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Which OS - My MS Muddle
Category: Technobloggle July 6th, 2009 In my ongoing quest to get more performance out of my system, and thus more productivity for my day-to-day existence I´m starting to bat around what will be my next operating system choice. As much as I complain about Micro$oft I know it will be some form of windows - the only question now is... which one!... Tags: computers micro$oft windows read more

ClarksMaritime.com Launched
Category: Announcements July 7th, 2009 PawPrint.net is pleased to announce the launch of the Clarks Maritime web site, a home for the various nautical endeavours of Martyn and Margaret Clark. Previous customers and friends of PawPrint.net, this site was a joy to design and produce.... Tags: web design read more

SM Player
Screeshot of SMPlayer´s Mini Gui Category: Technobloggle July 13th, 2009 I though it might help others to provide a few links and micro-reviews of software we really like and use all the time - this is the first in that series featuring SM Player a free media player for several operating systems that, in our opinion, is simply the best one going...... Tags: software freeware reviews read more

Killing dswave32.dll
Category: Technobloggle July 30th, 2009 I spent the last 2 days on and off trying to rid a friend´s computer of a nasty little virus contracted through the use of limewire. I am publishing my findings and the solution here in the hopes it will help others.... Tags: trojan virus computers spyware read more

HTTP Headers Headache

Category: Technobloggle September 5th, 2009 Apparently some hardware combinations have some kind of problem if the JavaScript and CSS content uses certain cache-control headers. After a 10 month exercise in sleuthing to try and find what was causing up to a 45 second delay for some site visitors we finally nailed it down to the cache-control headers.... Tags: web design computers networking read more

Browser Plugin Check
Mozilla´s New Plugin Check helps keep you up to date Category: Technobloggle October 14th, 2009 Mozilla released a handy new web site today that will automagically check your browser plugins (these are different then add-ons which get checked automatically in the background) to ensure they are up to date.... Tags: computers software security read more

Security Software Battles Might Degrade Performance
Category: Technobloggle October 16th, 2009 I recently got the challenge to try and fix a PC that was running at about half speed. After several deep scans confirmed there were no naughty viruses or malware lurking around, we eventually found that it was the security software itself that was a large part of the problem...... Tags: trojan computers software virus ... read more

And the winner is: Windows 7 - 64Bit
Category: Technobloggle November 2nd, 2009 In a previous post I waffled about electing to take the Windows 7 - 64bit plunge and when to do that in order to finally unlock the rest of the RAM on my system. I have just about finished up testing Windows 7 on a 2nd desktop and thought I would share the results...... Tags: micro$oft windows software computers read more

Prevent Windows 7 Thumbs.db Files

Category: Technobloggle November 18th, 2009 Contrary to what a lot of online sources are saying Windows 7 DOES automatically make hidden thumbs.db files in any folder where it encounters a picture. This thumbnail cache wastes space and pollutes folders with hidden files that can cause problems in certain circumstances, here is how to prevent them...... Tags: windows micro$oft windows 7 tips read more

Thunderbird 3 RC 1 Notes
Category: Technobloggle November 27th, 2009 Now that the first Release Candidate of Thunderbird 3 is out, and because I´m a glutton for new software versions I hazarded an upgrade to the new version. I love what I see so far, but there are a couple if bigtime gotchas that others might want to know about...... Tags: bleeding edge mozilla thunderbird email read more

Versaverter 4 - In Development
Category: Versaverter December 13th, 2009 Versaverter 3 has been out and slowly becoming obsolete since 2005. It was high time to kick things up a notch and get a modern release out the door. We had some high expectations for where Versaverter should go and we´re now fairly confident that it is going to do exactly what we wanted!... Tags: versaverter adobe air development software ... read more

Versaverter 4 Alpha 1 Released
Versaverter 4 - Completely Re-written Category: Versaverter December 14th, 2009 PawPrint is thrilled to announce the availability of the first Alpha release of Versaverter 4. The first release since 2005 primarily addresses usability and opens Versaverter to the Mac and Linux users (and any other platforms where Adobe Air will run)... Tags: versaverter freeware software unit conversion read more

Air Files downloading as ZIP
Category: Technobloggle December 16th, 2009 As I begin my foray into the Adobe Air development arena I hit a strange snag for some people trying to download .air files - Windows was silently changing them to .zip during download - breaking the entire process! Here is how to fix it.... Tags: development software air read more

