I'm Hijacking My Audio...

Gonna get all geeky on yo' ass now and say how much I love Audio Hijack Pro! You see, it allows you to not only hijack any audio stream on your Mac (DVDs, internet radio, anything with an audio stream really), but it's also the easiest way of recording old vinyl LPs and tapes that I've found.

I used to have to record the audio as one long file and then edit it, which took forever, but Audio Hijack Pro allows you to chuck the audio at it, it then listens out for suitable silences in the music and slices it into separate files ie. songs!

It also encodes it as either an MP3, or AAC file - whatever you want, so you don't have to encode it when you've finished. And then it chucks it into iTunes for you as well!

I had one long file with two songs in it (the silence wasn't long enough), but then I chucked it into AHP's sister program Fission, and sliced it and named the files in a couple of minutes. Brilliant. (As Danny Dog would say...)

I'm not paid by Rogue Amoeba the creators of Audio Hijack Pro and Fission, but I wholeheartedly endorse them!

I knew ITV1 shouldn't mess with these things...

So, ITV1 buys the rights to screen Pushing Daisies, the new series from Dead Like Me and Wonderfalls creator, Bryan Fuller. They showed the first episode last Saturday and it pulled in a reasonably respectable 5.7m viewers. I loved the show, and look forward to seeing the rest of the series...

...except we won't get to see all of it, because ITV1 only have 8 slots to show the programme before Euro 2008 coverage starts. Therefore they've taken the decision to drop Episode 2, as they figure it was the one we could live without - after all it only shows the early life of the main character, Ned, and how he discovered his resurrection power - nothing really important, I'm sure...

I wouldn't mind, except no home nation is taking part in Euro 2008... Oh, wait, I still wouldn't care!

The Curse of Facebook

That's it, I've been sucked in... Facebook has grabbed me and dragged me under. I'm even writing this blog entry in Facebook....

Must check profile, must look at friends' photos, must add applications, must... play... Pirates!

Must see if there is a Facebook addict group...