have been forced into buying
desktop computers that have very little variation from model to
model. I’ll be the first to admit that some of the better
manufacturers are doing a great job of making the boring old
“box” look very nice, but there are not many of them. Typically
these “out of the ordinary” computers systems are reserved for
hi-end gaming machines that start around $2,000.00. Why don’t we
have computers that don’t look like computers? Wouldn’t it be
great to have a computer that fit into your home without looking
like a computer, or better yet one that you don’t have to hide
under a desk or in cabinet? The answer to that question is
simple. Size. The sizes of the components that are in a desktop
computer are just too big to allow for any alternatives to the
“box”. That is until now……

Over the past few years a new size mainboard has been on the
rise in the computer industry. The Mini-ITX form factor
motherboard is just 6 inches square. Just for reference, a
dollar bill is about 6 inches long. That is amazing! The
Mini-ITX mainboards began utilizing the VIA processors. For most
home users, this processor just wouldn’t cut it against a
Pentium-based system. The industry obviously became aware of
this bottleneck and soon began producing the Mini-ITX mainboards
that support the Intel Pentium 4 processors.

At 6 inches square, the possibilities for new and unusual spins
on the old “box” are being realized worldwide. One of the main
uses for these mainboards is in car computers. That’s right;
computer systems that mount inside of automobiles are already
being manufactured and sold. Most utilize touch screen
technology for ease of use (because you would have a hard time
with a mouse in your car!).

You can also find a desktop computer that will actually fit in
the palm of your hand! This particular model can be found at
www.cappucinopc.com. This site is what sparked my interest in
this relatively new technology.

After pondering the possibilities, my two neighbors and I
decided to create our own “out of the ordinary” desktop
computer. After about a year and endless tests and designing, we
now have the “Compucar”. The Compucar is a desktop computer that
looks like a car. We utilize a Mini-ITX mainboard and a patented
chassis design to create something you can only find in O’Fallon
Missouri. We are currently found on the web at
www.compucarllc.com. This started out as a challenge to create
something different utilizing new and emerging technology and
ended up becoming a very unique business venture.

I believe that over the next few years, you will begin to see
very “different” looking desktop computers. I just wonder how
long it will take the big companies to start becoming a bit more
creative.

About the author:
Aaron Davis is a partner with Compucar, LLC. Compucar is
dedicated to providing a stylish alternative to your “everyday”
desktop. www.compucarllc.com

Wireless networking is just what it sounds like — a way of
creating networks without any wires! Wireless networks utilize
radio waves and/or microwaves to maintain commmunication
channels between computers and other network devices. If this
sounds exciting to you, then read on.

With a wireless network, you can create radio connections
between computers that let them communicate and connect to the
Internet without you having to go to all the trouble of
connecting them with wires. The computers don’t even need to
have a clear path for the signal, as the wireless signal can go
through walls and between floors easily.

Where Did It Come From?

The story of wireless networking is a rather strange one. It is
basically an application of a technology called frequency
hopping which was, believe it or not, invented by the actress
Hedy Lamarr and a musician named George Antheil, back in the
1940s. Seriously, do a web search — I promise I’m not pulling
your leg here.

They received a patent for their invention, which was intended
to help in the war effort. Hedy was Jewish, but had been made to
hide it and socialise with Hitler as a young woman — she had to
drug her husband and run away to London to escape her native
Austria. The importance of what they’d done, however, wasn’t
recognised until many years later.

The U.S. military adopted the technique in the ’60s, using it
during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Hedy never saw any money from
it as the patent had expired (don’t worry, she was a film
star!), but she was given a Pioneer Award by the Electronic
Frontier Foundation in 1997, three years before her death.

Wireless at Home

When most people talk about wireless networks, they are talking
about wireless LANs (local area networks). A local area network
doesn’t mean that it covers your whole neighbourhood — the
‘local area’ in question can be only one building, such as your
house. So if you want wireless networking in your home, you want
a wireless LAN.

Once people have wireless in their home, they always seem to act
as if there’s been an absolute miracle. After years of drilling
holes in the walls and running wires all over the place,
suddenly seeing them gone is really amazing.

The Myths

Wireless networking is expensive. Well, wireless networking used
to be expensive when it was new, but now the prices have come
way down thanks to competition and mass production. There are
hundreds of manufacturers of wireless equipment, with something
for every budget. Your costs will depend on how many computers
you want to connect and how far apart they are, but a typical
family should still be able to do it for less than $100 overall.
If you’re willing to leave one of the computers on whenever
you’re using the other one, you could do it for as little as
$20! Best of all, once you’ve spend the money, there’s nothing
more to pay after that.

Wireless networking is hard. Again, this myth is a holdover from
the early days of wireless. It used to be very difficult, with
you needing to fiddle endlessly with the configuration on each
computer just to get the simplest things to work. Now, though,
Windows supports wireless out of the box, and setting it up is
easier than ever. You can usually plug in what you’ve bought,
put the CD in the computer and then sit back and watch it all
work perfectly!

Wireless networking is insecure. You might think it’s dangerous
to have all your personal data floating around in the air for
anyone to read. Well, if you want, it’s dead easy to enable
encryption for your wireless signals. It’s already difficult for
outsiders to intercept wireless signals at all, and they
certainly won’t be able to decode them as well.

Not Just at Home

It was home users that were quickest to adopt wireless
technology, willing to pay any amount to finally be free of
needing to run wires all over their house. Since then, though,
the technology has started to spread to offices, universities,
and all sorts of other places.

Chains of coffee shops and cafes have found that their customers
will stay for hours if they offer wireless Internet access, and
it’s also becoming more common in hotels and airports. This
means that once you set up a laptop for wireless, it becomes far
more portable than it ever was before.

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