I just finished uploading my personal correspondance from January, 2002 to the blogs. See them at the Tom’s Diary January, 2002 Archive, the Tom’s Love Quest January, 2002 Archive, and the Tom’s Views January, 2002 Archive.
Now I’m off to do February, 2002.
I spent much of today posting to the Everything Adult Talk mailing list, and the Relationships Blog at Blog-City.com, to put my opinions onto more places on the Internet and to tell people about my blogs. I’ll likely do more of the same tomorrow.
So, the Victor Reader Stream has no internal clock?
While browsing my $VRNotes directory, I found that the 3gp files crated when you record notes have none of the Last Access, Last Created, or Last Modified timestamps set. This is a pain because I have to remember to say the date and time of each new journal entry I record so that when I later rename those notes files (00001.3gp, 00002.3gp, and so on) to names that facilitate sorting by date, I have to copy the files to my PC, then listen to each of the original ones (still on the Stream), rename the PC copies, and finally, copy the renamed files back to the Stream. Seems like a lot of work just to keep usefully named files archived.
Can these timestamps be enabled in Stream 3.0?
[I posted this to the Portable Player list, and learned the following: The Victor Reader Stream has no internal clock, and so therefore cannot timestamp the files it creates when recording notes with it. Then, I gripe a little.]
Yes, that’s what I thought. Strange though, because so many digital devices these days have a clock. Even the iPods have one. Oh well. Thanks.
[Perhaps in the next generation of the Victor Reader Stream, they'll include an internal clock and add timestamping of the Stream-created files.]
Added the following categories to the Tom’s Diary blog:
These will make it easier for my readers to locate posts about three of the major people, places, and things that either are, or have been near and dear to me over the years.
[Emmy's] iPod is configured in iTunes to sync automatically when connected to her computer. Further, she subscribes to several podcasts, and many (though not all of) the episodes are already on the iPod. Also, she’s listened to some on the iPod, but not finished all of them.
The problem: Will she lose those partially-completed episodes when next she connects her iPod? Since you can’t configure the iPod to manually sync (which would stop auto syncing) until the iPod is plugged in, there is another way.
Prior to plugging in the iPod, in iTunes, go to Edit–>Preferences. Then, on the Devices tab, uncheck the box labeled “Disable automatic syncing of iPhones and iPods”, and then hit the Okay button.
Now, when she connects the iPod, syncing does not happen. Note that syncing still happens in response to changes made under the Music or Podcasts tabs in the iPod’s configuration screens. This checkbox appears to only stop the automatic syncing that happens upon iPod connection.
Do remember that you did this however, because with this setting changed, no device will automatically sync until you change this back.
Sent checks to the first ten winners today of the WPSBC Alumni Association raffle fundraiser:
$200 to Maria Haslett
$25 to Donna Dowling
$25 to Fran Costellano
$50 to Dan Whited
$25 to Joe Wassermann
$25 to David Jones
$25 to Bill Newland
$25 to Lisa Rotheram
$25 to Pamela Edwards
$25 to Jim Nornhold
Enjoy your prizes!
More winners to come.
Friends,
I have a couple Internet radios – one from Sangean and the other from Asus. If you’re not familiar with them, they look very much like a regular tabletop radio. But rather than playing traditional AM and FM radio stations, they play Internet radio stations. They connect to the Internet wirelessly through your home network’s access point (if you have one). If not, you can connect them to your network via an Ethernet cable. They’re great because you get tens of thousands of stations at your fingertips. The only problem is that none that I’ve seen so far are accessible – they don’t talk to you to read the site your listening to. My girlfriend loves Internet radio and would really enjoy one of these radios for Christmas. But she’s blind, and so we’d need to find an accessible one. Thoughts?