Tech Tips [ Which Processor Will Work For You? + From XP To 7 - Transferring Made Easy + Turn Your Phone Into A Portable Scanner! ] 05/03/2012

WorldStart Tech Tips 2012-05-03 Having trouble viewing parts or all of the newsletter? View the entire newsletter here! Nick from TX writes: I have been told that running a single program on a Core i5 system and a Core i7 system will result in negligible differences in speed. It was said that a core i7 system only really improves performance when running multiple tasks simultaneously. Is that true? The difference between most core i5 and i7 systems (along with various other CPU lines) is the number of threads the processor can work on at the same time. The term "CPU Core" or "processors" is often used to mean the amount of threads a CPU can process, as some CPUs may have 4 real CPU cores inside of them, but are able to process 2 threads at the same time for each core, thus giving your computer the same power as a 8 core cpu. Intel's highest end i7 "Sandy Bridge" processors can handle 8 threads of information at the same time, while most i5 processors can only handle 4. AMD's highest end processors support 8 threads of information at the same time, while the A6 and A8 processors support 4. Older software (and even some more recent software) may not be designed to take advantage of multiple threads, and will function speed-wise very similar on the same Ghz rated core i5 and core i7 processor. On applications that are multi-threaded, there can be a small to very large performance increase, depending on how many threads the application can use. For example, Adobe Photoshop – which can utilize many threads – runs complex filters almost twice as fast on a core i7 than a core i5 processor. Keep in mind that while you may only be running one application on the screen, you may also have a virus scanner, chat client, e-mail program and other system utilities taking up CPU time, and limiting how much is left over for your main application to use. ~Tim Click here to rate this tip | Printer friendly version Hey! Nice Body! Wanna Know More About It? Finally! 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Seriously, everything you've ever wanted to know about the body is displayed for you with clear, concise graphics and in-depth (yet simple) descriptions. As you can see from this particular graphic, this is super easy to use. You're presented with a clickable skeleton. Click on any region of the body for a detailed picture. You'll notice underneath the picture it tells you what each part of said organ is, and from there you can click on it and then open it up in the Medical Dictionary (which we'll learn more about below!). The side menu here allows you to focus on specific areas and regions. Click on any of the side menu buttons for a different aspect. For example, the first option is a Locomotor System that tells you each and every bone you click on. The next option is the muscular system, then digestive, urinary, sensory, endocrine, lymphatic, nervous system, respiratory system, cardiovascular system and the reproductive system. Each menu option brings up a different clickable, interactive graphic that will allow you to hone in on any area you so choose, and learn everything there is to know about it! Human 3D - An In-Depth Tour of the Body Get to know your body, both inside and out! The Human 3D program is broken up into three parts: Anatomy, Physiology and guided, virtual tours of each. You're about to become an expert with ease! This is perfect for your reference, and it takes you to any region of the body you're interested in learning about. This is EXTENSIVE: both the anatomy and physiology sections contain menus with each and every aspect of the body. Click on whatever area you're interested in (from a HUGE list), and that opens up another menu that directly focuses on each individual part. Click on one of them for the full description of what they are, where they are, and the purpose they serve in your body! Complete with 3D graphics and simple-to-understand explanations, you'll become an expert in both Anatomy and Physiology in no time! Click on the guided tours and you'll be walked through each section of the body you're interested in learning more about! This is also complete with illustrations and full of informative descriptions! Use the EXCELLENT Menu for ease of navigation! You can look at things in X-Ray viewer, a 3D Anatomical Atlas, you can create bookmarks and notes, search, even print off illustrations and descriptions! Medical Dictionary - Extensive, Informative, Simple! The body is a complicated and beautiful thing. It may seem intimidating trying to learn about what makes us...well, us - but you can learn it at your own pace with excellent descriptions that ANYONE can understand! The Medical Dictionary is SO COOL! Here, you're taken to a massive, extensive database that contains everything you could ever want to know about the body. Type literally anything in the body into the search, and you'll be flooded with information! From a basic general description to each little part that makes up an organ, you'll learn what it does, where it's at and what makes it up. Obviously, this is complete with colorful, helpful graphics that provide an in-depth overview of specific areas and what they do in your body. Here, we're looking at the lungs. As you can see, you get a general description along with a clickable graphic. Each separate part of the lung is pointed out, as you can see, and you can learn about each part individually if you so choose. Bottom line - the Medical Dictionary will