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I've got like 2 laptops and 3 desktops where I live. The Laptops are as new as this year one is an dell inspiron 700m which I'm using and another a lattitude ?? which my dad is using.The 3 desktops are pentium 4, 3, 3 respectively so all of them are functionable. The slowest is 800Mhz with 512 MB of ram but I still find that too slow and the screen is sort of spoilt too.Somehow my laptop has the best sound system because it is connected into the auxillary channel of a mini 1300watt JVC hi-fi systemon the whole its 1 computer for everyone but my mom and sister just shares. If there were more space, we would probably get more.

COOL. But I heard the French government is unhappy with google and wants the thing to be taken down, they say its a security threat, and that's quite true. I mean anyone can access google earth now and see any installation from any part of the world.My house was covered by clouds so it wasn't much use to me. But looking around was definitely fun and increasing exciting. I encourage everyone to go get one (though its a security threat)

I don't think there is really that much a need for a home button. Just look under the google search box and under this topic you will see this lineFree Web Hosting > Have your say > Support and Feedback > Suggestionsjust click on the first link "Free Web Hosting" to bring yourself back to the so called Home. I think to create a Home button may not be all too easy since the board looks sleek right now without obvious buttons and the button too must fit into the colour scheme.

Geocities used to be fast and reliable. Now its not so. And I think the page builder software used to be good, now it kind of sux. I used to use geocities as a beginner and I think it was a good learning experience. Unlike many other hosts, they do not restrict file types and upload sizes and I thought that was a plus point. In fact I kind of used it to transfer files by uploading and getting my friends to download subsequently and then take it down. It was rather fast and reliable. Over time it got worst as more people used it and there are still a lot of people who use it now. Unfortunately they fail to see that the 15mb they give is so puny little and even their paid service is highly overpriced! The ads are getting bigger though they do not pop up on you like Angelfire.On the whole, geocities is user friendly and definitely a good site for beginners who are out there to just "try out" experiment and have fun with site building and stuff. But to get a proper web site with a substancial amount of visitors, I think we'd just be wasting our time there! and Xisto is the best.

