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Straight No Chaser.

While you might like your favorite drink served in that fashion, the Straight No Chaser style of music quenches the soul’s thirst with a refreshing harmony of unadulterated human voices blending together to create a smooth, mesmerizing  sound that instruments cannot attain.

Indiana University’s Straight No Chaser men’s a capella group originally formed in the fall of 1996.  Known for their fun-loving shows and amazing ability to perform contemporary songs in unique arrangements, the group has performed in venues such as Wrigley Field, Comiskey Park, and Carnegie Hall, as well as earned several awards for their work.

To keep the tradition and heritage alive at IU, the original members of Straight No Chaser hand-picked their successors as they neared graduation – a practice that continues to this day.  Approximately 48 students have proudly called themselves members of Straight No Chaser, including the current group of 10 men.  Read more...

What software should I install on my PC?

Many of our visitors sent us messages with questions about what applications, plugins and tools they should install on their PC so that common computing tasks such as viewing movies, listening to music, and browsing the Internet can work from the first try. In order to answer such questions, we invited a few of our friends from other famous blogs and tried to come up with a great list of recommendations. In this article you will have your questions answered by: the famous How-To Geek, Anand Khanse from the WinVistaClub, Joseph Fieber from ITsVISTA.com and Ross McKillop from Simple Help.  Read more...

How to run older applications in Windows Vista

When Microsoft designs a new operating system, they must have in mind backwards compatibility, which is always a great thing to have. However, despite many efforts, you cannot have all old applications run correctly in newer versions of Windows. Windows Vista especially suffered a lot from this perspective. Changing so many things compared to Windows XP resulted in many older application not working properly in this operating system. However, there a few things a user can try to make older applications work in Windows Vista, some with a higher success rate than others.

In this article I will show you how to run older software in compatibility mode in Windows Vista.  Read more...