Fix Audio Static Crackling Popping with Realtek Sound Card It’s actually a pretty tricky problem If you have a Windows 7 machine with a Realtek sound chipset or drivers, then you may have run into a problem where you randomly hear crackling or popping or static while playing audio through your speakers or even headsets. I realized after doing some research that this is a pretty tricky problem to fix and it can be caused by all kinds of issues from latency to drivers to other hardware, etc....

Windows 7 Devices and Printers Hangs or Won’t Open? Chances are it’s because of one setting I ran into an annoying problem on my Windows 7 virtual machine the other day when I tried to openDevices and Printersfrom the Start Menu. Instead of normally loading up with a list of Devices and Printers and Faxes, it kept hanging and nothing would load. It was just a blank screen like shown below:...

Erase Scratches in Photos with the GIMP’s Heal Selection Tool Get rid of blemishes in a click Using a scanner to archive old photographs can be a rewarding experience. You bring your old snapshots into the digital age and have the chance to fix them up as well. Image editing software such as Photoshop and The Gimp have a lot to offer, including cropping, straightening, enhancing an images’ color saturation and brightness, and more....

How to Combine Two Images/Pictures without Photoshop Once you get the hang of it, it’s easy Recently, I had a situation where I wanted to send someone a picture, but I wanted it to be a combination of two pictures. Sending the pictures separately would not have been fun, due to the fact that they had to be shown side by side to get the best effect. I also wanted to do this without Photoshop or downloading some third party program!...

How to Write an IF Formula/Statement in Excel Essential if you are dealing with numbers Excel is such a powerful spreadsheet program that I doubt anyone can possibly know everything that it can do. There are so many aspects to the program, it’s amazing that it can all be encapsulated in such a simple interface. I was recently using Excel for some work at home and found myself using the IF function to write a few formulas....