Daily Breakfast 576 – Holy Snow, Batman!
Snow in Minnesota; health problems change plans; tackling tech troubles; SQPN wins four Podcast Awards!; the return of Fr. Leo; what makes Batman special; Market Garden.
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Fr. Roderick,
Thank you for the Mass. Since I was a Greeter this past weekend(passing out the bulletins as parishoners enter), I’d take the same position at your service, too.
In the “Nature Recordist” yahoo group, a member is having success recording hours of audio files in .flac format which uses smaller file sizes without loss of quality and capable of being converted to full PCM wave format if necessary.
Congratulations on the podcast awards!!!
I read the Ironman comics when younger. The new movie version has great VFX. Why can’t our applications have interfaces like these?!?-he, he.
There are archive recordings available on iTunes, some made during the D-Day landings.
Thanks for the mass Father!
I hate Finder also, but I also hate Explorer.
On the Mac I use Pathfinder. This is awesome software and is great for the power user. It is so flexible and has so many options. Pathfinder version 5 recently came out and I upgraded to it since it has some great new options. You can switch between single pane and dual pane for file managing and has great preview capabilities when you just click on any file. It is extremely configurable so you can just see what you want to see with plenty of different panes of information you can choose to see along with a great shortcut shelf you can place your most used folders.
At 39 dollars it is worth every penny. They have a 30 day trail to check it out.
http://www.cocoatech.com/
Fr. Roderick,
First, thank you for celebrating the mass on our behalf.
Second, I have a suggestion which will hopefully help you with your consolidation and storage challenges. In my household there are five PCs. Each with there own itunes library, photo collection, open-source software collection, video/audio collection. I purchased a MediaSmart Home server (http://www.amazon.com/EX475-MediaSmart-Server-Windows-Drive/dp/B000UXZUZC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1226426567&sr=8-2) similar to the one in this link. 1TB of storage and consolidated my itunes, photos, software, home videos all onto this server. Then I mapped on each PC drives to the coresponding folders. For example: I drive = itunes, P drive = photos, S drive = software, V drive = video/audio. Just an idea for a way to share your content amoung all your PC (windows & mac).
There are many of these types of appliances besides the HP MediaSmart Home Server, such as HP Media Vault, Drobo, and Netgear ReadyNAS. The nice thing about the MediaSmart Server is that is works with the HP MediaSmart Connect, which allows me to watch on my TV the photo slides shows and home videos stored on my Home Server. Just an idea, but it not cheap to setup.
B Quad | pax tecum
I really like the snow song that you played. It made me laugh
Fr. Roderick,
Thank you for this episode of the DB.
I have a FinderSubstituteTip for you
and …. it is Free!
It is the Mac app Xfolders (that behaves the same as Totalcommander for Windows) and should look familiar to you if you happen to know the Norton Commander in the way-back good old DOS-days.
~ Xfolders @ http://www.kai-heitkamp.com/.
The download can be found @ http://tinyurl.com/Xfolders1-6
I hope this will help you.
Regards,
Fred Zelders
Netherlands
O! And congratulations with the Awards!