Aug 7, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How to Shuffle on iTunes 12.2

With the recent upgrades to iTunes 12.2 the shuffle feature we used to know and love is gone. With a bit of digging found several ways to get this to work. In Songs Mode. Choose “Songs” not “Artists”, “Albums”, etc. Pick a song and start playing. Hit the title of the song near the bottom. In the new screen, hit the Shuffle button. In Playlist Mode. Create a Playlist of... read more

Jan 5, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Scan 110mm Slides on Epson 4490

To continue on with how to scan 127mm slides we now are discussing how to scan 110mm slides. Open the Epson Scan Utility and select Professional Mode for the Mode. For Document type select Film and for Film Type select Positive Film. The next settings are at your preference, but if you want good prints then select at least 2400 dpi for the resolution. Click Preview to scan the slides. Now since the 110... read more

Jan 4, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Scan 127mm Slides on Epson 4490

Administrators have to have fun to and restoring negatives and slides is fun to do once in awhile. In this post we will cover how to scan 127mm slides using the Epson Scan Utility on the Epson Perfection Photo 4490 scanner. Open the Epson Scan Utility and select Professional Mode for the Mode. For Document type select Film and for Film Type select Positive Film. The next settings are at your preference,... read more

Oct 27, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How to Copy PS3 Formatted Blu-Ray disks with ImgBurn

Recently I received a request to make copies of Blu-Ray formatted DVD’s for playing on PS3, that use the AVCHD format. The movies were not store bought so there is no encryption involved. The question was how to duplicate the DVD’s and the answer is with ImgBurn. Basically we can use ImgBurn to create an iso of the BDMV folder and then burn the iso to DVD. All of this is being done on a... read more

Apr 6, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How To Convert M4A to MP3 on Linux

There are many different formats out there for music and many different players out there, one of the most popular on Windows and MAC OSX is iTunes due to the iPod. The issue that we run into is being able to play the music you paid for on Linux without iTunes or another player. One such way to make the music universally play on  anything is to convert it to MP3 format. This post explains how to convert... read more