Category: Software
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How to fix gapless analysis problems in iTunes?
The Problem: If you use iTunes, on windows or mac, it is inevitable that you’d come across this dialog where iTunes says that it’s Determining Gapless Playback Information. It doesn’t matter whether you want your albums to play gapless or not. iTunes just goes ahead and does it. There is no way to turn it…
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How to make Nikon Capture NX2 run faster.
To say that Nikon Capture NX (or Capture Nx2) is slow would be an understatement. The reason for its slowness is that it ships with older versions of certain Windows files which it uses. So all we need to do to make it run faster is to install the latest and greatest versions of these…
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Making your DSLR show Linear Histogram
In addition to having greater flexibility during post-processing, one of the main reasons for shooting raw is to capture greater dynamic range. But if you are relying on the histogram on your camera’s LCD to judge exposure, you may not be capturing the full dynamic range that your camera is capable of. The Problem: The…
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Kernel Streaming with iTunes.
iTunes is considered to be the best music organizer and foobar to be the best music player. But what if you could have the interface of iTunes but guts of foobar in one application? Enter Multi-plugin. Here is what you’ll need: foobar (0.9.4) and Kernel Streaming plugin for foobar. iTunes (for Windows, ver 7.0.1) Multi-plugin…
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A really sweet plugin for Yahoo Music Engine.
I am a big fan of Magnatune record label. They allow you to stream/download all of their catalog in 128 kbps DRM free MP3 files. It used to be a pain to browse the site and download though ’cause they didn’t give a direct link to the download page. You had to google it and…
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Windows + Freeware = Bliss!!
This article originally appeared on Osnews.com. Recently I upgraded my home PC and I thought, well, how about loading it with only freeware/open source software (On top of Windows XP)? So I started looking around and found some excellent freeware, alongwith a lot of trash. It took some work to evaluate all the applications but…
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Mandrake Linux 10 Preview
This article originally appeared on Osnews.com. Mandrake Linux Preview Edition pretty much defines the shape of things to come in Linux land in 2004. With Kernel 2.6, KDE 3.2 beta and XFree86 4.4 beta, it doesn’t leave much to be desired. This article refers to cooker snapshot as of December 31, 2003. Please note that…
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Introducing Lorma Linux 4.0
This article originally appeared on Osnews.com. Lorma linux 4.0 is the first distribution to be based on Fedora Core, outside of Redhat, that is. It is one of those new breed of single-CD distros that try to include only the best-of-breed applications. It is primarily a desktop distro and does not include any of the…