Converting Cassettes to CDs

I am in the process of converting all my cassette collection to CDs as I dont have any cassette player left except a old sony walkman which I am using for this process. After lurking around a lot of audio forums and experimenting with a couple of softwares I settled on Audacity which I think is doing a fine job.  I had to experiment a lot with various settings for my mic and gain in Audacity beofre I could find a combination which I liked. Well I am not too happy with the quality but I am not sure if I can blame it on my player, or the cassettes which are old or my setup. Well my collection is also pretty old with some cassettes being from the 70’s (no I am not that old…they were recorded in 70’s but I bought them in 90’s) and the quality must have also weared over time.
Well, the goal of this process is to convert all my cassettes into soft Audio CDs which I can mount using daemon tools and play with my favourite player or transfer them to my Nokia 9500 and listen to them. Its a slow process but I am hoping it would be worth it. I have over 200 cassettes which I need to convert and am done with only a couple of them till now….one a day…lets see when I am done with them

GreaseMonkey and Scripts for FireFox

I came across this firefox extension and saw there there were hundreds and hundreds of scripts that people have written. Can someone help me or point me to a link where I can really understand what is it and why would I need something like greasemonkey as my firefox extension.

FireFox Widgets – FireFoxIt

Could this be the replacement of Konfabulator/Yahoo Widgets that I am using. Sounds a lot like it but I am not sure that it has so many widgets done for it. Something to look into.

FF Blogging Extension – deepestsender

While surfing I came across this new blogging extension called deepestsender. Although I like performancing extension and am really getting comfortable using it but trying something new would not hurt

Nokia 9500 and SIP

I have been endlessly looking for a SIP client for my Nokia 9500 so that I can use my VoIP connection at any hotspots and not use my cellular mins.I just dont understand WHY are there NO client available. I can find a lot for Pocket PC but there seems to be no interest at all for Symbian. The closest I came to was a Series 60 platform client but what I am wondering is why companies like X-lite and SJPhone not interested in making one for Symbian? Is the cost too much to develop something on Symbian platform?

Getting more and more comfortable

Well after hunting for a perfect (at least for me) way to Blog I think I am coming close to what I was looking for. The combination that seems to be working for me is wordpress and firefox with performancing extension. I think this is as easy as it gets. Although I dont like the style so much and wish I could change it to have more control but that is something that I need to explore. I tried Yahoo 360, MSN Spaces and Blogger and I feel that it was just too much work to blog a simple article and have to be *really* in the mood to blog and open a window for it. Not like performancing along with JustBlogIt extension where I can just blog alogwith doing what I am actually doing.
Anyways I am a happy camper for now…The downside of having a blog at wordpress is that now I have to communicate this new address.

Self Development

Nice website about self development. Read it whenever you have some down time or really feel the need for self improvement
Link to the Steve’s Website

Mozilla Update :: Extensions – Add Features to Mozilla Software

Nice place to hunt for all the extensions
Mozilla Update :: Extensions – Add Features to Mozilla Software