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Coverstory Create, store, convert and organize all your music and movie files. You don't have to wade through piles of junk anymore—just sit back and enjoy multimedia nirvana. -BY TEAM CHIP (Anand Tuliani, Dushyant Khilnani and Monali Gaikwad) M ultimedia today is about a lot more than the beeps and clicks PCs used to make a decade or so ago. Media fi les today account for the majority of used space on most computers, and it isn't uncommon to see people buying new hard drives solely to accommodate all their movies and music. Hard drives, CDs, DVDs and all kinds of removable storage devices need to be managed when free space runs out. With multiple PCs and laptops in a family, it's easy to waste space with needless duplicates And we all have some of these files on our portable players and cell phones, although there never seems to be enough room for all of them!   Luckily today, hard drives are as cheap as Rs 6,200 for a terabyte, but there's still a lot of room fo...

WordPress is one of the most powerful blogging engines available today, which is loaded with awesome features to help you create a blog with ease. CHIP shows you how to create the blog of your dreams with WordPress! -BY MONALI GAIKWAD The web has given everybody a medium to pen their 'Dear Diary,..' moments online in the form of blogs. Blogging is an easy way to express yourself and share your world with others and connect with them through the message in your blog. Blogging is not restricted to any topic and you can blog about anything, be it your obsession with music, politics, technology or even your pet! It’s a medium where you can freely express yourself with the power of your own words without bothering to be politically correct. WordPress is one of the most popular and powerful blogging engines on the web today. It is packed with amazing features, themes, plug-ins and many powerful tools to create a state of the art blog. It is really simple to use and you don’t need any...

This month we searched the web and found some sites, which you can use to edit your video, create cartoon strips and have a karaoke party with your friends. We also bring you a site that offers career tips and another that will carry your files on the online operating system  – COMPILED BY MONALI GAIKWAD MUSIC Unleash the singer in you with the site www.karaokeparty.com . This is a free online karaoke site, complete with an endless list of original tracks of popular international songs. To use this site simply plug in your microphone, select your favorite song and sing along! This site is very simple to navigate with a very clean user interface and clear sound quality. Just register on this site and become a part of the enormous online community and invite your friends to sing along. It is a fun alternative to unleash your singing talent in the comfort of your own room or in front of your friends. This site includes only original tracks, unlike other karaoke sites which convert the tra...

This month we bring you various sites that let you store and play your music collection online, create music and tweak and upgrade your PC. Also, have some fun online and find out what's new in the gaming world! - Monali Gaikwad Music Listening to music is a favorite activity for most of us. MP3 players, iPods and laptops have made it easier to carry music on the go, but carrying these devices can also be inconvenient at times. Limited disk space also poses a problem as it prevents you from carrying all your favorite music on a CD or disk drive. To avoid this log onto www.mediamaster.com and store all your songs online. Create an account and upload your music. The best part is that you can upload multiple songs with different file formats all at once! The uploaded songs can then be played on the inbuilt player on any Internet enabled PC. This site let's you stream music from any web or mobile browser and backup your entire music collection. You can also upload your iTunes play...

The latest online photo editing tool, flauntR is loaded with amazing features to edit and enhance photos. Let’s check out these features. - By Monali Gaikwad Professional photo editing is now possible online with the help of fl auntR. This tool allows you to add frames, overlays and effects to enhance the photo, so go ahead and explore its huge collection. To try your hand out on this new photo editing tool visit their website http://www.flauntr.com/ . Once you signup go right ahead and upload photos from your PC or integrate it with your Flickr, Facebook, Orkut or MySpace account to import photos. Simply drag the desired image in the workspace and start editing, the options are unlimited! Read on and find out how you can use this tool to revamp your photos with just a few clicks. stylR The stylR tab allows you to apply frames, overlays, fi lters and digital scrapbook styles. After you’ve uploaded the required photo, scroll through the frames and overlays and select the one you like. ...

We searched the web and found some sites to teach you to dance, tweak your system, convert files online, create e-cards and listen to music online! We also give you an insight into the emerging trend of online shopping! - Monali Gaikwad MUSIC Social networking has become a way of life for many of us in the past couple of years. Staying in touch with friends, sharing pictures and videos has become hassle free and simple. A new addition to this genre is the site www.coolmusiczone.com where everyone speaks the language of music. Just like other social networking sites, you can create your profi le, add friends, scrap, message and get in touch with people with similar taste in music. Along with this you can also listen to music online or watch popular music videos for free. This site has a huge collection of almost all international artists and also has a collection of lyrics, biography, events, pictures, albums, charts and the current listeners online. The users can...