help you learn about anything you want, and you'll be able to understand it because it was written for people like us! Extensive Program - Endless Knowledge - Outstanding Price! If you want to learn EVERYTHING there is to know about the human body, you can get this program or you can take a college class. Which do you think is cheaper? For today and today only, the entire Human Body 3D package can be yours for just $14.97 with FREE US SHIPPING! http://store.worldstart.com/product/7805 Ted from Diamond Bar, CA asks: My existing computer is running Win XP Home Edition SP3, and I would like to transfer the data from this computer to a new computer running Win7. Is there any successful method for doing this? Ted, the best way to do this that involves the least amount of effort is to use the Windows Easy Transfer tool. This is already preloaded on your Windows 7 computer, but you will need to download and install a copy of this utility for your Windows XP computer. You can find it here. The Windows Easy Transfer tool will walk you through the steps needed to transfer your documents, photos, emails, internet favorites and more. In fact, about the only thing you can't transfer are the programs that are installed on your XP computer. These will need to be installed again on your Windows 7 machine. To make the physical transfer of data you will need an external hard drive, an easy transfer data cable, or a network that both computers can access. Once you have one of these ready, you can start to make your data transfer. Here's how you do it. Open the Windows Easy Transfer tool on your Windows 7 computer. You can find it by clicking Start, and typing easy transfer in the search box. The welcome screen gives you a summary of what you can expect to transfer and reassures you that you are copying the data from one computer to another, and not deleting anything. So, click Next. At this point, you need to choose your transfer method. As discussed before, you can use a hard drive, transfer cable, or a network to do this. For the purpose of this tutorial, I will go through the options for a hard drive transfer. Once you select the hard drive option, (or any other for that matter), you need to tell Windows which computer you are working on. Seeing as we started on the Windows 7 computer, you will click This is my new computer. The transfer tool will now ask if you have already performed the backup on your XP computer. As we have not yet done this, you will click No. On the next screen, you will be prompted to install the Windows Easy Transfer tool on your source computer. We did that earlier, so you can click I already installed it on my old computer. The final screen asks you to go back to your old computer and run the Windows Easy Transfer tool, so don'tclick Next, because you need to back up the files on your XP computer first. On your Windows XP computer, launch the Windows Easy Transfer tool. You do this by clicking Start, thenAll Programs, and click Windows Easy Transfer for Windows 7. The first couple of screens are basically identical to what you just went through, so click Next on the welcome menu, and select An external hard drive or USB flash drive as your medium of transfer. Windows will then ask you to choose which computer you are using. Be default this will only have one option as the transfer tool is for moving files from XP to Windows 7. Click This is my old computer. At this point, the Windows Easy Transfer tool will scan the contents of the hard drive on your XP computer. When the scan is finished, pay close attention to the results because they include the total size of the data you are transferring. When using a hard drive to transfer your data, you need to make sure that you have enough space for the files you want to move over. Then click Next. The next menu gives you the option of password protecting your backup file. If you choose to do this, enter a password, and then confirm it by entering it again. All you need to do now is select the location of the external hard drive that you want to save your XP data to. Click Open on the drive you want to save it to, and then Save to start the backup process. When the backup is complete, you can unplug your external hard drive from your XP machine, and plug it into your Windows 7 machine. Now, click Next on the menu you still have up on your Windows 7 computer. On the following screen, click Yes to confirm that you have your data backed up on the external hard drive, plugged in, and ready to transfer. Now it is just a case of locating the backup file on your external hard drive so that Windows 7 can transfer your data onto your new computer. Select your external drive from the column on the left, click on the Windows Easy Transfer file, and then click Open. Depending on the size of your data, the actual transfer could take a little while, but once it is done, your files will be safely transferred to your new Windows 7 computer. ~Jonathan Wylie Click here to rate this tip | Printer friendly version Do you have a question for us? Ask it here! CamScanner Mobile Phone Scanner CamScanner turns your mobile phone into a portable scanner by using the camera to snap pictures of paper articles or documents (receipts, bills, etc.), and converting them to PDFs. It also includes an editor that offers crop and enhance features and–once the editing is complete–the document can quickly be sent via email or SMS, or uploaded to cloud storage. My first thought, upon hearing about mobile scanners, was, "I can already photograph documents with my phone, why do I need a scanner?" However, in addition to the