Your Windows PC might be designed to make your life easier, but they often have a non-stop list of problems. Today we'll walk through some of the more common problems and how to troubleshoot them. Image by xkcd
This list is, of course, by no means complete, and you should always use best practices to make sure that your PC doesn't need to be reinstalled all the time , is properly secured ...
Well we managed to get the echo problem figured out so unlike yesterdays’ promo for the show you should actually be able to hear the whole show.
Show links:
(Not so) Crazy Microsoft Rumors: A new Zune HD? - Mary Jo Foley
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If you're not using the new Homegroup feature in Windows 7, or you've only got a single PC, you can disable the Homegroup feature to save memory and get rid of the items in the navigation pane. More »
Soundhack, the free audio tool for the Mac developed by audio wizard Tom Erbe, was long a beloved tool for doing strange and wonderful things for sound. It was followed by Spectral Shapers, Mac and Windows plug-ins that built on some of those ideas to do more “timbral morphing” with recorded audio. That includes “timbral filtering” and noise-reducing expansion with spectralcompand, drawn morphing ...
Often it's newer Linux users missing the familiarity of Windows that skin their OS to mimic that of another but here the tables are turned; fed up of booting into Windows and everything looking so different from the comfort of Ubuntu? Meet Light themes for Windows. The awesome hands behind the skin are those of ~Freddi67 . Speaking to OMG! Ubuntu! about the reasoning behi...
The fantastic Graffiti Analysis 3.0 application by Evan Roth and Chris Sugrue is now available for download! For those unfamiliar with the project, GA is an extensive ongoing study in the motion of graffiti. Custom software designed for graffiti writers creates visualizations of the often unseen gestures involved in the creation of a tag. Motion data is recorded, analyzed and archived as Graf...
Free Windows Music Software: DSK Music has released D SK Guitars , three guitar VST plug-ins for Windows.
Features:
3 Virtual Instruments:
DSK Guitars Acoustic
DSK Guitars Nylon
DSK Guitars Steel
High expressive and dynamics sounds.
Clean and very simple GUI.
If you give them a try, leave a comment with your thoughts!
Qubicle is a standalone Windows software for creating 3D pixel-art. It combines standard 2D image editing tools with a powerfull function-set for editing 3D cube-matrices. We first wrote about it in October last year and have just received an email from the creator, Tim Wesoly, notifying us that Qubicle is now available for download (Public Beta v 9.502)!
What’s included:
Standard Image Editi...
¿Quién no se acuerda de la pantalla de carga de Windows 95?, ¿Esos cuatro maravillosos colores?; ¿Esperar hasta que se cargara despues de darle ochocientas patadas a la CPU? … Pues eso se acabó amigos hace ya 15 años que se creó Windows 95 y poco a poco como casi todos los sistemas de Microsoft excepto XP y Windows 7, siempre la han piciado.
El software fue un gran éxito y en dos años se conv...
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Free Windows Music Software : DSK Music has introduced TechSynth , a free software synthesizer for Windows.
Features:
2 Osc with 5 waveforms
Amp. envelope and detune control
Advanced filter with ADSR and LFO
Delay filter
Pitch / poly control
+60 patches
Velocity response
If you give TechSynth a try, let us know what you think of it.
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Modern operating systems have no shortage of feature-rich applications. The problem: Sometimes feature-rich turns into flat-out bloat. From email to music to Twitter and beyond, put your system on a serious diet with these command line alternatives. More »
15 évvel ezelőtt 1995 augusztus 24-én jelent meg a Microsoft Windows 95 operációs rendszer. Íme a szoftverhez készült korabeli reklámszpot a Rolling Stones Start Me Up című számával: És egy videó napjainkból. Win95 az Apple iPad-on:
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15 évvel ezelőtt 1995 augusztus 24-én jelent meg a Microsoft Windows 95 operációs rendszer. Íme a szoftverhez készült korabeli reklámszpot a Rolling Stones Start Me Up című számával: És egy videó napjainkból. Win95 az Apple iPad-on:
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Windows only: Portable, open-source backup utility Create Synchronicity is a tiny but powerful way to run backups or synchronize folders on your system, an external drive, or to another PC on your network. Once you've launched the utility, you'll need to click on the New Profile icon and type in a name for the profile, which will open up the settings window where you can choose the source and des...