Friday, July 17, 2009

Convert DVD to iPod

Convert DVD to iPod

On the PC there are a myriad of crappy and hard to use freeware solutions and a smaller set of quasi-commercial solutions. Should just be "one touch" like with some Mac programs (e.g. visual hub...)

DVD decrypter and Videora seem to work well. I had a little problem with Videora on Vista after using it for years on an XP machine...

This page links to both as downloads and provides step-by-step instructions to convert.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Start Playing Guitar Home Page

Start Playing Guitar Home Page

Back on the music front... I've been enjoying the vicarious pleasure of fake music from RockBand. Seriously thinking about trying to make actual music. This site is pretty comprehensive, all the way from rent/buy? Acoustic/electric? Lessons of various sorts and sources for TAB and music books. Maintenance etc.

Thursday, July 09, 2009

Economagic: Economic Time Series Page

Economagic: Economic Time Series Page

more than 200,000 time series for which data and custom charts can be retrieved. Though the greatest utility of this site is the vast number of economic time series, and the easily modified charts of that same data, an overlooked facility of great utility is the availability of Excel files for all series.