ease of conversion to PDF, the CamScanner editor creates a clear, crisp, and very readable image of text. The image below was scanned from a book, edited, and converted to PDF in just a few minutes. Get the app here! (Want these tips in their entirety? Sign up for Premium!) Windows Media Player 11 Keyboard Shortcuts Pt. 2 Want more Windows Media Player 11 shortcuts? Well, you're in luck, because here's part two! Open Help – F1 Enable Classic Menus (menu bar) – F10 Full-screen mode – F11 Edit information on a selected item in the library – F2 Add media files to the library – F3 Change how items are displayed in the Details pane – F4 Refresh information in the panes – F5 Part one (and more) is available over at Worldstart! (Want these tips in their entirety? Sign up for Premium!) ALOT Radio App Listening to the radio online is one of the most convenient features of the Web. Now, finding those radio stations has become even easier. How would you like to listen to any available radio station across the country? Do you have a favorite radio station that is just out of reach? Well for Internet Explorer users, I have found a great new tool. It is called the ALOT Radio App, and it is 100% FREE. When I first read about this app I was a bit skeptical as to what it says it can do. Once I downloaded it, though, I was pleasantly surprised. With a simple click of the button I was able to listen to any local or nation wide radio station available on the web. Check it out here! (Want these tips in their entirety? Sign up for Premium!) For stories, jokes, quotes and cartoons every day, sign up for our Just for Grins newsletter. Lujure Do you want to create a fan page, but don't know how? Well all you need to do is visit this site where you can set up a fan page for your favorite band, event, club, book, and more in minutes! All you need to do is create a Facebook fan page, and then head on over to Lujure to start customizing it today. I suggest that you start by viewing the video on the main page. It shows you how the site works and how you can use it to make your fan site awesome in no time at all. This is a great solution for building a fan site because it doesn't require you to learn code! All you have to do is drag and drop the items you want and then publish them to your fan page. After watching the video, you'll need to register an account so that you can save your changes. To do so, just fill out the form on the main page, click the green Create My Account button and you'll be whisked away to the fan site creation area. It will want to F-Connect to your Facebook account, so you should probably register with e-mail account that you made the fan page with. If you haven't made the fan page yet, it will f-connect you and then walk you through the page creation. After you have a fan page set up, you can then start creating your tab. (I had to log in and then back out for it find the page I created through it, though.) Once it finds the page, click continue, then name the tab, and click continue. If it times out while creating the tab (this happened to me), log in again and it will be there. Click edit tab, and you can now drag and drop any of the features you want to have on your tab, as shown in the video. When you're done click publish! What I really like, as you're adding widgets to your fan page, is that when you select each one it brings up the form you need to fill in to add the widget. I also like that hey also have a link to View the Tutorial, which will open a tutorial video that walks you through what you need to do for the current step. It's very helpful! This site does make it incredibly easy to make a fan page for your favorite bands, products, artists, etc. Go check it out today! https://lujure.com/home/ ~Amanda Click here to rate this tip | Printer friendly version Do you have a cool, non-commercial site that you want to share? Send it to Amanda at amanda@worldstart.com ** 32GB - $29.97 - NEVER BEEN CHEAPER! ** It's the WORLD'S BEST Deal on a Flash Drive! This is a MASSIVE 32 Gigs - And it's Just $29.97! We Have NEVER Had a Deal This Good - EVER! Once Upon a Time We Sold Them for $32.97... AND WE COULDN'T KEEP 'EM ON THE SHELVES! Read it: $29.97 - Limited Stock - HURRY! 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Also, we've been choosing only horizontal images for the wallpaper, but I get SO MANY requests for some of the vertical shots to be wallpaper, I just had to go ahead and do it. So, give it a try and let me know what you think by posting on the blog entry for this idea (Click Here) As always, all the desktop wallpaper below is 100% free. Upper Falls This is usually the first falls I photograph when I'm in the Old Man's Cave area of Hocking Hills State Park. First, you walk across the bridge you see in the photo, then follow a little path down to the bottom. Now, the "normal" thing to do here is (more) Snow Goose Taking Flight captured this image one sunny January evening at Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. The snow geese were there in force, and this little pond had a lot of activity going on. The birds were coming and going, trying to decide where to stay for the night and I was just ... (more) Hidden Hoodoos We had just finished shooting some sunrise scenes at Bryce Canyon when my 9 year old son asked if we could hike down into the canyon and explore. Well, it didn't take much arm twisting to convince me! As we rounded a corner on the way down, we saw... (more) It can all be found here: http://www.backcountrygallery.com/wallpaper/ Enjoy! ~Steve

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