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Sound Quality of Audio Systems

Are vinyl LP’s better in certain ways than music digitized and recorded on CD or into a computer file? This is an interesting area of inquiry that I’ve thought about a lot over the years since digital recordings became a … Continue reading

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Clarification #409 – slash and backslash

There is an old punctuation mark (some prefer to call it a symbol) popularly known as the slash. Its most frequent uses are to separate alternatives (this/that) or to signify a simple fraction (1/2). Sometimes it’s used to represent a … Continue reading

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Windows 8.0/8.1 Start Screen — You’ve got to be kidding.

Alright, obviously Microsoft will be unaware of this post, and would ignore it even if they read it, but still, I can dream, can’t I? Here’s the thing. Windows 8.1 isn’t all that bad, except if you consider the shell … Continue reading

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Adobe Illustrator Mini-Tutorial – Making an Arrow Symbol

This is a quick video tutorial I built for some graphics clients. The “9-slice scaling” feature in Illustrator is often misunderstood, so this video tries to make it easier to grok. Ai CS6 – Arrow Symbol Construction Allen

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