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Windows 7 is great, but if you’re a control freak like me, you want to be able to change all your settings easily, and preferably, all in one place. Well, the developers at Microsoft heard your cries of woe, and have enabled a super folder.
Create a new folder (can be located anywhere, like on the Desktop), with the following name: SuperFolder.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Once you hit enter, it will look like this:
Opening this folder, you will see all the Admin goodness – 277 administrative tasks, all in one place!
This has been a much needed feature for Windows. My only wish is that it was easier to create the super folder – for instance if I were to work on someone else’s machine, I’m not going to remember what that long string of numbers and letters are – would be nice to remember a word, or sentence to call the folder… oh well, at least we got it!
One more tip, I added this SuperFolder to my Favorites, so it’s accessible from any open explorer window! (Just drag the folder onto the Favorites star, and it will add it to the favorite list!)
OK folks… I’ve harped on this before, and I’ll probably harp on it again, but here’s the deal: Your hard drive in your computer WILL fail one day, and when it does, you can kiss all those precious pictures of your family goodbye. I’ve mentioned a couple of ways to backup your stuff, but today I want to share a great way to backup your pictures (usually the largest amount of data (short of music) that people wish to backup).
Google. Picasa. Picasa Web Albums. Yup, I’ve mentioned these before too… 
Well, combine all three of those, throw in a FREE Eye-Fi card, and you are not only backing up your pictures, you won’t even have to plug in your camera to transfer the pictures to your computer!
Google has been offering more disk space for Picasa Web Albums for a while now, but if it wasn’t a great deal already, they are now throwing in a free 4GB Eye-Fi card when you order 200GB or more space. This is starting at $50 / year for the 200GB, but if you don’t use that much, after the first year, you can downgrade to what you actually need.
Backing up your pictures from Picasa to Picasa Web Albums is as easy as clicking the “Sync to Web” button in each folder.
Next, select the size – I recommend the original size, and set your visibility (security) as you choose. Press Sync, and your photo’s are being backed up to Picasa Web Albums!
You can also select to automatically upload anything that you import:
More about the Eye-Fi card:
To sum it up, this is a FANTASTIC deal. The Eye-Fi card runs about $80 – ish. If anything, this is a great deal to get the card at a discount, plus if you’re not already taking measures to backup your data, you should be. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it till the day I die…
ALL HARD DRIVES FAIL…
[ Eye-Fi ]
[ Google Picasa Web Albums Eye-Fi Promo ]
I LOVE free software! WinX just came out with a new product called HD Video Converter, and they’re giving it away for free until December 15th. It’s regular price is $39.95, so I’d go grab it now while you can!
WinX HD Video Converter is a professional video converter specially designed for HD video conversion. The friendly interface can assist you to easily convert HD videos with no loss of image & sound quality, like MTS, M2TS, TS, HD MP4, MKV, HD WMV, and HD MOV, etc. Besides, it also lets you convert between HD videos and regular AVI, MP4, MOV, WMV, etc.
To get the full version for free, please download the program and register with the following Information.
Reg Name: HDgiveaway
Reg Code: WINXHVC-5230-1898-1278
http://www.winxdvd.com/giveaway/
