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How-to: Is there a site that allows you to produce royalty free digital/techno music that you can use commercially? #development #programming #dev

Is there a site that allows you to produce royalty free digital/techno music that you can use commercially?

Does anyone know of a free site which allows you to:

drag and drop instruments and beats onto a timeline

download your song as an mp3 royalty free so that you can include it in commercial software products such as educational games?

Answer [by jrc03c]: Is there a site that allows you to…

How to: Newsgroup analysis web site #solution #it #fix

Newsgroup analysis web site

Is there a web application that will analyze a public news group for top posters over a specific period of time? The more analysis the better!

Note: While it is public, it isn’t listed on Google Groups.

Answer [by Amos]: Newsgroup analysis web site

There’s a list of Newsgroups here, clicking on each one brings up some statistics, but not top posters unfortunately.

Ans…

Resolved: How can I create an SO-style forum? #computers #fix #answer

How can I create an SO-style forum?

I have a new web app coming out soon. I have an IRC channel for it and would also like to have a forum for my site.

I like the idea of SO’s reputation system and such and thought I had seen somewhere you could make your own mini SO forum for your website.

Does such a thing exist? Are there any similar forums to SO?

Thanks.

Answer [by Gelatin]: How can I create…

Fix: List of web applications or web sites for language learning #it #programming #development

List of web applications or web sites for language learning

What are popular or maybe not so popular (but also useful) webapplications, which center around the theme of language learning?

Answer [by vaughan]: List of web applications or web sites for language learning

Babbelis a good one which just recently supports voice recognition. The voice recognition wasn’t that great when I tried it out,…

Resolved: Web applications to look for rental apartment/houses? #answer #computers #dev

Web applications to look for rental apartment/houses?

This question may be interpreted as “too localized”, but it is not.

I’m interested in what you find to be the best sites for this type of operation, regardless of where they are located. For instance, I want to learn about how do these sites do the following:

How do they work with geographic information?

What search parameters do they use?

Ca…

Solution: Alternatives to Twitter #programming #it #development

Alternatives to Twitter

I am looking for alternatives to Twitter. In particular, the annoyances I am looking to fix are:

Twitter does conversations really poorly. The replies aren’t grouped with the messages they are replies to.

Twitter limits how many characters can be used

Twitter is not designed to help deal with noise (see the next two bullet points). Google Buzz claims to use algorithms to…

Resolved: Good web application for idea proposal/voting/commenting? #programming #computers #fix

Good web application for idea proposal/voting/commenting?

I’m searching for a web application that will allow members of my team to propose ideas and those ideas to be discussed in comments (if nested, that would rock) and ideas to be voted for the most fruitful ones to come up to the top.

I’ve seen another question with an answer on Google Moderator, but that does not seem to leave much place…

Answer: Where can I find (free) recommendations for movies? #development #dev #solution

Where can I find (free) recommendations for movies?

I know of IMDB top 250: http://www.imdb.com/chart/top

Are there other places worth visiting ?

Answer [by LBushkin]: Where can I find (free) recommendations for movies?

Check out metacritic. From their own site:

Metacritic compiles reviews from respected critics and publications for movies, DVDs, music, television and games.

Answer [by Jessie