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purplerabbits at 12:31pm on 25/08/2002 under notes-and-queries
purplerabbits at 12:31pm on 25/08/2002 under notes-and-queriesA few geeky queries, possibly stupid:-
Does anyone know of a good application for separating the bits of an animated Gif. Or is there some feature in Photoshop for doing it that I'm stupidly missing? I want to make my jumping rabbits icon into mood icons, but I need to get at all the frames first!
What do I need apart from a CD writer and a sound card to burn my vinyl onto CD under Windows. I have successfully copied and compiled CDs but the software that comes with my burner is only for burning/compiling files that already exist digitally. (My hi-fi is near my computer and I have the lead to get sound from one to the other.)
Where can I buy a USB to serial converter so I can back my Palm up without having to fix the serial ports on this bloody machine. Will this work? If so could I use the same thing to sync it to the pretty new iMac at work?
Does anyone have an easy way for me to turn the pics from my snazzy new digital camera into an online gallery? Paul does his in a totally arcane and Paul-specific way that we both know it would be futile for him to try to share with me. So far I've just managed to get them in a folder and turn them the right way up...
Am I so crap at being a geek that I should give up altogether? And if so how will I cope with the 21st century. Answers on the back of a five and a quarter inch floppy disc to the usual address...
Apologies for saying all this is baby talk - it's the only way I know to be sure I understand..
Does anyone know of a good application for separating the bits of an animated Gif. Or is there some feature in Photoshop for doing it that I'm stupidly missing? I want to make my jumping rabbits icon into mood icons, but I need to get at all the frames first!
What do I need apart from a CD writer and a sound card to burn my vinyl onto CD under Windows. I have successfully copied and compiled CDs but the software that comes with my burner is only for burning/compiling files that already exist digitally. (My hi-fi is near my computer and I have the lead to get sound from one to the other.)
Where can I buy a USB to serial converter so I can back my Palm up without having to fix the serial ports on this bloody machine. Will this work? If so could I use the same thing to sync it to the pretty new iMac at work?
Does anyone have an easy way for me to turn the pics from my snazzy new digital camera into an online gallery? Paul does his in a totally arcane and Paul-specific way that we both know it would be futile for him to try to share with me. So far I've just managed to get them in a folder and turn them the right way up...
Am I so crap at being a geek that I should give up altogether? And if so how will I cope with the 21st century. Answers on the back of a five and a quarter inch floppy disc to the usual address...
Apologies for saying all this is baby talk - it's the only way I know to be sure I understand..
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Re vinyl: you just need a sound recorder / editor app. The one that comes with Windows will only record 60 seconds at a time but could be used for proof of concept. http://www.tucows.com/preview/194683.html looks like what you need, but it's shareware. There should be lots of others. Search tucows!
Re USB-to-serial: I don't think that's possible but I could be wrong.
Re gallery: there's loads of software out there that will build HTML galleries for you. I have no idea whether any of it's any good. You may want to ask Paul to set you up with his script though, it's a pain to have to send all the generated HTML to the server. You can have mine if you want but it's a servlet so it's painful to set up.
http://www.google.com/search?q=photo%20gallery%20software%20windows
There are also gallery services at Yahoo, MSN etc but I strongly suspect they're shite.
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2) Theoretically, record to WAV and encode that... unfortunately I don't know how this is best done under Windows
3) Again, not entirely sure... don't palm sell a USB cable for it?
4) Short answer.. yes, I've got the code that does the albums on UKCycling.Net and fromtheshadows.com. You'll need PHP and GD for these (plus SQL for the new improved version), and I'll have to see how I can pack them up. Do you want protected albums, or just a very basic thumbnailing system?
5) Doubt it. Although I do have an alarming number of 5 1/4 " disks left...
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I'll have to have a think about the photo gallery thing. It looks more complicated than I thought...
Online gallery
The family snaps are passworded so if anyone wants to see they can email badriya@blueyonder.co.uk
The music situation
I think it's about 6 MB but it's it worth it.
(The next bit refers to version 6, I hope it's the same for version 7.2 which is the current one)
Just download it, install it, and then go into
options - recorder - source and choose "line in" (plug the lead from the hi-fi into the mic bit on your PC
options - recorder - quality and choose wav format (each song will be about 30-40mb so make sure you have hard disk space for this.
options - recorder - settings - tracks directory and then choose where you want to save the files to and what info you want in the file name.
Then press record and play the record. Have fun with that bit. I think recording each song separately is better cos your PC is less likely to crash with the huge wav files. Remebering to stop recording at the end of a song is a pain though, I've been there, done that! For cleaning up the beginning and ending of songs you might want to use the program Goldwave (http://www.goldwave.com). It's shareware but it's still really good and will do everything you need it to for free.
I hope this is helpful. I hope I haven't insulted your intelligence with all the instructions I've included.
If you need anymore help then just ask.
Eya,
Serial / USB convertors can be bought - Possibly from PC world - I have seen them as part of "adapter ports" that take one usb and give you alsorts on the out. Belkin IIRC do a good range.
Photoshop can help you build an online gallery - under the file menu - its there about 3/4 down - errm - depending on what version you use... (you will have to let me know).
:-)
If expansion is required - please ask...
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Re: the gallery
If the images are on a webserver somewhere far, far away, which has PHP installed upon it you can do what I do.
Create the pictures and upload them into a directory, and just place 'index.php' in the same directory, from this URL (http://photoframe.sourceforge.net/). Edit the file at the top, following the simple instructions to give it a title and specify layout etc.
Magically you'll now have a gallery like this one (http://www.steve.org.uk/Images/Tigger/) with no effort at all - each time you add a picture it will create thumbnails by itself.
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Yeah, any half-decent sound editor will do it. Putting the result through filters to clean up the result is a good idea, depending on how battered the LP is. Some programs will split the huge one-side-of-an-LP .wav into smaller ones, one per track. CoolEdit's what I'd use, but I find it easier to just download someone else's mp3.
USB to serial converters are available, but it'd be cheaper to get an old serial port card. Some new PCs come without serial and parallel ports, which is proof of a conspiracy between motherboard makers and USB-serial/parallel converter manufacturers.
'Gallery' is a nice looking option - it's PHP-based and it's on Sourceforge somewhere.
I still have some 8" floppies somewhere.