[Making Animated Gifs]

Does anybody know how to make animated GIFs, like for signatures and avatars, out of MPEG video? I have quite a few video programs but I cannot quite figure out how to accomplish such a feat. If anybody has any insight into the topic, please share!

Thanks,

Ryan

[Running My Own Server]

Okay thanks. I'll take a look at it.

[Running My Own Server]

Oh, sorry.

I am using Windows ME (yeah, I know!! ).

I forgot to mention that I was looking for something that included PHP on the install, along with other useful things like mySQL/SQLite, among others.

By the way, I wanted Apache because that's what was suggested to me by others in the past.

Thanks,

Ryan.

[Running My Own Server]

I want to run my own Windows Apache server. I want to do this primarily for personal use but perhaps I could host friends to make a little money later down the road. I found something I like (XAMMP), but it always had to be open in a DOS prompt. Is there anything similar that could do the same thing (similar or better) while running in the background? I need something that will sit next to my clock so that I don't need it 'open'.

Thanks,

Ryan

[Cd-r Track Info]

I need to know if there's a way to put song info (like CDDB has on CDs) onto a CD-R so when I burn it, I have the song titles, artists, etc. stored away for later. That way if I need to rip the CD-R, it automatically knows the songs. Is this possible?

[External Hard Drive Problems]

I am using Windows ME.

You did not specify what OS you are using. But this sounds like a driver problem. Sometimes the driver file gets corrupted. If you have windows, it could be a registry problem. Either case, uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers should take care of the problem.

Hello all:

I have a hard-drive MP3 player that I currently use as an external hard drive. It's plugged into my PC via USB. It's worked fine doing that for a while now. But recently (within the past few days or so), the drive gives me a Blue Screen of Death saying something to the effect of Cannot Write to H: Drive. It still has plenty of hard drive space. So that's not the problem. I'm not sure what it could be. Also, when I load up mp3 files from the drive, which is the function of the drive, they load up slow in Winamp. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Ryan.

[External Hard Drive Problems]

Hello all:

I have a hard-drive MP3 player that I currently use as an external hard drive. It's plugged into my PC via USB. It's worked fine doing that for a while now. But recently (within the past few days or so), the drive gives me a Blue Screen of Death saying something to the effect of Cannot Write to H: Drive. It still has plenty of hard drive space. So that's not the problem. I'm not sure what it could be. Also, when I load up mp3 files from the drive, which is the function of the drive, they load up slow in Winamp. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Ryan.

[Video Splitters?]

Thanks everybody for the warm welcome and the quick response.

I'll give this a try. Thanks again.

[Video Splitters?]

Hello all:

I need a good video splitter. I have several videos encoded with the DIVX codec. And they're rather large. My PC is a tad old so it can't withstand editing larger videos. It would help if they were smaller. What're my options?

Thanks,

Ryan.