Tag: Cross-platform software
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(Not) The End Of The World
Some songs arrive and they are so good and timely you can’t work out why they aren’t massive. Even when played on the likes of 6Music, some songs seem to miss the boat, and I usually want to correct this error as much as I can. Max Pope’s (Not) The End Of The World as…
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Dropping Dropbox Or How I Learned To Hate The Cloud
Well not entirely, but I’ve been switching backups and data away from Dropbox for a while, given what Edward Snowden said, and the fact that Condi ‘Spy on you’ Rice is now on the board. Problem with Dropbox is many-fold, like iCloud and others there isn’t any encryption, and you just have to trust that…
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Radio Clash: A New Hope
Well for the Radio Station anyway – yes I know the stream is not very good (especially as I write this, I managed to delete a load of shows and while I’m re-uploading them the stream will be as choppy as a choppy sea of chop suey with floating lamb chops and extra choppy bits…
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slightly LAME
If you’re using LAME MP3 encoder like I am, and upgrade to LAME 3.98.2 and hear whispery phasey effects, try either 3.97 or 3.98 as there seems something slightly odd with the codec, or at least working with RazorLAME. I’ve just upgraded and degraded to 3.97 final – hmm maybe best to leave alone 😉…
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p990 Email settings (Dreamhosts/GMail)
I’m sure about 3 people on the planet have had this problem but after nearly a year I GOT EMAIL ON MY p990i! Can’t they make it so you just press a button and it configures itself? We are in the 21st century people! Not got send with Gmail to work yet, despite what it…
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Not SmartFTP
Something I hate about commercial ‘free’ software, like FTP and Anti-virus programs when they say ‘free for uncommercial use’ – so I happily use them at home (not commercially of course) for several years, lured into a false sense of a happy-warm-fuzzy-glow towards the company. Then some marketing wonk in the company obviously freaks out,…