Technical Questions

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Help, please!

I am creating a workshop on Medical Terminology, which I will teach later this month.

I want to add some short, cute video clips to keep the interest of the class.

Here is an example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRySvf8jdsU&feature=related

and then I would do a segment on medical acronyms following this.

Is there a safe, free way to save video clips from YouTube, etc. to my computer so I can then get them into my PowerPoint presentation?

Thanks for any help you can give me with this!

if you've got internet access where you're doing the presentation from you can embed the video directly in your presentation.

and then pray youtube is up when you're presenting. i had that happen to me once. not fun.

There are ways of safely downloading videos from youtube, I think there's even websites where you can paste the link to the youtube video and it will present you with a downloadable file.

I can look a few up later if necessary.

If you use Firefox, they make a ton of mini applications that allow you to copy video out of your browser.

Firefox Add-Ons Search page

I use this one called 'Download Helper'

These add-ons leave a small icon at the top or bottom of your web page bar that you can click on and save the video file seen on that particular page.

Word of advice: - make sure the whole data bar is loaded on the video window BEFORE you save it - otherwise you may just save a fragment and not the whole video.

Thanks, to all three of you!

I do use Firefox exclusively so have done the add-on download and will work with that a bit.

When I had a real job (2001) I used PowerPoint all the time and got pretty good at it. Now that I am scrapping to try to keep my own business running, I am branching out, doing things I haven't done in awhile, and amazed at how much I've forgotten, but sometimes pleased at how easily some other things come back.

I may have more questions after I try this, and will of course love any hints or specific directions for imbedding, etc.

I will have an alternate plan in case these don't work on site, too. These are just quick little fun things to keep people awake, mostly.

:sillygrin:

Hmmmm...I must be missing a step or two...

I downloaded Download Helper. Am seeing the animated icon when I open the video I want to download. I am able to download the .flv file but then not sure what to do next - how to get in into my powerpoint slide.

I tried Insert - Movie, and I am confident I am choosing the file I just downloaded. I get a message "PowerPoint cannot insert a movie from the selected file. Verify that the path and file format are correct and then try again."

Any thoughts about what I missed?

The FLV format probably needs to get changed to Windows Media or something like that before embedding. I have a separate Mac Application called iSquint that can do it, but I couldn't recommend a Windows application - there's just too many out there.

OK, tried to play it with Windows Media and that's a dead end. Now it won't even let me try to play it with any other program - just goes right into Windows Media. Arrgghh.

Not sure how to imbed the link so that I can access it on the internet during the presentation, as Ares mentioned. Any thoughts? Thanks.

Worst case, I will have to forego the fun parts of the presentation.

try this site.

http://www.vconversion.com/

Copy and paste the youtube link into the main field,

select windows mpg as the file format.

every web site that starts with https, like your bank, most places that let you use a password, etc. have a security certificate that has the public encryption key for that site. these certificates are signed by someone, whose certificate is signed by someone else, etc. all the way until a root certificate, which is one that has signed itself. some of the well-known roots are thawte and verisign. most computers come with a list of root certificates that are trusted, so that there is a chain of trust from your banks certificate up to the root. if your bank has a certificate that is signed by one of these trusted roots you can assume that it is indeed your bank asking for your password because you trust the root to verify the banks identity before signing the certificate.

there are other roots (cacert.org) that have less rigorous verification processes, and as such aren't automatically trusted by browsers. if you get a cert that is signed by one of them, it can't find the root key, and so you get a message like that. in your case, the email connection to comcast is probably encrypted and they have a certificate encrypting the connection. you definitely want to verify the authenticity of the certificate before continuing.

help!

New Dell - needs adobe flash player 9. Ok, fine - go to try to download and this stupid page comes up

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=6b3af6c9&sliceId=2

what does that mean - I don't speak computer?

You're computer is too good for Adobe. You need a new browser if you want to run adobe flash player..

http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.0.5&os=win&lang=en-US

try firefox... I have had no problems with any programs working with it. (New Gateway)

thanks Z. I'll load that tomororw night. I was trying to use the google street view thingy.

My computer is too fancy? hardly.. it's irritating at best. the mouse pad is so sensitive when I am typing, 90% of the time, i get extra windows popping open, and folders opening, and files trying to save, and things popping up that I had cut and pasted.

it's bizarre. I need to turn down the sensitivity or the key sequence short cuts off or something. i hate it.

it's bizarre. I need to turn down the sensitivity or the key sequence short cuts off or something. i hate it.

The sensitivity issue is probably your double-click speed on the mouse pad. A good tap on the movement pad is like a mouse click, and a couple quick taps for movement the computer accidentally translates as a double mouse click (or right-click) which pop all that crap up.

If the touch pad has Mouse Buttons already adjacent to it, I'd just go into in the control panels and disable that whole 'click' ability of the movement pad. It's really annoying and redundant. Of course I don't own a laptop so I don't deal with it very often, so... other people may feel differently.

Ok I don't know why I cant figure out something so simple...

