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Let’s Schedule “The Dead Hand” by Wilkie Collins 2008-06-24 04:07:09 Unless you’re planning to have the radio streaming all day long you’ll probably want to have it on and off at various times when the programs you want are being played.
One of the problems I find is that if I just leave it to my memory, I often forget, and then I’m disappointed because I’ve [...] Read more:Schedule
, Collins
Listening to Audio Book Radio and Getting Ready to Schedule 2008-06-13 00:53:25 Blogging is a human activity, and so there are bound to be delays.
Even so I never expected a combination of tooth infection with so many visits to the dentist, land clearing, which I had planned and, shame of it, actually deleting one of my blogs by accident which caused me so many delays.
It’s not [...] Read more:Schedule
, Listening
, Audio
, Radio
, Audio Book
Listening to Live Radio on the Internet 2008-05-24 11:47:04 Using the Internet
as a radio can be quite a simple experience.
There are a few different approaches towards this using it in exactly the old way when we switched on the radio and listened to the radio, as it came live or streaming as it’s sometimes called.
In my last post, I suggested downloading one or [...] Read more:Listening
, Radio
Free Audio Books on the Radio - Playing Real Media Files 2008-05-13 02:48:14 Before you can listen to the radio you need to have a number of resources, and that’s what I intend to begin on today.
BBC radio like a number of other radio stations transmits in a format which is called Real Audio
. Some people like this format, and some people don’t, but we need to [...] Read more:Radio
, Books
Free Audio Books on the Radio. What and How? Part 1 2008-05-05 00:08:38 In many cases, though not all, this is likely to involve logging onto or listening to a programme from the BBC.
The BBC like many other radio organizations has got two kinds of broadcast. Though nowadays with podcasts you might say there are three.
The first kind is what is often called streaming radio.
This simply means [...] Read more:Audio
, Radio
, Books
Audio Books - Love them or Loathe Them 2008-04-01 03:34:49 So to free audio books.
some people love them and some people loathe them.
I’m going to tell you that right now that I come into the first group.
I love audio books.
Why some people loathe them I’m not quite sure. Perhaps it’s because they don’t like the way they’re read and some people don’t like the abridged [...] Read more:Audio
, Books
, Loathe
Read and Enjoy “Karl”, Today’s Free E book Download 2008-03-18 06:43:20 So, let’s get straight in and talk about our next free book. The important think now is to look at free books in the PDF format. Many, many e books are produced like this.
E books are electronic books and the PDF format is ideal.
It’s ideal for many reasons some of which are perhaps [...] Read more:Today
, Download
How to Read PDF Free Books 2008-03-12 07:03:43 In my last post we had a look at how to deal with text files, probably the most basic types of files, with the story “Tobermory” downloaded from the Gutenberg site.
At the end I referred to the PDF file and many, many ebooks or electronic books created sometimes for commercial purposes or informational purposes are [...] Read more:Books
Printers And Printers 2008-03-07 06:23:02 In my last post I blithely wrote about printing out your story. And that simply indicates that there are two or three ways of dealing with your story.
You can:
Read it on the screen
Print it out on paper
Read it on a special electronic reader
Reading on the computer screen can be tiring and of course you [...]
First Free Book - Tobermory by Saki - Format and Print 2008-02-29 06:44:33 Now let’s get on with formatting the first Free Book - Tobermory and preparing it for print
Recommended Resources: - on Free Resources Page:
Abiword
EditPad Lite
Textfixer
So you downloaded your text and selected the story called Tobermory and copied and pasted into your word processor or text editor. And all is fine.
Well, there’s nothing exactly wrong but [...] Read more:First
, Print
How to Record Free Audio Books - Part 1 2008-07-10 11:15:45 My son loves to listen to the radio.
He has a radio cassette recorder in his room and when he wants to record something that he hears, he simply presses the button and the recording is made on the tape cassette.
In my living room I have a rather more sophisticated DVD hard disc recorder so that [...] Read more:Record
, Audio
, Books
Listening on Demand Gives you More Flexibility 2008-07-01 11:55:28 Of course it’s great to be able to listen to scheduled radio programmes and not forget the time and most broadcasters repeat the programme several times .
But nevertheless, the fact is that quite often the programme will be scheduled at an inconvenient time.
Maybe you’re away, maybe it’s late at night something like that. Or [...] Read more:Listening
How to Record Free Audio Books from the Radio - Part 2 2008-07-16 07:40:42 Ok so you’ve grabbed Audio
grabber and you’ve downloaded the LAME files - especially the dll. So it’s time to set things up.
Open Audiograbber and you’ll get a screen like this:
Before we can use it, we have to decide on a few options using the Settings tab.
