A useful replacement for JHymn which unfortunately stopped working when iTunes 6.0 was released. FairGame strips the DRM (digital rights management) copy-protection from songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store. Saves copying the music to CD just to reimport it as MP3 into iTunes. (By the way, this is an OS X tool, . . . → Read More: FairGame
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I have mentioned Magnatune here before. They offer downloads in all the common formats (mp3, ogg, wav, flac, aac) for a price which you decide and additionally, you are allowed to give the download link and password to three other people. The downloads are not copy-protected. Half the price you pay goes directly to . . . → Read More: Free album It seems some drivers have difficulty using their brain after they have switched their sat-nav on: …drives off the road onto into a building site, up a stairway and into a toilet hut …gets stuck in the river …gets stuck for over 6 hours on narrow road …(ambulance) takes to 2 hrs to make . . . → Read More: Navi on – check; brain off – check…. The scanning of our thousands of slides continues; every day we manage another 150 – 200 slides (more if we are at home at the weekend). Every few days I copy the new ones over the WLAN from the Dell PC in the cellar where the (quite noisy) slide scanner runs, to our Macs . . . → Read More: Copying files, but only those not already copied Five years ago today Apple introduced the iPod. The video above shows Steve Jobs explaining why Apple decided to develop the iPod and what he thought differentiated the iPod from the competition. It’s hard to believe now (Apple shipped 8.7 million iPods in the last quarter), but at the time the analysts . . . → Read More: The iPod is five today Autumn leaves in Bad Homburg, 2006-10-22 We went for a walk in the Kurpark (Spa Park) in Bad Homburg this afternoon. It’s the best time of the year to enjoy the park, which contains the oldest golf course in Germany (founded in 1899). You can still play golf on the course today; here’s the . . . → Read More: Autumn  During the last week or so, as well as setting up the Mac mini, we have started a mammoth scanning session. We have somewhere between 6000 and 7000 35mm slides in the cellar, which we haven’t looked at for at least ten years because we’re too lazy to set up the projector and screen. The slides go back about 40 years – to our respective childhoods. We decided that rather than have them taking up space we need, we would scan them digitally and then dump the slides, the projector and screen. So we’ve rented a Reflecta DigitDia 4000 scanner and some professional scanner software (SilverFast Ai with IT-8 calibration), because a test we read reported that the scanner’s own software is not too hot. The scanner is the only model we could find that can scan up to 100 slides at a time, meaning that we can set it running and it is busy for the next several hours before it needs feeding again – most scanners only handle 4 or 6 slides at time, which just isn’t practical if you have thousands to process. At first we thought we might have wasted our time and money – the highly recommended Silverfast software is great for scanning single slides, but the calibration didn’t seem to offer any improvement over the other software package as far as colour was concerned and with the scratch/dust removal filter set (which is supposed to used the scanners special “ICE” hardware filter) a tray of 50 slides was taking nearly 24 hours to scan. One short update to the last post – after swapping the Iomega drive for the LaCie unit shown in the photo, I started to have problems putting the Mac to sleep. Every time I put it to sleep, it waited a couple of seconds and sprang back to life; it would then continue cycling . . . → Read More: LaCie external drive and USB ports Just before the weekend a smallish package arrived here. A Mac mini to replace my old G5 1.8 GHz tower, which is over three years old. I ordered the mini as I don’t need a new screen so an iMac would have been overkill, and I wanted a quiet computer – the G5 may . . . → Read More: Hardware upgrade McAfee, one of the larger anti-virus (AV) software companies, has taken out full page adverts in the Financial Times to criticize Microsoft’s anti-virus strategy in their soon to be released new version of Windows, Vista. Microsoft has effectively locked out the independent manufacturers of AV software by making access to the kernel of their . . . → Read More: One approach protecting us all… |
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