I recorded my voice in Audacity and did some quick noise removal to clean it up. When I recorded it, it gave it to me as a stereo track. I stripped it down to a mono track, and exported it as a .wav. Next, go to File > Export. You’ll see the Export dialog come up. Editing in Melodyne In the Melodyne Studio demo, open up your .wav file. You’ll see the Transport Bar pop up....
Quick Links Every week we bring you interesting facts from the annals of Geek History. Edisons proof-of-concept display in Roselle inspired other communities to switch to safer electric light systems. Have an interesting bit of geek trivia to share?
It may be intimidating, but it can be mastered, and surely is not impossible to use. Keep reading for tips and videos to help. Creating straight lines between points is as simple as clicking single points with your mouse or stylus. Curved lines are a little more complex, and the main reason behind most users frustration. Freeform Pen Tool: Photoshop only. The Freeform Pen Tool allows you to draw with your mouse or stylus....
Quick Links You’ve got questions and we’ve got answers. Can you recommend any resources for quickly learning the Office ribbon and the new changes? I feel completely lost after two decades of the old Office interface. Sincerely, Where the Hell is Everything? “Where the hell is…” could possibly be the slogan for the new ribbon interface. Ribbon Hero turns learning the new Office features and ribbon layout into a game....
Once its done, your searches should execute quite a bit faster.
What is LVM? Logical Volume Manager allows for a layer of abstraction between your operating system and the disks/partitions it uses. and then looks at what partitions are available on those disks (/dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, etc.). With LVM, disks and partitions can be abstracted to contain multiple disks and partitions into one unit. In addition, LVM can give you features that your file system is not capable of doing. When Should You Use LVM?...
Here’s the list of the 50 best ways to do just that. Here’s how to get rid of some of those items and trim it back down to size. Yes, we included how to deactivate the system tray, which is probably not something you should do. Here’s how to do it. Does anybody really use Mobility Center? Disabling Built-In Services and Features Want to get rid of User Account Control dialogs?...
your gear will reboot a couple of times, and that’s pretty much all there is to that.
Quick Links Laying down some vocals? Starting your own podcast? Here’s how to remove noise from a messy audio track in Audacity quickly and easily. This is the second part in our series covering how to edit audio and create music using your PC. It’s just like selecting anything else, really. Next, go to Effect > Noise Removal. Now, choose the portion of the track you want to remove noise from....
Quick Links Every week we bring you interesting facts from the annals of Geekdom. I’m afraid I can’t do that. He popped the canopy and fired off his compressed-air powered ejection seat. Later models would trade compressed air for small explosive charges to achieve a faster and safer escape.
Quick Links Ever wonder how geeks stay connected with their favorite blogs and writers? What is RSS, and What is a Feed? Illustrated above is a simple RSS .xml file from Wikipedia. But applications also allow for manual entry of RSS feed website addresses. Here’s how it looks in Google Reader. Incredibly enough, it is no more difficult than that. If you like to read your favorite webcomics and news at work, you’ll find this invaluable....
Here’s how to make a BSOD in any color you want, using a couple of clicks. Isn’t the black and green BSOD a lot more geeky? Keep reading at your own risk. You’ll lose anything you haven’t saved. You might have problems starting it back up initially. Here’s a blue and yellow one… And here’s a orange and blue one… If you read this far, I see a red and green xmas-themed screen of death in your future....
Heres how to add it in yourself for free really easily in few simple steps. Open up Audacitys Preferences and hit the Libraries tab. hit the Locate… button. Hit Browse and navigate to wherever your LAME encoder library happens to be, and click OK.
