The objective of this 5-minute video tutorial is to show how to transfer mail data from Entourage 2004 to 2008. This short tutorial may be beneficial to those who want to reinstall OS X 10.4 or to newly install OS X 10.5 before installing Microsoft Office 2008. Anyhow, you should back up certain files before installing Entourage 2008 if you already have Entourage 2004. Continue reading
Last week, Roxio introduced a new version of its popular file backup software. Roxio Toast 9 Titanium has several new features. The last version supported the Blu-ray drive. And the new version allows the user to compress high definition videos and burn Blue-ray/HD DVD discs. Another new features is ‘Convert.’ For example, you can batch-convert the format of multiple audio files into another and save them in a volume. Continue reading
Learning Graphic Editing Basics with Adobe Fireworks CS3 06: Using Fireworks’ Batch Process
Many scientific and economic analysis software programs (GAUSS, Shazam, RATS, CATS, SAS…) support batch process. A batch process is also called macro. It’s a function that you can use to apply multiple commands to process a large data set. Another prominent software program that supports batch process is Microsoft Excel. Microsoft introduced Excel 5.0 in the mid-1990s. Microsoft incorporated Visual Basics into Excel 5.0, which eventually led to the death of once-dominent spreadsheet program Lotus 1-2-3.
Anyway, one of the major differences between Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Photoshop is that the former title supports batch process. (Adobe Photoshop CS3 now supports batch process.) For example, if you have several dozen PNG-formatted files and just want to change the format of those files to JPEG, you can apply Fireworks’ batch process to them at a time. You definitely don’t want to open each file and save it in JPEG, do you?
This 6-minute video tutorial shows how to use Adobe Fireworks CS3’s batch process. At first, we use it to change the format of 15 PNG-formatted graphic files to JPEG. Another example we show in the tutorial is to change resolutions and put files upside all at a time.
Key words: PNG, Batch Process, Export, Add, Custom, Edit, JPEG, Quality, Save Script, Same location as original file, Batch, Scale, Scale to Size, Commands, Rotate 180, Save Script, Custom location Continue reading
Several days ago, we reported a fake online shoe store called Prestige Footwear, which involves more than a dozen domains. Most of them are now dead. Where is it hosted? Our investigations revealed that some of the websites are/were hosted in China. Others are/were hosted at a possibly hacked website.
This tutorial is a video demonstration of the steps we took to find the web hosting companies involved with the fake online shoe store. Those steps are described in our report of January 27 concerning Prestige Footwear. This video tutorial is open to users of any operating system as long as they have access to Internet and a web browser. Continue reading
MacHouse is a big advocate of taking a tough action against those sponsor websites where they hire career spammers to post spam comments to increase traffic, which we call spam vandalism. A simple measure to take is to find the host of such sponsor website. If you can find it, then you can file a complaint and have the website shut down. In fact, a career spammer did some damage on our own SMF website around January 21. In this particular case, the sponsors are footballyears.net and heightgrowthshoes.com.
Of course, there is no guarantee that the web hosting company will comply with your request. But what? Would you rather sit back and play defense whenever the same career spammer comes back to cause trouble? Continue reading