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Post by Professor Gommel on Jan 13, 2007 14:41:13 GMT -5
So, spending a good deal o' time online, I found some stuff that I thought other visitors to S'n'Os may be interested. I figured I'd start a new thread to share these recent discoveries as well as for others to do the same. Recently, after foolishly believing a filthy lie told to me by AOL, (hoCCHHH...THEW!!!) I had to wipe my laptop clean and use my recovery discs to start it anew. Fortunately, I was able to copy most of my stuff and transfer elsewhere for safe keeping but my iTunes, sadly, was emptied. Many hours I spent copying my CDs to the 'Pod and now, gone. And iTunes does not allow you to copy your music from iPod to computer, (some copyright crapola.) Luckily, I found iPodCopy. I was able to move thousands of tunes from 'Pod to laptop fairly easily and with minimal learning time. I am sure there are many other 3rd party software developers that allow one to do this, or maybe even some trick built into the iPod, but I was able to restore mine quickly and easily with this one. For someone with limited gadget-savvy, I would recommend this product. It was for certain easier than copying all those discs over, not to mention downloaded songs and music from borrowed CDs! I found it at www.wideanglesoftware.com for anyone interested.
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Post by Professor Gommel on Jan 13, 2007 15:28:49 GMT -5
Here's something else I'd like to share... Uberprints.comLast month, while looking for a cheap way to make some custom-designed T-shirts for some Christmas gifts, I found this site. They had a pretty decent selection of items, (many T-shirt styles, sweats, "hoodies," etc.) some decent clip-art style images to choose from, a nice assortment of text fonts, and, best of all, an easy-to-use, fun, design studio. I found some artwork online and copied it to my computer. Loaded it from there to the "design studio," added some text, et voila! custom T-shirt, ready to wear or wrap. T-shirts can be digitally printed, embroidered, or silk-screened, (the latter two require an order of at least twelve items,) and are very quick to ship, (which was fortunate, as I got a late shopping start.) A problem arose, however, when one of the images I swiped off the 'Net was copyrighted. Uberprints actually called me at home to discuss my order, which was pretty cool. She also suggested a way around the copyright, saying they would have no problem if I changed the image a bit. My designs, two, 2-sided, (not that I know if that makes a difference, price-wise,) digitally printed T-shirts came to about $25.00 each, S&H (to Massachusetts) included. My designs are kept on file in my account should I want to edit them or order more. This is a pretty decent site worth checking out for those seeking clothes found nowhere else, a way to display original artwork, or advertising space for a band logo or something like that. www.uberprints.com
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Post by 1788 Dens of Sin on Jan 14, 2007 16:34:30 GMT -5
So, spending a good deal o' time online, I found some stuff that I thought other visitors to S'n'Os may be interested. I figured I'd start a new thread to share these recent discoveries as well as for others to do the same. Recently, after foolishly believing a filthy lie told to me by AOL, (hoCCHHH...THEW!!!) I had to wipe my laptop clean and use my recovery discs to start it anew. Fortunately, I was able to copy most of my stuff and transfer elsewhere for safe keeping but my iTunes, sadly, was emptied. Many hours I spent copying my CDs to the 'Pod and now, gone. And iTunes does not allow you to copy your music from iPod to computer, (some copyright crapola.) Luckily, I found iPodCopy. I was able to move thousands of tunes from 'Pod to laptop fairly easily and with minimal learning time. I am sure there are many other 3rd party software developers that allow one to do this, or maybe even some trick built into the iPod, but I was able to restore mine quickly and easily with this one. For someone with limited gadget-savvy, I would recommend this product. It was for certain easier than copying all those discs over, not to mention downloaded songs and music from borrowed CDs! I found it at www.wideanglesoftware.com for anyone interested. Sounds like a very useful tool - thanks! I have recently invested in a USB hard drive thing - it is external and has a copy of all my MP3s on it as well as the family digital photos etc. Basically a total backup of everything which has already saved me the immense pain of a PC crash - I highly recommend!
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Post by Captain Kelly's Bollocks on Jan 16, 2007 0:48:22 GMT -5
So, spending a good deal o' time online, I found some stuff that I thought other visitors to S'n'Os may be interested. I figured I'd start a new thread to share these recent discoveries as well as for others to do the same. Recently, after foolishly believing a filthy lie told to me by AOL, (hoCCHHH...THEW!!!) I had to wipe my laptop clean and use my recovery discs to start it anew. Fortunately, I was able to copy most of my stuff and transfer elsewhere for safe keeping but my iTunes, sadly, was emptied. Many hours I spent copying my CDs to the 'Pod and now, gone. And iTunes does not allow you to copy your music from iPod to computer, (some copyright crapola.) Luckily, I found iPodCopy. I was able to move thousands of tunes from 'Pod to laptop fairly easily and with minimal learning time. I am sure there are many other 3rd party software developers that allow one to do this, or maybe even some trick built into the iPod, but I was able to restore mine quickly and easily with this one. For someone with limited gadget-savvy, I would recommend this product. It was for certain easier than copying all those discs over, not to mention downloaded songs and music from borrowed CDs! I found it at www.wideanglesoftware.com for anyone interested. Sounds like a very useful tool - thanks! I have recently invested in a USB hard drive thing - it is external and has a copy of all my MP3s on it as well as the family digital photos etc. Basically a total backup of everything which has already saved me the immense pain of a PC crash - I highly recommend! Works wonders, I have a 500gb external hard drive that holds most of my music.
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Post by NJPADDY on Jan 16, 2007 15:04:12 GMT -5
I always pull my hard drives out before giving away or trashing old pcs. For about $30 I bought a set of SATA&IDE>USB cables, so I can hook up any of my old HD's to my current pc and use them for storage or backups. Cheaper and more flexible than one external drive.
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Post by Professor Gommel on Jan 25, 2007 16:21:26 GMT -5
Here is a neat item... I have a sister with a birthday next week so I got her a CD-Rom tutorial for the tin whistle from www.madfortrad.com/ and it arrived pretty quickly. They have tutorials for Bodhran, banjo, Bouzouki, button accordion, concertina, fiddle, flute, guitar, piano, piano accordion, tin whistle and uilleann pipes. I had the bouzouki one. It featured Gerry McGee from Nomos, and had easy directions, easy and advanced sections, videos. The whole shabang. Other instructors include Seamus Eagan of Solas, Cathal Hayden of Four Men and a Dog, Niall Vallely, John Doyle of Eilleen Ivers band and others equally of note. Check out the site, there's a whole bunch of stuff on it whorth looking into, like CD sales, news, tour info, some tune lessons, and other stuff.
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Post by RumRebellion on Jan 25, 2007 19:08:14 GMT -5
I've got the bouzouki one aswell. it definatly had some intersesting stuff for tune accompaniment, like chord inversions, funky rythms, open chords up the neck etc...
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