Compact Discs Archive

  • Enhance your MP3s all you want with iDFX Audio Enhancer. They still suck.

    Enhance your MP3s all you want with iDFX Audio Enhancer. They still suck.

    iDFX Audio Enhancer is an add-on to iTunes that serves to, "re-encode your current MP3 and AAC files using a patent-pending method that repairs the damage and lost harmonics that occurred during the original encoding process". Sounds like doublespeak to me for a $40 EQ and extrapolative guesswork. And the demo of iDFX sounds like just that. if you want good sounding audio, stop buying MP3s. And if you want smaller file sizes, start compressing with FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, or any number of lossless codecs.

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  • Back-to-School: Who are our new college freshman?

    Back-to-School: Who are our new college freshman?

    We're running a Back to School extravaganza right now, but one thing that I don't know if we really addressed is: Who exactly is going back to school? Or, more accurately, who is going to college for the first time in a few weeks? (That's who these Back to School things are usually for, freshman. If you're going back odds are you know exactly what you need and what to expect.) What have today's 18-year-olds experienced in the world, what are they about, and what do they expect from technology?

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