Versaverter 4 Alpha 2 Released
Category: Versaverter December 17th, 2009 The second alpha release of Versaverter 4 is now available for download and testing. The new version includes several enhancements, bug fixes, and new features. This release is still alpha software so we expect a few rough edges.... Tags: unit conversion versaverter software release read more

Versaverter 4 Alpha 3 Released
Category: Versaverter December 19th, 2009 The third alpha release of Versaverter 4 is now available for download and testing. The new version includes mainly bug fixes and just a few more enhancements and new features. This release is still alpha software so we expect a few rough edges.... Tags: unit conversion versaverter software release read more

Chirp Module Released
The main chirp form Category: Announcements January 16th, 2010 PawPrint is pleased to release the new chirp module, an on-site twitter-like short update system that is integrated into the XDe and accepts pre-loading from other modules while providing automatic updates to twitter and soon other social bookmarking sites.... Tags: chirp module xde twitter read more

Internet Explorer Security Holes are a Good Thing

Category: Technobloggle January 21st, 2010 We have been encouraging people to switch from Internet Explorer to basically any other browser for several years now and the latest security holes that have garnered world wide attention after the Google issues in China just underline the reasons why. However, all the press is getting people to switch and that is great news for the web in general!... Tags: micro$oft security software read more

PHP 6 is coming

Category: Technobloggle February 10th, 2010 The long awaited PHP 6 version is starting to look more like a reality at the end of a very long tunnel, but in the immediate future the PHP team has depreciated several functions and language concepts in the PHP 5.3 release that are clearly aimed at helping developers start to migrate early...... Tags: web design computers software bleeding edge ... read more

Nvidia 196.75 Driver Warning
Category: Technobloggle March 5th, 2010 The latest Nvidia drivers may have a serious flaw that can reduce performance, possibly cause the card´s fan to stop, and may even lead to hardware damage. The reports are so serious Nvidia has removed them from their web site pending further investigation.... Tags: computers hardware drivers nvidia read more

Versaverter 4 Alpha 5 Released
Category: Versaverter June 18th, 2010 The fifth alpha of Versaverter 4 (alpha 4 was not released) is now available for download and testing. The new version includes several bug fixes and just a few enhancements. This release was largely completed to implement the build in the new version of Flash Builder.... Tags: unit conversion versaverter software release read more

Laser Mouse 6000 - Cleaning
Category: Technobloggle June 27th, 2010 The scroll on my mouse had been getting steadily more choppy and erratic for a while.. I knew it needed cleaning but finding the screws to open the thing was a challenge. This little howto is provided in the hopes of helping others with a similar mouse.... Tags: computers hardware tips read more

Wildflowers Transformed

The new look of Wildflowers Category: Announcements June 27th, 2010 After several years it was time for wildflowers bed and breakfast to have a face lift for their web site. While PawPrint had assisted with several small changes to their previous site, it was our pleasure to propel the site forward with a new design backed by our XDe Content Management System.... Tags: development web design read more

Confused about the BC HST

Category: Technobloggle June 28th, 2010 As a software provider located in BC, and the changeover date for the new Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) fast approaching I have been trying to get some straight answers about how it applies to my business. This turned out to be harder then I would have thought and the answers I eventually got were most surprising! The following should help anyone in BC or Ontario in a similar non-tangible goods service industry.... Tags: business taxes bc canada read more

Un-googled

Category: Technobloggle July 4th, 2010 For the past 24h the ISP serving PawPrint´s main office had an issue that prevented subscribers, including us, from connecting to any of the many google web sites (including mail, maps, search, basically anything from the big G was offline) Despite everything else being just fine - it was amazing to see what an effect this had on the Internet in general.... Tags: web design google networking computers ... read more

Virus Prevents all .exe Execution
Category: Technobloggle July 28th, 2010 Another computer infested with some nasties found its way to my desk. Cleaning the Trojans from this one was easy, getting windows working again after proved to be slightly more difficult...... Tags: spyware trojan computers software ... read more

Recent Items
Category: Announcements August 19th, 2010 The latest platform-wide free enhancement to the XDe dramatically enhances the user experience by automatically providing ready back-links to recently accessed content. Immediately available for all registered users on all XDe based sites, the new system is already integrated with many key modules...... Tags: xde release module read more