Singing and Its Psychology Thx OCAC for your question, I hope I answered some here. Unlike other instruments like the piano or guitar, your voice is inside you. Ironically, what's inside you is more difficult to feel than what's outside you. For what's outside you can feel with your skin, through pressing, through feeling pressure, through looking at what to press and even through hearing the sound you produce on the guitar and piano. You noticed I mentioned "hearing". With your voice as your instrument, what you hear and you think you are producing is not actually what your audicence hears, unless you sing into a mic and hear from the monitor speakers which then again only mean 50% of what you hear is what the audience hears. Try this - if you have not done this before try this out. Find some way to record your speaking and singing voice onto a casette tape or a MD or into your computer through a mic and then play it back. What do you notice? I'm sure you may even be freaked out at first. What you recorded and played back seems so different from what you have been hearing. Is there scientific evidence for this? The answer is yes! Your body has many resonating chambers of which includes your phraynx, cheeck bones, mask of the face, nasal and oral cavity and even your chest. The sound that your vocal chords produce will be resonated in these chambers. (In fact, a proper way to sing loudly is to channel all the sounds into the these chambers so that you sound louder rather than only using your oral cavity) Sound travels at different speeds through solid, liquid and gas (3 states of matter and yes sound does travel through solid, that is why soundproof studio rooms have double glazed vacuum glass doors) Therefore what you hear comes directly from yourself to your ears through the vibration of your body and skin while what others hear is transmitted through the air from the vibration coming from your body. Simply but what others hear is body >> air >> ear and what YOU hear is body >> air >> ear AND body >> ear. I'm sure that you have realised from the previous article that you are able to control a few things in the singing mechanism, that is the lowering of the tongue, the pressurising of the area where your 2 halfs of the rib cage meet and the opening of your jaw. But how do these relate to your larynx, your diaphragm and your throat? Indirectly they do. e.g. lowering of the tongue is controlling the tongue muscle but not your larynx, yet if done correctly it helps to lower your larynx (place a finger at your adam's apple, that's the position of your larynx) Therefore Singing IS psychological How do I then use psychology to the advantage of singing better? Have you experienced a time when you felt sad and spoke to your friend over the phone and your friend could tell without looking at your face. Or have your conductor or coach ever told you to smile when you sing so that you produce a bright and happy sound? Indeed how you feel translates into how you sound. Therefore to produce a bright forward, ringing, inspiring sound means you have to smile, raise your eyebrows and your cheekbones. However, wouldn't it be weird to do such actions on stage. Yes. Therefore there must come a point after sufficient training where such techniques become second nature and internalised. Meaning you only have to smile slightly on stage without looking weird with an over exaggerated smile to produce just the same extremely bright and cheery sound. How do you do that? Here comes the psychological part. For psychology in itself is too hollow and intangible you need to do all those exaggerated smiling as mentioned previously first! Then you start to think of your body producing sound waves that emit like a rainbow from the tip of your nosebridge (this is where your sound should focus at) and flowing out with ease like a set of notes. Imagine the colour and beauty of these notes just like you are watching a cartoon with birds chirping and animations of musical notes emitting from their cute tiny beaks. This imagination translate to sending the vibration up there. Since you have no buttons to press and no internal anatomy, then this is the only way to send the sound up and out, into a heaven-like lightness and beauty. So putting into perspective what do I mean when I mentioned about not being able to feel tangibly like playing a piano and yet having to smile excessively which is obviously a very concious feelable thing. The smiling is only to aid in your imagination and feeling because the smiling in itself is so indirect. Using muscles to smile does not specially activate certain muscles in your body that move sounds upwards or change the quality of sounds as if your body is such a straight forward instruement where there is a spring, valve and string to everything. No there isn't! Its about feeling and things insides your body that happen but are hard to explain. If fact as a singer, there is not really much need to know all these. To sing a happy sound just look and think happy. =) IN conclusion Therefore singing is a mix of things you can feel tangibly and things that are just emotions are imaginations. Of the things that you can feel tangibly, they do not have a direct and straightforward cause and effect on your anatomy that leads to you producing that sound, rather that kind of sound is the side effect of the cause (your doing of the tangible actions like smilling excessively)

I use a Nikkon coolpix 4300 and love it throughly. I'm an ardent Nikkon fan course I think their cameras are much better than those from sony or Canon. regarding digital zoom, my camera allows 2 X digital zoom, but I think because of the advanced technology in the camera, the quality isn't really reduced. Its different from zooming in at your computer. The quality provided by the 2X digital zoom is still higher than if you 2X on your computer I think for the reason they built in software somehow managers to decipher what the missing colours are and give it a high resolution.I love the scenes mode which allows you to take pictures at all times of the day. Very nice pictures and you don't even have to be a photographer yourself. I took this night shot of Japan from the can't remember the name of the building, but I think its from one of the tallest buildings in Japan la, and the night scene of lights and buildings was just great.Don't have the picture at the moment, but I'll try to upload it soon.

Anyone used google adsense? I think that unless you have a lot a lot of traffic, the amount you get from pay per clicks or per search is so extremely puny. Not to mention that nowadays people don't click on advertisements if they haven't already blocked them with whatsoever kind of toolbar.Anyway, I think we shouldn't be too greedy and try to earn money online through simple means. I mean money is hard earned and wages are paid based on one's productivity and skill. If it sounds all too easy and doesn't require much skill then I think its just too good to be true, or you just earn peanuts; too little to be even worth you checking your account once in a while.

exams are useful because they are used to check if you have understood that particular topic or have learned it well.

