My Substitute Reality -You're just jealous cause the little voices only talk to me-

Saturday June 23, 2007

Photos in the Widgets!

Filed under: Cool Stuff,Geek — don @ 4:10 pm

I’m so happy!  I’ve been wanting to get some sort of widget that would put a random picture from my Gallery in the Sidebar.  As you can see I now have one.  It is a Widget that allows you to put PHP in it and a line I found after much searching on how to get a random picture from Gallery.  Now to see if I can get it to put more than 1.

Tuesday June 12, 2007

Bubbles

Filed under: Cool Stuff — don @ 3:33 pm

This is one of the best things I’ve seen in a while.

Wednesday June 6, 2007

Ducks!

Filed under: Life,Nothing — don @ 8:00 pm

The Anaheim Ducks just won the Stanley Cup.  That’s for Hockey if you didn’t know.  This is the first time the cup has been won by a West coast team.  Woo hoo!

Friday June 1, 2007

What’s a record?

Filed under: Cool Stuff,Geek — don @ 5:37 pm

If you talk to someone born after 1990 about playing records on a turntable they will probably look at you like you just spoke a foreign language.  For those of us who grew up getting our tunes from LPs and 45 it’s probably been a while since you’ve seen or heard one.   That all changed for me today and in a very cool way.

I’ve got about 200 records I’ve collected starting in the late 60s with Sonny and Cher’s In Case You’re in Love to sometime in the late 80s with who knows what.  I haven’t heard any of these records since I got married in 1994 because they have been hidden in the garage from hell.  Now that Jenny finally got it cleaned out we found the old records but alas how was I going to play said records since I don’t have a record player anymore.

What I really wanted to do was convert them to CD or MP3 so I could take them with me on my bike or in my car.  I thought about getting a turntable and hooking it to my sound card  but then I found this!

It’s a turntable made to copy your records to the computer using USB and software.  The software they include is Audacity which Daryl has mentioned on his blog and I have used for quite a while.

This thing is so cool!  I’ve converted a couple of albums so far and I plan to spend the weekend doing more.

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