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Maritan Headsets (from Joel on Software) is a long but worthwhile article ( Read more... )

Thanks to Rob for solving my MIDI problem. After I posted I started pulling up old files for which I'd made instrument assignments so I could look up their numbers (narrowing the field some), but that only got me so far. Rob found the list. Thanks also to hobbitblue for pointing out that my new machine might not have come with new drivers.
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I just used MeetingMaker to schedule a weekly meeting. It requires that you specify an end date -- or you can just check "ongoing". Doing the latter causes it to fill in an end date of 12/31/2039. (Which is a Saturday, just in case you were wondering. My recurring meeting is on Tuesday, so one could argue that it should have set the end date ( Read more... )

I use Encore to typeset (and compose and arrange) music. It doesn't do everything Finale can do, but it meets my needs -- for the most part.
I'm currently arranging a (modern) piece of music for choir and piano. I'm finding there are two software features -- easy to implement I think -- that would make me particularly happy.
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At work I've been running an ancient and venerable version of cygwin (Unix shell for Windows machines), designated "B20". Once too often I got annoyed by not having a useful utility available, so I finally decided to upgrade. Not being stupid, I did not allow it to install over my current copy ( Read more... )

The Norton personal firewall that came pre-installed on my ( Read more... )

A while back I asked for help recording digital audio from one Windows application to another, and you folks gave me some good leads. The answer, for my needs, is Total Recorder ($11.95; demo available), suggested by tim_. Thanks, everyone! Installation and operation are mostly [1] painless ( Read more... )

My google-fu is not good enough, it appears. Or rather, my vocabulary for this problem space isn't good enough to generate useful search terms ( Read more... )