So I use and love MS OneNote at work for taking all my notes, either hand-written using my crappy tablet, or typed directly. It’s ability to cross-reference and search an entire notbook including hand writing and text in images is awesome.
I’m now in a situation where I have a tonne of handover documentation I took at work in a OneNote 2007 notebook (including screen clippings and the like) and I don’t want to re-type them into the Wiki we use at work. Is there anyone out there in the Lazy Web that can help me get to a solution?
Ideally, I’d love to use OneNote as a front end for our Wiki server, but right now I’d be willing to accept a one time OneNote to Wiki export feature.
So I’ve had this app as a utility in my standard workstation install for many, many years, MP3Gain. It’s a windows app (I believe written in VB no less) which can losslessly, statistically normalise the gain on your mp3 tracks. It does both individual track gain or album gain for those strange albums that need to be adjusted as one, and as I said it does this all without need to transcode the mp3, so no data loss.
One of the limitations of it being lossless is that it only alters gain in 1.5dB increments, something about mp3 keyframes. Regardless, it’s an essential tool for any music collection, if for no other reason than the fact that it can tell you about and then remove the clipping on so many of the mp3 encoded tracks out there these days.
I guess this is the main reason I’m blogging about this application right now. Many people don’t realise that the mp3 spec has digital ranges for maximum and minimum signal that most tracks these days seem to go past in the interest of the loudness effect. Most people either never noticed it on their PC’s or blamed it on crappy PC speakers, but with the proliferation of mp3 players out there now you’re more likely to hear this distortion and clipping in your earphones.
If you have this problem, then suck down MP3Gain and run it over your music collection. It’s a sure fire cure for mp3 distortion and clipping, but why is this app still needed these days?
So this new mexican takeaway place opened up in the food court at Australia Square, Guzman Y Gomez.
It’s a little bit on the pricey side, but I’ve got to say it’s the best takeaway place I’ve ever eaten at in the CBD, defnintely the best take away mexican.
Courtesy of Boing Boing, a post about a code of best practises for fair use of online video. Interesting to see all these pseudo bodies for standardisation popping up trying to solve really difficult problems. This one in particular is an interesting one.
So do I jump on board and take the crapy “iPhone only” plans that are being pushed by the Aussie telco’s with 3G iPhone’s at the moment just to get one as soon as possible, or do I stick it out and wait for the hype to die down and get a good phone on a good plan in about a month’s time?
Or do I even go the way of many a fellow geek and get one from the States and Jailbreak it?
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