Episode #117
Hi Leo and doods! OK, I have a home network that has over the years grown to 2 desktops, a server, 2 laptops and a PS3! I live with my son and we are both into music and have ripped many CD’s over the years on basically all the computers in the house. I have found it really, REALLY hard to find any software that can help me organise all the music into one place (hard drive) and take care of duplicates etc. Do you know of anything other than manual hard work to accomplish this? It must be a common problem these days you would think. Well thanks for any help you can give and love the show man!
Wayne, Maroubra, NSW
This is what I did - I bought a big external hard drive and went from machine to machine collecting all the files on each. If you use a synchronization program like Microsoft’s Synctoy or Centered Systems’ Second Copy you’ll minimize duplication.
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Air Date: December 4, 2007
TranscriptCaller Questions
- Peter, Sydney, NSW
- Heather, Roseworthy, SA
- Wayne, Maroubra, NSW
Yewell's Jewels
- UFRawwindowsmaclinux
The Unidentified Flying Raw (UFRaw) is a utility to read and manipulate raw images from digital cameras. It can be used on its own or as a Gimp plug-in. It reads raw images using Dave Coffin’s raw conversion utility - DCRaw. UFRaw supports basic color management using Little CMS, allowing the user to apply color profiles.
Sean's Shinies
- Boynq Alibi
$80
To get started in the world of video chat, you need two key things: a camera, and a headset. The Boynq Alibi is designed to do the job of both these components… not only is it a speaker with built-in microphone, but press on the top and up pops a 1.3 megapixel USB webcam which tilts and swivels. To be fair, the speaker quality isn’t the best you’ll find, and it’s a bit frustrating that the speaker/mic portion requires analogue connectors instead of hooking to the computer via USB. But for $80 it does solve a problem for a lot of people.Shiny:
- pop-up webcam is positionable
- built-in microphone
Dull
- speaker quality middling
- uses analogue audio jacks
Kate’s Tips
- Jelly Blocks
Quite possibly the most addictive game ever. The task is simple enough - to connect all of the same coloured blocks together. There are 100 levels, and you’ll want to complete them all!