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  • Video

    The dial-up modem sound, 700% slower

    Posted June 29, 2011 - 3:46 pm

    Too creepy, or viral hit?

  • Breaking Open the Video Frontier, Despite MPEG-LA

    Posted July 23, 2010 - 9:46 am

    With nearly every piece of video hardware outputting MPEG-formatted video, you might think MPEG-LA has a lock on the video market. Not so, says Ogg creator Chris Montgomery. And he's building an army of new video experts to begin to improve video for all.

  • Review

    Review: Audio Dedupe Cleans up Your Music Collection

    Posted March 1, 2010 - 2:37 pm

    Keeping an ear tuned to a fat collection of music files and an eye on your PC's ever-diminishing hard drive space? Then give Audio Dedupe ($30, feature-limited free demo) a try. It uses a sophisticated set of tools to find duplicate music files, even if they're in different file formats.

  • Embedding audio narration in PowerPoint presentations

    Posted September 23, 2009 - 8:15 am

    By far the easiest and most elegant way to share PowerPoint presentations online is to create a presentation with embedded narration in PowerPoint, and upload it to authorSTREAM.com. Here's how.

  • Thomson pumps up volume with tools for MP3HD lossless codec

    Posted March 19, 2009 - 2:19 pm

    Thomson has released software for the creation and playback of a new type of lossless audio files, MP3HD, that it says are compatible with existing MP3 players.

  • Better music, from your PC, for free

    Posted August 13, 2008 - 1:03 pm

    High-quality PC audio is important to me, as I spend a lot of time listening to music on my desktop. In previous columns I've discussed the aural advantages of lossless audio codecs (like FLAC), discrete sound cards, and specialty music player software. Alas, even with all of those tools installed and properly configured, it is possible to suffer less-than-optimal sound on a Windows XP-based PC, as the operating system has a tendency to muck with music without your consent. Happily, a free, easy-to-use program, called ASIO4ALL, addresses this annoying Windows habit.

  • Outside noise impacts sound at home theater system

    Posted July 12, 2008 - 10:01 am

    Noise can be described as unwanted sounds. Someone who is exposed to noise for a long time may have serious illness on hearing sense. Noise effects our life quality, obstructs our fast reaction capabilities and our concentration. Noise may cause sleeplessness and stress.
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