Hot Off The Blog

Here is the link to the CML-PLA BLOG. Take time to read it and check the comments. There are some themes we should talk about. For instance, what if we could help law enforcement with investigations of customers? (read it before you yell).

Here is another interesting site: Slacker. It's like Pandora only it is supposed to be better. Try it and see if you feel customers would like it. I found this in the latest online version of PC World's
101 Fantastic Freebies.

Music Trivia, scrapbooking, and lyrics

Playa Cofi Jukebox provides access to the top 100 songs from the golden years of popular music plus more of our musical heritage including lyrics. If you type in a song title, it lists performers and their lyrics for that song. In the case of "Can I Get A Witness", Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye (among others) were listed. You can look (compare) lyrics, or just print the ones you want. Scrapbookers may be interested for the top charts by weed, day, and year, as well as the lyrics.

Job related injury vs. injured on the job

Regardless how we phrase it, and regardless how small or simple it may seem, if you hurt yourself on the job, or doing the job, submit an incident report if not then, ASAP. If you decide or have to seek medical care and it is not a real emergency, use urgent care as CareWorks has told me they are WC compliant. If you prefer your doctor make sure they do workman’s comp. Wherever you go, make sure they know it could be WC.

Kindle Talk

I think the Kindle is a real nice invention, but I'm still holding out for an all-in-one portable solution; 1TB of storage/RAM, somewhat fast quadcore CPU, at least a 6in. OLED touch-screen, multiple-OS capability, internet capable w/multi-tiered subscription options, blah, blah, blah...... That being said, this review on Lifehacker is pretty balanced. I tend to agree with some of the comments, that the Kindle's design leaves a little to be desired and the cost is a little steep, not to mention the e-books themselves. Of course, this is coming from someone who doesn't buy many books, and the magazine subscriptions I have place their offerings online within a few months, if not immediately. Too bad Amazon hasn't seen fit to give one of these to each library system in America, although this might have something to do with that.

Google Tips, Tricks and General Info

Check out all the cool tips, tricks, and general info that Downloadsquad is compiling every other week for all you Google aficionados out there. Most people should be able to find at least one item per post that they're interested in. More up-to-date, but still not as useful as this or these (yet).

PS Ooooooo....look what I found.

Music Creation: Melodyne's Direct Note Access

Melodyne is the tool that's been used to pitch/time-correct vocals from many of the most famous so-so singers/pop icons in mainstream music. With Direct Note Access in the upcoming revision you'll be able to, for instance, take a recorded waveform of chords and break them apart into their component pieces. Then, you can adjust the pitch and timing of the individual notes.

Via Create Digital Music

Well it had been talked about, but now you can see it - GoLibrary or kiosk allows customers to "browse through the selection of books, music, movies, eBooks and audio books and receive the selected titles directly from the machine. Returns are done the same way". These devices may be found in malls, remote locations, etc.