If you own a consumer grade Hard Disk camera such as the JVC Everio Hybrid, you may be happy to know that the MPEG-2 format is now supported by QuickTime Pro through a simple download. The price is 20 dollars, and should make using this particular video camera, as well as others using the [...]

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This post is meant for Mac QuickTime Pro version 7.5. Other versions may work, but can’t be guaranteed. 
I recently had a need to play along with a soundfile at the Baroque standard of A=415. I was, however, interested playing along using a Piano at A=440. The way I did this was simply to drag the [...]

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Recently, a friend of mine asked about transposing or working with Finale files without needing to purchase the commercial version.  I figured, since I already did some of the legwork, I could make a post about it, so here goes:
Finale Notepad 2008 gives you the ability to import and export Midi files, and to open [...]

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Note: You should always have a backup of files that are edited in the following way.
One of the great features of the freeware FTP browser Cyberduck, is the ability to edit files directly from the file browser.  The reason I am writing this post, is because I used Cyberduck for about three years before I [...]

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 An annoyance is different from a bug in that it is something that you know is probably never going to change, and you can live with it, or work around it, but it still annoys you every time you see it.  You are aware that the fix would probably take about a day, but it [...]

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