Ajay on August 18th, 2008

Have you ever opened up a video file only to get an error that it cannot be played. Or maybe you can at least hear the audio but see a blank screen.
Well, in all probability you have the required codecs missing. Short for compressor/decompressor, a codec is any technology for compressing and decompressing data.
There are [...]

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Ajay on April 16th, 2007

When you’re talking media players, one name that always comes to mind is Winamp.
I’ve been using Winamp right from its 2.x versions which is to say from quite a few years and have always used it as my primary player when playing long playlists of music spread over a several day period.
Winamp has progressed from [...]

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Ajay on April 2nd, 2007

I’m very picky about how I play my music and videos and have several different media players installed that fulfil different purposes.
One such player is jetAudio Basic which is my primary player for playing folders or playlists.

jetAudio comes in a free Basic version and a paid Plus version. Plus adds the mp3/mp3PRO conversion support, recording [...]

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Ajay on March 12th, 2007

The Adobe flash player very limited features. If you’re looking for something more feature rich to play those SWF files then Flash Movie Player is just the tool for the job.
Flash Movie Player is a free stand-alone player for ShockWave Flash (SWF) animations, based on the Macromedia Flash Player plugin. In addition to all Macromedia [...]

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Ajay on February 19th, 2007

This one is dedicated for all the MIDI fans out there.
MidiPiano is a very simple and useful application, you can open MIDI file and simulate play it in a virtual keyboard and record MIDI file by the virtual keyboard or MIDI IN device.

Features include:

Support MIDI IN/MIDI OUT devices.
Simple to Play and Record MIDI file.
Different color [...]

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Ajay on January 15th, 2007

Playlists are simply the best thing that happened to music playback. You can queue and choose exactly which order you want to play your songs and save this list for future use. Playlists IMO are almost a must when playing music on your iPod or music player when you have your music all neatly organized [...]

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Ajay on December 23rd, 2006

When my Dad was down this time, he brought along his iPod Nano. I already have an iPod 30Gb and so didn’t want to use his iPod Nano with iTunes. I searched around for some software that would let me manage the iPod.
I stumbled upon EphPod, which is an iPod managing application for Windows.

Their summary [...]

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Ajay on December 8th, 2006

Microsoft sure has a lot of running work to do. Just a day after a Zero Day flaw was detected in Word, a new flaw has been detected in Windows Media Player.
There is a detailed explanation for it as below:
The Windows Media Player library WMVCORE.DLL contains a potentially exploitable heap buffer overflow in its handling [...]

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Ajay on November 5th, 2006

With the launch of Zune on Nov. 14, MSN Music will begin redirecting its visitors to either Zune Marketplace Web site or to RealNetworks’ Rhapsody site reports C|Net News.
MSN Music had started to compete against Apple’s online store. The plus point that MSN Music had was that the music downloaded from there was in WMA [...]

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Ajay on November 1st, 2006

Apple has just released iTunes

iTunes is the easiest way to organize, share and listen to music on your computer. Find new favorites. Manage your growing library. Enjoy iTunes, the best friend an iPod will ever have! Working on your Windows OS.
Download Page and direct link for Windows.
This update includes support for the next generation of [...]

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