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Build your own Medium Wave transmitter from junk.
Don't amplify the output, or tweak an antenna, we are not responsible of any problems occurring as a result. The one we build for $ 0,75 has 9 Watts output and with a good antenna got  a 128 miles range.
Thanks to my good friend and junk transformer from radiomorningstar.

How to Change the iPod Mini's batteries
All Apple iPods are powered with lithium-ion batteries. They have a limited life span and will probably need to be changed after a couple of years of use. Apple has an exchange program where you can send your iPod in and get a new or refurbished unit in return. Alternatively, you could try changing the battery yourself.

How To Change the Apple iPods Battery
Despite its popularity, the Apple iPod often is criticized for its inconvenient access to the battery.

Podcasts
The popularity of podcasting is amazing -- it's one of the fastest growing computer applications. The original term "podcasting" referred to everything about the process from recording radio shows, posting it on web sites, and downloading and listening to it.

Podcasting -- Radio on your MP3 player
Podcasting is the latest buzzword in the computer world. It refers to radio style MP3 recordings that are available for download from web sites.......

How To Protect Your CD Collection - Five Tips
CD's are still pretty expensive say $10 - $ 15 per piece, making a 1000 CD collection costing more then 10k. Something worth protecting!

How To Transfer Your Video Tapes to DVD - Five Tips
Technology advances, the quality of Video Tapes is declining with the years. Time to burn them to DVD

How To Get The Most Out of Your Computer Audio Card
We use our computers more and more as entertainment centers. This asks for a whole new approach to the phenomenon Audio Card.

Learn From the Mistakes Others Have Made Buying MP3 Players
Buying an MP3 player often is an impulse buy, that's where costly and easily avoidable mistakes are made

How to Add MIDI to Your Computer
Interested in making your own music? Writing songs, instrumental music, even symphonies? You can do it with your computer thanks to the wonderful technology known as MIDI – Musical Instrument Digital Interface. No need to know how to read music, MIDI can be edited using easy-to-read graphs........

How to Use Your Computer as a Recording Studio
A few years ago there was a revolution in recording technology. As computers became more powerful, they started to replace traditional tape recorders that were the heart of most recording studios. Today, computers designed for home use are powerful enough to emulate an entire recording studio, and can be used for everything from multitrack recording to audio editing and scoring music for videos.
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How to Protect Your CD Collection
When CDs first started to become popular, one of their touted advantages was that they would “last forever”. Claims that they had a lifespan of at least 100 years were common....
 

How to Convert Mono to Stereo
It may happen that you have a few mono (single track) recordings in your music collection. You may have recorded them from the radio, or they may be live recordings that you captured with a single microphone. Mono music lacks the depth of stereo music, so if you want to add new life to single track recordings try converting them into stereo......

How to Set Your Auto-Play Options
Thanks to the multi-media capabilities of modern computers, many people are using PCs as their home entertainment center. Computers can play every type of digital media from audio CDs to DVD movies, and the computer can be connected to your television and sound system for great audio and video entertainment.......

Computer Audio Cards - The Howto
Most computers today come with audio connections that let you hook up speakers and a microphone. The sound from these connections is adequate but if you are serious about using your computer as a digital entertainment device capable of playing all sorts of audio and video, you should look into buying an audio card......

Organizing Your Digital Audio Collection
If you have been collecting audio files for even a short while, you probably have a fair number stored on your computer......

How to Compile Your Own CDs
If you are like 90% of the CD buying public, you are sure to have some CDs that you half-like. There are some songs that you love and some songs that you skip every time you listen to the CD. If only there was a way to get rid of those unwanted tracks permanently – and perhaps fill the spot with other songs that you prefer.......

 How to Capture Streaming Audio
Streaming audio is all over the web these days. There are live radio broadcasts, video and audio streams, and many music vendors use streaming audio as samples of their products.......

Normalizing MP3 Files
MP3s are great for music lovers. You can download your favorite songs, store them on a portable MP3 player and have wonderful music with you all the time. The big problem with MP3 files – especially if you have collected them from many sources - is that they are often at different volumes. You might have to adjust the volume control for every song....

Alternatives to MP3
There are more alternatives to this standard then you

How to Add Audio to Video
Mixing Audio and Video while maintaining synchronicity can be a pain. Here are some tips

Ripping Music with an Audio Grabber
Having your music collection stored on your computer is very convenient. You can easily browse through titles from different artists, create your own playlists or even let the audio program choose the music for you.

Expand Your System with Video Audio Switcherse
With today's complex entertainment systems, people may have speakers and video monitors at several locations in their house. Video audio switchers can sends signals to various output devices so that you can enjoy movies or music throughout the house........

Wireless Computer Speakers – Convenient and Practical!
Wireless keyboards and mice are popular accessories for computer users. They offer greater freedom of movement as well as clearing up some of that tangle of wires at the back of your computer case.

Wireless PC Speakers – A Sound Advantage!
The wireless age is upon us and nowhere is this more evident than in wireless PC applications. We have wireless mice, keyboards and printers and wireless monitors and scanners are on the horizon. Not to miss out on the wireless bandwagon, wireless PC speakers are becoming more and more common.......
 

Making an Exact Audio Copy
One of the advantages of digital audio is the ability to make an exact audio copy of CDs or computer files. In the past, if you want to make copy of a vinyl record, about the only option open to you was cassette tape. Transferring from vinyl to cassette resulted in noisy recordings that degraded even more over time.......

Using an Audio Editor
Computer audio applications are some of the most popular around. Windows comes with the Windows Media Player and there are literally hundreds of third-party programs for playing MP3 files, CD's and video. If you want to do more than just listen to audio on your computer, there are also many programs for editing audio. An audio editor will allow you to manipulate sounds in ways ranging from the mundane to the miraculous.........

Getting the Best Sound from Home Audio Speakers
Unless you only listen to music through headphones, home audio speakers are a necessary part of any sound system. Choosing good-quality speakers and placing them appropriately in your listening area can go a long way to maximizing your listening experience........

The Basics of Audio Mastering
Many things can be done during audio mastering. Equalization can be applied to individual tracks so that each instrument or vocal track occupies its own “place” in the overall harmonic spread. This is important to keep the music from sounding “muddy” - if the frequencies overlap it will be hard to distinguish one instrument from another.......

The Basics of Audio Recording
Audio recording has been with us for more than a hundred years. The phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison in 1877. It recorded sound by producing grooves on a soft cylinder which could be played back by running a needle through the grooves and amplifying the sound.

The Basics of Home Audio Speakers
There are great many home audio speakers on the market today ranging in price from a few dollars to thousands of dollars. Buying a set of speakers can be a confusing endeavor, but with a little bit of knowledge you should be able to make a wise choice.....

Basics of Audio Mastering
There are many stages to audio recording. The recording studio must be prepared, the correct mics selected, and various tracks recorded - usually 1 per instrument.....

Audio Recording Software
Audio recording used to be the domain of hardware units like tape recorders and cassette decks, but nowadays, almost all audio recording is done digitally. There are still hardware units for recording digital audio, but most of it is done using audio recording software. Anyone with a modern computer can become a recording engineer.