Ripping cd's for your cellarphone?

Tucows is allways the right place to start! E. g. as Finding programs for transforming files into mp3 format. And the free downloaded Audiograbber is probably the easiest way for transforming heawy cd-files to small mp3-files.

Why not ripp from Windows MediaPlayer? It's easy yeah! But still on the free version, you've got a song sized 20 MB! With Mp3 format you've got a normal song on 1,5 MB. You can realy send 6-7 songs on Yahoo mail (max 10 MB-limit pr mail).. and you can even afford to storage som tunes on your cellar-phone.

Bluetooth programs, makes it easy obtaining direct contact with laptops. Nokia has made a nice program who allso works for PC users. Your fantasy is the only limit.

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Skal du rippe hele cd samlinga di og ha den på PC, Laptop, mobil, eller mp3-spilleren din? Så er svaret å kompriomere til mp3-format. Data-nerdene velger Tucows når de skal finne løsninger! Greit nok å rippe cd'en direkte fra Windows Media-Player og ha disse liggende som store filer wmpcd-format, hvis du har flere Gigabytes ledig? (en normal rockelåt på 3 min tilsvarer ca 20MB). Men straks du skal begynne å bruke filene litt mer intelligent, slik som å flytte via Bluetooth fra pc/laptop til mobil, sende via mail eller å ha liggende på gamle mp3-spillere, så må du ned i mp3 format der en sang kan lagres med 1,5MB. Audiograbber er det beste alternativet for deg som vil ha et mer intelligent forhold til cd samlingen din. Lastes her. Din side data har også vurdert Audiograbber. Audiograbber er også et bra alternativ for studio-musikeren som skal rippe rett fra mikrofon!

Carl von Linnè - 300 years - an other hero online

An other great and older hero is soon celebrating 300 years. Carl August von Linnè is also online. The real grand man of taxa. The Scandinavian scientist most known as a botanist but also a number one in Nordic butterflies and moths. Every times I see a Twinflower Linnea borealis my thoughts goes to Carl August. His Lapland studies and his Norwegian disciples gave us a father person and the founder of Norwegian botanical heritage. Thus also worth wile a Norwegian celebration.

Charles Darwin online

Far behind Charles Darwin in field-book writing? At least in interestingness!
I've produced regular field-books since 1977. Then as a twelve years old kid. My 30-35 field books scanned would had counted 9000 pages (4500 pages in 2 sides scan) . My golden Utsira Birding Years 1992-2007 would had involved 1600 scanned pages in my digital library!

Photos: Scanned field book from 7. may 2004 Bee-eater and Nightingale and 1'st September 1979 with my first Red-throated Pipit.

Also produced field notes on plant-analysis on trips in Southern Norway and a field-notebook on moths/butterflies. There are not so many words in Darwin's pages as mine fieldbooks ;-) . E. g. Galapagos - field notes. But WOW, how interesting it is reeding Darwin's fieldnotes 125 years after his death.

Thanks for the interesting Darwin links in Norwegian Birdlife.