First of all, in General Settings decide where to save [...] Read more:Record
, Books
, Radio
How to Record Free Audio Books from the Radio - Part 3 2008-07-28 07:12:22 OK, so now you’ve downloaded and configured audiograbber, how are we going to actually record our audiobook from the Radio
.
Well, there’s an immediate easy way and the scheduled way.
The easy way is to wait until the programme you want to record starts and then hit the Record
button on Real Player or Audio
Grabber.
Real Player [...] Read more:Books
How to Record Free Audio Books from the Radio - Part 2 2008-07-16 07:40:42 Ok so you’ve grabbed Audio
grabber and you’ve downloaded the LAME files - especially the dll. So it’s time to set things up.
Open Audiograbber and you’ll get a screen like this:
Before we can use it, we have to decide on a few options using the Settings tab.
First of all, in General Settings decide where to save [...] Read more:Record
, Books
, Radio
How to Record Free Audio Books from the Radio - Part 1 2008-07-10 11:15:45 My son loves to listen to the radio.
He has a radio cassette recorder in his room and when he wants to record something that he hears, he simply presses the button and the recording is made on the tape cassette.
In my living room I have a rather more sophisticated DVD hard disc recorder so that [...] Read more:Record
, Audio
, Books
, Radio
Listening on Demand Gives you More Flexibility 2008-07-01 11:55:28 Of course it’s great to be able to listen to scheduled radio programmes and not forget the time and most broadcasters repeat the programme several times .
But nevertheless, the fact is that quite often the programme will be scheduled at an inconvenient time.
Maybe you’re away, maybe it’s late at night something like that. Or [...] Read more:Listening
Let’s Schedule “The Dead Hand” by Wilkie Collins 2008-06-24 04:07:09 Unless you’re planning to have the radio streaming all day long you’ll probably want to have it on and off at various times when the programs you want are being played.
One of the problems I find is that if I just leave it to my memory, I often forget, and then I’m disappointed because I’ve [...] Read more:Schedule
, Collins
Listening to Audio Book Radio and Getting Ready to Schedule 2008-06-13 00:53:25 Blogging is a human activity, and so there are bound to be delays.
Even so I never expected a combination of tooth infection with so many visits to the dentist, land clearing, which I had planned and, shame of it, actually deleting one of my blogs by accident which caused me so many delays.
It’s not [...] Read more:Audio
, Radio
, Listening
, Schedule
, Audio Book
Listening to Live Radio on the Internet 2008-05-24 11:47:04 Using the Internet
as a radio can be quite a simple experience.
There are a few different approaches towards this using it in exactly the old way when we switched on the radio and listened to the radio, as it came live or streaming as it’s sometimes called.
In my last post, I suggested downloading one or [...] Read more:Radio
, Listening
Free Audio Books on the Radio - Playing Real Media Files 2008-05-13 02:48:14 Before you can listen to the radio you need to have a number of resources, and that’s what I intend to begin on today.
BBC radio like a number of other radio stations transmits in a format which is called Real Audio
. Some people like this format, and some people don’t, but we need to [...] Read more:Books
, Radio
Free Audio Books on the Radio. What and How? Part 1 2008-05-05 00:08:38 In many cases, though not all, this is likely to involve logging onto or listening to a programme from the BBC.
The BBC like many other radio organizations has got two kinds of broadcast. Though nowadays with podcasts you might say there are three.
The first kind is what is often called streaming radio.
This simply means [...] Read more:Audio
, Books
, Radio
Audio Books - Love them or Loathe Them 2008-04-01 03:34:49 So to free audio books.
some people love them and some people loathe them.
I’m going to tell you that right now that I come into the first group.
I love audio books.
Why some people loathe them I’m not quite sure. Perhaps it’s because they don’t like the way they’re read and some people don’t like the abridged [...] Read more:Audio
, Books
, Loathe
Freebies from Commercial Companies - Christian Audio 2008-08-22 03:19:07 I hadn’t meant to write this post quite this way - but flexibility is important. One point of blogging is to respond to how things change.
Anyway, I had prepared a list of commercial companies offering free books, both print and audio and was planning to talk about them at a convenient time.
the reason I’m going [...] Read more:Freebies
, Commercial
, Companies
, Christian
, Audio
Off on Holiday - With Free Books in my Bag 2008-08-19 23:27:46 Oh Oh Oh I’ve done it - or rather I haven’t.
This post was meant to go out a week or so ago but somehow I got it all wrong and didn’t publish properly.
Better late than never - this is the post
I’ll be posting again in a couple of weeks.
Like most families here in Bulgaria we’re [...] Read more:Holiday
, Books