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I'm trying to figure out the easiest way to send my mother what's probably a large MP3 file. Hopefully I will just be able to e-mail it to her, and she will be able to e-mail it to the recipient, but if problems crop up with size, I want to have other options. So far, I have:
1) Upload file to yousendit and hope that both mother and other recipient will be able to manage that. And that the link doesn't go stale before they get to it.
2) Edit file to respectable size, since not all of the song is important.
Anyone have any suggestions how to go about #2? On my computer, I have iTunes, RealPlayer, Quicktime, and Windows Media Player, but I'm guessing none of those allow me to edit music.
Can someone recommend a good economy brand for an LCD monitor? Mother's currently running SVGA 1024x768 17" CRT. She doesn't need anything that special.
I've been happy with the low end 15" and 17" Samsung LCD monitors. I've got three of them in my collection of rental machines.
I've also got a cheap Viewsonic that seems to be holdiing up pretty well.
A Samsung like this, ND? And a Viewsonic like this?
From looking at Tiger Direct, it seems that when it comes to brands I've heard of, $250 is a reasonable price -- that in line with reality?
Dana, you can edit music with Audacity, which is a really cool freeware program.
I have the 19" version of that Samsung, ita, and it's working great for me. I got it through CompUsa with rebates. I think it was around/under $200.00 after the rebates came back.
Thanks, Steph. Bookmarked.
From looking at Tiger Direct, it seems that when it comes to brands I've heard of, $250 is a reasonable price -- that in line with reality?
Yes, for name brand 17" that's about the right range. Occasionally a sale hits and you can get one closer to $200.
if problems crop up with size, I want to have other options.
You can always set up a free gmail account, mail the file FROM the gmail account TO the gmail account, and then give both of them the username and password to it.
You can always set up a free gmail account, mail the file FROM the gmail account TO the gmail account, and then give both of them the username and password to it.
That is about the best way I've ever heard to set up a semi-public file cache for under-10MB files. Wow.
