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

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 [...]

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 [...]

In iTunes 8, Apple has mentioned in their “What’s New in iTunes 8” that it is possible to upgrade your iTunes music to non-DRM’d for a small fee.  Great!
I purchased quite a bit of music from the iTunes store when I ran WinXP as my primary desktop.  Now I can legally convert them to something [...]

India’s National Programme of Technology Enhanced Learning provides technical lectures from all seven Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
The Video Courses are organised as PLAYLISTS under the following Categories:

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Lecture 21 PERL – Part I from the Computer Science & Engineering’s Internet [...]

#!/bin/bash
servers=( pop.bizmail.yahoo.com smtp.bizmail.yahoo.com forums.sybase.com )
for server in ${servers[@]}
do
  # declare that variable ip_addresses is an array.  not strictly needed but makes it a bit more readable IMHO
  declare -a ip_addresses
  # read has the capability of stuffing an array (ip_addresses) with the tokenized STDIN.  The three less than signs "< <<" tells BASH to redirect [...]