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Free Virtual Studio Technology At It’s Best

September 27, 2009 by Raj Agrawal Leave a Comment

Making the most from free VST Applications

With Virtual Studio Technology, you can play, mask on a wide variety of sound effects, edit and record on a computer with any musical instrument. This technology is has been around since a very long time and has been highly appreciated for it’s capabilities.

guitar rig — Promotional illustration of Guitar Rig VST Application

To access the user interface, you need to run the VST plugins from the host application. But first, you need to download and install the tiny and freeware VST host application. Download Link

These are some of the web links where you can find and download plenty of freeware VST plugins:

Then, run the host app.

Click on the File menu — New Effect — Browse To the destination where the VST plugin in installed — select the .dll file and you are almost done.

To finish the process, open the Effect Menu — Click on Edit — This will open up the GUI of the VST application.

You can now have fun, make demo tracks and all that can be done with the VST technology.

That Annoying ‘On Behaf Of’ Notification In Gmail

September 22, 2009 by Raj Agrawal Leave a Comment

Interlinked Gmail Accounts

I use two Gmail IDs and have interlinked them to make things more convenient i.e I receive and reply to emails from my regular ID that have been sent to my blogger email ID. This is because i have configured my Gmail account to forward all the incoming conversations to my regular ID and also allowed it to send and reply to emails in the name of my blogger email ID. This is one of the coolest features introduced by Gmail. But, this feature comes along with one inconvenience. Gmail adds the Email ID of the original sender in the email header which is easily readable by the recipient, which makes the feature useless for professional and business conversations.

On bringing this issue to the notice of Google. They justified that, Gmail needs to authenticate the Emails sent using it’s SMTP servers to avoid the sent emails to be flagged as SPAM in the recipient’s mail box. Hence, the “On Behalf Of” can be easily seen in some of the Email clients.

The feature is expected to be fixed in near future due to a large volume of user requests.