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75--22: I will stop using the star function of Gmall just so I can feel like I've taken the appropriate steps with an email message. while I'm at lt, I may (or may not, this isn't a resolution so much as it is a vague hope) start clearing out and dealing with the piles of old and in many cases unread email messages in my inbox. 8,177 unread at the time of wrlting. This unwieldy inbox is the result of years worth of emails whose subject lines alone let me know I don't need to read further along with a daily email overload, sometimes as many as 250 messages in a day. Fortunately, Gmall has been steadlly ramping up the amount of storage accorded to each person. Mycurrent inbox size of 1717MB would have been around 90 per cent capacity six months ago. Now it's a mere 30. Still, lt really needs a purge. Ea;;a;:5_‚n

Frur: I will flnally get a wide screen monitor for my main home Computer. The productivity boost I've noticed using a wide screen in the office deserves to be applied to home Iife as well. lf nothing else, I can watch movies and play games inwide screen. That's gotta be worth something. 3CZSJiL-ÜIC“ 1

327l‘. 59v I will bite the bullet and pony up for a proper data plan. Cell phone plans are pretty reasonably priced... in marketing brochures. The truth ls however, unless you can justify in the region of S100 per month for a usable data plan with a decent amount of talk time as a business expense, they're just too expensive. lf the iPhone ever does actually lofflclally) make lt to Canada (at the time of writing, the Iatest rumoured date of December 4 has come and gone), I'll want one as much or more than then next person. But getting a usable data plan to take advantage of all that Appley goodness puts the total cost of ownership at over a grand a year. Yegodsl 311x: I will stop holding on to tech junk just because it had a value at one point in time. More to the point perhaps, I'll stop buylng tech junk just because it's got a price tag of S10 when 20 years ago, lt would have cost several thousand. Stuff like aluminum attache cases holding a reeltoieel video tape recorder (with cathode ray tube monitor) and an approxlmately eight tonne ‘portable’ video camera that attaches thereto. I'm a pack rat in some ways. i'm not yet to the point that my apartment is crammed to the ceiling with back issue magazines and newspapers to the point that you can't even walk. Still, it's a slippery slope.

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bac "ng tracks‚ or if you're into and dance beats where rec „rding your own audio is almost eleitronica unn" cessary‚ you should be able to getl y with an entry level Core 2 Duo. Dorilt even bother with lntel's Celeronbudüet CPUs just won't d0 the job. ry: 1GB of 400MHz RAM should be enoughfor most home studio hob yists; 2GB is better, especially if youllintend to use a Iot of post-recording eff ts, virtual instruments and the Iike. S ‘ e: This is one area where PCbasied systems annihilate standalone DA s. Whereas even the priciest sta alone makes do with measly sub80 hard drives, the storage capacity "of ur PCis virtually limifless. What's more, hard drives are ridiculously chefp. Werecommend not one but two driv s—the first for your operating systlem and applications, and the secpnd for your valuable tunes. This maliies Iife easier for your PCand gives youllinternal backup capabilities. These day y, dual 250GB drives won't cost mu more than S150.’ Sound Card: Look for a model that Supports a 24-bit data width and 96kHz sarnpling rate. lt should also have I/4— inchfinputs and a ‘breakout box‘ to 4

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far better idea for the budget conscious would be recorders entry Ievel (subS400) portable MH4 Handy such as the BOSS BR600‚ the ZO_ mLtitrack b‘ Recorder‚ the TASCAM DP-01 8-tr k Digital Portastudio, or the Fostex X-12 A ‘log Multitracker. The recording medium differs fronfil unit to unit (cassette‚ memory card and hard ärive, respectiveIyl‚ but they all offer hlfidelity sound that's Ieagues ahead of a straightup cassette deck. Moreover, each supports "multiträicking." Multitracking allows you to record and layer sevieral different instrumental or vocal tracks ontop of each other. You can, for exampIe‚ record guitar part, and then record a piano and/or vocal part while you're Iistening to that first guitar part. This is a critical feature for anyone who plays multiple instruments or wants to create a full song. The better models also allow you to quickly edit out and replace mistakes and add-studiostyle effects such as reverb or compression. But budget-Ievel portastudios simply won't do the trick for those whose aspirations go beyond the basics. They severely limit the number of simultaneous tracks you can record, the number of tracks you can store, the effects you can use, the editing process and future expandability and upgradeability. What's more, anyone who wants to work with loops (we'll discuss loops in a

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So you have this melody in your head. It's going around and around, and you know the music-buying public (or maybe just your best friends) will eat it up. You grab your guitar or run to your keyboard or warm up your voice and you flesh that baby out. But then what? What are you going to do to ensure you don't forget the megainit that right now exists only in your mind? You record it, naturally. But how? Inthis two-part guide, spread over this and the next issue, we'll look at the many options available to the home studio hobbyist. This month‚ we'll check out the entry-level options‚ the not-soentry Ievel alternatives, and the central components of a PCJoased rig. So if you're ready, lets rock.

