Since I upgraded my PC to Vista, iTunes had been skipping. Under XP on the same machine, iTunes had been playing OK. Playback would stutter/skip several times a minute. It was really annoying. I couldn’t find a fix anywhere, although all the fixes seemed to point to Quicktime or upgrading codecs. However my fix turned out to be something else. In Quicktime, I changed “Play audio using” from “Direct Sound” to “Windows Audio Session”. No more skipping! Apparently the “Windows Audio Session” option became available with iTunes 9.
Author: Kenward
DrinkGen – a tool for generating mixed drink recipies
Click here to generate mixed drink recipies with DrinkGen.
Some examples of drinks invented with DrinkGen:
| Hopeful Cocktail 3 oz. Whisky Juice of 1 a Lemon Fill cocktail glass with Cola. Add cracked ice. |
| Mathematical 1½ oz. Whisky 1 oz. Tonic water Shake with cracked ice, and strain into in a collins glass. |
| Horrendous Albany 1 oz. Vodka 3 oz. Whisky Stir, in a rocks glass. Add cracked ice. |
Phockal– Twinkle Elf MP3
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Download an MP3 of Phockal, a tune that’s been kicking around. Kinda slow, but interesting/weird sound.
Tarot Plot Generator Update
The Tarot Plot Generator has been updated to be a stand alone HTML page. You can now save it to your computer and you don’t need to be online. The previous version was at Abulfia. The new Tarot Plot Generator was made using RandListGen.
Tarot Plot Generator is a writing tool, to inspire plot ideas, using the symbolism of the tarot. It details the main character and three acts with fourteen cards.
Svibice – 511 Vibrations Per Second MP3
I decided to participate in the Wikipedia names your band (and album cover) game which directs you through randomizing sources for your fake album cover. And them you mash them up using Photoshop, or in my case, GIMP. All fun and games until Vic required me to make the music to go along with the art. This is almost what I had in mind, download the music here: Svibice – 511 Vibrations Per Second
[The song is hyper fast, 160 BPM is fast for me, with distorted bass and waves of fuzzy guitars. Chanty cut up drone vocal.]
(source photo by Joao Carlos Alves, licensed under creative commons)
Converting MOV to AVI
Kim has a Kodak camera that makes movies in MOV format, with no option to save as AVI. We need AVI format video to use in Windows Movie Maker, because it WMM doesn’t like MOV (which is the default format of Apple’s Quicktime). So, after struggling with various converters that didn’t really work, I found (or re-discovered… I had used it before) MP4cam2AVI. It is free, as in Free Open Source, download from Sourceforge.
iTunes store to drop DRM
- All songs DRM free
- “… three price points—69 cents, 99 cents and $1.29—with many more songs priced at 69 cents than $1.29”
Geek List of Movies
How many of these have you seen?
Seeing a “Geek Movies” list on Facebook inspired me to make this list of movies. I’d say its my geek list of movies. Not the best movies ever made. Not the best science fiction either. Not even a list of all the movies I’ve seen or plan on seeing. Some I don’t even like. Just that I think they in some way have Geek Cachet. Let’s just call it a Geek List of Movies.
(x) 12 Monkeys
(x) 1984
(x) 2001
( ) 2010
(x) 28 Days Later
(x) 28 Weeks Later
(x) A Scanner Darkly
(x) A.I. Artificial Intelligence
(x) Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
(x) Aeon Flux
(x) Akira
(x) Alien
( ) Alien 3
(x) Alien Resurrection
(x) Aliens
(x) Altered States
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Download MP3 of my song “Geb”
I dug up this MP3 of “GEB” that I did a while ago. Mid tempo Electronic tune. Typically bleapy. Neat use of sliding EQ near the begining (If I can be immodest enough to use the word neat describing my own work). I’m pretty sure this was done 100% in Jeskola Buzz. Weird slow-mo dream sequence near the end. I’d like your opinions.
