How to Transfer Your Vinyl Records to MP3 (and get CD quality results)

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The Goal While doing research for this article on converting music from vinyl records to mp3’s, I viewed on the Internet numerous YouTube videos, and read a lot of “How To’s” on the subject .  A good number of well meaning people spent a lot of time explaining this conversion process, and if one followed… Continue reading How to Transfer Your Vinyl Records to MP3 (and get CD quality results)

Anonymity on the Web – Tor Browser

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Developed by the Tor Project, Tor is free open source software that allows you to surf the web with a high degree on anonymity.   Initially, your web request (for the website you will eventually connect to)  is bounced through a number of server relays, and through this process, your IP address (your online identity) is… Continue reading Anonymity on the Web – Tor Browser

The Journey To My AppleTV Media Player

Confucius said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.”   In late 2007, I decided to make that first step towards buying a media player.  Doing my usual indefatigable research, I decided on one made by Prismiq.  This Linux powered appliance could stream movies (a number of codecs were available), photos,… Continue reading The Journey To My AppleTV Media Player