Audacity, audio mixing

Audacity many uses, one program.  Audacity is great software for recording or mixing multiple tracks.  It allows you to edit your tracks and add special effects or lay tracks together.  But that isn’t the best part.  The very nice thing about Audacity is its ability to allow you to record whatever sound is playing through your sound card. 

If you are listening to streaming music: You can record it!

If you are talking on Skype, Teamspeak or Ventrillo: You can record it!

If you just want to have a part of a song or speech: You can record it!

Which may perhaps bring up the legality issues while working with this program, but I trust you.

Teamspeak

It has come to my attention that many people have not heard of the great program Teamspeak.

Teamspeak allows you to talk to your friends over the internet for free. All you need is a microphone and someone who has a Teamspeak server. Both the client and the server are free to download and to use, and are quite simple to use. One nice thing about Teamspeak is when you install it, the speak feature is hands free. All you need to do is talk into your microphone and it will pick it up and send your voice to whomever you are chatting with. However if there is alot of background noise, TS also comes with the capabilities to set a press to talk key so you microphone isn’t constantly transfering static.