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Free Virtual Studio Technology At It’s Best

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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.

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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.

Receiving Emails And Feeds On SMS For Free

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Nokia 1110i is super cool when it comes to speed and simplicity. Being a Nokia 1110i.user, i’ve always enjoyed the browsing speed and the comfortable keypad. For me, It’s basically a fixed version of Nokia 1100. Even though this black and white phone is stripped to only calling, messaging and with a better version of Snake for entertainment, it doesn’t stop me from receiving my mails and recent feeds on my mobile. The trick is for all who.use a simple phone with no GPRS access and is also.useful for mobiles with GPRS.

SMS Notification

There are two services that I am considering, one being only for phone numbers in India and the other one for USA and Canada.

I will start of with the service for phone numbers in India.

For receiving new mails on SMS, you need to free your Gmail feed from the usual authentication (yes, you have a feed for your email account too).

For regular feeds, apart from Freeing your feed, all the steps to be followed are the same.

Google SMS Channels (Currently for India only)

I have tested this trick only on Gmail accounts and works as smooth as whiskey. It should work for other Webmail services too. Though the updates are not in real time, it usually takes 5-10 minutes to arrive as SMS.

Generic Gmail feed link – https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom

The feeds for other webmail services can be found with Google search.

  • Get started:
  1. Go to https://freemyfeed.com
  2. Enter https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom as the input url, followed by your.user id and password. (Is it safe? Of course it is. But still, you should read the privacy policy on the website). Save the output URL.
  3. Log into Google SMS channels,
  4. Settings,
  5. Enter your mobile number and set the other options as per your preferences,
  6. Create a new channel,
  7. Enter the regular details in the form,
  8. In the ‘Source’ section, select RSS/Atom feed and enter the new feed generated from http://freemyfeed.com
  9. ‘Allow publishing by’: Only me
  10. ‘Who can subscribe’: By invitation only
  11. Click on Create Channel,
  12. And you’re done.

ZapTXT (USA and Canada only):

Register and enter the necessary details and the new feed generated from http://freemyfeed.com

Follow the easy step by step guide, and you’re done!

How To Get A Free Dot Com?

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HyperWebEnable.com

Allakhazam! and your wish has been fulfilled! Do you know that you can get a free individual domain with a Dot Com? It’s a dream come true for all who can’t or don’t prefer to spend some money periodically on a hosting service. And some of you bloggers might have noticed that your posts were/are getting comments like,
“HI ,

Increase your revenue 100% of your blog by converting into free website. Convert your blog yourname.blogspot.com to www.yourname.com completely free. Become proud owner of the (.com) own site.”
Yup..thats right, whoever commented wasn’t kidding nor was he a spammer :). The amazing revolutionary concept of “free Dot Com” is provided by HyperWebEnable.

To be honest even i as one of the people who misunderstood the service to be a scam but, soon the truth hit me with sweetness. I requested for a free website and soon i was thrilled with a reply that the domain has been registered with the domain name of my choice! and the Admin details of my new hosted blog was mailed to me. They only have a small requirement that your website must be active and must have some traffic, which is good thing for them as it would keep their portal crap free. So go ahead, send in a request at HyperWebEnable and see the magic happen!

Here is the link: http://hyperwebenable.com