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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Get into the Groove with the Music You Never Want to Be Without | |
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| Create a CD with Your Favorite Tunes for Someone You Love | |
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| Get Ready to Make Your CD | |
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| Rip Songs to Windows Media Player | |
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| Make Sure the Ripping Goes As Planned | |
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| Rip Songs from a CD | |
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| Organize Your Songs into a Playlist | |
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| Burn Your CD | |
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| More Great Ideas | |
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| Spin Your Face: Put Your Smile on a Custom CD Label | |
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| Gather Your Materials | |
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| Plan Your Label | |
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| Create Your CD Label with Plus! CD Label Maker | |
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| Start the Label Maker and Choose CD or Playlist | |
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| Choose a Template | |
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| Design Your CD Label | |
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| Print Your Label | |
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| Create Your Jewel Case Label with Plus! CD Label Maker | |
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| More Great Ideas | |
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| Become an Internet Radio DJ | |
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| Get Familiar with Internet Radio | |
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| Find the Stations You Want | |
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| Browse Existing Categories | |
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| Perform a Basic Search | |
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| Listen to Internet Radio | |
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| Create My Stations | |
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| More Great Ideas | |
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| Customize Windows Media Player | |
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| Adjust the Now Playing Area | |
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| Color Chooser | |
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| Cross Fading and Auto Volume Leveling | |
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| Graphic Equalizer | |
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| Media Link for E-Mail | |
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| Play Speed Settings | |
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| Quiet Mode | |
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| SRS WOW Effects | |
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| Video Settings | |
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| Work with Visualizations | |
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| Get More Visualizations | |
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| Modify Visualizations' Behavior | |
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| Choose Skins | |
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| Work with Plug-Ins | |
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| Use Plus! Speaker Enhancement | |
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| More Great Ideas | |
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| Create Fun Things with Your Digital Photos | |
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| Organize Your Memories: Make Sure You Can Find Photos When You Need Them | |
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| Get to Know Photo File Types | |
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| Name Photos | |
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| View Photos | |
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| Create a Folder Structure That Works | |
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| Back Up Photos | |
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| Use Windows XP Backup | |
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| Store Photos on the Web | |
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| More Great Ideas | |
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| Print Perfect Digital Photos of Any Size--Every Time! | |
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| Understand PPR--The Basics of Quality Photo Printing | |
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| Printers | |
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| Paper | |
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| Photo Resolution | |
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| Print Your Photos | |
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| Order Prints Online | |
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| Other Printing Options | |
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| More Great Ideas | |
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| Make a Printed Photo Album So You Can Take Your Loved Ones with You | |
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| Create a Photo Album Manually | |
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| Use a Photo Album Program | |
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| Get a Photo Book Printed | |
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| More Great Ideas | |
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| Turn Your Photo Memories into a Slide Show | |
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| Get the HTML Slide Show Wizard PowerToy | |
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| Understand What the HTML Slide Show Wizard Does | |
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| Create a Slide Show | |
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| Cull Your Photos | |
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| Use the Slide Show Wizard | |
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| View Your Slide Show | |
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| Share Your Slide Show | |
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| More Great Ideas | |
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| Make Photo Stories with Your Digital Photos | |
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| Understand What Plus! Photo Story Does | |
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| Get Ready to Use Plus! Photo Story | |
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| Gather Your Photos | |
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| Decide About Narration | |
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| Pick Your Background Music | |
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| Create Your Photo Story | |
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| Start the Plus! Photo Story Wizard | |
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| Choose and Organize Your Photos | |
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| Record Your Story | |
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| Create a Title Page | |
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| Choose Background Music | |
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| Choose Quality Settings and Save Your Story | |
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| More Great Ideas | |
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| Be in the Movies! | |
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| Create Your Own Birthday or Wedding Video | |
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| Get Ready to Create a Birthday or Wedding Video | |
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| Identify Your Goal | |
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| Gather Your Film and Photos | |
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| Plan the Movie Flow | |
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| Import Video and Photos into Movie Maker | |
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| Organize Your Footage | |
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| Create a Title Page | |
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| Assemble Your Movie | |
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| Add Transitions | |
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| Add Special Effects | |
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| More Great Ideas | |
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| Make a Scary Movie! | |
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| Explore Scary Movie Variations | |
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| A Real Scary Movie | |
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| A Scary Movie Spoof | |
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| Real-Life Horror Spoofs | |
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| Halloween with the Kids | |
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| Know What Makes a Scary Movie Scary | |
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| Visual Scares | |
