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Creating music in a professional way these days is much easier with ACID Pro, which happens to be a loop-based software ideal for this purpose. ACID Pro combines together the features of loops, MIDI, as well as multi-track recording, and is actually highly regarded by dedicated users all over the world.

ACID Pro is a very creative software which imparts to the user many a features like the pick, paint, and play interface that are considered to be a blessing for the musician. The latest version of this music software, ACID Pro 6 in fact provides features like extra loops, various MIDI tracks, and automatic cross fades which can help the user to a very great extent. The performance in general can be further enhanced by the possibility of time stretching and pitch shifting the loops to a great extent. It is also possible to download loops on a regular basis through the ACID website. The software also boasts of several additional features like real-time event reverse, real-time matching of tempo and pitch, etc not to mention helpful tools like grove mapping, cloning, chopper, beat mapper, etc which helps a lot in the process of remixing music effectively.

The audio part of this versatile software is supported by a multi-core and dual processor, giving rise to an excellent playback system. The audio part from the track is distributed equally through the computers which actually enhances the playback quality entirely.

Another feature seen in ACID Pro is its all-inclusive MIDI support which makes it very easy to control and process the required songs. Moreover, the features of this software which enables different MIDI tracks as well as manipulating the drum patterns are a definite plus point which makes it much superior than many other music creation software. It is definitely to its credit that the ACID Pro software has the capacity to include features like dramatic fades, EQ change, effects and sweeps and also includes compatibility with various instruments. About twenty Direct X effects are supported by ACID Pro along with a variety of VST plugins and instruments, rewire host, control surface automation, device support, etc.

ACID Pro is definitely one of the most desired software for music creation especially due to its ease of learning and multitudinous features which aid in this task. It doesn’t matter if you are a professional or an amateur, this software can guarantee the ultimate satisfaction in all your musical ventures.

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There are quite a lots of laptops people can choose from but not all of them offer the best value for money. One of the most popular laptops today is HP branded. HP laptops looks sleek and performance is not bad either. HP laptops are lot cheaper than Sony laptops and the hardware is not that far off either so it is better to get HP laptop than to get a Sony laptop. Dell on the other hand don’t make sleek laptops, the hardware is great but the looks should put some people off. Dell laptops are usually dull. I also have one, a Dell Vostro 1500. It is great in terms of performance and value for money but it suffers a lot in terms of looks. I wrote about a Dell XPS M1330 laptop some time ago and it is for me one of the best looking laptops Dell has produced till date. You can customize this laptop according to your computing needs and get it for decent price.

If you don’t need lot of computing power, I suggest you get an all purpose laptop with decent hardware inside it. I got my Dell Vostro 1500 for relatively cheap price ($699 after taxes) and I don’t regret buying it except, I should have got a bigger hard drive. If you are looking for pure performance then it will cost you some money. Here are some of the best laptops performance wise for the year 2007. Now as it is a year older, you will be able to purchase it at a lot less price and get a decent performing laptop for it. It won’t be able to compete with todays top end performance laptops but it should be more than good enough for most of us. Which laptop would you go for, a top end high performance laptop or an all purpose one?

You should see a lot of changes in terms of technologies inside a laptop as they are beginning to outsell desktops now. There is a valid reason for this. First off, laptops are portable and has hardwares derived from lot of research as they need to be a lot more smaller than a desktop hardware has to be. Here is some laptops 2009 news for you. According to Intel, one billion people own laptops and the laptop sale will surpass desktop sell by 2009. Intel are also looking to bring technologies to laptops that will make it affordable for the masses.

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Google Chrome, the new browser from the house of Google is the talk of the town right now. Just within days of its launch, almost everyone is talking about, every blog, forums and every others. Of course, this has been the case on whatever Google launched in the recent past. They have been grabbing the headlines everywhere. Just like that, Google Chrome too has got its own viral publicity. Google really don’t have to do anything extraordinary, except for placing the link to download Chrome at their home page, to get it going. It has been done by everyone who is discussing about it now.

Ok, what is so special about Google Chrome to make it a talk of the town? To be frank, there is nothing special when you compare it with other browsers, except for the speed with which you browse the web pages, at least this is what Google claims and what Chrome can do to your browsing habit.

