Technology

How to join multiple tracks into a single audiobook file

January 16, 2008

If you follow the instructions I offer for importing audiobooks on audio or MP3 CDs into iTunes, you end up with a single album with the title of the book, that is composed of sequentially numbered tracks, which make up the chapters or discs of the book. These separate tracks are kind of painful to […]

Read the full article →

MacHeist II: 11 great Mac apps for $49

January 14, 2008

This year’s MacHeist includes 11 applications in the bundle, which individually would sell for $368.75. When bought as part of the MacHeist promotion, the whole collection is under $50. Now, it’s a rare person who would want and use every single one of these applications; there’s just too much variety to have everything fit perfectly. […]

Read the full article →

The Amazon Kindle does audiobooks too

December 5, 2007

If you pay much attention to the technology industry or consumer electronics, you may be aware of a new “e-book” reader from Amazon.com, called the Amazon Kindle. An ebook reader is an electronic device that can display the text of books or magazines onscreen, more crisply than a standard computer, and with the benefit of […]

Read the full article →

Where is TiVo Transfer?

November 20, 2007

Roxio recently released an update to Toast Titanium 8, which includes, among other things, TiVo Transfer, the officially-sanctioned application for using the TiVoToGo feature of a Series 2 or Series 3 TiVo with Mac OS X. This application is used to move recorded shows off of your TiVo and onto your Mac, where you can […]

Read the full article →

Announcing Aldo on TiVo

November 15, 2007

Instead of working on updated versions of my instructions for importing audiobooks into iTunes, I have instead branched out, adding a new section covering a new topic. Announcing Aldo on TiVo! Currently there is only one article in the section, Playing BitTorrent Downloads on a TiVo Series 3, reflecting a new trick that I figured […]

Read the full article →

Free this week: The Millionaires by Brad Meltzer

November 13, 2007

The unabridged version of The Millionaires by Brad Meltzer is currently free at the iTunes Store. Freebie audiobooks usually last about a week, so get this while you can. (Requires a valid iTunes Store account.) Here’s the book’s description (from the iTunes Store): What would you steal if you couldn’t get caught? It started as […]

Read the full article →

Gone, baby, gone!

November 5, 2007

On Saturday I took 13 BeBoxes to the Vintage Computer Festival in Mountain View, with the intent of offering them to passers-by, getting them out of the house and into a good home. I spent a bit of time creating a flyer to advertise them, and packed up a kit with stapler, tape, marker, etc., […]

Read the full article →

Holy afterburners, Batman!

September 5, 2007

Today Apple announced a whole series of changes to its lineup of iPods, including improvements and a price reduction for the iPod I recommend for audiobooks, the 4 GB iPod nano. But the most interesting news, to me, was about the iPhone, at the end of the event. From Steve’s lips to our ears (via […]

Read the full article →

Deathly Hallows not coming to iTunes Store

August 28, 2007

I’m a bit late to have stumbled across this information, but it would appear that the final novel in the Harry Potter series will not be coming to the iTunes Store: HEARING HARRY You may have the seen the avalanche of press coverage about the new “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” hardcover selling 8.3 […]

Read the full article →

Sign of Machine Intelligence?

August 28, 2007

A friend sent me the following screen capture from Google News: I take this as another sign that the first true machine intelligence will emerge in the Googleplex.

Read the full article →

Mozilla Thunderbird still doesn’t “get” anti-virus protection

August 14, 2007

Two and a half years ago, I wrote a post describing a problem I had been having when Rochelle migrated to Mozilla Thunderbird for email, and Norton Anti-Virus was corrupting her Inbox. The gist of the post was that there didn’t seem to be a good anti-virus solution that worked well with Thunderbird. A couple […]

Read the full article →

More iPhone notes

July 8, 2007

A few more thoughts on my iPhone, that I’ve jotted down since my earlier post:

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →