Windows Movie Maker vs Windows Live Movie Maker Comparison

This is a straight comparison of the Windows Movie Maker built into Window XP compared to Windows Live Movie Maker for Windows 7.

Windows Movie Maker

Windows Movie Maker that comes as part of Windows XP is a simplified version on other free and paid for video editing software.  It has a time line that allows you to stitch video and audio clips together or you  can stitch pictures together and add music to it to create a picture slide show.  It also has a story board where you can piece A/V clips from your camera together and add different transitions.

You can also import video from a variety of different sources as well as save your finished movie in a variety of different formats.  You get the usual video preview screen along with the story board/time line panels along with a tabbed panel that lets you select from your video clips, audio clips and transactions etc.

Windows Live Movie Maker

Windows Live Movie Maker is a bare bones video editor compared to the old Movie Maker it just has a video preview window and a search panel for your videos and photos and has the new ribbon style menu bar at the top.

It has a selection of different transactions known as animations along with various video effects.

Conclusion

Windows Live Movie Maker is nowhere as powerful as Windows Movie Maker in Windows XP and I advise Windows 7 users to download Windows Movie Maker 2.6 it's only meant to work on Windows XP but I've successfully managed to get it to run on Windows 7 Ultimate before.

Disclamer

I have not used Windows XP in a while so if there is any inaccuracies in my description of Windows Movie Maker in Windows XP then I'm Sorry and I've currently not got Windows Movie Maker 2.1 installed to use as a visual aide in writing this review.

I'll do a Windows Movie Maker 2.1 vs Windows Live Movie Maker soon.

Roland

Spam Comments On Blogs (Final Follow Up)

This is a final post on the Spam Comments On Blogs.  Following my rant about Spam Comments that I was getting on my Blog all spam comments have stopped infecting my Blog and I'm now getting legitimate comments only on my Blog.

Roland

Akismet Spam Filtering In WordPress

I've noticed that for some reason the Akismet spam filter on my WordPress Blog has got the habit of sometimes filtering out legitimate comments out as well as correctly filtering out spam comments.

I don't know if this is Akismet related or WordPress related, but thought I would post about this problem.

Roland

Ubuntu Lucid Lynx Desktop Edition vs Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat Desktop Edition (Follow up) UPDATED

Due to a request in a comment to the original post I'll be doing a full detailed review of both Ubuntu Lucid Lynx and Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat including an upgrade review and a comparison review over the weekend and it will go live on my Blog sometime on Monday.

Due to unforeseen circumstances I'll be starting work on my full comparison review tomorrow and will be posting the review on Wednesday at the earliest

Roland

Is Twitter Value Spam

I've noticed a search on my Blog asking is twittervalue spam.

Twalue is not spam but a site that converts your twitter account into a $ value that is your twalue and gives you a choice of  posting your twalue to twitter or not.  It's just for fun though.

Roland

Spam Comments On Blogs (Follow Up)

I'm having this rant today because when I checked my Blog this morning I found out that WordPress had found three lots of Spam Comments.

When I checked the Spam folder I found out that the Spam Comments were the same, just on three separate Posts, and these comments were all advertising the same Porn website.

Now I have no problems with people looking at Porn if they want, but what I have a problem with is advertising this porn in comments on my Blog especially when none of the posts that were subjected to were even talking about Internet porn.

Luckily WordPress has a spam filter so I was not notified that I had got Comments that needed approving.  I know people use Blogger because they can make money from using Google Adsense to advertise on their Blog which makes it superior to WordPress but if Blogger doesn't filter comments then I'm glad that I chose WordPress even though I can't bake any money from my Blog I can at least stop crap infesting my Blog in Comments.

Rant over

Roland

Spam Comments On Blogs

I'm writing this post to highlight a new spamming trend that I have fallen victim to, and that trend is spam comments on Blog posts.

I've received many spam comments on my Blog recently, I don't know if it happens on other Blogging services like Blogger, but it happens on WordPress but thanks to the anti-spam feature on WordPress I don't get notified by email about these spam comments and can delete them from my WordPress Blog Control Panel.

I'll be really upset if spam comments on Blog Posts gets out of hand an ends up ruining Blogging like it has done for email.

Rant over

Roland