I somehow accidentally moved the bottom blue bar with the windows start logo and the time on it to the right so its vertical now. I can't figure out how to move it back.

Help?

In the area where your windows show up, click, hold and drag the highlighted bar to the bottom of the screen.

I was trying to redeem a few itunes cards I got for my birthday and I couldn't access the itunes store - it kept saying "the network connection timed out" yet I could get to the internet and my network settings were all where they should have been. Anybody have any ideas as to what the problem was?

presumably you don't have any problems getting anywhere else. servers probably busy.

hmm. seems wierd for THAT server to be THAT be busy.

OMG thanks ... that was annoying me to no end.

no problem.

I think I need one of those.. what do they call it, like the kills stamped by the cockpit of a fighter plane?



So I can keep count of how many computer problems I've solved :grin:

I don't think they make a plane big enough to hold all of yours. :cool:

Ok I know people hide on here and they dont show up on the list but is there anyway to see all the people who are not hiding...someone told me the it doesn't show everyone all at once on the who's here list that it rotates or something or were they just yankin' my chain?

as far as i know, someone's yanking your chain. unless of course some ridiculous number of people show up in the list.

If you are not in hiding the list moves by activity, when you make somekind of movement on the thread, you move to the top of the list. That is why you are always first.

As far as you getting dumped off of the list I have no idea.

Maybe thats what they were refering to and I misunderstood just moving on the list itself not coming and going off the list.

When I use Google, every listing that comes up has "This site may harm your computer" under the main line. McAfee is enabled.

Apparently it's not just me. As Bulletin Board says, "It's never just you". I'm reading another board and someone just posted they're having the same problem.

It's fixed now. But that was odd.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/7tupm/whats_up_with_google_today_everytime_i_do_a/

lots of people had this same issue...

I didn't but that because i use firefox google.

good catch OT!!

lasted about 20mins..

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23googmayharm

http://mashable.com/2009/01/31/google-this-site-may-harm-your-computer/

I use Firefox too. Maybe it was fixed already when you went there?

My Mom uses an ergonomic keyboard that she has had now for a number of years. We suspect there is a short in the cord leading from the keyboard to the box as it is only working intermittently.

Can those cords be replaced and is it even worth having that done?

Usually it ain't worth it. The wires are too fine to try and do your own fix it job. Although finding similar old keyboards should not really be a problem.

I has a mouse with bad wires that I tore apart, re-cut and spliced back together. I got it to work, but the buttons never 'clicked' the same way again.

Office Depot in Woodbury (near Kohl's) is closing and has very little left for inventory - you may find a new keybaord there dirt cheap.

Thanks for the advice!

It's most likely a problem with the connector (they can go bad if jarred).

Have you tried the Keyboard on another computer? Best to eliminate that as a possibility.

In the end, if the keyboard is at fault, it depends on how nice of a keyboard it is. Cords can be replaced with the proper skill, but it's only worth it if the keyboard is irreplaceable.

I agree with getting the keyboard tested on another computer, or testing a different keyboard on yours just to make sure the wire/connector is the real culprit.

Sometimes you may have a short inside the key-board itself, but its pretty rare- you'd have to spill a whole coke or something on it, and have a crack in the moisture barrier that would allow it to seep into the wiring. More than likely its a cable/connector problem.

I know since you mentioned it was an ergonomic keyboard it's not an IBM Model M.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M_keyboard

Those would be worth saving :smile:

I'm considering switching to one myself (I might even have one sitting around somewhere), I remember they are a really durable keyboard.

If I'm not mistaken, the one in the picture on this forum is either a Model M or a very close approximation of one.

No. It' like this: http://www.officemax.com/omax/catalog/sku.jsp?skuId=21022867&searchString=ergonomic%20keyboard&category_

With her arthritis, its a must have.

We are 99% sure its in the cord. Her keyboard is on a tray that glides in and out so the cord gets moved with that motion.

Ahh yes, the moveable keyboard tray.. destroyer of many a cable...

Best to go with MD's suggestion, replace it.

On a side note, darnit, why did I start looking at the old Model M keyboards.. now I'm sold on a M13 Raven Black with an integrated trackpoint.



They're quite rare though. I doubt I'd get one for under a few hundred.. That is if someone would even part with theirs. Boo..

Oh man, I used to have one of those and now I miss it. Not that exact model but an old IBM keyboard. I wonder if I still have it somewhere...

Anyone want to recommend a place to get an after-market cellphone battery? I'm sick of going back to T-Mobile and having them tell me I need to get a new phone. I got a hand-me-down battery from a friend and it's still working after six months, but I can tell it's dying. Are they all basically the same?

Try Batteries Plus... Cell Phones They might be able to help you out. Link is for their phone list for batteries. Also a store list link, these places are all over the place... Good luck.

YOU want one OR 5??? I have like 6 of them and if there that good I want to keep one for my self!!!

well .....

help

how do I get my .msg

to open with info?

is there a program I need?

monosodium glutamate?

joe!