PDF Repair
Category: Technobloggle September 15th, 2010 I was recently given a PDF file that consisted of scanned pages requiring repair. Commercial repair tools only recovered the first page. I managed to find one option to go a little further. This option for advanced users is presented here in case it helps others.... Tags: recovery documents repair pdf read more

New Social Media Integration
Example of what the share bar looks like Category: Announcements October 3rd, 2010 This latest update implements integration with several prominent social media communities and adds QR Codes without the drawbacks of using typical third party methods.... Tags: facebook enhancement xde twitter read more

Speed Stats and Sharing
Category: Announcements October 12th, 2010 The frequency of really useful updates and enhancements seems to be increasing - something that is always good news. Today there are 3 great updates to report. From jQuery to Social Media to Web Analytics and everything is free for anyone using the XDe.... Tags: release xde update stats ... read more

Compiling FFMpeg on Centos 5
Category: Technobloggle October 20th, 2010 This is a highly technical guide to how we managed to install ffmpeg on several CentOS 5.5 32 and 64bit platforms to achieve an effective modern web video transcoder.... Tags: technical video ffmpeg read more

Explorer.exe won´t start after Virus
Category: Technobloggle November 26th, 2010 After getting hit by a virus through a malicious web site (one of those fake anti-virus types) this little netbook wouldn´t boot completely into Windows 7. Everything started except explorer.exe Here is how we fixed it...... Tags: computers trojan virus recovery read more

Web Site Optimization
Category: Technobloggle November 21st, 2010 Over the last 2 weeks PawPrint has dramatically enhanced our existing optimization strategy to deliver dynamic web sites faster and more efficiently. This article explores how we keep sites fast and efficient for all clients, with the goal of providing ideas for others.... Tags: web design php javascript css ... read more

iPhone vs Android
Category: Technobloggle December 5th, 2010 Because PawPrint develops mobile apps we have several phones on hand for testing. Considering all the jousting fanboys extolling the virtues of one platform over another we thought it may be appropriate to add our review from using both phones on a daily basis.... Tags: mobile iphone android phone read more

PawPrint Welcomes Jacques Tredoux
Jacques Tredoux Category: Announcements January 17th, 2011 PawPrint is thrilled to welcome Jacques Tredoux as a new designer/developer to our team. Jacques returns to PawPrint after several years away in Alberta and we are thrilled to have him back in an expanded role.... Tags: development staff company pawprint read more

Mobile Friendly HTML5 Video

The video upload dialog Category: Announcements January 28th, 2011 By 2014 (or some say even earlier) more people may browse web sites on mobile devices then using desktop computers. As video becomes a key content element, it is essential that web sites can deliver video to all devices. Until now, the process to provide that level of compatibility has been very complicated. The PawPrint AVC (Automatic Video Converter) is going to change that.... Tags: html5 mobile video flash read more

Minor Softball Gets a Web Re-design
the new look for secheltminorsoftball.ca Category: Announcements February 11th, 2011 PawPrint.net has donated a web site to Sechelt Minor Softball for several years now as a small way to give back to the community. The site was starting to show it´s age and we wanted to give it a new look and some added features...... Tags: community update design website read more

Launched: Smoke n Steel Car Club
Category: Web Design March 1st, 2011 With little money and a need for a comprehensive web site that would suite a small organization the West Kootenay Smoke n Steel Car Club turned to PawPrint for a site that would fit their needs and budget.... Tags: website design launch community read more

Latest Email Scam
Screenshot of the email message Category: Technobloggle March 24th, 2011 We are all plagued by email scams constantly but sadly many still fall prey to their tactics. The last received here is a new tactic in the domain registration type of scam and this notice will hopefully save you the trouble of wasting $75 and possibly much more trouble.... Tags: domain scam email read more

Recovery from Amazon EC2 Outage

Category: Announcements April 23rd, 2011 The PawPrint.net web site is finally back online after a 3 day outage due to the recent, massive failure of the Amazon Cloud data center in Virginia. Many of our customers and colleagues were also affected by what some are calling the "Great Internet Fail of 2011" This article is geared for those who are still trying to understand what happened and how to prevent it.... Tags: server hosting internet read more

