New to texas hold em & forum + ?

[uley]

New to the game - started reading books about three months ago - on The Theory of Poker right now - anyway have had some success on Fulltilt poker playing $2-$4 no limit along with $1 & $2 then lost most of my bank roll ( $200 in went up to $ 1,000 then down to $50 where I am now ) anyway am now playing the micro tables to practice as I realize there is a ton to learn about how to play right. I do have two questions
1.) Poker tracker & heads up display seem to be recomended by everybody - is this easy to use and what does it do exactly - I have read that you can download all players traits, stats from whatever site you are on - is that true?
2.) Any suggestions on watching online poker tutorial clips - there was one on here and I cant find it now wehre a guy was on party poker on the micro tablesa and was killing em and was fun / informative to watch -
Finally this seems like a great forum glad to have found it - will be reading mostly ( not much to add at this point )and thanks for any responses