Windows Media Player and Windows Movie Maker

We had a caller raise a question about burning DVDs with Windows Media Player. Since, neither one of us was familiar with the process I decided to look into it. According to Microsoft's web site you cannot burn DVDs with Windows Media Player in Windows XP. The feature is available in Windows Vista. Now, on the other hand Windows Movie Maker has the ability to burn DVDs. Windows Movie Maker is a fun program to play around with but when it comes to burning the finished product I still depend on Nero. If you don't have Nero you can always download BurnerXP.

Back to the callers problem. Updates sometimes remove functionality that we have become accustomed to. Sometimes these updates are required other times we can uninstall the updated software to revert back to our original program. In cases where we can't uninstall the software we do what we can to find a replacement.

There's a new version of Windows Movie Maker available at the Live web site. It's in Beta, but it's stable. Really the current version is plenty to do some quick videos. Also, Live Photo Gallery is shaping up to be a handy way to organize photos and video. If you are in to making slide shows check out PhotoStory from Microsoft.

I Love Google Maps

I'm a sucker for cool uses of Google Maps. You can do all kinds of crazy and sometimes useful things with Google Maps. For instance check out my geoGreeting. Stumbled upon that one recently. OK, it's not really useful,but it is fun.