Hello again, folks – just a quick post to let you know that an official trailer for Halo: Reach’s Multiplayer Beta has finally been released – go check it out! Oh, and full-screen and select ’720p’ option for full effect. Enjoy!
General
Microsoft Forced To Make Their Software Worse
By Ben Norman [n0rman0] on February 24th, 2010
I’m sure you’ve heard about Microsoft’s constant battle with the European courts. Essentially Europe is saying (and people have been agreeing) that bundling software such as Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player into the OS is unfair on rival software companies. So far Microsoft have been forced to release a version of Windows without Media Player, fined $1.5 billion and most recently had to create a ballot screen allowing the consumer to choose which browser they want… as well as others.
Follow Gizunk On Facebook
By Ben Norman [n0rman0] on February 18th, 2010
It’s taken much longer to set up than it should due to sleep deprivation but you can finally follow Gizunk on Facebook. Hopefully it should make finding out about our new articles that little bit easier.
Go on, show us some love, we get really excited when someone follows us 
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We've Had The Decorators In
By Ben Norman [n0rman0] on February 5th, 2010
Just a quick update to let you know we’re still here but have been very busy deciding on a new look for the site, hence the lack of posts. Hopefully you’ll agree that its a vast improvement (the old design is the included picture). Any suggestions for tweaks, additions, etc would be greatly appreciated. Let me know in the comments below!
Ben (self titled web extraordinaire for Gizunk)
How To Archive Your Music CDs Into High Quality Flacs
By Ben Norman [n0rman0] on February 1st, 2010
Anyone who’s interested in music by definition has a huge collection of CD’s, and when I started university I had to think of a better solution than lugging my entire collection around with me. Unbeknownst to me, when I first did it my solution was to archive my music onto my computer in .flac (free lossless audio codec) format, luck points to me! There’re many ways of doing this, some of which are better than others… here’s how:
Everyone in the world (well at least in the parts of it which I’m interested in) have heard of MP3′s, but not everyone in the world knows that these files are ‘lossy‘. This basically means when you rip your CD to the computer it removes some data that it deems inaudible (as well as some other fancy jiggerypokery to optimise the file size). The thing is, that the loss of information does have quite a noticeable impact on the quality, which is no problem at all when you’re listening to some music on the bus – but say you scratch your CD, it’s not going to sound as good through your Hi-Fi as the CD did. Enter [Stage Right]: (Wow I’ve written less than 5 articles and I’m already repeating myself, this doesn’t bode well!) the flac file which has the advantage of not losing all the nice detail from your music files.
BE77Y Has Arrived
By Euan Cowieson [BE77Y] on January 26th, 2010
Cakes out, trousers down; BE77Y is here, people! An avid gamer and Tech enthusiast, you can look forward to many an interesting, insightful (and most likely, raging!) post from the latest addition to the Gizunk Hub.