Temp Flie Cleaner

TFC Screenshot Category: Technobloggle May 21st, 2011 Every Saturday we´re going to add a review of or tip for a piece of software we find useful focusing as much as possible on inexpensive or freeware applications that will give you a great big benefit! The first is Temp File Cleaner (TFC) by OldTimer (there are several applications with this name and we´re recommending this specific one.... Tags: saturday software review windows ssr read more

Google Dropping Old Browser Support
Category: Announcements June 2nd, 2011 According to a June 1st Google Blog post the company will be dropping support for older version browsers starting August 1st. This is great news for the web as it will hopefully start to push more late adopters forward and allow web developers to continue to innovate.... Tags: google web design browsers read more

KeePass
Category: Technobloggle May 28th, 2011 We constantly hear that we should use different passwords all the time and change them for security - which is Ohhhh so true - but this presents the problem of trying to keep track of them all... KeePass to the rescue!... Tags: passwords software saturday computers ... read more

VLC Media Player
VLC Streaming one of our web cams Category: Technobloggle June 4th, 2011 Some may already know VLC as the media player that is free, fast, and will play basically anything you throw at it. Even those that do may not realize that it is also a powerful media conversion, streaming, and video capture package.... Tags: conversion media video saturday ... read more

Textpad
Textpad Main Editor Category: Technobloggle June 11th, 2011 Windows comes with the very rudimentary text editor: Notepad, and the slightly more robust: Wordpad, but both pale in comparison to Textpad. Don´t underestimate the value of having a really great text editor on your system. As text editors go - this one is hard to beat.... Tags: ssr saturday software review windows read more

Core Temp
Category: Technobloggle June 18th, 2011 It´s good, especially in summer to keep tabs on just how hot your system is running. Any issue that causes your system temperature to climb too high can be a likely cause of crashes and/or system slow downs - even, in extreme cases, permanent damage. Core temp makes that easy and unobtrusive.... Tags: monitoring temperature saturday software ... read more

Automatic Timelapse Video
Category: Technobloggle June 17th, 2011 In part to see how it would work, and in part to evaluate the possibilities for some specific applications I have completed a project to create a daily time lapse video that is completely automated using the Axis M1104 web cam, ffmpeg video transcoder, and simple shell scripts.... Tags: timelapse ffmpeg web cam video read more

Tight VNC
Tight VNC Connection request Category: Technobloggle June 25th, 2011 Have more then one computer in the house and need to quickly change something without wanting to walk over to it? how about helping a family member online, or controlling your system without a monitor, mac from PC or vice versa? Tight VNC will do all of that!... Tags: screen sharing freeware software saturday ... read more

Firefox Memory Leaks
Memory use after 6h idle Category: Technobloggle June 28th, 2011 After frequently needing to kill FF when it consumes over 2GB of RAM (I´ve seen 3GB and 4GB sometimes) I figured a little test was in order to see just how bad the memory leak problems are in the browser.... Tags: web browsers firefox freeware computers read more

IMG Burn
Main Mode choosing screen Category: Technobloggle July 2nd, 2011 The very best CD/DVD burning software for Windows also happens to be freeware - it just makes it all the better! If you need a reliable fast CD/DVD or image file creation package then IMG Burn is the answer.... Tags: burning saturday software freeware ... read more

Social Networking for Small Business

Category: Announcements July 13th, 2011 There has been a lot of hype about social media, advice running rampant. Much of it disseminated by "consultants" eager to get your business by ´helping´ you with social media campaigns etc... For most small business this is not a viable approach. In fact, we have seen little good information specifically catered to small business about how best for them to tackle the social networking world. This article is specifically aimed at providing advice for small business and non-profit organizations about social networking.... Tags: twitter facebook social networking social media ... read more

XDe CMS Updates
XDe CMS Update Category: Announcements July 15th, 2011 A series of enhancements to the XDe CMS will help web sites get listed better on the search engines as well as on Google Plus the new social network from Google. In addition the news module has been enhanced to provide a more streamlined form for adding articles.... Tags: linkedin google plus twitter facebook ... read more

The Google+ Real Names Policy

Category: Technobloggle July 27th, 2011 Everyone is talking about the real names policy and how it´s partly there to help prevent against abuse. The sad thing is - I sincerely doubt it will do that at all. As with most proactive software controls the abusers will find a way to circumvent it and the only people that are affected are legitimate users who would appreciate some anonymity.... Tags: social media social networking google plus read more

