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What is the best "record player" to buy? Where can I get it? I have the "cros....." brand, it was too s. I recommend:$200 Audio-Technica AT-PL120 Professional Direct-Drive Turntable: Slow" sounds like you are trying to play back either singles 45 RPM or albums 78 RPM at a slower setting (either 33 or 45 Revolutions Per Minute).

What is the best "record player" to buy? Where can I get it? I have the "cros....." brand, it was too s

You can connect a turntable to your computer's sound card line/microphone input with a stereo Y-adapter cable to record your albums or singles to either MP3s, Wave files, or to your computer's CD-recorder/rewriter: Help. Kenwood P-110 - Turntable: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics. BBC iPlayer - So Wrong It's Right: Series 2: Episode 6. Audio-Technica AT-PL120 Professional Direct-Drive Turntable: Electronics. Sony PS-LX300USB - Turntable: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics.

I bought this turntable after reading the reviews and have been happy with the purchase, having now digitised around 50 vinyl albums.

Sony PS-LX300USB - Turntable: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics

You Think Hollywood Is Rough? Welcome to the Chaos, Excitement and Danger of Nollywood. It was when they pulled out the machetes that I started to worry.

You Think Hollywood Is Rough? Welcome to the Chaos, Excitement and Danger of Nollywood

I’d seen men with machetes in Africa before, but they were rusty, practical tools used for clearing away brush by the side of the highway. Are mobile phones causing the decline in bee numbers? A recent scientific study suggests that bees are significantly disturbed when mobile phones are used in close proximity to the furry critters.

Are mobile phones causing the decline in bee numbers?

The study may shed light on why the bee population is in decline globally. As bees can communicate through sound, the experiment at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology observed any changes to the noises the insects made when active mobile phones were placed in their hive. The results were quite worrying. The bees made certain noises associated with a distressed colony as soon as the mobile phones were engaged. 2011 Business Travel 50: How Social Media Has Changed Business Travel.

Social networks have changed the way we work—and live.

2011 Business Travel 50: How Social Media Has Changed Business Travel

For example, 18 percent of consumers use social networking sites before even getting out of bed, according to a May 2011 Ericsson ConsumerLab study. They have also changed the way we travel, morphing business trips from a mundane experience into a data-rich opportunity to make new connections and discover or strengthen relationships. "The simplest way to think about it is that you used to fly into a city and unless you knew someone who was there, there's no chance that you ever got in touch with anyone," notes Aaron Strout, the Austin-based head of location-based marketing at WCG World, an integrated global communications company.

Scroblr - scrobble the music you listen to on the web. 2011 Business Travel 50: Get the Best Airfare Deals. Booking air travel on the Internet used to be a simplified process.

2011 Business Travel 50: Get the Best Airfare Deals

You went to Travelocity, Expedia, or relied on your internal business travel coordinators to set it all up. There wasn't much thinking involved: you entered a date and time, saw the available flights, and likely booked a package deal including hotels, car rentals, and more. As the Internet and mobile apps continue to evolve, new companies have continued that disrupt that process, providing consumers a myriad of information on best times to buy, fare deals, and more. Business Travel 2011. Staff Lists: The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s: 20-1.

Freeview & Saorview Combo. Get Free Irish & UK Digital Terrestrial TV. Kit does not conatin a receiver anymore Note: Transmitter Frequencies May Have Changed Saorview and Freeview Transmitters The above map shows all the main Irish Saorview transmitters and also the UK Freeview transmitters which could possibly be picked in regions of Ireland.

Freeview & Saorview Combo. Get Free Irish & UK Digital Terrestrial TV

Saorview & Freeview Frequencies The table above gives the primary transmission channels and the channels range used by each of the transmitter featured in the map above. View Coastal Transmitter Map [Here] Full List of Freeview Channels Note: Freeview Channel Listing provided in good faith and services may be subject to change. Pandora, a good service but poor investment. Pandora is one of the Web's most popular and beloved music services, and smart investors shouldn't go anywhere near the company's stock.

Pandora, a good service but poor investment

Shares of the profitless radio service began trading today on the New York Stock Exchange as part of an initial public offering, the latest technology play with a questionable business model to test the public equity markets. In early morning trading, Pandora, which trades under the ticker symbol P, was up 28 percent to $20.37 a share but then began to level off. Investors began pulling back not long after and the stock closed the day at $17.42, up 8 percent. According to Bloomberg, Pandora sold 14.7 million shares yesterday at a price of $16 a share, giving the company a valuation of $2.6 billion. Daily Deal Providers May Be Violating Consumer Protection Laws. Editor’s note:Guest author Rocky Agrawal continues his in-depth TechCrunch series looking at the daily deal industry.

Daily Deal Providers May Be Violating Consumer Protection Laws

Agrawal is an entrepreneur who has worked on local products since 1995. He blogs at reDesign and Tweets @rakeshlobster. Daily deal providers like Groupon and LivingSocial may be violating several key aspects of consumer protection law. I’ve been looking into issues like gift cards, bankruptcy, sales tax, and alcohol regulations.