That will lead to a whole different sort of data dump.

Can I share my geek find of the day? It's an email obfuscator that uses PHP to generate a random cipher of your email address. It then dynamically generates javascript with the decryption key, making it extremely difficult for bots to harvest the address. Neat!

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Does anyone know if a disk recorded in m4a will play on regular CD players? It plays fine in my car, but I don't have another CD player to test it on. I'm on a MAC and giving GarageBand a trial run.

Thanks!

What do you mean "recorded in m4a"? Are you creating an audio CD, or a data CD with mp3/m4a audio tracks on it? If it's the former, it should play on anything, since there's no way to tell what format the audio files were in before they were converted to the audio CD format.

It's an audio CD and you're saying that it will play on any kind of player. Thanks, that's a great help. GarageBand gave me the option of exporting the podcast to disk but since I've only recorded from AIFF files in the past and know nothing about m4a, I wanted an expert opinion. I certainly didn't want to make and send out a bunch of disks that wouldn't play on people's CD players.

Again, thanks.

It's an audio CD and you're saying that it will play on any kind of player.

That is indeed what I'm saying. No problemo.

Ginger, if it's data that you might need, I do still have my zip drive and could convert it to cd or dvd for you, and then format the disc. You might still want to hulk smash after that, but that'd be your prerogative.

I've got the data, so that's fine. Thanks! Could you use the disks? I'd trust you to reformat.

Nah. I don't really use it. I just still have it. Hee. Thanks for the offer, though.

I need some advice regarding cell phones. I'm hoping someone can help me or help me to where I need to go. The kind of information I need I can't really find over on cnet.

Here goes:

Beau's birthday is coming up and I would like to get him a new cell phone. Essentially here is what he wants in a phone, but I'm not sure what he wants is exactly what he needs:

a) a phone with good reception (first and foremost)
b) a phone that has his calendar info, to-dos, contact info
c) he also wants a phone that has profiles that you can set timers to (e.g. automatically go into silent mode in meetings, then go into normal mode at other times)
d) he also loves the keyboard on his Palm T|X.

Now, there aren't a lot of phones with a full keyboard and since he isn't a huge text messager, I'm not sure he really NEEDS a full keyboard. To wit, on my Nokia, there is a predictive text entry setting that will spell out words. It works *really* well for me and I think he'd like it too with some practice.

Can anyone give me suggestions of what kind of phone to get? Note: he has no interest or need to get on the internet. He doesn't use the internet at all with his current phone (which just puzzles me). He doesn't need a camera - though it is hard to avoid one. He also doesn't need music or media functions.

He literally wants to mate his Palm T|X with a phone.

I haven't been able to find any highly rated phone models that can do this. BTW, my preference would be to find an unlocked phone if possible.

We are on ATT and likely to stay on it for awhile given the 3G capability that I use all the time.