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Adobe Edge
Category: Technobloggle August 1st, 2011 Adobe released the first preview of their new HTML5 media authoring tool called Edge. To give this a ultra-fast test-drive we wanted to see what we could produce in just 5 mins using the software for the very first time and what that output actually looks like. The results are actually quite impressive.... Tags: adobe flash beta web design ... read more

Windows 7 Fresh Install Tips

Category: Technobloggle August 30th, 2011 Having just completed a fresh install of Windows 7, it seemed fitting to share some tips for starting off right with your new (or renewed as was the case for me) system. A good fresh install for an existing system may take several days but the speed and space improvements are usually worth it every couple of years.... Tags: os windows 7 micro$oft computers ... read more

Massive XDe Update
Category: Announcements December 10th, 2011 This could be the most comprehensive XDe update ever. From users to new content building wizards to enhanced multilingual capabilities across the platform.... Tags: xde enhancement development cms read more

Are you secure online?
Category: Technobloggle July 13th, 2012 Are you secure online? Protect yourself by taking a little time and updating your passwords around and about your digital world: Then keep them updated: New year = new passwords - it is well worth the time. Here are some tips for creating and managing secure, easy to remember passwords.... Tags: passwords security 2012 read more

Use Klout to build your Social Network
Category: Technobloggle January 3rd, 2012 The outward focus of Klout is to measure social influence online, but it is also a great way to grow that same influence, using Klout as another place to interact and meet new people. Their +K system for assigning influence can be a great way to grow and help others do the same.... Tags: google plus twitter facebook social networking ... read more

Scheduled Chirp Updates
Category: Announcements January 5th, 2012 Just released updates to the XDe CMS Chirp module that allows you to schedule updates for social networks as well as on-site viewing. Just set a future date and the update will automatically publish at the time you choose as much as a year in advance.... Tags: social networking facebook twitter development ... read more

Google Search Going Social

Category: Technobloggle January 10th, 2012 Google is starting to do exactly what everyone thought they would and combining more and more of the content from Google+ (their new social network) directly into search results. Now they have announced that you can control your search results to include the personal "social" results and/or global results in a Google Blog Post. The important thing to consider is how all this affects you when you´re seeing where your web site fits in the search results.... Tags: google seo search web design read more

PawPrint is Back Online

The Pawprint.net homepage during the #SOPAstrike Category: Announcements January 18th, 2012 On January 17th at 8pm PST we intentionally replaced the PawPrint.net home page with a message effectively disabling our web site for the first time since 1994. This extraordinary action was taken to show support for the thousands of web sites and millions of people who spent the day rallying against this flawed proposed legislation.... Tags: censorship pipa sopa community ... read more

PHP 5.4 nearing release

PHP 5.4 final release testing Category: Technobloggle January 29th, 2012 In a recent post on Google+ the opening is laced with humor "We are in the final push to PHP 5.4 and we need your help. Everyone who is using PHP can give us a hand here, regardless of your technical abilities. Facebook employees, take a break from calculating your stock option scenarios and give us an hour of your time...."... Tags: web development coding php read more

Google, Facebook, Pay Pal, and others: anti-phishing email protocol

Category: Technobloggle January 30th, 2012 The plan surrounds the existing systems DKIM and SPF and from a quick read seems to basically be an attempt to back and promote these existing systems with a few add-ons. To quote the dmarc.org web site "A group of leading organizations came together in the spring of 2011 to collaborate on a method for combating fraudulent email at Interenet-scale."... Tags: phishing paypal facebook microsoft ... read more

Web Design in 1995

The Duke of Edinburgh´s Award Gold Award Society home page (c) 1995 Category: Technobloggle January 30th, 2012 Inspired by an article about the history of web design shared by @timothywhalin I went hunting in my archives to find the oldest web design for which I still had a copy. Since I started building sites in 1992 I wasn´t sure how far back I could go - Managed to find my moldy oldies from 1995 through 1998 and though I´d share them for fun.... Tags: web design history 1995 read more

New AJC-AJJ.net Web Site
The new ajc-ajj.net home page Category: Announcements February 17th, 2012 PawPrint is pleased to announce the launch of a new XDe CMS powered web site for the Association of Justice Council in Canada http://ajc-ajj.net/ features a fully bi-lingual member-focused site that includes loads of enhancements added by request to the core XDe... Tags: website web design launch read more

