For those of you not comfortable with lingo like upload, rip, burn, or sync this is for you. Here are some resources to help you get more comfortable with these terms and how to use your mp3 player or digital camera which your computer. Hopefully you're at the point where you have a computer and a working internet connection (and please not dial-up).
Digital Cameras: These little miracles hold all those great pictures you took of your dog and your Aunt Bessie's birthday party but how do you get them off your camera and onto your computer? Have no fear, help is here!
How to Transfer pictures from your camera to your computer | eHow.com
How to Transfer Photos from Your Digital Camera to Your Computer/For Dummies
Once you've got your pictures on your computer now you can upload or send your pictures from your computer to an online photo sharing site (see previous blog). Now you are ready to share your pictures with other or order prints!
MP3 Players: The tiny size is deceiving since these little gems can hold a vast amount of tunes and even pictures, videos and apps (but more on that later). Let's say you have some great CD's that you would like to listen to on the go without carrying them all around with you. You can rip the CDs to your computer and sync them to your mp3 player (such as iPod, Zune, Sansa, etc). Ok, I know you're saying, "what the heck Tech Girl, how am I going to do that when I don't even know what rip and sync is let alone how to do it!". Deep breathes, here is the information you need. It's really quite simple once you know how to do it! The term RIP refers to using software to COPY the music tracks from a music CD onto your computer. Sync is an abbreviation of synchronize and it means to download or transfer files to or from a portable device like an mp3 player.
How to Rip Music From a CD|eHow
Rip MP3's with Windows Media Player|YouTube
Sync Music from Windows Media Player to an MP3 Player
How to Rip Music from a CD in iTunes|For Dummies
iTunes: Sync to Your iPod
Digital Cameras: These little miracles hold all those great pictures you took of your dog and your Aunt Bessie's birthday party but how do you get them off your camera and onto your computer? Have no fear, help is here!
How to Transfer pictures from your camera to your computer | eHow.com
How to Transfer Photos from Your Digital Camera to Your Computer/For Dummies
Once you've got your pictures on your computer now you can upload or send your pictures from your computer to an online photo sharing site (see previous blog). Now you are ready to share your pictures with other or order prints!
MP3 Players: The tiny size is deceiving since these little gems can hold a vast amount of tunes and even pictures, videos and apps (but more on that later). Let's say you have some great CD's that you would like to listen to on the go without carrying them all around with you. You can rip the CDs to your computer and sync them to your mp3 player (such as iPod, Zune, Sansa, etc). Ok, I know you're saying, "what the heck Tech Girl, how am I going to do that when I don't even know what rip and sync is let alone how to do it!". Deep breathes, here is the information you need. It's really quite simple once you know how to do it! The term RIP refers to using software to COPY the music tracks from a music CD onto your computer. Sync is an abbreviation of synchronize and it means to download or transfer files to or from a portable device like an mp3 player.
Rip MP3's with Windows Media Player|YouTube
Sync Music from Windows Media Player to an MP3 Player
How to Rip Music from a CD in iTunes|For Dummies
iTunes: Sync to Your iPod
