How to Use .AVI Files on OS X

Mar 10, 2011 | One Comment

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Matt Ryan is one of the bloggers on LockerGnome. He is an expert at being a Frugal Geek – he also has great tips and tricks in many areas of technology. A community member recently emailed to ask him how to [...]

What is COM Surrogate Crash Error?

Sep 28, 2007 | 9 Comments

Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes http://live.pirillo.com/ – When I used to use Vista, I would have random crashes that were related to a COM Surrogate error. What the heck? I thought I owned my computer? You mean it’s a surrogate?. A COM Surrogate error is caused by video [...]

Windows Movie Maker Problem

May 2, 2007 | 53 Comments

From Lockergnome reader Scott Holder: I think I should have started with you instead of the lame support people from the manufacturer or MS. I need help with Windows Movie Maker. I have a Gateway laptop (MX6445) with a Turion 64 processor, 1 GB RAM, 120 GB HD, DVDRW, ATI Radeon Xpress 200M graphics, running [...]

MP4 Support in WMP11

Jul 5, 2006 | 13 Comments

Don’t count on MP4 playback out of the box in the next version of the Windows Media Player. I filed this “bug” a few months ago, but apparently not supporting MP4 (by default) in WMP11 is a feature: “Spend the money. Pre-install the codec. The PSP relies on it, the iPod relies on it, and [...]