Archive for March 15th, 2007

I want Windows Vista

I read the Windows Secrets newsletter, and the past several issues have been about activation issues in Windows Vista. First, you can install the Windows Vista Upgrade on itself, so you don’t necessarily need to have a previous copy of Windows. (But who in the world doesn’t already have a Windows computer?) Now, you can keep using Windows Vista for as long as you want without activating it by using a simple command to keep extending the deadline out 30 days.

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Larry is another name for Lawrence (NT)

Wow, I just realized that Larry => Lawrence.

Audio Cleaning with Audacity and The Levelator

I was working on some very old video from a VHS tape when I discovered that the video and audio parts should be cleaned up separately. I was already using VirtualDub for the video part, so what about the audio? There are two great applications which both need to be used: Audacity and The Levelator.

My favorite audio editor is Audacity, and it’s excellent for recording and editing audio. Best of all, it’s free and open source, and it has an excellent Windows version. It’s exactly what I need. My only gripe is that it has its own audio format, so anytime you import audio, it takes the time to “import” it; and when you export, you actually need to choose your export format, whether WAV, MP3, or OGG, and do export processing– which can take some time.

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