I think excessive amount of homework just shorterns your life because you have to stay up late in the night to the things you really like. And for those people that just turn in early and forget totally about leisure and hobbies, that kind of life is just so unexciting.However some subjects have a sort of equation where the more you do, the more you score. Such subjects include math, and some sciences like physics where you just need to practise and practise and practise till you perfect it have lesser careless mistakes and thus end up scoring higher. yay!

I think kids nowadays are a bit too concern about being cool and all that stuff. They start swearing just because some popular people like pop and rock stars do it. To me, they are more of a nuisance than anything else and definitely not cool. By the way, the age at which kids start to swear seems to be decreasing But to their friends, they being way cool. They might just get popular in school for swearing too. But I think all these is kind of shallow

I firmly believe in value for money to quite a large extent. i.e. you pay for what you get or you get what you paid for. I'm acutally using a Dell Inspiron 700m now and my Dad's using a Lattitude (new model but can't remember the model no.) All I can say is that the lattitude looks more professional and sleak but everything else is the same. SO if you are getting a dell laptop which you SHOULD then get an inspirton it is cheaper and that's because it doesn't look so sleak (so the pay for what you get thing still works here).Anyway, enough said here's what's good about the Dell Inspiron, its cheap, its widescreen, the functionality is good and for goodness sake, I think Dell has one of the best on site services around. At least in my part of the world. The graphics are good and so are the specs. The only problem (which doesn't exist on the lattitude btw) is the fact that the screen is not trans reflective. Design wise, I think the design of the 700m is not too bad. Battery life? ok mine's about 4 plus hours on the 8 cell Lit - ion battery, So I was extremely suprised to here that Sony Vaio has a battery life of 7.5 hours! how do they do that?

Hi Ok. Let me put my contribution in a separate post from the Introduction and guidelines. Today I will be addressing a common problem faced by many singers. That is a sore throat. Below are some common reasons why people get a sore throat and the solution to these problems. 1. Dehydration --> This is obvious, Drink plenty of water and do not scream or shout 2. Screaming or shouting or singing excessively loudly --> there is a correct way to shout and a correct way to sing excessively loudly, and that is by engaging your diaphragm to ?punch? the sound out. How do you do that? Lie down on a mat or on your bed and place your palm just below your rib cage. The bottom of your rib cage is shaped like an inverted ?V?. At the vertex of this V is also the center of your diaphragm muscle and where you should exert your force when singing. To see how your diaphragm moves, just inhale and exhale gently without any tension whatsoever in the shoulders, throat or neck and feel it rise (inhalation) and fall (exhalation). This can go on to become a whole topic, I?ll thus address this another time. If your problem persist, you may want to continue reading point 3 which deals with what you need to do to your throat. 3. Tension of the throat --> this occurs because you are trying to sing a high note, or trying to sing very loudly or just tense. If this occurs because of singing high notes, or loudly, then please refer to point 2. Now if this occurs because you are tense, then there is a way to release the tension. A tense throat is only one where the throat is shut tight and you are trying to force air in. Now one way to see if your throat (which is the back of your mouth) is open, is to stand in front of the mirror and open your mouth wide (3 fingers spacing) and see if you can see your uvula. If you don?t know what?s a uvula check dictionary.com. If you can see it dangling freely and not resting on your tongue (which means your tongue has to be raised and blocking the passage way in order for that to happen), then your throat is open. If not it isn?t. A common problem with many people including singing coaches is that we tend to equate a big open mouth with an open throat. However, if your mouth may be open at the front, but not at the back. Meaning your jaw may be wide open but the passage way is blocked, thus sound cannot flow freely and there is abrasion against your larynx (voice box) thus you get a sore throat. Now, I?ve yet to touch on how to open that throat. If you can identify when its open and when its close, then just try to relive the same experience that causes it to be open. Some experiences include, yawning, getting ready to swallow something huge, or just having trained to lower the back of your tongue at your whim and fancy. To solve the problem you have to go progressively from identifying the experience to creating it. This will take time and a conscious effort. It sounds difficult, no but its actually very easy. Think of how many times your have yawned in your life. I will stop here. If you have further questions pls direct them to this topic. I will try to be of help.

