Maggie's Farm

We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

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    Monday, April 28. 2008

    Doc's Computin' Tips: That ever-burgeoning disc collection

     
    Ah, I still remember when I filled up my first 10-CD case.  I was on top of the world!  When you've got an entire case filled with CDs of hot programs and pics and things, it's like you're some kind of computer god!


    I now have over 950 discs.  Admittedly, the luster wore off pretty fast.


    And I keep them in seven of these:



    Each carousel holds 150 discs.  You operate a database program on the computer and when you want a certain disc, click on 'Eject' and out it comes.  They're only $129, which seems fairly reasonable.  I've owned my original three for almost four years and have never had a problem with either the units or the software.  Home site is here.


    Most of my discs are DVDs, and there's a great program out called MovieCollector that not only organizes your movies every which way, but automagically downloads the jewel box cover pics, names of actors, IMDb rating, etc.  Here's the standard layout:




    You can also browse through the movies using thumbnails of the jewel box pics, pretty cool.  I have a much larger post on this subject on my own site here.


     

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