tunequest

The other day I discovered that Acrobat 7 Pro has built-in OCR (optical character recognition). So I decided to run some scanned pages of text through to see how well it works. Well, it actually does work, and with surprising accuracy, though the resulting document was nearly double the file size of the original. It's really cool though, because Acrobat layers the OCR'd text invisibly over the image, making ...

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UPDATE March 26: After nearly a two month stint of being offline at the iTunes Store, the Star Trek TOS is back. The complete first season is available in its original broadcast form. Additionally, newly remastered episodes from the first season are available in their own section. iTunes is still the only source for them in their uncut form. :: Episodes of the original Star Trek are now available on the ...

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So Webomatica tagged me and I guess I'm now "it" for the five things chain blog that's been making the rounds. The idea is for a blogger to post five items of potentially new information about themselves. I guess it's to help readers gain more insight into the writer. So, I'm game. Number One I back-date my songs in iTunes' Date Added field. If I'm encoding a CD I originally got ...

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From the archives: I wrote the original version of this article for a newspaper column about 5 years ago. So it reads more like a newspaper column and not so much like a the informal blogginess that's usually found around here. It's from the Records that time forgot series that I hope to revive in 2007. This version corrects a couple awkward sentences and updates the formatting, but remains ...

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Paramount Pictures closed its legendary Stage M this past August. The stage opened in 1932 and since then, many famous and notable film scores have been recorded on it, including The Ten Commandments, Out of Africa, as well as a great portion of Star Trek's music. More recently, Danny Elfman's score for Nacho Libre was laid down there. try this Google search to see some more examples of music that ...

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Well, for some reason, almost all of my Star Trek music got pushed toward the end of the tunequest, and believe me, I have nearly all of the Star Trek music except for the unreleased promo soundtrack to the Starfleet Academy video game. If anyone can point towards that, I'll send you a digital high five or something, so the waters around here will be thick with Trekkin for ...

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As geeky as this sounds, there was once a point in time when I could recite the accompanying dialogue and sound effects in sequence with this composition. It's music from The Wrath of Khan, the scene where the Enterprise has been crippled by Khan's surprise attack and Captain Kirk must stall for time in an attempt to deliver a retaliatory blow to the Reliant (the ship Khan has commandeered). It's ...

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Update: The revised sorting feature/problem in iTunes 7.3 and later renders this advice useless. If you're using a version prior to 7.3, feel free to use this scheme In striving for zen-like simplicity while maintaining and extending the usability of iTunes, please follow me as I introduce you to the technique I use to keep my Composer tags orderly and navigable particularly when using an iPod. The idea is to ...

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It seems the television show theme song may be dying, or so says this cribbed AP article I ran across in a last.fm user's journal. It's not really surprising, given that show running times are increasingly crunched as the networks try to crap ever-more ads into the broadcasts. And stylistically, many show producers may be trying to "set trends" by breaking away from the decades-long practice of including a show ...

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