Sound Solutions

The best thing about my Desktop computer is its 5.1 surround sound system. It gives such an enhancement to my enjoyment of music, films and games – plus the Line-In and Mic sockets are  high quality with no nasty buzz or machine interference evident on recordings made via their wholly holy holes
The PC has been [...]

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“Stereo Mix” Recording Disabled

I was surprised in the summer, upon my purchase of a Lenovo ThinkPad T61 laptop computer, to learn that the ability to record “Stereo Mix” (any noise(s) you hear playing live on your computer) had been removed. This is a feature that has been standard for years and was supposed to be available to all [...]

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Current Toshiba Gaming Flagship

…is this Qosmio X300-13W
at £2,250.
Think it’d make the “flagships” look awful purty in the forthcoming “Empire : TOTAL WAR” – might <SOUND> good too which is crucial to the enjoyment of that entertainment.

Until now, I have been able to enjoy the battle series on my elderly Desktop with its sumptious Creative Audiocard and boomy 5.1 [...]

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Note to Self About PhotoDraw Installation (100th Post !)

From Control Panel, install the application to your desired location.
It ONLY puts the CORE program on – so all the pens and textures are missing.
Go to Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel.
Find Photo Draw in the list and select Change to “Add or Remove Features“
in order to get all the materials from the second [...]

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Medieval Total War Kingdoms – Graphics Issues

The biggest fight Creative Assembly’s “Medieval Total War – Kingdoms” is giving me at the moment is – AGAIN – a visual issue.
I don’t know if the symptoms I am witnessing are indicative of my graphics card being dodgy at a hardware level. I was able to start the game O.K. today – with the [...]

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Computer Hope – Look up, look ‘em up and look UP to ‘em !

Well, not that a recommendation at my meek blog is going to generate much traffic for —>
http://www.computerhope.com/
and not that I can EVER extend enough thanks to its kindly community for the incredible assistance they have afforded me over the past weeks but here’s a link anyway. Look up, look ‘em up ‘n’ look up to [...]

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Sound Warning

I picked up a refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad T61 a fortnight ago, with a view to capturing a fairly robust ‘net-box capable of lifting the ceaseless strain [At LAST, Atlas !] from the ravaged, savaged, older shoulders of my utterly ADORED (but terribly tired and now marginally doddery) five-and-a-half-year-old Toshiba Satellite.
Key selling points of the new arrival (who’s not a [...]

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ALT-CTRL-”Del(l)”ete Elite

Periodically, I visit the Dell configurator to do the “Create Your Own” (Pizza) bit on customising a dream machine. Today I was prompted by a headline in the PC Advisor e.mail newsletter resolving at:
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/businessadvisor/news/index.cfm?newsid=12850&ba
NOT to get a quote for the highest possible spec’ but just to make something similar to the VERY DEL(l)iberat(ing)ely Windows Vista-dodging [...]

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The T(r)opic of Capricorn (Chips) 005

Gosh ! This Project really is FIGHTING me every step of the way, to the point where I haven’t had the opportunity to log the slog here.
I shall have to fill in some of the gaps (I’ve been gathering screenshots) later….or perhaps make a film at the end (Will there BE one ?) showing everything that DIDN’T [...]

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In the Beginning…

…indoors, (but not in “The Doors”) in an un-understandably under-sizedly undesirable, decidedly Granny Cardiganny anorak, a sixties Cambridge alumni semi-softened Scouse accent and an underling undergraduates’ underground bunker so window and “WINDOWS“-free (point one to Uni Unix) that a bluff bumfluff-bearded “yoof” (not) in (dread of) rope-honed, taupe-toned poorly pull’y woolly threads was to enjoy (?) employ as “Technoboy“, ~ envied [...]

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