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minute‚ though it can safely be said they play a big role in rock and roll demos and electronic musicl can usually not do so here. Sooner or Iater‚ most musicians who begln with a portastudio move on up the money ladder to something else. i

upsi and down of standalone DAWs That something else is often a fuIl-blown, standalone digital audio workstation (DAW). Really just trickedout, steroidenhanced versions of the portastudios above‚ standalone DAWs such as the Yamaha AW2400‚ the BOSS BR-1600CD and the ZOOM MRS1608CD deliver studiograde 24wbit digital recording, hard drive storage, a ton of effects (often including esoteric stuff such as pitch correction and guitar amp simulatorsl, enough inputs to record an entire band in one take‚ enough tracks to add any additional instrumentation or sounds your heart desires and more knobs and sliders and controls than even a professional audio engineer would Iikely need. Some include on—board CDburning and a roster of loops and drumbeats. But audio workstations such as these do have drawbacks, particularly to those of us familiar with the versatility and chameleoniike attrlbutes of a PC. lt, for instance, you want to upgrade the processor or the hard drive, you're out of luck. lf you'd prefer a fuIlcolour 20-inch display rather than the comparatively dinky monochrome screen you'll find in most Workstations, you may be able to connect one-or you may not. And if you want to use third-party effects or Software, you're going to have a hard time doing so. Essentially, the audio workstation you buy today will be pretty muchthe same five years from now. APC, on the olher hand‚ is fully upgradeable and expandable. lt isn't proprietary, so it'll run just about

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Wielding Power with a Soft Voice Power supplies have always had fans in them, even inthe time when you could touch a working CPU with your bare hands. Back then, they didn't need two or four of them though. When Iooking for a quiet power supply, check for one big fan over two small ones. Another factor that comes into play is the efficiency of the power supply itself. The less efficient it is, the more electricity it wastes in heat and the faster the fan has to spin to cool it When shopping for one, Iook for high efficiency ratings and a single Iarge fan, if any. There are a few totally silent power supplies out there, although usually onthe low end of capacity such as the FSP Fortron Zen FSP300—60GNF‚ which is 300W and goes for around S85.

A Case of Ratlle and Hum Cases are another source of noise as they can amplify the vibrations of drives and fans into sound. Generally l:l1e things to Iook for are adequate airflow, some weight, rubber feet and a ‘tight fit and finish üiroughout. Getljng an anti-vibration mounting kit can help with isolating

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Fans to Cheer quietly about Any type of fan used in a Computer, be it a case fan, Scythe Quiet Drive insides CPU fan or what have you, will make less noise the larger it is. That’s because it won't have to spin as fast so that use much it’s a wonder to move a given amount of air. As an added bonus‚ a power Iately Computers don't sound like vacuum cleaners slow, Iarge fan will likely last longer than a speedy, they heavy-duty all the heat have to The small one. lnstead of getting two 80mm fans, just use dissipate. they Considering hum of been a of has with one 120mm that will move roughly the same amount replaced days yore gentle chorus of fans both big and small. With all of them of air with half the noise. Bear in mind, bearing type . can effect fan noise with fluid bearing generally being emitting their own dulcet tones‚ video cards, CPUs‚ case fans, power supplies‚ motherboard chipsets and the quietest, followed by sleeve then ball bearing. Also, the occasional drive fan meld into an annoying an adequate intake of ambient air is important as the cacophony of white noise. However, ifthey didn't, larger the air intake, the less the fans have to work because they're not blowing the same hot air around. your components would cook in their own juices. And

