The W00t Rant

Texter - The Program that Will Save You in Typing

Productivity apps fascinate me.  I don't know why.  Perhaps, it's because I'm extremely disorganized and (often) highly unproductive.  I find these "time-saver" apps on your computer fascinating and just "cool."  Occasionally, I find a productivity app that I'd actually would use.  Recently, I've fell in love with this program called Texter.  What's Texter?  Well nowadays, many of us spend much of our time in front of a PC, and what are we doing at the PC (besides pointing and clicking)?  We're typing.  I don't know about you, but there are a LOT of things that I type frequently - again and again?  Such as:

• e-mail salutations
• my e-mail address
• my phone number
• home address
• html tags
• etc.

Well, Texter is a program that allows you to create special keywords (which you define) that will automatically fill in a phrase/word/etc. that you define to that special keyword.  Check out this video:

Pretty cool, huh?  I'm sure you have your own things that you type again and again, and I'm certain that Texter can save you time (and keystrokes).  Check it out, it's totally free!

So You're Not Anal, but Wanna Organize Your Music

Most of my friends know how anal I am with my music.  Well, there is a very good reason why I'm so anal:  I'm now bordering on over 30 gigs of music.  To put it into perspective, this is over 3,700 songs or 10 days and 14 hours of music!  At this level in order to just find what I'm looking for, my music has to be organized.  How do I do it?  Well, lots of hard work by researching on sites such as Amazon.com and AllMusic.com.  However, there are always pieces of music that I've obtained (ahem) from a variety of sources that make this sort of research near impossible.

So, what do you do in this situation?  Well, there's a great piece of software called MusicBrainz that will automatically (relatively) do this for you!  The way MusicBrainz works is by:

... using AcousticFingerprints (TRMs) to semi-automatically identify tracks in your music collection and then write consistent and accurate metadata to your music files.

MusicBrainz works EXTREMELY well, but isn't perfect.  You should spot check and make sure that MusicBrainz has identified the file correctly.  Overall, however, it does a fabulous job.  MusicBrainz is a prog that should be in everyone's music utility toolkit.  This incredible prog is available for both Mac and Windows, so get out there and check it out!