Election Day 2008 Coverage

Looking for Election 2008 coverage online? Well take a look at these links.

• http://www.ap.org/elections2008/
• http://election.socialmedian.com/
• http://twittervotereport.com/
• http://abcnews.go.com/wn
• http://www.c-span.org/politics/Election-Cam-McCain.aspx
• http://www.c-span.org/politics/Election-Cam-Obama.aspx
• http://elections.foxnews.com/index.html
• http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/
• http://news.yahoo.com/election/2008
• http://www.ustream.tv/

You can also go directly to the candidates web sites for information on your candidate.

• John McCain's Web Site - http://www.johnmccain.com
• Barack Obama's Web Site - http://www.barackobama.com

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.

I'M A PC: Stereotype

I'M A PC! OK now you say it... go ahead... Don't be afraid. I AM A PC! Very Good!

Google just got Chromed

Google just released it's first web browser. They call it Chrome. I've been checking it out since it's release last week.

I've got to say it's not bad. Chrome is lightweight and fast. The home page shows the sites that you visit frequently.

One of the few unique features of Chrome is the ability to move tabs in and out of the browser. Chrome gives users a quick and easy way to move tabs around.

Creating shortcut's for your web app's couldn't be easier with  Chrome shortcut to app's feature.  Create Quick Launch icon's out of your favorite web page. I can see me using this more often.

For those of you worried about privacy Chrome has a feature just for you. It's called incognito. It's a way to browse in a tab that does not leave any tracks while surfing. It's not an original idea but it's a nice feature none the less.

Don't take my word for it why don't you download it yourself. Download Chrome