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Cool Chip Coolers CPUs‚ video cards and northbridge Chips (memory Controllers) all need to have heatsinks or theyll overheat. Infact, they typically have a heatsink with a Iittle fan blowing down onthem, which can add unwelcome noise. When you add the three Component fans together, you can wind up with a fair racket. This is Called active Cooling. Again, the same deal applies ‚where bigger is better for both fan and heatsink. The big fan moves slower, which is quieter, and the larger the surface area of a heatsink, the more heat is transferred to the air. This makes the fan even more efficient and allows it to turn even more slowly. Infact, the Iatest and greatest third party heatsinks are quite a thing to behold, Iooking like something between jewelry and a chromed-up hot rod engine. You may even be tempted to get one of those cases that allow you to see inside. Although larger heatsinks are generally more efficient, bear in mind that materials and the use

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organizing religion, you can work through bringing those into your system at your Ieisure. Most cameras made in the past five years collect a Iot of additional infonnation called metadata and store it withythe image file. lf you made sure to set the camera clock to the right date and time, that information will be stored as-metadata, so you can use it to chronologically organize your images, for example. One of the main problems with “orphaned” folders of images is that you never realize you're missing the images until some event triggers a dim awakening of, "Oh yeah‚ I forgot about that-I'm sure the photo is here somewhere." lfyou've switched to a new Computer in the interim and scrubbed the hard drive before donating the system, those images may be gone forever. Thus, a second resolution to make is: I will back up and archive my hard drive. Backing up is such a well documented procedure that I don't want to get into the detalls of it here. But I will mention one slight Variation of it, which is the archiving function you might find as part of your image editing suite. Rather than backing up the whole hard drive, you create an archive of just the photo collection. You should do both-lhe photo archive for the convenience of having all your images in one place, and the overall data backup to make sure those errant photos you forgot about get backed up too. ByDavid Tanaka r

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articles about audio for video in the past... in April of 2007 and in a two part series in November and December 2006. And while I Iike to remind my video production students that pictures without sound—siIent movies—-died years ago, sound without picturesradio—is alive and weil, thank you very much. Whether you are working strictIy in a twochannel mono or stereo environment, or if you do enjoy 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound capabilities while watching your own video and DVD

creations at home, a little extra time spent producing and tweaking your audio will pay of'f in the end with a more immersive and enjoyable video presentation. Some of you will know already that camcorders boasting surround sound capabilities are available in the consumer market. Sony's DVD camcorder (DCR DVD308; about S599) is one of that company's camcorder Iineup that adds a tI1ree dimensional sound to its recording characteristics. The on-board camera mic and audio processing Subsystem does mimic the

characteristics of theatrical performance, and will add a fullness to regular or surround sound playback. But true surround sound from a single mic is tough, if not impossible. Most mics are designed with a specific pickuppattern that gives them their unique capabilities, and allows them to meet the demands of specific applications. Oflien, they reject sound from one direction in order to focus on sound from another direction. Uni or Omni directional, cardioid et cetlera are among different mic types but whatever the name, the pick-up characteristics can actually be drawn on paper to represent its hearing pattern. RecentIy‚ Torontobased company Rising Sun developed some cooI microphones with truly three

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worklng on a consumer Version, nicknamed the Holophone mini. lt Iooks like a cute toy trophy with a Iittle football ontopäand it mounts on the front of a camcorder. There is a Supermini Holophone now, also designed for video camera mounting‚ but ifs too big for most consumer camcorders‚ designed more for shoulder mount pro cameras. lts breakout processing and transmission unit is about the

size of a deck of cards:and the planned consumer model seems to have shrunk this size further. So home videographers do have some surround sound record capabiIities‚ and more are on the way. Even without true surround sound, good miding techniques and some clever "pan-potting" in the editing of your home video can be a creative alternative. Pan-potting is using the potentiometers on hardware audio boards or the virtual pots in video editing software to make sound follow motion. With a car whizzing through the frame from Left to right, the on-screen action can be reinforced by shifting the audio from left, through centre to the far right as the car goes through the frame, for example. Most video editing software will Iet you work with multiple audio tracks, and each can be panned across the left-right stereo spectrum with good results. So, too, many DVD authoring programs Iet you create surround sound mixes, even with mono source material. Some are as easy as dragging and dropping a sound clip (a digital file from taken off your camcorder‚ a music file or whatever) and dropping it right on a little speaker icon, one of five displayed in a surround sound capable program. Myfriend used Apple iMovie and iDVD and recently I've seen Corel's Ulead DVD Movie Factory at work too, with its 5.1 surround sound capability. Inall honesty, it is getting so easy to be productive and creative with surround sound audio for-video production that either side of the equation might dominate your next creation.

