Jason L. Froebe - Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies

Tuesday, I took Jason to the oral surgeon’s to have all four of his wisdom teeth pulled. The surgery itself took about 45 minutes. It turned out there was a lot of infection back there, and as the doctor put it “it was messy”. The anesthesia made Jason really [...]

Yeah, it’s Who Better Than Me by Phil Collins with the Turk and Tarzan names changed but it covers just about any two closely aged siblings IMHO:
Miriam
You’re one of a kind, I can’t explain it.
You’re kind of cool, in a wonderful way.
Though you’re weird, you can make it.
And who better than me to teach you.
Who [...]

When I purchased Foundations of Qt Development (Expert’s Voice in Open Source) by Johan Thelin a few months back, I hoped to get to it right away but work and life diverted my attention. Today at lunch I dived into it. Even though I’m still going through chapter 1, I think I can [...]

When my bought the Sony MEXBT2700 CD Receiver with Bluetooth Hands-Free with Integrated Microphone (Black), I was thrilled. It seems to be a nice little radio with bluetooth and all the whiz bang that I needed.
We purchased the wiring adapter and the harness so that it fits well and looks nice in my Saturn [...]

I’ve been wracking my brains over this for the past few weeks and it finally struck me how to create an m4b audiobook with chapters that is compatible with your iPod, iTunes, VLC, etc.  It was very simple once I figured it out:
Step 1:
encode the mp3 files to “aac” (mpeg4) using your favorite converter (I [...]