[rqdth1]

First thing: RCA MP3 Player.
My mp3 player is supposed to launch the RCA Easy Rip program when I plug it into my computer. It didn't come with any discs, it's just autorun from the device. When I plug it into my computer, I get the little icon that when I scroll over it says "Safely Remove Hardware". Any thoughts?

Second thing: GIF Creation.
I'm tying to add text to a .gif image. The image itself was made from a video clip, so it doesn't really have any delay between slides. I'm wondering how I can add text to it. I want the text to flash one word at a time along the bottom of the image. Thoughts?

[JustinPS]

1st: The "Safely Remove Hardware" icon comes up because you plugged a USB device into your computer. Windows wants you to "Safely remove" it when you are finished downloading/uploading/etc, rather than just have you yank out the USB cord. Don't pay any attention to it, you'll probably never have a problem just pulling the USB cord out before "Safely removing" the device.

2nd: You'll need an editing program like Adobe ImageReady in order to do something like that, or maybe Macromedia Flash. However, unless you have the original file with the original "slides", you won't be able to do what you're trying to do because the GIF file format does not save the file in pieces, aka: if you open it in an editing program, you won't see all the slides, just the first one.

[rqdth1]

But the mp3 player is supposed to open the program that lets me add files to the player, but it doesn't. So right now I can't put anything new on it.

[JustinPS]

I'm pretty sure that you can drag-and-drop MP3 files to any RCA player. If you right-click the player in My Computer and choose "Explore", what folders come up? If there's one that says "Music" or "MP3's" or something like that, then I bet you can just drag your music into there. When you Explore the player you might be able to launch the Easy Rip program yourself, too.