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metallic matte to burled lacquered walnut. The matte black amp fits on a shelf, desktop‚ countertop or beneath a desk. So the selfcontained Audiobyte system not only boosts PCbased listening‚ but of course, Apple iPods and other digital audio players as well. The amp has a USB pIug‚ to both play music and Charge the device. ByLee Rickwood

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reading speeds—and have an extra m note kicking around in your wallet—Dell offers an optional stateof-the-art 64GB solid state drive (you know, because rotating disks are just so 2007). And that's just its geeky guts. lt also has a sparkling clear 1920 x 1200 17inch display, as well as a Blu-ray drive that will let you take advantage of every one of those two-million-plus pixels when watching movies. Onthe subject of multimedia playback, it also has Dell's Media Direct Software, which lets users play movies and music without actually booting up the system. Meanwhile, the glossy black Chassis is the epitome of nerd cool. lt sports a pair of lighted panels on the cover‚ all sorts of glowing switches and buttons inside, a white backlit keyboard and a built-in Logitech GamePanel LCD that shows performance data and game stats while you play. lt might sound a bit overdone‚ but hey, if it’s stylish enough that Don Cheadle's wunderkind engineer is willing to be seen with it in Ocean's Thirteen‚ it's certainly hip enough for most gamers. Just keep in mind that, at two-inches thick and weighing nearly five kilograms, it’s not the sort of book you'll want to tote around. lts power adapter alone is bigger than some ultra-portable PCs. Suffice to say it falls safely into the category of desktop replacement. Besides which, the battery drains like a tub with the stopper pulled——especially if you're using it for multimedia applications. Long story short: The m173O is portable in a pinch, but designed to stay onyour desk and jacked into the wall. Now for the göod stuff: Games. We started slowly, booting up BioShock and Halflife 2. They both ran splendidly on

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Black and white is so passe. Never mind the Inthe Lab feature Iooking at monochrome laser printers that ran in our November 2007 issue. Westand by our assertion that mono laser printers still have their place in the office or in a SOHO environment. They are the reliable and necessary workgroup workhorses and until (or indeed if) weever reach the oft talked about but seemingly no closer to reality 'paperless office,‘ they aren't looking to make an exit any time soon. lf you haven't looked at colour laser printers in a while, you may be surprised at how relatively low the prices and how fulI the feature sets are these days; you can realistically buy a fuII colour laser printer that

is netvvorkable and that does duplex printing for under S500. What's more, the resulting fulI colour presentations, prints, graphics and charts won't Iook much different than the prints you get at a retail business Service printing shop. Colour is a simple way to help reinforce your message in printed products. Whether it's an otherwise drab wall of black and white text made more accessible with a‘colour graphic element like the ever popular pie chart or an illustrative picture to drive the point home, colour makes business documents more accessible and more likely to be read. Printing company letterhead in fuII colour can make an allimportant impact onClients. For the SOHO and independent business owners, creating your own stationary saves money and makes the outfit Iook that much more professional. With the cost of high quality colour laser printers dropping to landmark Iows and with print quality at all time highs, the time has never been better to make

the investment. All of the printers tested ln the Lab this month come in under S500 and performed solidly, offering at least reasonably fast prints, sharp black and white printing and high quality colour. Details oneach of the five . colour laser printers tested follows.

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i Duty cycle: 75,000 pg/mo. Connection: Ethernet, USB Lexmark's C532n is a well thought out machine and a solid performer for small or Iarge "yvork groups. Its 75,000 page per month maximunt’ duty cycle will keep even Iarge offices with moderate colour needs running smoothly and potentially saving untold trips to an outside print shop for colour jobs. The C532n comes in sub-SSOO (the ceiling set for this particular ln the Lab feature) and isi a nonduplexing printer. The virtually identical C532dn adds duplexing capabilities for another S200 on tdp of the price. To take fulI advantage of Lexmark's resource and energy saving modes, the duplexing model is the way to go. Lexmark has paid very close attention to Iowering the overall resource use of its printers; which is a good thing for both the environment and lyour wallet. The company deserves credit for the alitention it pays to ecological and economic concerns.. Its four line monochrome LCD display is non adjustable and difficult to see whemseated. This LCD offers easy access to the on-board rnenu and gives access to, among a great many other features, the aforementioned 'eco mode,‘ a power-saving toner miser setting that saves in more ways than one. The C532n is a very speedy printer; the company claims 24ppm in monochrome and ‘2lppm in colour in flieir best case scenario lab conditiqns. ln our real world tests‚ we saw an impressive 16.8ppm at the printer's default settings with the last page of our 10 page black and white test document hitting the finished tray in 35.85. Our colour test document cleared in p