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| Sound Scares | |
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| The Element of Surprise | |
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| Situational Tension | |
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| Blood and Gore | |
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| Plan Your Scary Movie | |
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| Create Summary Statements | |
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| Create a Storyboard | |
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| Write the Script | |
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| Film Your Scary Movie | |
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| Assemble Your Scary Movie in Movie Maker | |
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| Import Your Video | |
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| Create, Trim, and Combine Your Clips | |
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| Drag Clips to the Storyboard in Correct Order | |
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| Create a Title Page and End Credits | |
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| Add Transitions and Effects | |
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| Add Your Sound Track | |
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| Save Your Movie | |
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| More Great Ideas | |
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| Step Back in Time and Create Movies That Look Like the Old Days | |
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| Why Old Movies Are Fun (and Why You Should Make One) | |
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| Understand Old-Movie Basics | |
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| Make Your Old Movie | |
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| Import Your Movie | |
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| Remove the Movie Sound Track | |
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| Turn the Movie to Black and White | |
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| Add Aging Effects | |
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| Create Cue Cards Between Clips | |
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| Save and Use Your Movie | |
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| More Great Ideas | |
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| Build a Custom Video Sound Track | |
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| Know the Basics: Sound Tracks 101 | |
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| Sound and Movie Maker | |
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| How You Should Use Sound in Your Movie | |
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| Plan Your Sound Track | |
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| Mute the Original Movie Sound Track | |
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| Record Dialogue | |
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| Use Background Music | |
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| Have Fun with Other Sound Effects | |
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| More Great Ideas | |
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| Put Your Movie on a CD for Cannes, and More! | |
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| Decide What to Do with Your Movie | |
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| Save Your Movie to Your Computer | |
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| Save Your Movie to a CD | |
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| Send Your Movie Over E-Mail | |
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| Send Your Movie to the Web | |
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| Save Your Movie to a DV Camera | |
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| More Great Ideas | |
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| Become a Digital Maniac! | |
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| Monitor Your House with a Webcam | |
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| Get the Stuff You Need | |
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| Understand How Timershot Works | |
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| Set Up Timershot | |
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| Frequency of Pictures | |
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| Photo Sizes | |
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| File Location | |
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| Where to Save | |
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| Review Your Photos | |
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| More Great Ideas | |
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| Use Your Vacation Video to Make a Video Screen Saver | |
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| Get the Windows XP Video Screen Saver PowerToy | |
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| Choose a Video File Format | |
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| Set Up Your Video Screen Saver | |
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| Use a Playlist As a Screen Saver | |
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| More Great Ideas | |
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| Wake Up to Windows XP: Turn Your Computer into an Alarm Clock | |
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| Start the Alarm Clock | |
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| Create a Wake-Up Alarm | |
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| Create a Weekly or Monthly Alarm | |
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| Manage Alarms | |
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| Change, Delete, or Turn Off an Alarm | |
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| Use Cool and Cruel Options | |
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| More Great Ideas | |
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| Turn Your Computer into a Jukebox (and Back Again) | |
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| What Is Party Mode for Windows Media Player? | |
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| Get Ready to Use Party Mode | |
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| Set Up Party Mode | |
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| Privacy Option | |
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| Now Playing Options | |
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| Marquee Options | |
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| Skin Option | |
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| Use Party Mode | |
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| Stop the Party | |
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| More Great Ideas | |
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| Digitize Your Old Cassettes, 8-Tracks, and Records | |
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| Connect Your Player to Your Computer | |
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| Check Out the Hardware Requirements | |
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| Connect a Stereo | |
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| Connect a Record Player | |
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| Connect a Cassette or Reel-to-Reel Player | |
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| Digitize Your Music | |
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| Test Your Input | |
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| Record Your Music | |
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| Review, Modify, and Delete Tracks | |
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| Clean Tracks | |
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| Set Content-Protection Options | |
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| Select Quality Settings and Save Tracks | |
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| More Great Ideas | |
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| Get to Know Windows Movie Maker 2 | |
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| What Movie Maker 2 Can Do for You | |
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| Get Ready to Use Windows Movie Maker | |
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| Get Video into Windows Movie Maker | |
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| Check Out the Movie Maker Interface | |
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| Record and Import Video | |
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| Work with Collections and Clips | |
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| Make Movies | |
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| Split Clips | |
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| Combine Clips | |
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| Get Familiar with the Workspace | |
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| Create a Storyboard | |
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| Trim Clips | |
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| Add Audio Files to Your Movies | |
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| More Inexpensive and Fun Digital Software | |
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| Index | |