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2005 April

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Burning DVDs from 6 Hour VHS Tapes

There’s a ton of junk science about converting VHS movies to DVD-ready digital formats suggesting that because the perceived image quality on screen of a VHS movie converted to digital is lower than the actual resolution that it isn’t necessary to capture VHS movies at higher resolutions before burning to DVD. The reality is capturing […]

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Call me Plasma-Man

Long, strange trip getting there. I’d been researching and researching over what to buy to replace my ancient Zenith 32″ tube TV. One day, it dawned on me what I needed to do. I unplugged one of my ReplayTV DVRs and brought it with me to Best Buy. Rather than gambling on what a given […]

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Hosting Your Videos For Fun and Profit

The problem with a world connected by broadband, if you can call it a problem, is finding the resources to share all those home movies you want to display for the world to see. Many of us who are creative don’t want to deal with the hassles of figuring out how to manage a server […]

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New Music Fridays

I always like getting stuff in the mail, but today was a bit different.
I am looking for bands to feature on some Internet shows I am currently
doing, and today in the mail I received some cool funky music from
Sister Funk. They’re a well known band hailing from CT, and their gigs
range from music festivals and […]

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Conference Call Recording

Conference calls are generating a ton of great information these days. A recent Chris Pirillo Show demonstrated the power of combing a conference call with GoToMeeting to present a fully immersive experience for the listener, providing access to Chris’s desktop while listening in as he discussed what was shown on screen. Keeping in mind that […]

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Who Are You? The Return Of Doctor Who

Before Star Trek - even before Lost In Space - there was “The Doctor.”
Doctor Who was first produced by The British Broadcasting Company in 1963 and
aired continuously with new episodes until 1989. After 1989, there have
been radio programs; publications, a TV movie, and Flash-animated stories.

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Windows XP Needs A GarageBand

In the world of loop-based music creation, there are many powerful (and pricey) solutions for composing unique works. These tools provide minute manipulation of subtleties meant to make the music creative process as close to perfect as possible. For most of us, all this detail just gets lost because we simply want the thrill of […]

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Worth a Listen - Robert Houston & True Dedication

Worth a Listen focuses exclusively on independent artists and songwriters whose music has emotional impact.
I don’t know what I can say about this music except that it is modern gospel at its finest. Am I qualified to say that? Probably not, since I don’t normally listen to this type of music. However, the modern R&B […]