On Computers

We’ve been trying out a free service, GoAnimate.com, that lets you make animated comic books. Doesn’t matter if you think you can’t draw; they supply the figures as well.

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You’ve made a photo slideshow on a disk, but will that disk play on your TV? If you have Vista, you can use the free Windows “DVD Maker” to do the trick. If you don’t, you need a program like Roxio’s “MyDVD Video Lab,” to make your video playable on a TV.

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According to Cisco, the computer networking giant, video will account for close to 90 percent of all consumer Internet traffic by 2012.

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Video cameras are getting easier to use and our favorite is a new one called “The Flip Mino.” It’s about the size of a deck of playing cards.

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“Slacker Radio” is software that lets you create a personal radio station that brings in tunes you like from the Internet.

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Girls are playing games online more than ever, including our young relatives.

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A game called “Peggle Deluxe” used to consume our days. “Peggle Nights” now consumes our nights. The first game is so famous you can find videos of best scores at YouTube.

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1If you’ve ever called for airline reservations, you’ve dealt with voice recognition software. A robotic voiceasks you if you want “reservations” or “flight status.” If you say “Cheeseburger,” the robot says, “Sorry, I didn’t get that.”

You can have this kind of fun on a regular basis, with your own voice recognition software.

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Just as some movies go straight to the video market and never show up in theaters, today some books are going straight to digital format, instead of print.

The biography of Cindy McCain, wife of U.S. Presidential candidate John McCain, for example, is available on the Amazon Kindle e-book.

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“The Truth about Identity Theft,” by Jim Stickley, (around $14 from Amazon.com), reads like a good mystery novel.

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