Computer Tips From A Computer Guy

Download All of Your Facebook Photos the Easy Way

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 04:48 AM PDT

Sharing photos on Facebook is super easy. We can upload photos from our computers, send photos from our cell phones or take photos directly from a Web cam. However, downloading the photos from Facebook is a tedious process. Every photo must be downloaded individually.

Pick&Zip can download all of your Facebook photos—even photos other people post and "tag" you—in just a few mouse clicks.

Click the Login with Facebook button at the top of the Pack&Zip homepage.

A window will open asking you to allow Pack&Zip access to your Facebook account. Click Allow.

The Pack&Zip page reloads, this time listing all of your friends in a list on the left. Just below this list, click the Find My Photos button.

Photos in which you were tagged appear first. Click the Albums tab to see each of your individual Facebook photo albums.

To download an individual photo, hover over the photo, then click the arrow that appears in the bottom-right corner of the photo. You can download the photo in a zip file, or as a PDF.

To download an entire album, click the Select All button at the bottom of the screen.

Then click the Download tab in the top-right of the screen.

In the middle of the page, click Download my selected photos. Your selected photos will download to your computer.

If you are in a hurry and just want to download any and all uploaded or tagged photos, click the Download tab, then click the green Download all photos button. Every photo will begin to download to your computer in a nice, neat zip file.

As a bonus, you can also download your friends' photos. Click any of your friends names, then follow the same steps above to download any, or all, of your friends' photos. This also works for your favorite Facebook Pages and Groups.

Pack&Zip works quickly and easily—just like they promise. Within just a few minutes, you can download all of your, or any of your friends' photos. The app is definitely worth a bookmark, if for no other reason than archival purposes.

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How to Record a Podcast using Audacity

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 05:50 AM PDT

Audacity is the most popular open source sound recording and editing software on the Internet for Windows computers, and for good reason, it's loaded with powerful tools and can perform some of the simple functions you'd like to do without a lot of fuss. One such application is recording a podcast so you can post it on your website.

To use Audacity to record your podcast, first download it if you don't have it yet, install according to the instructions, then run it.

Before you start recording though, it's a good idea to make sure you're using the right software driver for your microphone, to do that, click on Edit, then Preferences:

Then under Recording, click the dropdown labeled Device, you should see something like this:

Choose the device driver associated with the microphone you'll actually be using.

Next, move down the same preferences menu and click where it says Quality, then click the dropdown next to where it says Default Sample Rate; change it to 44100Hz if that is not your default, anything higher and you'll run into problems with some media players that don't support higher sampling rates.

Click the OK button and you should be ready to roll.

Before you begin however, be sure you know what you're going to say, also be aware of using um and ah and uh a lot as that makes it hard to listen. When you're ready, click the Record button…

…and start speaking.

Try not to speak too close to your microphone because you'll get a lot of pops. If you make a mistake, simply pause a moment, then start over, you can edit out mistakes later. When you're done, hit the Stop button

Special Note: It's always a good idea to do a couple of practice runs before recording your whole podcast, otherwise you might find yourself having to do the whole thing over and over again if there are problems with the microphone etc.

If you find your voice doesn't sound right, you can try adjusting the volume control:

Also, be sure to leave an empty space on the track so that you can Get Rid of Ambient Noise Using Audacity once you've finished your recording.

Once you've got your podcast recorded, you'll most likely want to edit it; you can begin by highlighting sections with your mouse, and simply hitting the Delete key to get rid of unwanted sections:

Also, to cut a section and paste it in somewhere else, highlight it with your mouse, hit Ctrl-X, move to the place where you want to paste it in, then hit Ctrl-V.

Note: You can also cut a section out of a different recording (such as your intro for a prior Podcast) and paste it in if you wish.

When you're happy with your recording, click the File menu choice, then choose Export…