The ridiculous

[clevermanka]

I didn't want to sully the earlier post with trivial crap. It's not often that I turn introspective and I thought it deserved its own post. So, a couple little things:

1.) How does one make an MP3 from a song on a CD? Is there freeware I can download someplace?

2.) When and why did Gmail change the way it formats replies? Yesterday my replies were formatted the way I like, with sideways carrots preceeding the text being replied to. Like this:
__
>Original post
>Original post

My response
___

This morning, not so. Now I have these annoying lines, like you get in MS word Track Changes Format, that run perpendicular to the text. I don't like it. Not at all. How do I change it back?

3.) I have to go to Target, World Market, Tuesday Morning, and Hobby Lobby today right after work. Bah. I'm tired of spending money. At this point, retail therapy is helping me just about as much as a punch in the head.

Comments

[mesniu.livejournal.com]

I can't help you with 2 at all.

But...

Windows Media Player v10 (downloadable for free if you don't have it) will give you the option to "rip" songs from CD to mp3 format. Just push the "rip" button, and it does it all by itself

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Wow! Well that's easy! Thanks!

[normalcyispasse.livejournal.com]

1: WiMP will work; if you want something with more flexibility and the ability to change bitrate, etc., check out CDEx (http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/).

Not sure about 2. I use GMail with SMTP/POP3 and don't have a problem.

3: Sounds like you could use a _________ (insert relaxing activity here).

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

1: I'm not all that picky about quality, etc. My hearing is poor enough that I can't really tell the difference. I just want to make some new CDs for car-listening.

3: Yeah, I could use a ______ for damn sure.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

How odd that I may be able to help with a geek question!

If I'm understanding you properly, I think your solution may be under the "Settings" at the top right corner (on my screen that's where they are) and then under the caption "general".

Hope that helps!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Nope. Dang.

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

1. iTunes (http://www.apple.com/itunes/)
2. CDEX (http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/"")

iTunes is magnificent, but if you want an MP3, make sure to change it to Edit->Preferences->Importing to MP3, as the default is AAC. Other than that iTunes works very intuitively.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_mac_/]

In Gmail , after you click "reply" there should be the textarea box which contains the other person message and where you type your reply into. Above that box are all the rich text formatting options (bold, underline, center, etc) and to the right of that should be a link "Plain text". Clicking that link will put the carrots back for you.

But, I don't seem to see a option to always use plain text in replies.

Hope this helps.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Ding!!!! That did it. Thanks, hon. It annoys me to no end when people decide to change the defaults of a program for me. Grrrr. I don't know how to make that the default again, but this is better than dealing with the other format.

[stuology.livejournal.com]

Oh, you bastard! You beat me to it, and now you get all the chernobylred points!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Nonsense. Here. I'll even give you teh sexxay icon, Stu.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_mac_/]

Haha! Mac - 1 , Pirate Robot Monkey Stu - 0!

[stuology.livejournal.com]

We'll see the next time somebody's timber needs shivered.

[stuology.livejournal.com]

#2. In the window of the place where you are typing your reply, there is a "Plain Text" link. Click that, and html mail turns to plain text and lines turn into greater thans.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Woot. You and your boy are quite a team.

Why oh why do people decided it's a helpful thing to change a user's default preferences?

Totally off the subject...

[kalinobeche.livejournal.com]

I'm getting rid of a telephone table and thought you might be interested in it. It's green (chair/table combo) and just needs a little wood glue I'm sure my SO would be happy to deal with. I just need to purge the house of extra stuff cause well I'm suffocating.

Let me know, I'm sure I'll see you Sat. at Renn Hell.

Re: Totally off the subject...

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Alack, alas, I have zero room for extra furniture right now. =( Thank you for the offer, though!