December 11, 2011
Windows users looking for an easy way to convert their FLAC files to MP3 format are in luck this month as FLAC to MP3 drops its usual $29.95 price tag and goes free for the festive season. FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec and provides superior sound quality to “lossy” MP3 files at the expense of disk space.
May 5, 2011
If you’re a little bit musical or you make your own podcasts, you’ve probably noticed that sometimes your recordings can sound a little annoying due to the background noise captured in the recording process. This white noise is not always easy to remove, but can be minimalised by the use of free tools and a little know-how.
January 18, 2011
Sometimes you don’t have to be the best to be number one in the industry. You only have to be the first one to “get it right”, and let the world follow you. Then later on, even though there might be others who come up with something better, it would be very difficult (or even [...]
July 28, 2010
People love to personalize things that they own to make those items stand out among other similar items that other people have. We can see examples everywhere such as people painting their houses with different colors, styling their hair, using and customizing different themes for their blogs, putting their laptops into colorful cases, and customizing [...]
May 10, 2010
It’s time once again for our featured Movers and Shakers post. Each week we are taking one software category from CNet and listing the top ten most downloaded apps in it. This week we will be looking at MP3 & audio software. These are the apps that we use to convert, organize or listen to [...]
May 6, 2010
As a blogger and a researcher, I have to conduct a lot of interviews. Some months I’ve conducted two or three interviews a week, and many of those are recorded interviews, because many people don’t have time to answer questions via email. One of the nice things about recorded interviews is that they work well [...]
May 5, 2010
Today I got tasked with finding a program that would merge music tracks together for free. I quickly found an application that Mark wrote for MakeUseOf on MergeMP3. After downloading and using MergeMP3 I got a call that they also wanted to split several music tracks into smaller pieces. I found several tools that do [...]
December 22, 2009
About a year ago, I wrote an article in my blog about how people are getting old on the road. It discussed commuting, but from a different perspective: the amount of time commuters lost on the road. I also discussed several ways to fill in the lost hours with useful activities, and one of them [...]
December 8, 2009
In our ever-modernizing age, things are constantly changing and being updated. What the standard was yesterday may not necessarily still be the standard today. All of these quick changes creates a market with tons and tons of options when it comes to every aspect of our lives. Music is no exception. For years, MP3′s were [...]
November 27, 2009
I love my audio CD collection. I really do. But carrying a hundred CDs with me on a vacation just so that I can listen to that one song when I have to, isn’t exactly my idea of fun. On the other hand, my iPod lets me take more than a hundred CDs worth of [...]
