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Please see my previous post on installing software and stretching audio up to a billion times. Summary below. PaulStretch 101 Easy how to on music track stretching Download and install PaulStretch-2.0 software, it runs on MacOSX, Windows and Linux (via WINE). Run the application and choose a track via File > Open

Paul Stretch is a piece of open source software capable of extreme time stretching a piece of music. It creates amazing euphoric style music from the most mundane of pop. Here you’ll see samples and a howto to get your started stretching your own tracks. Paul Stretch download Howto make your own Paul Stretch tracks [...]

Quick how-to, or at least how-I, for upgrading the Silverstripe open source CMS. Oh, one minor grip … it didn’t work FIXED. Silverstrip CMS upgrade (FAIL FIXED) Backup Of course you keep up to date backups so it goes without saying. But just in case you lose today’s data you should first backup your database [...]

However here’s a review of the current state of OCR on linux distros from a user perspective. I’ve looked at OCR for Linux briefly before when considering PDF editing and OCR of text-as-image in PDF documents but it’s not really relevant to this. Note this article is not yet finished! Optical Character Recognition OCR – [...]

AQA exam board announced that they are dropping C, C# and PHP from their approved list of computer programming languages in the upcoming syllabus. Here are example exam papers from 2009. Example exam papers from AQA AQA Computing 2009 The following are AQA Computing exam papers from 2009 for units 1 and 2 of the [...]

A list of tools to create screencasts (screen capture videos) and screen captures as well as some online web page image capture tools and full screen screenshot apps. No-install screen cast applications Video of my screen




  • admin: It is very easy, even I could do it! Virtually no learning curve to produce something (see my example). Something good on the other hand ...
  • GW!NEG!ON: interesting development with this PaulStretch thing, but i've been breaking music for months using AnalogX Autotune, XMPlay, and Sound Recorder from X
  • admin: @bob, @Ben, Thanks for your comments, guess I've been too long on Ubu' but now so long as it works I'm not too bothered if it's through WINE or wha

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