XDe Enhancements
Category: Announcements March 5th, 2012 Part in parcel with code updates to take further advantage of new features and changes in PHP 5.4 (released last week) we are implementing changes to the XDe CMS code that will increase the speed of all sites and reduce server memory load.... Tags: coding web development php xde ... read more

Trackmail Update Gives Detailed Stats
Category: Announcements March 24th, 2012 XDE CMS now bosts impressive new tracking features as part of the enhanced ´trackmail´ module. Existing users will gain new graphs and category breakdown for past messaging. All new messages sent get aditional stats including first view and more...... Tags: update cms module xde read more

Bitrates and Codecs and Bandwidth Oh My!

Category: Technobloggle April 23rd, 2012 For many, even many video professionals, encoding and modern video compression is basically just a black box full of voodo computer magic. Most just pick a preset and hope for the best and sadly so many of the presets are really not all that great. I get asked constantly for advice in this area and over the years have learned a lot. This needs to be a more complete article, and eventually I will create one - but for now I´m going to address a few or the more salient points.... Tags: media youtube video encoding ... read more

Mousewheel Jog/Shuttle in Steinberg Nuendo 4

Category: Technobloggle April 30th, 2012 For anyone using the Steinberg Nuendo family of audio post software this is a little tutorial for how to overcome the rather gaping hole of no way to Jog/Shuttle on the timeline using the mousewheel. It uses a combination of key assignments in Nuendo and AutoHotKey on PC to add this key feature of standard editing workflows.... Tags: audio nuendo software script read more

PHP 5.4 Gotchas for Developers

Category: Technobloggle May 10th, 2012 After running PHP 5.4 on my development environment for a while I have hit several things that could easily cause enough grief that they need calling attention to. These are new features or changes that will break some existing edge cases in somewhat hidden or obscure ways and can take a long time to find if you don´t know what you´re looking for.... Tags: development programming php read more

Synching iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, and Thunderbird

Category: Technobloggle July 5th, 2012 I have a Mac, PC, Android, iPhone and iPad; plus I use Thunderbird for mail on the PC and want all these things to seamlessly sync up their calendar and contacts. Really this is very rudamentry data and should be easy but for some reason it isn´t. There is a solution though but it involves some mighty strange but simple tricks.... Tags: android computers ios google ... read more

CMS User Interface and Mobile Viewer Updates
Category: Announcements August 7th, 2012 Updates have been released to the XDe CMS that include the ability to target content sections and site navigation to desktop and/or mobile devices. The content management form has also been updated to an improved user interface. Check out the walkthrough video for details.... Tags: enhancement cms xde mobile read more

A Google Maps App won't help iOS6

Sechelt BC looks like a targeting computer in Apple Maps Category: Technobloggle September 25th, 2012 Should we be surprised that Google isn't planning to release an iOS native Maps app soon? Perhaps the real question should be: would it even matter if they did? The real problem with the horrifically bad maps in iOS6 really has nothing to do with the dedicated maps app. So what questions should we be asking? ... Tags: app ios maps apple ... read more

Navigation Icons and Improved Audit Trail
New XDe Navigation Icon Selection Category: Announcements October 10th, 2012 Headlining the latest XDe updates are new navigation icons and a series of enhancements to the audit trail. The latest roll-out, as usual, also includes various bug fixes and a slew of optimizations that will improve site speed and accessibility.... Tags: audit enhancement icons xde ... read more

Protect your online privacy and security
Category: Announcements December 31st, 2012 Start the year right with a New Year's Resolution you can actually keep and will take most people less then an hour to complete. Follow these simple steps to dramatically improve your security and privacy online.... Tags: security privacy social media read more

What's Coming for 2014
Category: Announcements January 1st, 2014 By now, we're pretty sure everyone will be incredibly tired of all the 2013 retrospectives. So rest-assured this article is not going to hit you with yet another one! Rather a look forward to what is coming and some things you should consider right now to start 2014 off right.... Tags: company mobile 2014 read more

Power Mixer
Power Mixer Control Deck Category: Technobloggle February 19th, 2014 I had been looking for some better controls for my system audio and finally found a great solution in Power Mixer from Actual Solution. The windows mixer replacement boasts a wide array of features for the audio enthusiast and hobbyist alike.... Tags: audio software review read more