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Sep

Disable VLC Building Font Cache

The VLC player, which stands for VideoLAN Client player, is one of the most popular video players in the market. It can play most video files regardless of formats. For Windows user, this is definitely a good news as it is a better replacement for Windows Media Player and most of all, it’s free.

The VLC player can be easily recognized with an orange traffic cone logo. However, it does come with a minor annoyance, and in this case, it is the Font Cache dialog window, which pops up every time when you start to use the player. It can be a bit irritating especially if you have to click the cancel button every time you are watching a video.

So, what exactly is a font cache and how to disable it?

What is a font cache?

When watching movies, there are several occasions when different font styles are used in the movies. To help solving the problem, the VLC Building font cache window pops out every time because it can make the subtitles to become clearer on your screen. So VLC developers have created a font fig that contains a list of all the fonts available in this world.

How to get rid of the font cache

Removing the building font cache is easy and can be done in just a few steps. You just need to complete the following instructions to disable the building font cache window:

1. Open the VLC player by clicking on the traffic cone icon. From the Tools Menu selection, click preferences.

2. On the lower left part of the window you can see a check box labeled as All. Click the tiny box beside it.

3. Click on the expand video tab on the left side of the window and select the subtitles/OSD option.

4. On the right side of the same window you will see the drop down menu. Click on Dummy font rendering functions.

5. After that, its time to check if the video is working properly. Re-open the VLC player by clicking on the traffic cone icon. Play the video or movie with subtitles, and as you will notice the Building Font Cache dialog box will not appear anymore.

Voila! No more annoying pop-ups at the welcome screen.

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Sep

How to Fix High Average Disk Queue Length

How-To, Tips & Tricks

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Your computer will automatically generate a disk queue length when you switch on your computer. In general, the disk queue length of a computer can affect its performance, because this is basically the list of tasks that your computer has to accomplish. In this article we will tell you what exactly is an average disk queue length and what it does to your computer.

An average disk queue length tracks the number of requests or activities you do during an interval. Let’s say you want to open a program, following by an Internet browser, and then go on Skype to chat with your families. Your computer will put all these tasks in a queue, and the performance of your computer will depend solely on how your computer handles them. For a single disk system, the moment you run two requests simultaneously, your computer might lag or slow down when processing the requests. This is the time when your computer is telling you he can only handle one request at a time.

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Sep

Top Flash Players for iPad

Reviews, Tools

The iPad is a must have gadget, it’s a handy little thingy that can be bring to anywhere you want. You can play games, surf the net, watch movies, listen to music, read eBooks, etc literally everything can be done on an iPad. But (Yea there’s a but) it does come with a drawback; If you want to do something that requires a flash player, it will not start and instead, it will show a blue cube in your screen.

It can be a bit disappointing to know that one of the best gadgets out in the market does not support Adobe Flash, a program that we are all used to. However, the Apple fanboys do not let the users down by creating alternatives to the flash players. Listed below are the top two flash player applications that you can use on your iPad:

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Sep

How to Fix a Slow Computer

How-To

Don’t you hate it when you computer starts to move slowly? I mean, looking at the blue circle icon going round and round isn’t fun, especially when you have splash out lots of money or you are working on something to meet the deadline.

I own a Mac for about 2 years and so far, I have yet to experience any problems (Unlike Microsoft which I have formatted twice during this period) but most people don’t have the budget to spend on a better computer, so if you are one of them, then read on as the following tips may help you in fixing a slow computer.

There are a couple of reasons that make your computer load slowly, & those are:

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Sep

How to Autotune?

How-To

Funky club beats are becoming more and more common these days. Notice how many singers nowadays who don’t really sing but instead mixing their music with a robotic tune? Yeah that’s what you call an autotune.

What is autotune?

Autotuning is a technique used by hip-hop, rap and pop artists all over the world. It is mainly use to correct the pitch, cover up the flat and out of tune notes and make it seem that it is totally in sync.

But most artists purposely distort the music to create a robotic tune. Although this is already considered common in the music industry, many artists still protest and request that autotuning be banned from the industry. Why? Because many artists have abused it and try to release their own music even though their voices suck. Many audiences feel cheated when they realized that those singers can’t even sing a right pitch in a concert and they feel like their hard-earned money have been thrown into the sea. (Even Jay-Z want it dead right now).

Ok so I am not an advocate of autotune myself, but I am curious to try just how autotune can correct my pitches (I suck at singing btw).

How does one do autotuning?

You might think that autotune requires a PhD but in fact it’s relatively easy to do so. There are plenty of plugins and softwares that can be used to create professional music just like the pros.

Ready? Here we go:

1. Download autotune programs such as Antares Autotune, Wavepad, Aurdacity, or Waveosaur. After that, set up your microphone so that you can record your voice directly onto the computer.

2. Depends on the program you are using, you might want to alter some of the settings and change the tune to whatever pitch you want it to be.

3. Now you can go on and record your own song using the microphone and replay it to see if there are any off beat parts. Using autotune does not mean that you have to be out of tune. You can actually sing just like normal and just tweak any parts that you feel not good enough. Otherwise, you can download any sample songs from the internet to skip this step.

There are 2 things that you need to know :

a. Pitch is the note you are playing.

b. Pitch modulation – You can raise or lower the pitch to make it sound more robotic. It’s basically a process of manipulating the original pitch.

Unfortunately most of the autotune programs are relatively expensive, and trial often does not come with full features, so unless you really can’t sing well I would suggest you to spend that money hiring a music teacher