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Spud in California listens on KTIP 1450 AM asked: “I’m Interested in a large screen camera/phone arrangement”
Spud,Do you mean cameraphone with a large screen? Cause pretty much any modern phone will take very nice pictures. You can probably just settle for the phablet of your choice, be it the Galaxy Note 4, the iPhone 6+, or any of the many, many other ones and they will all function as a great point and shoot camera.
A lot of phablets even have pretty high megapixel counts if you want to take big pictures, the Note 4 has a 16MP camera for example, the LG G3 has a 13MP camera, those should give you plenty of pictures for large prints.
You could also look at a smart camera, which would pretty much have to be on of the cameras on the Samsung Smart Camera line up. Those are fully featured, large zoom cameras that run on Android and can do just about everything a smartphone can.
For more information, tune in to Hour 3 of our podcast.
“Into Gaming Update” Weekly Feature with Mark Lautenschlager
Guest Segment:
Dr. Jose Romano, Chief of Stroke Division & Professor of Clinical Neurology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine & serves on the Scientific Advisory Board for NovaVision
“IFA History Feature” brought to you by Messe-Berlin
The first professional studio tape recorder came to the market in the US in 1948 with the Ampex 200; two years later in Germany, Grundig and AEG began producing the first tape recorders for home use. At the Funkausstellung in 1953, Grundig showed an open reel tape recorder with six inch reels and reverse operation. Ten years later the end had come for the complicated open reel recorders as the Compact Cassette offered easy operation with a tiny cassette housing the tape. Both technologies were introduced at IFA.
Albert in Three Rivers, California listens on KTIP 1450 AM asked: “What program is the best for to transfer my settings in the different programs I have on an old Windows XP Media to a new Windows 8.1?”
Albert, Microsoft built a tool into Windows called Windows Easy Transfer for just this very purpose, and you MAY be able to use it… then again, you may not…
Windows Easy Transfer is supposed to grab your files and your settings from an old computer and move them automatically to a new computer, you just run the software on both computers, choose a method of transfer from the options given to you (for example, a network cable).
It should be easy, unfortunately it may not be. Windows Easy Transfer cannot transfer files from a 64-bit to a 32-bit operating system, most Windows 8.1 computer are 64-bit, but not all of them are, so if you happen to have bought a very cheap Windows 8.1 computer you may be out of luck and you may have to transfer everything manually.
There’s another problem, though, and it got Microsoft enough bad press that they had to find a solution. Even if you can use Windows Easy Transfer, on XP they will only move files, but not settings or programs, which was unacceptable to a lot of users.
Microsoft ended up cutting a deal with a company called Laplink, and is currently offering their tool called PCmover Express for free on WindowsXP.com to make it easier for people like you to move all of your files and settings. That’s the tool you probably want to try first, it will be free, and it will move everything you want to move, not just your files.
However, let’s be straight here. Using a migration tool like this one only makes sense if you’re planning to use the same apps, and really the same version of those apps, and not simply moving the data. How likely is that to be the case?
Your Windows XP machine is guaranteed to be old, perhaps even very old. The Windows 8.1 machine is running a newer version of Windows, and we’d think you’d want to put the newest versions of your apps on it (and possibly replace some apps that no longer exist).
Certainly moving your documents, pictures, music, and videos makes sense. And data in apps like Quicken makes sense also. But migrating the apps themselves, all their settings, and all their data doesn’t really make sense when the gap between machines grows too large. Keep that in mind, when you’re deciding what to do.
For more information, tune in to Hour 3 of our podcast.
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This Week’s Prizes for Our Listeners
Burg: Burg 16A Smartwatch – connects with iOS and Android phones, offering handsfree calling, text and e-mail notifications and more!
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LG: An LG ‘G’ Vista Smartphone with an extra large display and good battery life.
NanoTech: Several UltraFlix Gift Cards for 4K Content, like movies and a ton of other cool stuff. Let us know if you have a 4K Ultra HD TV!
NovaPhotos: A couple of their cool Bluetooth off-camera FLASH units for iPhone (that we featured in a recent ITTV piece). Perfect for Selfies. They have 40 LEDs!