Archive for February, 2010
February 18th, 2010 | 
Author: Noir-themed gambling guide releases its official theme song and announces forthcoming developments.
For Immediate Release
Road Town, Tortola – [18th March] 2010 – Today, leading Web-development firm, MediaTier Ltd., christened AceHoyle.com’s Music & Videos section with the release of an original theme song by Boston indie rockers The Honors.
The new track, titled “Ace of Face,” is a tongue-in-cheek homage to theme songs from 1980s media franchises like “Masters of the Universe” and “G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.” A specially commissioned project, it will only be available for purchase through AceHoyle.com’s official store, Dick’s Dastardly Den.
The release coincides with the launch of AceHoyle.com’s Hoyle-ites Radio, which will allow users to select between and play the site’s musical offerings. Initially, the playlist will only include “Ace of Face.” However, additional songs will be added when AceHoyle.com’s Sonic Showdown Contest launches later this year.
Alongside the Sonic Showdown AceHoyle.com will launch a Hoyle-ites Video Diary tool that will allow users to upload music, movies and other content. The ongoing contest will invite any band registered with the site to compete for prize money and a chance to have its song appear on the official “Adventures of Ace Hoyle” soundtrack.
The Honors’ offering is already scheduled to appear on the forthcoming record, which will be for sale in Dick’s Dastardly Den. It will also figure into several other projects, including a flash-animation Web-comics upgrade, an official Facebook application and an animated series slated for 2011.
Commenting on the theme song, AceHoyle.com Executive Editor Phill Provance said, “This is the first of many steps we’re taking to make the site more than just your average gambling portal. The Honors is really such a talented group of guys, and we feel absolutely blessed to have had a chance to work with them.”
Those interested in learning more about The Honors can do so by visiting the band’s homepage or by attending one of their shows. Confirmed appearances include The Great Scott in Allston, Mass., March 12 and The Middle East Upstairs in Cambridge, Mass., April 1 and May 8.
About the Publisher
Tortola-based MediaTier Ltd. is a leading online developer specializing in online-gambling portals. For more information on AceHoyle.com or the company’s other offerings, please contact the site’s editors at editor@acehoyle.com, or through Contact Us page.
SOURCE: MediaTier Ltd.
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How much music is stored?
Clever though computers are, they exclusive deal with numbers: digital, rather than analogue, information. In fact, their vocabulary is restricted to meet zeros and ones: the binary number system. So music on a computer or iPod – whether it’s a folk song or a symphony – is reduced to a program of millions of zeros or ones. Or, more accurately, it’s reduced to a program of tiny magnetic or electronic charges, apiece representing a zero or a one. A typical song would consist of around 30 meg zeros and ones, while a 60GB hard drive in an iPod or computer can hold around 450 1000000000 zeros and ones – roughly 75 for every person on the planet!
But aren’t CDs also digital?
Absolutely. The idea of reaction music to zeros and ones is nothing new: CDs, MiniDiscs and any other digital formats also accumulation music as zeros and ones. But none of these other formats combines the capacity, flexibility and editability of an iPod.
I’ve heard of MP3s. But what are they exactly?
Computers accumulation information – such as documents, spreadsheets and images – as files, and there are various assorted formats for apiece category of file. A fancy book document created in Microsoft Word, for example, is saved in the doc format, while a simpler text-only document with no fancy styling is usually saved as a txt file. Likewise, a professional-quality photo might be in the tif format, while the same image displayed on a website would belike be a JPEG, which looks rattling nearly as good but is incomparably quicker to download. The format is usually included in a files’s study – Memo.doc or John.jpg, for example.
Music on computers (and iPods) can be stored in numerous file formats, but the main ones you need to undergo about are the ubiquitous MP3 (or Moving Pictures Experts Group – half audio layer 3 to give it its rather grandiose full title) and the more recent AAC (Advanced Audio Coding). Like JPEGs for images these are formats designed for squeezing lots of information into rattling small files; in fact, technically speaking, the names MP3 and AAC refer not meet to the file format but also to the compression algorithms used to do the squeezing. Each format has its pros and cons but they both achieve pretty amazing feats of compression. When a computer turns the uncompressed audio information on a CD into MP3 or AAC, the resulting file sounds almost same to the original but is around ninety percent smaller. That means ten times as much music on your iPod and ten times quicker downloads from the internet.
Tags: Here are the best touch laptops which will be released this year.
- HP TX2-1020US TouchSmart Laptop
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- Lenovo ThinkPad T400s
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- Asus T91MT
The newest member from the T91 family, the Asus T91MT is loaded with the Windows 7 operating system and the multi-touch screen software. This laptop is probably one of the world’s tiniest and slimmest screen PC. It allows you to navigate easily with a simple tap of your finger.
- Archos 9 PC Tablet
Enjoy the internet, music, videos and your TV shows all in one hand-held device. The device comes in an ultra thin and ultra small 9 inch touch screen, weighing a mere 2 pounds! Archos 9 comes with a 1.3 megapixel web camera, 1 GB Ram and 60 GB hard drive. Its best feature is notably its price: it costs only a few hundred dollars!
These laptops with touch screen capabilities seem amazing, but should you or shouldn’t you? In the long run, these laptops will be a good investment, especially to people who want laptops with more functionality and productivity. The features that come with touch screen laptops will make your work even easier and work will be finished half the usual time!
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