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Microsoft’s newest operating system came with a lot of enhancements “under the hood”. One of those enhancements is the ability to change the logon screen without the use of third-party software. For most users, this may or may not be a welcomed change as this feature was specifically made available for OEMs. This means OEMs can place their logo as the background image of Windows 7’s logon screen. This feature is primarily set through the use of a registry key. If you bought Windows 7 off-the-self, ...

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Have you ever wanted to auto-tune your voice? If your a person who has listened to popular singers such as T-Pain, you’ve probably heard this effect in action. Surprisingly, this technology was originally created to make minor corrections to a singer’s pitch, which allowed them to sing perfectly tuned tracks. Most people don’t see it that way and assume Auto-Tuning is just “skewing” a person’s voice, making a robotic sounding effect. I have to admit, auto-tuning your voice in order to distort it ...

Updated 03-26-2010 at 07:05 PM by Microsoft Man

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With the release of the Microsoft® Office 2010 beta many people have been looking forward to the new changes and enhancements. Although it is too early to tell what Microsoft has planned for the final release of Office, a preview of the beta gives us a hint. The most noticeable changes made to the popular office suite are seen in the interface. Microsoft® Office 2010 features a new animated splash screen while starting any of the Office products. The ribbon toolbar has also been slightly ...

Updated 03-06-2010 at 05:24 PM by Microsoft Man

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This is a video that I have recently made using Sony Acid Express and WavePad sound editor.

In my last post I showed off the WavePad Sound Editor application. It allowed for the editing of anything from music to your very own voice. Let’s say that you want to create a song, but you can’t get the timing quite right. Maybe you want to add additional sounds and/or voices. What do you do? If you are like me and you don’t want to pay for expensive software to get the job done, why not try using freeware. I recently found this cool program called Sony Acid Xpress that allowed for the compilation ...

Updated 02-18-2010 at 03:58 PM by Microsoft Man (Fix grammar and layout mistakes)

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