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Connection: Ethemet, USB Brother's HL4040CN is an excellent half-way point between home inkjet and office colour laser printers. lts 35,000 page per month duty cycle and respectable print times mean it's well at home in a small office or small to medium enterprise workgroup. However‚ it could be equally in the SOHO as the mainstay home printer, both business and personal, thanksto its PictBridge connection that allows for direct from ‘camera printing. Users can choose to create an index print of all images on the camera's storage and then select the ones they want to print off. Photo printing quality is quite high but won't replace your dedicated photo printer or photo inkjet. Its twoline LCD panel is very readable and menus are easy to navigate using the pseudocolour LCD screen (more onthat in a moment) and simple directional button array. This monochrome text LCD screen tilts up for easy viewing and, in a neat and unexpected added touch. the backlight changes colour to indicate status. When everythings running smoothly, the LCD screen is backlit green. When it's processing a job, it turns yellow. lf there's a problem, the backlight turns red. This is a really simple and intuitive way of getting an immediate idea as to the printer's status from across the room so you'll know ifyou need to get up from your chair to reload the paper tray or replace a toner cartridge or if you're job is just not printing because the queue is long or a big job is spooling. Our 10—page black and white document cleared the printer in 46.1 for a ppm of 13; off the mark from the 2lppm Brother suggests but not out of the ordinary for the printers in the Lab. Text quality is equal to that of a quality mono laser. When printing colour, the page per minute count ironically climbs to 13.6ppm (10 Brother HL-404OCN

page document in44.2s) but still offers smooth and clean output for business graphics though it lost detail of low intensity orange and yellow on an 80 per cent white screen. SimilarIy‚ saturated blue was almost lost to the grey card screen. Printed photos are of good, but not excellent, quality; sufficient for a presentation but not album—ready. This is not unique to the Brother unit however. While its monthly duty cycle might suggest the printer is weil at home in a workgroup or small to medium sized office, its paper holding capacity says otherwise. There's a 250-sheet tray that can be expanded to accept up to legal size paper along with a 50sheet multipurpose tray for feeding in Ietterhead or other media‚ but that‘s it. There are no paper expansion options here and there is no duplexing option or version of the HL404OCN model. One particularly neat touch is the password protected print option. lf you’re printing a confidential or otherwise sensitive document, you have the option of sending the job to the printer, password protected. Upon sending the job, you can waik over to the printer, select your user profile, enter your password and receive the document. A nice change from the clickanddash method used previously with “for your eyes onIy" documents. There's also a onebutton option to reprint the last job, useful if you want to do a final check for alignment on the finished page without committing to the full print run or running back and forth between PC and printer. Under the hood, 64MB of RAM upgradable to 576MB and a 300MHz processor keep things running.

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Pearl, I decided that wider was okay if it BIackbeny B800: After a brief infatuation with the skinny meant a fuII thumb keyboard. I can‘t take the PearI's Iow-reä camera seriously, but I find the GPS in the 8800 is useful when traveling to new cities. The rest is tit fpr tat. With a pIan‚ the 8800 is around S250. II

Epson Stylirs Pro 3800 utractironn: When you have a highäesolution SLR, you can make big prints, and one of the most affordabIe ways to do that at home is with the StyIus Pro 3800. This modeI handles paper up to 17 inches wide, which means you can make 17I x 22 prints using Epson's or third-party paper suppIiers’ precut sheets. Epson pioneered archival print with its fade resistent pigment inks and the Pro 3800 uses the Iatest generation Ultrachrome inks. Rrice is an affordabIe 51,550.

Mm D300/Humus E-3: I'll admit that I was a Nikon SLR user Iong before the digital era‚ and the new D300 is a solid advancement of the D200 as the modeI to bridge the Iine between enthusiast and pro gear. But my recent experiences with Olympus SLR gear have been very satisfying and the new E-3 cpuld be the model to move meoff the Nikon path. The camera is par with anything else in its price cIass, but I think Olympus has created a steIIar Iine of smaII‚ Iight and fast (f2.8) mid-Ievel Ienses. With the va|ue o1the Canadian doIIar increasing against the Japanese Yen inuthe past few months‚ both the D300 and E3 have become more affordabIe-under 51,900. i;

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