| Ion Audio Tape 2 PC USB Cassette Archiver review
The digital media revolution has impacted heavily on the music industry, and not only with the profit losses that come courtesy of illegal file sharers. Indeed, in its digital format, music has become truly portable, easily editable – and rather difficult to tangle. But however hastily we'd consign our old Jason Donovan audio cassettes to a life gathering dust at the back of a drawer, there are some tracks that we'd hate to lose in the digital takeover. It is still possible to buy cassette decks, of course, although you're likely to pay much the same price as you would for Ion Audio's Tape 2 PC. And while we've covered digitising vinyl and audio cassettes using your existing equipment before in PC Advisor, it's never been quite so easy to turn cassette to MP3 and add it to your library.
Our DVD guru raves about the new Blade Runner release
I am feeling very old right now. Blade Runner, a film I saw in its initial theatrical run when I was barely a teenager, is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary. More importantly, the film is being celebrated, properly, in a series of multi-DVD special editions from Warner Home Video. .
Shine, and accessorize, like a star
Ever since "Atonement" hit theaters, bloggers have been gushing about how stunning Keira Knightley looks in a certain backless green dress. The dress has even been called the "best film costume." Now you have the opportunity to own it. The opening bid was $1,000 at Clothes Off Our Back (clothesoffourback.org). At press time, the current bid checked in at $7,500. The proceeds benefit Variety -- The Children's Charity of Southern California.
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A Different Perspective
Yogi Bear stood at the entrance to Jellystone National Park. He scouted unattended picnic baskets while awaiting Boo Boo Bears arrival home on the school bus. Yogi and Boo Boo were co-owners of a playoff fantasy team. As Yogi considered himself smarter than the average bear, he figured his team had a decided advantage, but he needed Boo Boos help in researching and deciphering the most recent data before submitting teams for the next round of games. So he waited anxiously and kept a look out for Ranger Smith. The school bus screeched to a halt at the entrance and Boo Boo climbed down the steps, dragging his back pack behind him. The bus roared off in a cloud of dust and rubble. Hey, Boo Boo! Were still in first place in our fantasy league. Lets go look at the stats and make our picks. I dont want to play anymore, Yogi.
Xacti HD1a HD camcorder adds wide display, more
Sanyo on Thursday introduced the Xacti HD1a, a compact digital media camera that records both still pictures and digital video. It does it all onto an SD flash memory card. The Xacti HD1a is coming in September for $699.99. The Xacti HD1a records video in 720p and grabs 5.1 megapixel still images. Because it uses SD cards instead of bulky tapes or optical media, it's much more compact than other camcorders. It uses a 10x optical zoom lens and 2.2-inch LCD display. New features in the HD1a include a 16:9 widescreen still picture mode, in-camera video editing, a 30 frames-per-second 320 x 240 MPEG-4 pixel video recording mode called “Web-SHQ," optimized for the video iPod. The 16:9 still image mode grabs 3.8 megapixel images in the same wide-screen format as the Xacti HD1's digital videos.
Bloggers seriously candid, but anonymous
Tommy is squealing like the organ grinder's monkey for more openness on Mississippi newspaper editorial pages but the noise gets a little garbled coming out of the Mississippi House of Representatives because it's still emanating from behind closed doors in those secret conference committee hearings." Finally, in 2004, the Legislature opened the doors of the conference committees in both houses. It was a victory for the taxpayers. Tommy Horne is no longer in the Legislature. His son, Steve, is now a two-termer in the House and that "signed editorial" battle seems silly. But maybe Tommy Horne is getting the last laugh. How so? Technology intervened. Now, unsigned electronic comments are the rule, not the exception, to most every unsigned editorial, signed column, signed blog post and other materials published on the online version of this newspaper at clarionledger.com Anonymity abounds I'm one of those old relics in the newspaper business who got started back in the days when stories were written on typewriters.
Franchisee aims to score in business monitoring via the Web
Books and magazine articles about entrepreneurship, not to mention professors in business schools, hammer at the importance of having an exit strategy in place while building a business. Less emphasized is a corollary question, "What does an entrepreneur do after exiting a business?" For Paul Patrick, of Cranberry, the answer became, "Start another one." After Mr. Patrick, 46, sold his franchisee's stake in an outdoor lighting company last year, he wanted to build a different type of business, but wasn't sure what kind. But he had some clues. "I knew I didn't want to do retail, and I knew I didn't want to do fast food," he said. He also knew that he wanted a business that would serve other businesses, and that he wanted to make use of his technology background.
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