Apr 21 2012
Here’s a quick tip for this evening. It is fairly common these days for us to plug in our smartphones, tablets and portable music players into our car audio systems, home entertainment systems or other standalone speakers to enjoy some music or listen to podcasts. However, in order to ensure that you are preserving audio …
Feb 28 2012
Update: If this doesn’t work for you then read this post. For a long time, VLC has been one of the well regarded media players with its ability to play almost any audio and video format without having to install special codec packs. It’s relatively small size in terms of disk space consumption and memory …
Jan 31 2012
I managed to get some time today to record the preview video for the Panasonic RP-HC700 noise cancelling headphones that I previously unboxed here. In the video, I show you the physical characteristics of the headphones including where the battery is installed and cover off some more of the technical specifications (in which the audiophiles …
Nov 06 2011
Here’s another quick tip for tonight. If you fancied grabbing the audio off something you come across online or maybe capturing the audio from a video without mucking around with conversion software then this might interest you. There’s a great tool called Audacity which is a pretty nifty audio editor with the built in ability …
Jan 24 2011
Sometimes, you might have one or a few applications that will make noise on your computer for whatever reason on a regular basis or the cause of the sound is outside of your control (i.e. receiving instant messages, e-mail, etc). This can be particularly annoying if you are trying to concentrate on other things such …
Jan 23 2011
This has been one of my favourite tools to use when I have had multiple computers with their own displays setup at my desk and faced the issue of cluttering my desk with numerous keyboards and mice. For those who have never heard or come across a KVM before the acronym itself stands for “Keyboard, …
Oct 02 2010
As you may know, I switched to the Samsung Galaxy S a few weeks ago (and it’s still going very well apart from a stumbling block with using The Missing Sync which I am following up with the vendor). As one might expect for a phone of this calibre, a pair of earphones with a …
Jun 22 2010
Something more topical for today in the form of program that will help those of you watching the World Cup on your computer (such as via IPTV or other means). I’m sure we all now know about the vuvuzela and that some will find it more irritating than others. If you find it does impact …
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