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0Yahama DSP-E800 LogoGetting high end sound from your PC

Published on by in Amplifiers. Updated 24th January 2012.

For many people, there’s either sound or no sound, the qual­ity doesn’t really come into it. For oth­ers, spe­cific­a­tion and brag­ging rights rule: bit-rates, sampling fre­quen­cies, band­width, power hand­ling.  For many a simple set of pc speak­ers will do very nicely, espe­cially if there are 6 or more of them (more is bet­ter, right?)  But… Read more »

2Mozilla Firefox LogoFirefox 4 fixes MSN Messenger bug

Published on by in Web Technologies. Updated 3rd October 2011.

I was so pleased upon upgrad­ing to Fire­fox 4 to no longer have Win­dows Live Mes­sen­ger crash­ing the browser every time I opened Hot­mail and had an act­ive con­ver­sa­tion win­dow.  I don’t know if it was Microsoft or Fire­fox at fault but the prob­lem seems to have gone away now. I’m less pleased, how­ever, that two… Read more »