Google Chrome has come up with the address bar which acts as both the address bar to type the URL as well as a search box where you can just type the search words to get the result on the search engine you set as the default search engine at Google Chrome. Thus you don’t have to have a separate search box that you normally get along with many of the other browsers like FireFox, Internet Explorer etc. You can Download Google Chrome Browser here.

The other feature which you can just see with the new Chrome web browser is the thumbnail views of the sites you regularly visit. To visit those sites all you need to do is to click on the thumbnail. This was the same feature which Opera released in its latest release.

The other key highlight that can be found useful with Google Chrome is creating shortcuts for applications. For example if you visit Google calendar regularly you can create shortcut for the same and the shortcut will be created in your desktop and you can actually visit Google calendar with just one click. This is just an example, you can actually create any application which you use through Google Chrome.

Incognito, this is an all new feature, which you cannot see with any other browser. With this mode of browsing you can browse without leaving any traces of the website you visited and the cookies which got stored will automatically be deleted once you leave the site and close the incognito window.

There is an unique feature in Google Chrome wherein you can search among the site you recently visited (i.e., history) and get what you are looking for and forgot to store it when you visited that particular site. This is an extremely useful option which would come in handy without re-visiting the sites again for something that we found previously.

These unique Google-Chrome only features would definitely help in letting them breach into the already saturated and over-used web browser market. Since Google Chrome is just in beta phase so, we can expect a lot more to come when they actually launch the complete version in the near future. Find out more about Google Chrome features in Comic Book style here, .

The New Apple iPod Nano - Nano Chromatic is here. The previous version of iPod Nano looked like a smaller version of iPod Video. It was great but this one looks even more beautiful. For people who enjoy watching video in their iPod and the previous iPod Nano, the screen size featured in the iPod Nano Chromatic is a bit bigger than the previous version of iPod Nano (third gen) and has a wide screen display. The iPod Nano Chromatic comes with a larger size storage capacity than its predecessors. iPod Nano Chromatic boasts an 8GB and 16GB versions with many many colors to choose from.

iPod Nano Chromatic comes with a new aluminum body. A brand new feature has been added to the new iPod Nano, it now has an accelerometer and detects when you are watching movies and videos in landscape mode just like in iPod Touch and iPhone. Another brand new features added to iPod Nano is called “Shake to Shuffle” and with this feature you can change to shuffle mode without pressing any buttons, just shake your iPod Nano as the feature name is called and it turns to shuffle mode. The last new feature you can see in iPod Nano Chromatic is called “Genius”. This feature will try to analyze your musical taste and propose songs accordingly. I haven’t tried it yet so, don’t know if its effective or not. See all the features of iPod Nano Chromatic here. The battery life has improved and now it supports 24 hours of audio playback and 4 hours of video playback.

You can get an Apple iPod Nano Chromatic 8GB version for $149 and an Apple iPod Nano Chromatic 16GB version for $199. iPod Nano Chromatic is available in nine colors. All other technical specifications are the same as the iPod Nano Third Gen except for the features I wrote above. You can buy an iPod Nano Chromatic right here on Apple’s online store for  the above price or Buy an Apple iPod Nano Chromatic 8 GB Black Version for $134.99. You can choose from all nine colors available plus an Apples Exlusive Product Red version which should satisfy everyone now, in terms or color.

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If you are looking for a good web hosting provider then you must utilise the services of Web Hosting Rating. This website provides a list of top 10 web hosting companies. This site would be helpful especially for a person who is new in this field and want to choose the right hosting. Their web hosting rating is based on all the factors related to web hosting. The different factors include affordability, customer satisfaction, reliability, uptime and technical support. With the help of this website it is also possible to browse through the different web hosting plans offered by each company. Thus, by doing a comparison study, a person can select the right one at a reasonable price. They also provide all the details regarding the price, space and traffic for the listed top 10 web hosting providers. The true reviews regarding each web hosting provider is also attached along with that. Web hosting tutorials are also available which provides vital informations to web hosting users and website owners alike. These web hosting tutorials can help the customer a lot to select the right one.

Most of the web hosting companies offers three hosting categories. They are Linux, Budget and Windows web hosting. Most of the hosting companies will be saying that they are offering hosting packages at reasonable prices. But the person has to go through the different packages offered by the different companies so that he can choose the right one. Budget hosting is also referred to as cheap hosting. This type of hosting is usually used by individuals for personal use. Most of the budget hosting plans comes in the range of 5$ to 8$ per month.

