From Windows Vista or superior Windows added the User Account Control where you can control what can run, what can’t.
I turn my UAC off right out of the box because I receive all these confirmation messages that make no sense to appear being me the only user of that computer.
Windows 7 and 8 allow levels for the UAC. I wouldn’t be able to explain the details of the levels because I basically don’t understand the concept so I basically turn it off or leave it at level zero.
Whatch this video to help you getting rid of all the endless confirmation dialogs.
With the launch of Microsoft Vista Microsoft changed the audio system. Before you had devices and each device had its audio lines. Microsoft decided to eliminate the audio lines and treat all forms of audio into a device.
The new system caused confusion initially and to this day because the audio device you want to record from must be enabled and you have to set it up as the default device if you want to record it otherwise it will not work.
Bellow is a video that helps you to understand a bit more Windows Audio and how it works.
When you purchase a computer in most cases it comes equipped with a webcam software embedded but sometimes the PC has to be reformatted and many times the person finds him or herself missing a software to record the webcam.
Many programs exist out there for recording webcam. One that is free and you can get the job done is Debut Video Capture. The one I talk about in here is 1AVCapture.
1AVCapture can record video and/or audio from any audio video source you have installed on your PC and one of the profiles it creates right after installed is ‘Record webcam with audio from microphone’.
You also have the option to time-stamp your webcam recordings with 1AVCapture.
Watch the video bellow to learn how easy and simple it is to record your webcam with 1AVCapture.
In this article I will talk a bit about the 2 virtual cameras PCWinSoft sells: One is ScreenCamera’s and the other is ScreenCamera.Net’s.
ScreenCamera Video Camera as it is called within the system coupled with its desktop application give you the extraordinary ability to share your webcam and your desktop screen capture on n number of apps and websites that work with webcams at the same time. Plus it records is all in high definition which is the feature that sets PCWinSoft’s virtual cameras apart from similar programs.
ScreenCamera.Net Video Camera when coupled with its desktop application gives you unlimited possibilities of what to show in the video output: Screen capture from any monitor, webcam capture, TV tuner card capture, movie files, audio tracks, images of any extension including PNG, text stamps, date and time stamps, and the ability to animate all elements so what ScreenCamera.Net can do for you is to give you the tools that can make you look highly professional thus differentiating you from your competition and giving you that edge you need to win over your competition.
The virtual cameras from PCWinSoft are supported by Google Talk, Google Hang-outs, Skype, UStream.TV, LiveStream, and any program or website that accepts webcams. The virtual cameras from PCWinSoft are just like a webcam you purchase at the store except they can share desktop capture and do many other things that you wouldn’t be able to do with your webcam alone.
Watch the video bellow to check out how it works with Google Talk:
SuperLauncher is a productivity booster and it gives you the ability to produce more in less time with less stress.
Among the many ways SuperLauncher can be used to save you time one of them is to be able to shut down or restart the computer using keyboard combinations also known as hotkeys.
I like to keep my shut down computer shortcut with the keyboard combination Windows+F12 and I like to keep the restart computer shortcut under the keyboard combination Windows+F11.
It seems like a small step and that you might not need it but once you start using hotkeys to shutdown and restart your computer you realise how much time you wasted going through the native methods of Windows.
ScreenCamera is mainly a screen recorder for creating narrated tutorials, but it can also record high motion content like movies and YouTube videos for example.
ScreenCamera allows you to record high motion content in high definition and in this here tutorial video bellow you can see how it’s done step-by-step.
There really are no secrets: First you select the area of the screen where the video will play, then you set the frame-rate of ScreenCamera to 30 frames per second, and then you click ‘Record’ and plays the movie, when the movie is over you click ‘Stop’ on ScreenCamera and just like that you have a copy of a YouTube video in HD.
ScreenCamera near zero learning curve will help you setup the same scenario I pictured on the video tutorial bellow.
I use 1AVMonitor to achieve the task of recording my favorite songs from the Internet, and plus in this article I added 2 website tips that guarantee good songs recording.
The first tip is you open the browser on Google and type ‘Artists like name of band’ and search for it. In first place on the results you will find the lastfm.com list of similar artists.
From there you get a list of artists so you got the first step, the second step is to select 1 artist and search for it on grooveshark.com.
GrooveShark is the largest database of bands and songs there is, all music of today and yesterday, it is all there.
So, at this point you got a playlist of the songs you want to record and then you start playing the songs and recording them with 1AVMonitor. To break between one track to the other is a simple button click so you can do your daily work and still record your favorite songs from the Internet simultaneously.
Watch the video bellow to understand how it is done:
