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January 5, 2012 in Rants
Get songs OFF your iPod with My Wave
December 31, 2011 in My Software
I bet you didn’t realize because I didn’t mention it before, that you can recover all your MP3 music back off any iPod that is set to work as mass storage. Simply connect the iPod to your pc, run My Wave and wait for it to scan the iPod and show you all the songs it recognizes. Then select the songs you want, right click and choose export from the menu.
This will open a save as box to select a location to export them to, and when you press ok the songs will be coppied to the folder you selected put into artist and album folders and renamed to match the id3 tags.
I do have to stress that it wont recognise acc files (apple format) and that i dont use the ipod database as this changes every software update. So convert all your music to MP3 and make sure the tags are set correctly.
I got an iPad 2. Don’t hate me.
December 27, 2011 in Rants
I got my Missus an iPad the other day by making her think that I was buying it for myself. I got it home and set it up then handed it to her, she was thrilled. But then I started playing with it myself, and I really got into it, playing some games and looking through a lot of cool aps and trying to work out what it can do and what it can’t.
I was enjoying myself so much that she went and got me one of my own (she was getting sick of sharing I think).
So having been a long term apple hater, I now have an iPad. I am struggling to work out how to do all the things that I know how to do already on windows, and some things are really well done, while others are just leaving me speechless. It took me several hours of messing around to work out how to post this, add the image, but it was actually real easy to type this out using the on screen keyboard. Yes I can touch type on it with relative ease.
PROS:
It’s fast. No boot times and always on means I can be working on something in seconds.
It’s light.
Long battery life.
CONS:
I don’t know how to do even the simplest things, and they are all different.copy and paste for example.. Where is the ctrl key?? Arrow keys? and so on.
There is an app for everything but it won’t do everything, and the browser won’t either. There doesn’t seem to be a manual on it either.
On the whole I think it’s great as long as I don’t forget that it is not supposed to be a content creation device, it is for content consumption. I get real frustrated when I forget this.
New look and Mobile version available
December 23, 2011 in Site News
Got bored and decided to update the wordpress install that powers the site, and then kinda got carried away with changes that ended up in a total site redesign. I love this template and am real happy with the site now.
I have also added a mobile browser version of the site for all those nerds with phones that have browsers and data.
Will add more and more cool things if I get motivated.
…And then he turned the gun on himself…
December 22, 2011 in Rants
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