The second category is Linux hosting. The price for Linux hosting varies depends on the features available. As the number of features provided increases the price also increases. Linux hosting is more reliable when compared to Windows hosting. The usual rates are between 5$ to 15$ per month. If it comes in the range of 5$ to 8$ per month then it can be regarded as a budget hosting also.

The third category is Windows hosting. In the case of Windows hosting, it will be more costly than the other two categories. Usually the price ranges between 10$ to 15$. It comes with some additional facilities offered by the Microsoft technologies which include ASP and MSSQL databases.

Windows hosting and Linux hosting can be used for both personal use as well as for business purpose. They have also listed the best web hosting awards won by the different listed companies in different categories like dedicated hosting, Linux hosting, budget hosting, forum hosting, Windows hosting and many others. These web hosting awards will help a person to choose the right web hosting company. Before purchasing a plan one must confirm that the host is stable and secure so that the important data remains protected. Also make sure that the plan fits in your budget. Web Hosting Rating will definitely help you to choose such a plan.

If you are planning on creating a website, you need to find a web hosting first and then find a template that suites your site. There are lots of places where you can get free as well as paid templates. If you use a free templates, your site might not be unique as lots of people will be using the same template as it is free. With paid templates, you can be assured there won’t be many sites with the same template as yours. I have never purchases a template for my sites and even this one is provided for free. One of they popular places where you can find free and paid templates is Dream Template.

They have lots of templates on offer, free and paid included. Anyone who is looking for a template can find one at Dream Template. Any kind of template your are looking for, you can find it at Dream Template. They have a huge collection of Free and paid CSS templates, Corporate templates, HTML template, flash templates and many more. Check out Dream Templates Web Templates and you will most probably find a template you like. For people who already have a website, you can earn some money from Dream Template. They have an affiliate program which offers a 30% commission on sales you generate. Not only that, Dream Template can also be handy to Web designers as they help you sell your templates to buyers. Dream Template is one of the most popular sites on the web for free website templates as well as paid templates. One thing they lack is, templates for blogs. I found very few wordpress blog templates there after a quick look. You can get a subscription at Dream Template for $59.95 per year which includes unlimited access to their extensive website template collection. If you subscribe to Dream Template, you will be able to download unlimited template, all free of cost (per product fee won’t apply to subscribers). I hope you will be able to find the right template for your site at Dream Template.

In todays internet world, almost everyone has a site they call their own and to do that, you need some web space. There are lots of places where you can get web space, for free and by paying for it. Usually, a newbie web user will search for a free web space as they don’t have to pay for it and they don’t know about web hosting. Free web hosting is not always good as most of them are very very unreliable and their servers are down for a long time. And also, some free hosting providers place some kind of ads or links on your site because they are providing the web space for you, free. Well, if you really are serious about it, paid hosting is the best option but here again there are many problems. Lots of web hosting companies on the web are not reliable either and some charge huge amount of money for a web hosting.

Today, one of the most popular web hosting company is BlueHost. I almost got a hosting account there but there were some things they wanted me to do, like provide them with photocopy of my ID and Utility bill. Because of that, I chose a different web hosting company and till now (its been about almost a year now), there has been very little problem with it. Their pricing is affordable to. They are not a big company so, not everyone will trust them. Well, there are other trusted web hosting companies that provide web space for relatively cheap price and with very less hassles. IMhosting.com is one of them. They are an award winning web hosting company and they provide Affordable web hosting to customers all around the world. They have grown to a massive scale because of the service they have provided to their customers and this surely will and has increased their profile in the web hosting provider market. They now have a reputation for being very reliable and they also have great customer service. Here is a specifications for their most basic shared web hosting

• 2,500GB of web space
• 20,000GB of premium monthly bandwidth
• you can host unlimited domains to a single account
• Get a free domain for life

You can try their web hosting mega deal and if you are not satisfied with it, they guarantee a 30 day refund. The above hosting package only costs $6 per month. That is a very very cheap pricing if you consider the space and bandwidth you are getting. They are one of the most affordable web hosting companies around. Here are some of the features you will be getting with IMHosted.com:

• PHP, MySQL, CGI-Bin, Perl, SSL, FTP
• SSH (Secure Shell), WebStats, FrontPage Ex.
• 2,500 POP/Imap Email Accounts
• Multiple Mail SPAM Protection + Webmail
• cPanel + Fantastico (for easy software and script installation)
• 99.998% Network Uptime

They have a great support team and you can talk to them if you have any problems or need any information 24/7 via live chat or via phone. Check them out and if you don’t like they, you can get your money back, Guaranteed.

