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MIDI/Audio Latency – a HUGE problem.

Friday, March 20th, 2009

MIDI and Audio latency.  This is one of the largest looming crises that we face as an American society today.

Well… OK, maybe not. But to the desktop musician trying to put background music to their new song, it can be a huge frustration.

Most people don’t really know what latency is, why it’s a problem, or how to correct it. They just restart their computer, reinstall windows, tap three times on the back of their knee cap and hope it magically goes away. But somehow that still doesn’t seem to help.

Thankfully the answer is here.  You don’t need to go out and buy a new computer (in most cases). And you don’t need to have the geek-squad come out and find out why your hard drives aren’t spinning fast enough. You don’t even need to reinstall windows.

Just watch my brand new video on YouTube.  It will explain everything!

- Solving MIDI Latency -

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqYJ9vTclGM

Great Image Resize Tool – VSO Image Resizer

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
imageresizer-box

VSO Image Resizer

Ok, I decided to start things off on the lighter side.

I have always thought it was a pain to deal with images. Personally, I work with Photoshop on a daily basis, and Fireworks sometimes for batch image processing. I know how to process my photos and work with them pretty efficiently.

However, sometimes I just want to email a few pictures from my digital camera to a friend. What a nightmare it is to have to open Photoshop and manually resize each photo before sending it.  Not to mention that often the people I deal with as clients don’t even have Photoshop or any other image editing program. So what are they supposed to do to easily get their images to the correct size?

I have found the answer.  Well… ok… maybe “an” answer. I know there are probably many more options out there.

pictures_resizeIt works great.  You just select the images you want to resize, right click, select “VSO Imager Resizer and your off.   You can put in the exact size or percentage scale, and the software resizes the image(s) in seconds.

I like that you don’t have to open up a program and navigate to the folder to find the image you wanted to work with.  It all happens right there in windows explorer.

When you download the free version, it does pop up this box asking you to purchase the full version, but hitting “continue” bypasses that and the program works just fine vso_continuefor the rest of the session with no other annoying screens.

I like this little tool.  I will most likely buy it because it is so useful.

If you try it, comment on this post and let me know what you think of it.

VSO Image Resizer – Demo