Creative professional based in Arlington, MA. Specializing in web design for political campaigns, nonprofits, and small business.
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Since I don’t do this nearly enough, I thought I’d highlight some useful free software that I’m a big fan of. XLD (X Lossless Decoder) is a Mac OS X app that does one thing, and does it extremely well: decodes, transcodes, and encodes lossless audio formats. Any time I pull some FLAC or Ogg files off of the Internet Archive, eTree, or the BitTorrent networks, I like to convert it to an iTunes-playable format (mp3 or Apple Lossless). I’ll leave the iTunes arguments to others; suffice it to say that I’m bound to it with my iPhone and iPods, and it is perfectly satisfactory for 99% of my needs. XLD ensures that transferring lossless audio into my library is a one-step process, ID3 tags intact. Check it out.
Loren Brichter, the great developer of Tweetie (via marco) (via davidkaneda)
EXACTLY….and it just feels wrong to run TweetDeck or Twhirl on OSX. Tweetie’s interesting, but I’m pretty hooked on Nambu at the moment.
