Is McAfee blocking a program from accessing the Internet? You may want to allow applications such as your chat programs, email clients, or video games. Here’s where the setting is to do this.

1. In McAfee Personal Firewall, Select Personal Firewall Plus.

2. Click View the Internet Application List.

3. Right-click the name of the program you wish to allow and select Allow Full Access.

If you don’t see the name of the program listed, click Allow New Application and enter the full path of where the application is loaded. Example: C:\Program Files\AOL Instant Messenger\aim.exe

4. Close McAfee Personal Firewall.

iTunes has a feature that allows you to merge tracks from a CD. This will create a single track for 2 songs that will play without the pause in between the tracks.  Please note that this can only be performed on songs from a CD before you import them into iTunes.

Note: These steps are for iTunes for Windows. 

1. Click the CD on the left side.

2. Click on one of the tracks you wish to merge, then hold down the CTRL key and select the other song.

3. Click Advanced >  Join CD Tracks.

4. Now you can import your CD into iTunes. The tracks you selected will be merged.

See also:
Join Tracks in iTunes

By default, iTunes has an option when you right click on a song to Convert Selection to AAC. This format isn’t friendly with some music players. What if you want to convert the music to MP3 format? Well here’s how to enable the Convert Selection to MP3 option in iTunes.

1. In iTunes, click on the Edit > Preferences.

2. Click the Advanced tab.

3. Click the Importing tab.

4. On the Import Using menu, select MP3 Encoder click OK.

Now the option to Convert Selection to MP3 will be available when you right click on an music track.

This article addresses a problem that may occur when you try to enable media sharing in Windows Media Player. After checking the Share my media option on the Media Sharing window and clicking OK, the computer locks up for a bit and then does nothing.

The Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service may need to be enabled. To do this, perform the following steps.

1. Open Control Panel.

2. Open Administrative Tools.

3. Open Services.

4. Find Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service in the list and open it up.

5. Select Automatic for the Startup type. Click Apply.

6. Click the Start button and click OK.

Now try to enable Media Sharing again in Windows Media Player. It should work now and open a new window.

If that doesn’t work, the Universal Plug and Play Device Host and/or the SSDP Discovery Service might need to be enabled as well. Try following these same steps to enable those services.

Allow Windows Media Player to share your media. This setting allows sharing with other devices attached via the network such as other computers or an Xbox 360.

1. In Windows Media Player, Windows XP users will need to select Tools > Options… from any of the tab menus. Windows Vista users can select More Options from any of the menu tabs.

2. Select the Library tab.

3. Click the Configure Sharing button.

4. Check the box for Share My Media and click OK.

Today I started my Winamp player and my GoogleTalk froze up. Then I tried to start it up again, and it still was locked up and frozen. Only after closing Winamp was I able to get GoogleTalk to work again. It only appears to be a problem when the GoogleTalk status is set to Show current music track.

After Launching GoogleTalk with Winamp shut down and changing my status to Available, I was then able to make both applications coexist peacefully. I just couldn’t live without getting this to work though. The information here helped me out a lot. Here’s how I made GoogleTalk display the current song from Winamp without locking up:

1. Close both Winamp and GoogleTalk.

2. Open the directory that Winamp is installed to. For me it was C:\Program Files\Winamp

3. Click File > New > Text Document. (or Wordpad or Notepad Document)

4. Name the file winamp.m3u

That’s it. Now GoogleTalk should work with Winamp as well as display the current track for your status.

See also: Incompatibility with Gtalk

The easiest way to remove duplicate songs from your iTunes library.

1. In iTunes, click View > Show Duplicates.

2. iTunes will then show all copies of audio files that are duplicates. Choose which copy you would like to delete then right-click on it and select Delete.

3. When you’re done, select View > Show All.

Note: These steps are for iTunes version 7 and above. Visit here if you need steps for older versions.

If you have a ton of files, obviously this will take a while. If you don’t have the patience to delete the duplicates the manual way, there is a third party solution called FixTunes that automatically fixes these problems. It will also organize your files so that they are displaying the correct song and artist names. The free trial will only work on 50 songs before it expires. If you wish to work with more songs than that, the software costs $24.95 for the full version.

How to share your iTunes music list to other users on your network.

1. In iTunes click Edit > Preferences.

2. Click the Sharing tab.

3. Check the box to Share my library on my local network. You can also restrict music sharing to selected playlists or password protect your music by checking Require password: and typing in a password.

If you’re doing this at your office, you may want to reconsider. Music sharing can be very “chatty” over the network, and system administrators hate it. As for me, it’s worth the risk to allow my co-workers to listen to my Micheal Bolton tunes.

How to make iTunes your default player for mp3, wav or almost any type of audio files.

1. In iTunes, click Edit > Preferences.

2. Click the Advanced tab.

3. Click the General tab that is located in the Advanced section.

4. Check the box for Use iTunes as the default player for all audio files. Click OK.

There have been a few times when Winamp has been the default player, and this box was checked anyway. I would have to uncheck the box and then recheck it and click OK to make this change.

With this setting enabled, iTunes should play all audio files it supports from now on.

Have problems seeing your list of music in iTunes? I’m going blind myself and car barely see the small words. Luckily there’s an option to make the text bigger.

1. In iTunes, click Edit > Preferences.

2. Under the General tab you can select Large for the option for Song Text. You can also do the same thing for Source Text to enlarge the text on the side bar.

So you want to do rounded corners using Paint.NET? You must learn how. I mean your web site would be so not in style without images with rounded corners! I’m going to show you the easiest method I know about. I think it’s easier than using Photoshop to do it.

Here we have a nice picture of downtown Chicago. I want to give it rounded corners.

First I want to add a new layer by clicking Layers > Add New Layer.

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Edit the properties of any MSI. Change the title, and text within the installer. Look at how and where the files are delivered. Enables you to right click any MSI and open with Orca.

Download Orca MSI Editor

Do you have a bunch of items in your Windows Media Player playlist that are no longer there? I got a question from my lovely ex-girlfriend Carrie, asking me how to clear out all of the Playlists so that she could start from scratch.

We first tried the PowerToy for Windows Media Player for Windows XP and that didn’t work. From the looks of it, I think that was meant for a version of Media Player prior to version 10. We were using Version 11.
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In iTunes 7, you may receive the following error when you try to open iTunes:

The iTunes application could not be opened. An unknown error occurred (0×666D743F)

Source:
iTunes 7 for Windows: iTunes fails to launch with an unknown error

If your computer is not synchronizing with your internet time server and you are running McAfee Firewall, it may be blocking access. Port 123 must be open for your computer to be able to synchronize time.

Click Configure > Internet & Firewall > Firewall Protection > Advanced > System Services > Network Time Protocol Port 123 and change the setting.