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MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. MIDI is a standard developed to facilitate the exchange of musical instructions between electronic musical instruments and computers. MIDI files are not sound files. Instead, they’re data files containing instructions on how to reproduce a selection of music. There are MIDI devices such as keyboards and guitars that [...]

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Looking for an easy way to monitor your computer’s performance? The Taskbar Meters app lets you keep PC performance stats in view at all times. Although this may not be practical for everyone, PC builders and hardware geeks may find it quite useful. If you aren’t a fan of the whole Windows 7 widgets, this [...]

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Windows Live Photo Gallery supports plugins that help to extend its features and function. Most of these plugins are free, and several are published by Microsoft. These free plugins for Windows Live Photo Gallery will help you share to your photos on social networking sites, create a professional-looking photo album or a build a 3D [...]

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Windows Live SkyDrive is free online storage space provided by Microsoft. You can get up to 25 GB of free online backup space for your documents, photos, videos and Microsoft Office files. Windows Live Skydrive works with both Windows PCs and Macs, and allows you to access your files from any computer, anywhere in the [...]

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If you have a small business or are starting a small business, the costs add up quickly. You need equipment, a workspace, internet connections, and web hosting among other things. In our increasingly web-oriented society, phone services are falling by the wayside. Traditional providers charge way too much for limited services, and consumer-grade VoIP may [...]

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If you are looking for a simple to use and comprehensive benchmarking application, NovaBench may be just what you are looking for. NovaBench is a benchmarking application that can help you test the CPU, memory, hard drive, video card, and other hardware in your PC or Mac. Learn how NovaBench can bring professional benchmarking capabilities [...]

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Some of the best tools in MS Word are the Review tools. These tools allow us to make comments in the margins of any document, and if using a tablet PC, we can draw circles or make notes in our own handwriting with the built-in ink features. A new tool called Markup allows us to [...]

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Your hard disk can be easily fragmented when your operating system does not allocate enough space for a file to be stored in full, but uses free space that is spread out across the hard drive. Let us take for example that you have a file that is 200mb large, instead of it being stored [...]

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Do you subscribe to a lot of RSS feeds to read tips and tricks and tutorials? Would you like to save the useful information you find for future reference? We found out about a free online service, called feed2PDF, that allows you to convert RSS/Atom feeds to PDF documents so you can save them to [...]

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We have previously written about how to download multiple files at one time in Ubuntu (see our post, Download Multiple Files Using the Command Line in Ubuntu). You can do the same thing in Windows using a free tool, called Mass Download. It uses multiple threads, so it downloads files faster than most download managers. [...]

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