Audible Files and conversion to MP3

I have had an Audible membership for a few years now. When I was working full time in the city I used to listen to Audible books on my HP 2210 PDA.

Now I listen to the books on my PC. With the latest installation of VISTA on my PC I did not even bother to activate my PDA for Audible.

Yesterday I was thinking about how Nikki, my 12 year old daughter was not reading any books at all and how I could interest her into reading a book. I decided that perhaps it would be a good idea to introduce her an Audible book that she can listen to on her SamSung YP-K5 MP3 player.

I immeadetly proceeded to Audible and found that Samsung YP-K5 was not supported! I then tried to find a way that I could convert the Audible .aa file into MP3 file format. After searching for some time on Google I realized there was no ideal solution to this problem.

I am a strong believer in anti-piracy. In fact all my software at home are registered versions. However by not supporting all MP3 players in the market Audible is forcing people to look for alternate means of converting their files into MP3 file format.

I will update this page if I find a good solution for this.

"Direct Access to this location is not allowed."

If you get the error while trying to install Rocket Theme BentoBox template on Joompla 1.5 then you should go into the admin panel and check mark the option titles “Enable Legacy Support”.

That will remove the error and bring the template up.

"JFTP::connect: Bad response" Error in Joomla

I installed 1.0.12 and the 1.0.5 version of the Joomla template a little while ago and then tried to access the administrator panel. I got an error saying “JFTP::connect: Bad response”. It would not let me go to the next part.

After several attempts at changing file permissions etc I finally decided to change the FTP address in the configuration.php from the default one to the real domain URL and it worked fine.

Windows Live OneCare on Windows Vista

I have had the opportunity to check out the windows Live OneCare all in one solution on Vista. I must say I am quite impressed with it.

Previously on Windows XP PRO I used Zonelabs for my firewall and GRSoft for antivirus. I then purchased IOLO System Mechanic Pro which came with a firewall, antivirus and a system maintenance module rolled.

Immeadetly I started having problems with the firewall part. It would block most programs and when I tried to configure it would not let me do it properly. I then had to uninstall the firewall part. However to my dismay I realized that Zonealarm did not work any more.

So I surfed the net with the windows XP default firewall turned on. But the problem with the windows XP firewall is that it does not do anything about outgoing communication. Anyway to cut a long story short, I ended up having several problems with my machine (classic symptons of a virus attack) and I realized that perhaps IOLO antivirus was not doing the job properly.

I theregore had to resintall my whole OS and that is when I decided to try out VISA. I am glad I did because I simply love it. Now I have setup Live OneCare and it seems to be doing a pretty good job both on the firewall and the antivirus fronts.

I have actually upgraded to the paid version a couple of days back.

Windows Live OneCare.

The year 2006 in review from Jib Jab!

I love the stuff at jibjab.com. Here is the one about the year in review.

 

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