Rapidshare has become one of the premier file hosting companies on the internet. Thousands of warez sites use them and even businesses are starting to embrace the capability it provides. The problem arises with the severe limitations put on what Rapidshare calls “free users”. These are users not signed up for their Premium accounts. The limitations include slow download speeds, one download at a time, and a limit of downloads per hours and days. For large files which are split up between up to 70 Rapidshare links it makes it impossible to use without a Premium account.

Well I’m here today to teach you a method that will allow you to buy one Rapidshare premium account and use it forever. Rapidshare recently implemented a point system which they call “RapidPoints“. These points are obtained by people downloading files that you upload on your Premium account and can be exchanged for an extension on your current Premium account. Thus if you maintain people downloading your files then you will have a constant income of RapidPoints and be able to maintain your account for as long as you want without paying a single dime.

So the question is, how do I get a good income of RapidPoints? The answer is warez sites. Many warez forums are very popular for using RapidShare. Nearly every piece of software posted has a Rapidshare mirror. This is exactly what we’ll be using.

To get started let’s name two of the most popular and active warez forums:
warez-bb.org
projectw.org

If you do not already have accounts on these forums, go ahead and set one up now, it’s completely free. Once you have an account we can begin the process of “mirroring”. The process is actually quite simple and is outlined in three easy steps below:

1. Find a small popular product
2. Download the product
3. Post the product again in a new topic or as a mirror in topics. Alternatively post on another forum.

For example: Let’s say at the moment that the latest version of Photoshop happens to be very popular. What you’ll do is go and find a thread with links to the latest version and download it. Take the downloaded file(s) and upload them to your Rapidshare account. Note for multiple files I suggest that you use Rapidshare’s free “RapidUploader” which can be found on the Rapidshare account under “RapidTools” in the top menu of the website. Once the files have been uploaded take the link(s) and post them either in the same topic as a mirror, in a new topic, or on another forum. For instance I could download the latest version of Photoshop on Warez-BB and ProjectW might not have it so posting it on ProjectW would generate a lot of RapidPoints.

It’s suggested you stick to small files. You can easily upload 5-6 mirrors a day and generate a ton of RapidPoints. This is not a process you have to do everyday either. Since uploads last a long time as you progress overtime you’ll be making points without having to upload anything.

I’ve been using this method ever since I purchased my premium account last year and it’s never once expired. I hope you are as successful as me.

Everyone who has played a game on a PC knows how important a mouse is. Before we had access to optical mouse, we used to play games using a regular mouse with a trackball inside it. It was not the best mouse as the trackball would get dirty and the response of the mouse declined due to dirty stuck in it.

The optical mouse we use (I mean the basic ones) are not the best available mouse for gaming as the there are fewer buttons in it (right, left and scroll). There are optical mouse available that are specifically designed for PC gamers. Usually, these kind of gaming mouse cost a lot of money so not everyone can afford it and only die hard PC gamers get it even if it is highly priced. Well, here is a good deal for a Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse on Buy.com, costs $21.35 after rebates (rebate form here). At the Logitech’s official store, Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse costs $50 so I think this is a pretty good deal. Ok, here are some specifications for the Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse:

• Image Processing: 5.8 megapixels/second
• Resolution: 1800-dpi native, adjustable to 400- and 800-dpi
• Acceleration: 15-g
• Throughput: 16 bit/axis USB data format, and 125/sec USB report rate

Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse is not the best gaming optical mouse available on the market but its not that bad. There are almost nothing bad about this Logitech optical mouse except that it is designed for only right handed users. Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse has 1,600dpi optical sensor with five on-the-fly sensitivity buttons which can be programmed to suite your gaming needs.

There is another bonus Buy.com deal for you here. Logitech QuickCam Deluxe Webcam for Notebooks for $10 deal is back online. Get one fast before the stock runs out at buy.com.