Introduction and guidelines of this Topic! Please read and try to adhere so everyone can benefit Hi first of all let's make clear the direction for this topic so everyone can benefit ok? Things we discuss include, How to Sing, Singing techniques, Singing pop songs, Singing classical songs, Singing in choirs (choral singing), different ranges of singers (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass), styles of singing (soloistic, ensemble, broadway, jazz, pop, rock, accapella), common questions e.g. how not to get a sore throat, expanding of singing range (how to sing higher or lower), finding your singing range and anything related to singing etc. What you should post: Questions and answers to problems or general tips and discussions relating to the above

Oh man, I'm reading a lot of negative reviews. I don't have the CDs myself, but I listened to the clips provided on Amazon.If I may so correct as to provide my 2 cents worth and generalise. I think the Kids have potential and some sort of entertainment value ONLY and ONLY if they were doing something original and something kiddy, cos the genre and difficulty of the popular songs they have chosen to dabble in are over them. And that is no surpirse. Why? Cos most kids can't pull such a stunt successively without sounding too trying. I guess if one were to listen to this for pure Kids songs pleasures and looking for the nature of the ensemble to be exploited, one would be extremely disappointed.However having said all that, I do believe that there is some entertainment value in their songs. Though as I must reiterate again that the quality could be enhanced if it were 1. pure kids singing without those adult voices, 2. origianl songs that suit them. I mean, being a singer for 7 years and having a grade 8 in voice, I believe singing has to come from the heart. What of kids so young who sing about love and relationship problems experienced by the adult song writers. I think that's why people are disappointed when they hear the songs. Cause the songs are distorted, they do not carry the message! That is a horrible and serious mistake for anything vocal. Yes, the songs they did were bad, but I must remind everyone, hey it was the songs not them.Now considering I'm ranting about their choice of songs, who chose the songs? The directors. They deserve to be sacked and replaced with more capable people who can exploit the full potential of children and use the ensemble to its natural advantage. e.g. A symphonic orchestra, a gospel choir, and a rock band or have different natural advantages and better naturally at sending out certain messages and performing certain kind of songs.In conclusion, SONG choices are extremely important. To any budding singer out there, you can only sing a song as well as you can up to a certain standard. Now to hit the barrier, you must testify with the song, not because you have went through the same experiences as the song speaks of, or those of the songwriter but because as a performer, a singer, you are able to put on that expression and feel it (even though its artificial) you feel it and make it most real. This is just like the fact that the best writers need not believe in what they are writing, but their readers do!I think the kids have not reach a performing standard as that above to do something they have not experienced first hand and yet make it sound endearing

Hi everyone and anyone reading thisI'm new here so I hope that all yer older members who are aquainted with this forum can help me out.I would like to start out with my interestI take a huge interest in music, song writting and composition. As for instruments I play, I play the guitar (pop) the piano (pop and classical) and I sing too (pop and classical)...In fact, I'm currently preparing my church's youth choir for carolling and would be glad to share, give advice, exchange tips or just help anyone interested in that field.I'm currently researching on traditional Indian music as part of my school project and would greatly appreciate if anyone could offer some help whatsoever. In particular, my reserach is about the "rhythmic improvisations on the Tabla". If anyone has good audio files to reccomend please do reccomend them to me.Lastly, I have quite a few questions regarding how this forum works. If you know the answer, feel free to PM me, that would be greatly appreciated.1. How does accumulating forum points work. I know there are a lot of post trying to describe it. However, I find the term quality and keep posting a little vague, so I would appreciate if someone would care to clarify thanks.2. How many members does this forum have. This is important cos I would like to post a lot of specialised stuff about music that can help and guide people or also learn from them. However, some serious discussions would be I need the right target audience to make it relevant. Or else I can also tune my posts, to suit the less hardcore researchers / academist / musicians