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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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Windows 7 – RTM 6th Of August 2009

Windows 7 – RTM 6th Of August 2009

Today – for those in the Northern Hemisphere (yesterday almost for the rest of us) Microsoft is releasing Windows 7 officially to RTM (Release To Manufacturing). Which means, the Microsoft MSDN server gods willing, I’ll be able to download my own release licenses sometime in the small hours after midnight (my time). Of course if indeed I can get a connection, given the amount of traffic they are likely to get, it’ll probably take a while to download.

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CDROO Launched – A Micro ISV Resource For Royalty Free Music And Sound + An Offer To Readers

CDROO Launched – A Micro ISV Resource For Royalty Free Music And Sound + An Offer To Readers

CDROO is a store that sells royalty free music and sound effects. This basically means that when you need a piece of music or special effect for a video, podcast, voice over or training tool you are able to buy professionally recorded music without having to worry about the complexities of obtaining performance rights.

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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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