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BoomerApp Promotion On A Brand New Product. 100% Rebate. Klik n’ Mix

A few weeks ago however a new service was launched from the people who brought the world Bits du Jour. That service is BoomerApp. While Bits du Jour hands our full licences daily BoomerApp is instead a rebate system where-by the customer purchases in the normal way and recieves a rebate form which they return to FastSpring Ecommerce or a local representive who…

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Why I have bothered with the Windows 7 logo program

Across on his blog Andy Bryce has written some very good reasons for why he won’t be bothering with the round of Windows 7 logos marketing Microsoft has launched. First I should point out that there is a difference between the “Compatible with Windows 7 logo” and associated marketing materials and the “Certified For” program run by Microsoft. The latter, I’m in full agreement with Andy. I saw no benefit in the Vista version and see no beneift in the Windows 7 version.
Rather we’re talking about the logo to the left of this article.

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A Custom Audio File Format – "Chunky" But Not Necessarily Large

A Custom Audio File Format – "Chunky" But Not Necessarily Large

For those of you familiar with Sony Acid Pro, originally called “ACID pH1″ by it’s creators at SonicFoundry, you’ll probably be familiar with the Acid variation of Riff/Wave format and it’s incredible ability to “know” what key it is, what tempo and the nature of its’ playback in respect of being a clip or more commonly a “loop”. It’s the core of the product and what allows the short audio clip to be so darn powerful for people creating loop based music.

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Windows 7 – Subtle Imagery And Fishy Marketing

Windows 7 – Subtle Imagery And Fishy Marketing

Some months back here I mentioned I’d installed the Windows 7 Beta from MSDN for testing purposes. I also stated I’m impressed and that MixAction – also in Beta – runs just fine on it.

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“'IContainer' is ambiguous in the namespace 'System.ComponentModel”

“'IContainer' is ambiguous in the namespace 'System.ComponentModel”

Oh – lots of fun!

Last night, after 1:00 am just doing a final compile before calling it a day (when these kind of errors always occur) I was confronted with this error, and variations, repeated over and over inside Visual Studio 2008. Couldn’t work it out for the life of me…

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