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When should you not save?

nobody@vox.com(Ian Tearle) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:28:05 +0100

The quick and simple answer is never. Else learn the hard way, like I just did after a mornings worth of creativity.

Now I have lost 3 hours worth of adminsitrative pages design, its lunchtime and I am very annoyed.

So in conclusion always SAVE your Adobe Photoshop work, save drafts, save to different locations, just always save.

Oh and before I go, always make a backup or check what you are deleting when tidying your desktop. I lost more work then!

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iPod play back with Crossfade

nobody@vox.com(Ian Tearle) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:32:51 +0100

If you know me well, then you will know that I help out as a leader at a youth event for Christian and non Christian young people in a somewhat less well off area of Chelmsford, and event called The One Event.

We play loud music, games and generally have fun, with some teaching about Christianity thrown in, as we are part of a church in the area.

My problem came about when I moved my music onto a shared hard drive in my house, freeing up valuable disk space on my mac. I figured as all my music was on my iPod I could use that instead to play a playlist off each week at the event. It worked fine, but iPods do not have the functionality of crossfading music.The result, a horrible pause in between songs.I did not want this gap in my iPod music, so I went on the hunt for solutions. I couldn't find any. Until that is, when I changed my search a few days later, to playing music from my iPod through my computer. Here is how.

Simply connect your iPod to your itunes enabled PC, and click manually manage music, that way when the iPod is connected to your iTunes it won't delete your music when iTunes cannot find your library because its miles away on an irremovable hard disk plugged into your network.

You get all the same functionality you get from you mac, including crossfade. Super. And if you use Apple Lossless Encoding, you do not get any jumps or loss in music quality when playing through multiple sources.

For more tips and tutorials head over to my blog

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Blogging About

nobody@vox.com(Ian Tearle) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:52:31 +0100

In a lame effort to gain recognition for my blog posts, I'll now be posting to many of my blogs which in the last few days I have set up.

Ill also soon be styling them, as many of them are the standard themes and layouts. Unfortunate. So it looks like I have my work set out for the next few days, trying to come up with variations on my latest Media By theme.

Hope you like them when they come online. Oh and ill also be adding to Technorati and other social bookmarking tools!

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What to do.

nobody@vox.com(Ian Tearle) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:34:32 +0100

So I have just got out of bed, quickly tidied the flat as it was a mess in the lounge, emptied the drying rack, have a stack of ironing to do, its raining, and very miserable outside, I have a shopping list to get, I must collect my house keys from the estate agents, make dinner, oh and find my wife something nice to nibble on for when she goes to work on her night shift at the hospital.

What am I to do? I dont feel like doing much, the weather is awful.

I guess I shall start by finishing this blog post and jumping into the shower.

Thanks for joining me, reading this dribble, bye.

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Tecnorati

nobody@vox.com(Ian Tearle) — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:49:33 +0100

So its come to it, my lame effort to share my blogs with everyone. Check out my Technorati Profile so I can see if any of my posts really are worth reading!

While your at it, I have a more updated blog over at http://blog.iantearle.com

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Media By Ian Tearle

nobody@vox.com(Ian Tearle) — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:05:34 +0100

Media By Ian Tearle

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Waters in the Tunisian Desert

nobody@vox.com(Ian Tearle) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:09:24 +0000

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My Max

nobody@vox.com(Ian Tearle) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:07:46 +0000

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I love my cat max.

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My fiancee rachael

nobody@vox.com(Ian Tearle) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:58:56 +0000

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Getting Married

nobody@vox.com(Ian Tearle) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:51:45 +0000

So, only two days to go until i do wed. ONLY TWO DAYS! No surely not, its come round so quickly!

Wow, after a chaotic year of preparation its finally here! I, Ian Tearle will be married to my lovely Rachael, whom i love so dearly, and proclaim to everyone out there, that love at first sight really does exist!

So it leaves me time enough to say these few words, "live young, love well, die happy". Never give up on meeting the one of your dreams if you are lonely, and if your unhappy, ask yourself, "can you really see yourself with this person for the rest of your life?". If the answer is no, then in the words of Facebook, "why are you friends with them then?". If the answer is yes and you are still unhappy, do something about it, it could make all the difference to your life if you do sooner rather than later.

Ill see you all in two weeks! Have fun!

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