Posts Tagged ‘audio’

4 Random Tips to Get More Done with Your PC

I’ve had several challenges in the last couple weeks, some of which required some creative solutions. Since some of you might find yourself facing the same challenges at some point, I thought I’d share this motley collection of tips with you.

Jott to Evernote

If you read Joel’s post, 7 Ways to Use Evernote last month, you already know… Continue reading

June 18 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: audio, capture, evernote, google-docs, jott, note, powerpoint, spellcheck, tip, voice-recognition, word-count | 15 comments»

How To Automatically Read A Book Per Week Without Taking Any Additional Time Out Of Your Day

If you're anything like me, you probably have a whole stack of books sitting around that you're really going to read some day. Yeah right!Sure, it would be nice to get some more reading done, but let's face it: there is usually something more urgent that needs to get done. And when you have to do all the urgent things, there isn't much time left over for… Continue reading

July 19 2007 | By Brian | Tagged: audio, book, brain, education, learn, leverage, listen, reading | 29 comments»

Listen to podcasts in half the time

There are ways to save your time on listening to podcast - either not listen to it at all, or make it play faster - Nev shares his tips on saving time on listening to podcast, by increasing the playback speed on Windows Media Player:“So, how do you listen to podcasts faster?”The answer: use software that can alter the speed of playback, along with pitch correction. The cool thing about… Continue reading

June 26 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: audio, software | 4 comments»

$9 MP3 Player

I saw a pointer on MAKE Magazine to a $9 MP3 player. It's fairly simple, and reads SD or MMC cards. I am pointing you to the article, because there are lots of ways this could be used interestingly as a hack. For instance, you could keep a few around the house in special areas to help people remember things. They might be useful to people with disabilities. You could… Continue reading

May 19 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: audio, hardware, mp3 | 2 comments»

Podcasts from Podcast Academy 2 in Boston

Podcast Academy 2 wrapped up in Boston on Saturday with a reminder that the next Podcast Academy will be hosted by Yahoo! in Santa Clara, California shortly. One great thing about the hosts of THIS session, Boston University, was that their crack team of AV people had the podcasts and presentations up on the web in almost no time. Counting the live streaming media that was made available, it brought… Continue reading

May 1 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: audio, Communication, creativity, Podcast, presentation, video | no comments»

Podcasting for Sharing

I'm all about the idea of creating content versus just consuming content. This morning, I listened to Richard Lucic and Zach Pogue from Duke University. They talked about how podcasting really boosted the value of information given BACK by the students. So, instead of a student turning in a five page paper full of garbage, the peer effect of putting out an audio podcast that the entire class would hear… Continue reading

April 30 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: audio, education, learning, Podcast, portable, presentation, video | 2 comments»

Lecture Podcast for Your Audio Self-Development Program

Productive Strategies has a list of universities which are making lectures available as podcasts. Those are pretty cool additions to your audio book listening schedule. But as you know, the quality will be varies as usual, so try it out and see what you enjoy and is value-add:... Several universities are making lectures available as Podcasts. Not every class is going to make a great podcast, but the… Continue reading

October 28 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: audio, Podcast | 1 comment»