Status On the backburner until I get tired of manually managing the transcoding using the Lossless to AAC workflow. Goal Create a distributable automator workflow to synchronize an iTunes library and iPod while transcoding lossless songs to a lower bitrate alternative. Summary This project will consist of writing a few actions for automator to provide…
Month: October 2007
iTunes Transcoding Lossless to AAC Workflow
My iTunes library is massive (when compared to the capacity of an 80GB iPod). Nearly all of my songs are in Apple Lossless so as you can imagine, it is not hard to have more songs than my iPod will hold in the lossless format. Being familiar with other media managers, I expected to be…
Stock photography
Now I know at first glance of this web site you may be thinking, “How unoriginal! He’s using stock photography for his header image, how sad.” But that’s just not true! I actually took that picture while riding the MoPac trail out to Walton. So fear not! I still have some original creativity left after…
How To: Install Tomcat on Mac OS X
I recently had to install Tomcat for Web Technologies class where we are exploring the world of Servlets and JSPs. I performed the following steps to setup Tomcat 5.5 on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). Download the core binary distribution of Tomcat from http://tomcat.apache.org in zip or tar.gz format. Unzip the download and rename it…