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Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
Chapter 1: Managing Photos and Images
Managing
Images with My Pictures
Viewing photos and images
Getting image file metadata
Using subfolders to manage My Pictures
Customizing Image Folders
Using Folder views
Customizing folder icons
Using the Details Web view
Cool Picture Tasks: Slide Show and Desktop Background
Looking Closer at the Image Preview Applet
Editing Images with Paint
Printing Photos with the Photo Printing Wizard
Ordering Prints Online
Sharing Photos with Others
Sharing photos on the Internet
Sharing photos at home
Chapter 2: Using a Scanner with Windows XP
Looking at Scanners
Examining USB
Exploring scanners and USB
Choosing a Scanner for Windows XP
Thinking about scanner resolution
Understanding color depth
Installing and Detecting a Scanner
Acquiring Images with a Scanner
Choosing scanning preferences
Choosing the picture name and destination
Scanning the picture
Printing online or integrating with the Internet
Chapter 3: Using a Digital Camera with Windows XP
Acquiring a Digital Camera
Megapixel? What's a megapixel?
Media types
"Techie" camera features
Connection type
Battery type
Digital cameras in the real world
Detecting a Camera in Windows XP
Acquiring Images from a Digital Camera
Using the Wizard
Obtaining images the advanced way
Getting camera information
Managing a Digital Camera in Windows XP
Part II: Music to Your Ears
Chapter 4: Playing Digital Music
Windows Media Player for Windows XP
Launching Media Player for Windows XP
Closing Windows Media Player for Windows XP
Using the Media Guide
Listening to Music
Playing audio CDs
Playing digital audio files
Plugging into Internet Radio Stations
Using presets
Editing presets
Searching for Internet radio stations
Looking at bandwidth usage
Using IE 6 to browse Internet radio stations
Working with Streaming Audio Files
Finding streaming audio files
Other streaming-media formats
Chapter 5: Configuring and Tuning Windows Media Player for
Windows XP
Customizing the Player Window in Full Mode
Taskbar
Menu bar
Playlist
Customizing the Player Using Skin Mode
Choosing a skin
Downloading new skins
Deleting a skin
Programming skins
Exercising Your Options with Windows Media Player for Windows XP
Setting Player options
Setting Copy Music options
Setting Devices options
Setting Performance options
Setting Media Library options
Setting Visualizations options
Setting File Types options
Setting DVD options
Setting Network options
Updating Windows Media Player for Windows XP
Chapter 6: Managing and Sharing Digital Music
Using the My Music Folder
A look at My Music
Customizing My Music folders
Changing the Location of the My Music folder
Using shared music
Moving the My Music folder to a new location
Using other folders for digital music
Creating a media server
Using the Music Task Lists
Using Play all
Shopping for music online
Copying music to an audio CD
Sharing Music with Other Users
Sharing My Music
Publishing audio files to the Web
Chapter 7: Rip: Copying Audio and Data CDs
Understanding Digital Audio
Enter Microsoft
Windows XP Seals the Deal
Making decisions on audio quality
Configuring Windows Media Player to Rip CDs
Configuring your CD devices
Choosing audio format and quality
Deciding where to store the music
Ripping a CD: Copy Music to Windows XP
What to do if you're offline
Copy that CD
Managing Digital Audio with Windows Media Player
Chapter 8: Burn: Creating Audio and Data CDs
A Quick Look at CD-R and CD-RW Technologies
Fight of the century of the week: CD-R vs. CD-RW
Choosing a CD-R/CD-RW Drive
Creating an Audio CD
Creating and accessing playlists
Creating playlists from My Music
Managing songs in a playlist
Importing and exporting playlists
Setting Audio CD properties
Creating an Audio CD
Adding music to an audio CD
Creating WMA/MP3 Music data CDs
Creating Data CDs with Windows XP
Configuring recording capabilities
Getting files and folders into the Recordable CD staging area
Copy data to a recordable CD like a Pro
Burning the CD
Haven't had enough? Come back for more
CD-RW and Windows XP
Harder than it needs to be: Duplicating a CD
Failure among us: What to do when CD burning fails
Part III: Baby, You're a Movie Star
Chapter 9: Playing and Managing Videos
Managing Videos with My Videos
Watching Movies with WMPXP
Playing digital movies
Working with DVD movies
Viewing streaming videos
Sharing Videos with Other Users
Chapter 10: Raw Footage: Taking Home Movies
Understanding Home Video
Choosing a Camcorder
Analog camcorders
Digital camcorders
Buying a camcorder
Taking Home Movies -- Some Basics
Video recording basics
Avoid using built-in camcorder features
Zoom and pan issues
Go Forth and Shoot Video
Chapter 11: Creating Digital Videos with Windows Movie Maker
Introducing Windows Movie Maker
Windows Movie Maker Concepts
A Tour of the Windows Movie Maker Interface
Setting Default Options
Overview of the Movie Making Process
Acquiring Video Footage
Using an Analog Video Source
Acquiring Digital Video and Controlling a Digital Camera
Composing a Video Production
Saving Your First Movie
Trimming Video Content
Adding transitions
Transitioning with Still Images
Adding Titles and other Still Images
Adding Voice-overs and Background Music
Part IV: Working with the Outside World
Chapter 12: Internet Explorer Digital-Media Features
A Look Back at Internet Integration in Windows
Web Integration in Windows XP
Introducing Internet Explorer 6
Trying out the new Explorer Bars in IE 6
Using the IE Media Bar
Imaging Features in IE 6
Using MSN Explorer
The MSN Explorer Media Player
Chapter 13: Working with Portable Devices
Working with Portable Devices
Integrating Media Player for Windows XP with devices
Changing media-quality level before copying
Pocket PCs for the Digital-Media Jet Set
Copying digital audio to the Pocket PC
Using pocket digital video
Using Portable Digital Audio Devices
Configuring a portable audio device
Navigating your device as a drive
Chapter 14: Communicating with Windows Messenger
Instant Messaging
From ICQ to AOL
Microsoft enters the fray with MSN Messenger
Introducing Windows Messenger
Configuring Windows Messenger
.NET Passport logon integration
Setting Windows Messenger options
Using the Audio and Video Tuning Wizard
Using Text Chat
Goodbye Phone, Hello Audio Chat
Configuring your PC for audio chat
Using Windows Messenger's audio-chat feature
Face-to-Face with Video Chat
Other Uses for Windows Messenger
MSN Alerts and other .NET Web services
Remote Assistance
Application sharing
Whiteboard
Index
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