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Schmap Tones
April 02, 2006

I got an e-mail from Schmap yesterday informing me that three of my photos of Dublin, up at Flickr, have been included in their new Guide... Which was nice!

The guide runs as a player that is downloaded on your PC, which strikes me as an odd concept. Not sure if it is meant to be possible to run it on a PDA or something as well but it doesn't make it particularly transportable unless you are taking a laptop on holiday with you. However all you need to do once it is installed is select which City map you want to see and away you go.

It's currently in Beta and has a GUI that to all intents and purposes looks like a Google Map on a virtual GPS unit. It has similar features to Google Earth in as much as you can snap-in the particular type of places you are searching for: Historical, restaurants, hotels etc...

Icons then appear on the central map and info on the place you select can be found in the right hand toolbar with general navigation on the left.

You can bookmark places and create your own little itinary which you could then print out or e-mail to somebody I guess.

Hyperlinks will take you to related websites, such as hotel bookings, and there is a very good feature called "Tour", which automatically scrolls through the map highlighting selected places of interest.

You can also find out the lat/long of anywhere on the map and there is a nifty little tool for measuring distances.

Nothing that actually seems to give directions as far as I can see though.

Seems Douglas Coupland has a new book due this summer. JPod continues where Microserfs left off in 1995.

I haven't read God Hates Japan, Hey! Nostradamus or Eleanor Rigby yet.

Apparently, if you fancy some polyphonic ringtones you can create them in iTunes.

From the iTunes menu select Preferences, click Advanced and select the Importing tab. For Import Using select MP3 Encoder and for Setting select Custom. On the custom window, select 64 kbps, 22.050 kHz, Mono. Make sure Variable Bit Rate and Smart Encoding are UNCHECKED and click OK twice to save.

Select a song to convert. 30 seconds or less will do. You can crop it to start at the chorus. To crop, right click the song and select Get Info, select the Options tab, change the Start Time and Stop Time to the part you want. Right click on the song and select Convert Selection to MP3. The converted file is saved to your iTunes Library. Right click the new file and select Convert ID3 Tags, check ID3 Tag Version, select None and click OK. Transfer it from the Library to your phone.

Via Freeringers

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