http://www.spreeder.com/
I’ve never tried anything like this before but it truly seems revolutionary in the realm of reading comprehension. Unfortunately my mind seems to work in a terrible way when reading. Attention deficit seems to kick in pretty hard after a few paragraphs. Something like this could really help tremendously. Now all I need to do is get my books in raw text format so I can paste them into this applet.
I’ve been doing my best to support musicians and artists who aren’t on the bankroll of the major labels but I refuse to purchase anything with DRM. Well I’ve amassed quite the library of music and I’m starting to ponder ogg. It works just as well on all the platforms I use so my idea is that I should use it because of its stance on freedom.
Enter dir2ogg…
I’ve got it running as we speak converting my entire library. It should be a mess to wade through the leftover files (not confident enough to enable the deletion of source files after conversion parameter) but I think it’ll be worth it. It is another habit to get into when it comes to storing media on my equipment.
Edit: The quad core processor in this workstation makes this easy by not even slowing me down while its doing the conversion.
Re-edit: Brick wall. I cannot keep the track number ID3 information in the file upon converting it.
I’ve been wanting to get back into creating music and recently had the opportunity to pickup a used guitar. Luckily, an opportunity to borrow a guitar also presented itself and I took it up.
Fifteen or twenty minutes into actually using the guitar and I feel frustrated and remember why I didn’t stick to my bass or any of the billions of guitars I’ve had. I can’t play guitar by myself, and enjoy the music like I always have with the piano and sample based hybrid piano setup. Fortunately I haven’t committed to buying a guitar and now have the opportunity to get back to my musical roots: the piano.
I have been using a M-audio mini-midi-controller (five times fast?) that is frustrating because I can’t use more than two octaves at once. M-audio products have always been pretty amazing for me so I naturally went back to them to find something to give me what I want: a full 88 key midi keyboard on the cheap. Enter the M-Audio Keystation 88es. I’ll have it on order soon and hopefully be effective at reading sheet music and getting that euphoric buzz of self creation and audio soon. I’ve missed it.
The alternate title would be paradise.
This is absolutely amazing. The visual of that huge snowcapped mountain behind a nice stream… Well I’d have to repeat that I want to leave Florida! Amazing!
92 minutes? really?
