Feel like you’ve really got the hang of shooting, editing, and sharing digital photos? Why not take your skills to the next level, and take advantage of user-friendly advances in digital video technology. Steve touches on video file formats, and demonstrates how to import video from a digital camcorder.

Travellin’

What’s the best new technology if you’re on the fly? For those of you who take your holidays down south, Vonage allows you to take your phone service with you, via the internet. And Steve longs to go on vacation with Samsung’s Duocam in hand, a two-in-one video and still camera with dual lenses. For the avid runner, Caroline has a new product from Garmin: the Forerunner 201 with GPS that allows you to track your progress on the computer.

Web Hosting

Thinking of building a website, or looking for a service to host an existing one? Steve guides you through the templates and services offered by Hostway.

Digital Photo Printing

Photography on the go is the theme of our show this week! the first companion to our digital camera, is a printer, and there is no better companion than HP's Photosmart 420 portable printer. Match that up with a full featured, small format digital camera like HP's M417, and we have a digital studio, ready for the road!

Photoshop Elements

Our good friend Colin Smith from Adobe is going to drop by this week and take us through the ins and outs of Photoshop Elements! We are going to focus on one of the most powerful features of Photoshop Elements, that is the organizational aspect. Using tags we can do so much without having to remember what DSC00345.jpg means!

HP Printsville

More and more people are discovering how fun it is to use their computer as the center of their crafty world. Iron ons, invitations, scrapbooks, quilts, calendars, photos, you name it, your PC will help you make it a reality HP has an activity center called Printsville, which is a great start for collecting ideas and resources. This week we are going to take you through some of the basics and complete a small project.

Microsoft Digital Image Suite

Digital photos are a huge part of the average computer savvy household, and my biggest pet peeve is having oodles of files with names like renaming every file can be a monumental job. You are also going to want to do some red eye reduction cropping, etc. with your photos ... in comes Microsofts Digital Image Suite.Offering you an expanded set of tools to fulfill your passion for digital photography in one powerful package, Microsoft Digital Image Suite v10 helps you effortlessly organize, enhance, share and archive your photos.

Canon DV Cameras

This week we are going to delve in to the new generation of home videos. No more having to watch a 2 hour tape for 10 minutes of great footage, I mean who had the time or the patience to edit VHS tapes and compile a decent home video? Well we are now in the era of afordable DV cameras. Not only do we get superior quality from cameras like the Canon Optura that we are going to show you, it is simple to put that video onto our computers and pluck out the great memories from the hours of Dad saying "OK honey do something cute for Daddy!".

Windows Movie Maker

Now that we have some great DV clips to work with, lets show you a great product that is free for Windows XP users. Windows Movie Maker makes home movies amazingly fun, you can create, edit, and share your home movies easily on your computer. Build your movie with a few simple drag-and-drops. Delete bad shots and include only the best scenes. Then share your movie via the Web, e-mail, or CD. You can also save your movie back to the video tape in your camera to play back on a TV or on the camera itself.

Adobe Premiere Elements

In part 2 of our look at the new generation of home movies we are going to show you the latest product from Adobe, Premiere Elements. Last season we showed you the great transition Adobe made to the consumer market with Photoshop elements, now they have done an equally impressive job with their flagship video editing studio for the prosumer, Adobe Premiere. This package offers the perfect combination of creative control and reliability for home video editing. It automates tedious tasks so you're free to create cool effects and transitions and easily burn DVDs.

Taking a Better Photo

This week we are going to show you how digital cameras are striving to make you and I, better photographers. We are going to continue putting the HP R707 through it's paces, while taking a look at some of the inventive features HP has added to really make taking spectacular photos a possibility for the average consumer. This is one show you are not going to want to miss, you are going to be proud to show that next family vacation slide show!

Symantec SystemWorks

I know, we have talked about this before ... but it is just so important, and it is constantly changing. We are talking about system maintenance this week, more specifically how Norton SystemWorks takes care of pretty much everything for you. Think of it as your own personal computer technician, you can schedule all the checkups that your computer needs and let them run seamlessly without intervention. It also meshes nicely with Norton Security, so we have a one stop shop for keeping our computer safe and stable.

Stocking Stuffers

What! It is Christmas already! I haven't done any shopping! Don't worry, we are here to help. This week we have a little something for everyone in the stocking stuffer department. From MP3 players, to memory cards, you will definitely find something right for the digitally inclined on your Christmas list.