The Skeleton Keyboard - Transcript

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David Lawrence: Thank you so much for tuning into the show. I appreciate it very, very much. Email is welcome always either via the links on our website where you can, you know the David Lawrence Show, visitor wants to know the question, the answer, blah-blah-blah. Or just by sending me Email lawrence@aol.com, david@onlinetonight.com either one will get to me. Got this from Roger Weaver who is a Juno user. He says hi you often mention external Maxtor hard drives with Retrospect as a very good way to backup your internal hard drives. Now Western Digital External Drives also come with Retrospect Express. Any reason to buy Maxtor over Western Digital? I like Western Digital Drives. I had no idea that Retrospect was included on them these days. Nobody from Western Digital ever since George has left, George Bliss who was my guy at Western Digital. He is Chicago area listener on GN and all that. And we used to get stuff from them all the time and since he left I have never a word from Western Digital, didn*t even know that Retrospect was available. Here*s the only reason I mentioned the Maxtor Drives is they have this really cool One Button. There is just One Button in the middle of the front of these hard drives. And when you press that button it backs up your computer. It launches Retrospect. It runs the back up software to completely back up all the data on your hard drive. You can obviously set it up to do it on a regular basis without touching the button. But if you know like I have just got finished doing a project or just got finished finishing off that book I was working on or I have just made some substantial changes to a Word document or an

Excel spreadsheet or a Powerpoint presentation. Want to make sure it*s backed up reach over hit the button boom. It couldn*t be simply you don*t even have to go and search for Retrospect in your hard drive and launch the right document and all that. It*s just automatic and so that*s why I like the Maxtor One Touches. I will put links to the 100, 200 and 300 gig size Maxtors on the blog for tonight*s show but no reason to not pick Western Digital if you like Western Digital. I love their hard drives. We use them in all of our Windows machines. We have Western Digital. We have IBM drives. We have Maxtor drives, some Sony drives, etc. So yeah I had no idea and if anybody whoever took over for George for Western Digital if you are listening, get in touch with me david@onlinetonight.com. Alright it*s 9 minutes past the hour. Here is how to get in touch with me for the show. Now I know all the lines are filled right now. But as we move through some of these calls the lines will open up and here is the number you want to use 180039 online, 18003966546, that*s the phone number. It*s easy to remember it rhymes 180039 online. And you don*t have to dial the final e I know there is more than 7 digits there, 3966546, that*s how to get me. You can also send me instant messages. Instant message hanging out right now from Carle Murray who says Carle from Chicago. Why wouldn*t some songs play on my mp3 player? They are supposed to be compatible files and they will play on the computer. Thank you and I love the show. Well thank you very much. Carle I appreciate it. Some mp3 players will not play mp3 files if they aren*t within fairly rigid standards either using Constant Bit Rate encoding. There is a way to do mp3 files with Variable Bit Rate encoding or VBR. And I remember when I had the Kyocera 7135 the cell phone with the palm player on it with its palm OS phone about 2 years ago I had until I got my Treo650. It would not play mp3 files that were not 128 joint stereo. I mean most of my mp3 files are 256 True Stereo. Still saves me some space much better quality and it wouldn*t play on my Kyocera. So I had, anything I wanted to put on my Kyocera I had to re-rip from the original to 128 joint stereo which is really the sort of lowest common denominator of mp3 files the ones most often found on pirated sites and so on. It just become sort of the defective crappy standard. But if you have things that are outside that some mp3 players won*t play them. It simply won*t play them. And so that maybe the case that it*s either Variable Bit Rate Encoding or it is outside some standard that your player will play. A lot of the players will play various Bit Rates, various kilohertz rates but they will not play files that have certain IDV3 tags on them, that have either pictures in them or so. And also make sure it*s an mp3 file. Because sometimes we will grab stuff from the iTunes Music Store and forget that it*s an AAC file and try to play that on an mp3 player and that just doesn*t work. So anyway that*s the deal. 180039 online, 18003966546. We will get to some more instant messages in just a moment. But let*s go back to the phones. Dick you are on Online Tonight with David Lawrence hello sir.

Dick: How are you there David?

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