Creating Audio Feeds Of Voice

I am currently playing with a concept on my own personal journal where I am not only writing in it, but recording my own voice in MP3 format. If it was really worthy of an audience, the next step would be to create the all new popular ‘podcast’ so that people around the world could listen to me rant and rave!

Been there with the journal and done that with bad results.

It seems that my ability to say stupid things is uncanny and I really don’t believe that the world should hear me speak on things that really only matter to me anyways. That is why I have a ‘personal’ journal as I am the only one that reads and now listens to it!

The concept, can be transported over to our family site though. It is possible to have people submit MP3’s to me of their own voice recordings so that other family and friend members can hear them online! It is ‘voice updates’ as well as written updates!

How? You might ask? Basically, there is several free programs on the internet that allow you to record your voice from a microphone on your computer and turn it into an MP3 formatted file! It really is simple, if you don’t mind wanting to learn something new!

I won’t place any links to such softwares in this, but get ahold of me if this is something that would interest you!

Maguire Playing In Grass

This is Maguire playing in the grass in the fall of 2005 at Dorothy Ranch!

Want to see this video? Please read this notice and if you are already invited, please head over to YouTube and login!

Crazy Amount Of Videos!

I was going through my video collection on my gallery over the years and I really was uploading videos to benefit those without high speed internet connections. This was important to me because at that time, I didn’t have one either!

The problem with the videos is that they were of extremely poor quality and I thought to myself that in 10+ years would I like this or would I have to redo it? The answer was the latter.

That is exactly what I did! I have reformatted the videos in higher quality formats using Quicktime and they are now uploaded! That is why all the movies are ‘new’ right now!

If you find yourself trying to view the movies and cannot, you can always download the ‘free’ version of Quicktime from Apple at the following address for both Windows and Apple:

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

I hope that this works out for all of you and I really hope you enjoy the videos of Maguire, Trent, Tammy and other people in our lives!

Satellite Internet and VOIP

Today is the day that we are getting our high speed internet out at the ranch. This is a pretty big thing for us since I am constantly using the internet to do research and check the markets for work, let alone all the personal applications that are only possible with a fast connection to the net. The guy was supposed to be out here already, but may show up sometime today….

After the internet is connected, I am signing up for Vonage, a VOIP (voice over internet protocol) company. Basically, it is a phone company that uses the internet to provide your basic telephone services. I get a phone line and unlimited long distance in North America. This is all for $40 a month.

There is a box that you use to connect in your high speed internet and plugin a phone line for this service. This also allows me to use my little portable box anywhere I go in the world to keep my phone line with me. If I plug it in in Arizona when I go visit Dad, all my calls will be directed to this box! If I spend a couple nights in London, England, this box redirects my calls to there!

This is what technology is all about baby….!