March 28, 2009
By speech enabling your blog, you offer readers the option of listening to your blog content. This can be incredibly useful for people with bad eyesight or for people doing a lot of multi-tasking that just prefer to listen to the content being read as they are doing other things. But honestly, I think the [...]
February 22, 2009
I’m not an advocate of piracy but here’s a cool idea to grab songs off YouTube. As you may know, YouTube has a huge collection of music videos. Sometimes, I’d watch a music video over and over again just to listen to the song. I’ve just found a nifty application which will extract the audio [...]
February 11, 2009
I’ve been dealing with Macbook’s crackling sound problem (or little devil as I like to call it) ever since I upgraded from a Mac Mini to a BlackBook. On a quiet day, I noticed some odd crackling noise coming from my brand new MacBook. At first, I thought it had something to do with the [...]
December 17, 2008
This week in the continuing series on podcasting (here are Part 1 and Part 2) we look at adding music and sound effects to your podcast and how to make it all sound smooth and professional. The podcast is available through iTunes so don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast if you have an iPod, [...]
November 30, 2008
Here’s a very broad overview of how to create a podcast from scratch. In future podcasts I will delve more deeply into various aspects of podcasting (software, feeds etc.) but for now, you’ve got a general idea of how it’s done and can at least get started. Audacity Blogger WordPress Microphones Mevio The podcast is [...]
November 25, 2008
For a couple of years now, I have been awaiting a decent, standalone, freeware program that can extract DVD audio tracks and convert them to audio mp3′s. There are dozens and dozens of trialware and shareware applications, but absolutely no decent freeware programs that get this done in a satisfactory manner. I only have a [...]
September 24, 2008
Switching over from Windows to Mac is relatively painless because Mac has support for a lot of commonly used files like Microsoft Word documents, Powerpoint slideshows and Adobe PDF files. So, compatibility is hardly an issue. One thing which you do have to take note of however while switching over to Mac is your iTunes [...]
September 19, 2008
In their quest to make everything searchable, Google is now starting to index what is being spoken in video clips, or to be more precise, what is being spoken in YouTube clips. This is done by using speech recognition technology to convert the audio into words which is then indexed into Google search. Then if [...]
September 16, 2008
Podcasts, Netcasts, call them what you want. Every geek out there should be listening to these things. Every single one of you. If ever you see a geek with earphones plugged into his/her ears, I guarantee you they are listening to the latest podcasts. It’s just something most geeks can’t live without. We thrive on [...]
September 13, 2008
These days the internet has transformed itself into a large source of media content (apart from other things), be it video, audio or images. However with so many media formats, it often becomes necessary to be able to convert from one type to the other. FormatFactory is one such tool that can assist you in [...]
