Shopping!

Oct. 1st, 2011 09:47 pm
mekyria: (gothic girl with tanktop)
It's been a while since I wrote updates in my lj on my wardrobe and combinations of clothes/shoes. I feel I might do an update on the subject soon, as I feel I am redefining my taste again. But first I needed to go out and buy some essential items: socks.

The thing is that there was a bit of a snowball effect going on today. See, I started out by wanting to buy socks and I ended up coming home with an iPad 2. This is what went down: today is Glamour Shop till you drop-day. If you carry the last issue of Glamour magazine with you, you receive 20% off at most of the stores in the city. I haven't been out to shop for stuff in three months or so, due to the Oum Kolthoum project. When I spotted the discount, I bought myself the issue of Glamour (3 euro) and went to the H&M to buy my socks (with a 5 euro discount). As I was leaving the store, I thought to myself: well, I also need some stuff from the Bodyshop, I might as well go there too right now.Read more... )

I am now restricted to not buying any luxury item until January 2012, but I don't care. Weehee, iPad fun!
mekyria: (gothic fusion red)
You'd think it would be easier in this digital age, but nooooo. I've been working on getting my iTunes library up into shape in the past two months this includes:

-discovering that iTunes had randomly thrown songs away somehow in the past. Including the strictly come belly dancing cds from Eddie Kochak! oh noes!!
-managed to retrieve some of the lost music by putting everything on my ipod back onto my computer*
-..but had to manually remove the double tracks from my iTunes library afterwards
- searched and found most of the album covers so I can visualize the music (I'm a visual thinker. It works better for me with album covers)
- dug into the old pile of cds to see if I had stuff I needed to upload/ Lo and behold, I found an Ensin Egin Turkish belly dance cd! Just what I needed!
- in the process, I got to listen to most of my (mainly belly dance) music. Fun!

All I need is a secure place to back-up my music. The trouble is that it is 82,6 GB, so I need a large place to back up. I could consider using an online back-up system instead of an external hard drive, as my two external hard drives are in use all over the house (my computer, the media player, Cookiehunter's computer, etc. 

*if you ever want to retrieve music from your ipod: connect ipod to computer. Go to the ipod by clicking 'my computer, then ipod. Select ipod, right click and go to advanced settings. Click 'show hidden folder'. You can now copy your music files from the control/music folder back to your computer
mekyria: (close up face)
how to combine several scanned images into one PDF file! Handy if you want to make stuff available in one PDF to your students, or if you decide to digitize your cd collectiona nd you want to store the cd booklets on your hard drive. My method:
-Scan with program from scanner (I have an Epson)
-Create batch action and save all files as PDF
-Use PDFTK Builder to combine them into one document

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