How to make your computer faster with CCleaner (HD)

I am using a screen recorder to make a tutorial of computer software, however the video is playing faster than the time it takes me to do it. What is the frame rate that makes it real-time?

15-30, depends..

If you want to capture 3D application, go for 30 FPS with full shots.

If you want capture normal desktop, with your mouse movement or anything else, go for lower frame rate and don’t take full shots ( your screen capturing software should be able to do that )

I want to record my mouse movement and what is going on my computer with background music playing at the same time – what program or recorder can I use for that? Media Catcher doesn’t work because it only records YouTube videos – any suggestions?

Camtasia Studio – not free (but it’s the best) has full-featured 30-day trial
http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp

Its cousin Jing is free though
http://www.jingproject.com/

Camstudio is free too
http://camstudio.org/

So far I have located http://chortle.ccsu.edu/default.htm which teaches java, MIPS, QBasic and a few other languages with an optional commentary in case you don’t feel like reading. I need some other computer information sites like this where i can learn everything about a subject without having to pay.

I think http://www.w3schools.com/ is the best website, it gives chapter by chapter study and offers many language / tools regarding web development

I am going to become a computer geek and I know nothing at all about computers. I need to know basic stuff, like how much memory, RAM, and speed is a good amount and what all those stupid abbreviations mean! Thanks!

CPU – Central processing unit. This is the central part of the computer. I won’t call it the brain because it is not smart. A human has to tell it everything it ever does. It basically does all of the math and all of the decision making in the computer. Everything else just does what the CPU tells it to. The CPU also has a tiny bit of memory on it called a “Cache” There are actually two of these. L1 cache is very fast, but also very expensive, so there is very little of it. L2 cache (L2 stands for layer 2) is less expensive, but also slower. There is more of this. Any deeper than this into the CPU requires a much longer explanation.

Memory: There are many kinds of memory such as the caches on the CPU. There is flash memory, RAM (random access memory), hard drives, and many more. Memory is just a generic term for anything you can store data in (by data I mean numbers, though you can use these numbers to symbolize more complex things like letters and sentences as long as everyone agrees before hand that A=1, B=2, etc).

Motherboard – Often called MOBO. This is what everything in the computer connects to. The CPU sits on this, as does the RAM. Video cards, sound cards, etc all plug into this. The power supply, hard drives, and cd drives all connect to this through cables (cable just means more than one wire).

RAM – Random access memory. This is MUCH larger than the CPU cache, but also much slower. It is much cheaper, so you get a lot of it (often two thousand times more). This is your somewhat-quick place to store large ammounts of information, since the CPU cache can’t fit that much.

HDD – Hard disk drive. This is a little box with a spinning disk inside it. It is kind of like a CD, but where a CD uses a laser and different colors of light as information, the hard drive actually uses magnets to store information. In the end, it still is used to store numbers, just like all other memory. Hard drives are much slower than even memory, but once again they are cheaper, so you buy a large one to store all the information you are not using at a given moment.

CD drive – The call this “optical storage”. That just means that it uses light as a method for storing information. No, it is not actually storing beams of light, but the way light reflects of the shiny metal inside it means something.

Video card – this combines its own RAM, CPU (called a GPU for graphics processing unit), and some other stuff all on one card. The video card is used to do complex graphics calculations in order to display complicated things on the screen. Since it is designed specifically for graphics it can do all of the common graphics math very quickly and efficiently. This is called being “optimized” for graphics. The CPU is actually a “general-purpose” processor, so it is designed to do anything you could ever want to do okay, but specialized hardware will always outperform it at very specific tasks.

Finally, Binary: Binary is just a way of representing numbers. They are still the same numbers, they just look different. You know how you use the numbers 0123456789 to represent numbers? That is called a “decimal” system, because there are ten (and deci means ten). Binary only uses two symbols to represent numbers (bi means two). These numbers are the famous 0 and 1.
Decimal 0 = Binary 000
Decimal 1 = Binary 001
Decimal 2 = Binary 010
Decimal 3 = Binary 011
Decimal 4 = Binary 100
Decimal 5 = Binary 101
Decimal 6 = Binary 110
Decimal 7 = Binary 111
You know how 005 is just five with some extra zeros? Well that is true in binary too. So 001 = 1. The trick with binary is that after 1 you run out of symbols. What do you do in decimal when you hit 9 and no longer have any bigger symbols? You roll over to the next digit! So in binary, to get bigger than 1, you need to roll over to 10! This looks like a ten, but in binary the bigger digit is only worth two! This means that 10 = 2
Can you guess what 11 is equal to in decimal then? 3! And if we roll over another digit? well 100 is 4. Why? Well you can think of it this way:
In decimal 10 is ten times 1. 100 is ten times 10. 1000 is ten times 100. So each digit is worth ten times the next smaller digit. In binary, it is the same with twos. So 10 is twice 1. 100 is twice 10. And 1000 is twice 100! Get it? So then you can just add up the worth of each value. 111 in binary, then, is 4 + 2 + 1 = 7.
Get it? Don’t worry if not. Binary is hard for a lot of people to wrap there heads around. Doing some basic binary math can help, though. Search google for examples!

Alright so my grandma got a laptop with vista and she knows jack squat about computers. What a good tutorial that will go back to kindergarden and show her the basics.

Windows Vista for Dummies

Like, if you want to post a tutorial in video form but you need a computer to do it, do you just put a camcorder in front of your computer screen, or is there some other way you can do it? If you don’t know what I’m talking about this link shows a prime example.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nQ3AREpF20g

How would I do it to make it look like this guy’s?

I think BSR Screen Recorder is the one you’re looking for :
http://www.bsrsoft.com/downloadbsr.asp

I’m in a Botany class this term and we’re expected to learn all the plant terminolgy. Specifically dealing with Angiosperms (Bot 321 – Phylogeny of Angiosperms). I registered late for the class and feel a little behind.
So I’m looking for a site with some sort of point and click help for the terminology.

i have searched the web for you and the nearest one I found was this: guide to plant collection and identification. Type it on your browser and then go to appendix i. I know there are only a few names but I thought I could help you as no one else answered your question. At home I use : How plants got their names by LH. Bailey

I Was looking for a good book to read for computer beginners. My knowledge is spotty. I was looking for a book to tie all the bits of a computer together into a machine, to explain what parts do, and so on. It’d be absolutely fantastic if it were free.
Actually, while those answers are great, I meant it in more of a hardware sense. Transistors vs. zero-insertion force sockets (Yes, I know what they are), and the like.

You can download and read more tutorial books through internet..

http://www.w3schools.com/

http://www.flazx.us/

http://freeprogrammingebooks.com/

one that starts with the basics (where components are on the motherboard & how to connect them), and builds up to the advanced (Computer engineer) level,all in 1 tutorial?

Heres a good one: http://www.buildyourown.org.uk/

I want to learn Java programming language. I do not want to enroll in school. I am generally a fast learner and I am good at teaching myself. Does anyone have any recommendations for a book, tutorial, or website that can help get me going in the right direction. I just did a Google search, but there is so much out there I thought I would ask on here for advice first. Thank you!