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Card Club #9 Podcast

tor — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:56:35 +0000

Hey all, Card Club episode 9 is ready for download. Yours truly even has a bit part in the show. Download it via bittorrent, or directly.

iRecord

tor — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 04:04:23 +0000

Thanks to Hack-A-Day and Adam Curry for reminding me that I can put linux on my iPod. Normally, I would associate such ideas as nothing more than Slashdot karma whoring, but in this case it allows me to use the iPod hardware to record audio. Those of you who’ve heard my audio comments before know that my phone sucks, so I was hoping to turn things around here. It’s ridiculously simple to turn your 3G iPod into a hard drive based recorder.

1. Hook up your iPod.
2. Run the iPod-Linux Installer

3. Create a folder on the iPod called “Recordings”
4. Eject and reboot your iPod into linux (usually by holding the rewind button.)
5. Go to Extras->Recordings and start recording audio either with a microphone plugged in, or just shout into your headphones real loud. I’m not kidding, I did it, see below.
6. Remount iPod and edit your audio files in the “Recordings” directory you just made.

Listen to some very sad proof I recorded that this actually works. Be warned, though, I had to raise the volume in Audacity a bit. This works because basically microphones and speakers work on the same principle, magnets generating electricity by being vibrated, or magnets vibrating because of electricity passing by.

Introducing Card Club

tor — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 20:56:03 +0000

I’ve recently found a really informative podcast about poker called the Card Club which is put out by the Lord Admiral Group. I was a bit saddened to see, though, that they only had their three most recent podcasts available for download as they were concerned with bandwidth issues. Thankfully, Cincinnati Sean has graciously allowed me to create torrents of the first two public episodes. Give it a listen and see if you like it.