Audio tapes to MP3

An old box full of audiotapes has been dusted out.

They contain precious recordings from 1977 to 1994..

Including the only tape of my childhood voice singing a few lines of "kandar Shasti kavasam", my grandpa reciting Vishnu Sahasranamam for me the day before I first left for the US of A, my grandma singing me my favorite Carnatic songs, audio of a concert where I got to sit on the stage (as Mic boy) and enjoy Lalgudi Jayaraman and his kids perform, etc. etc.

Most of the tapes seem to be deteriorating and I might have one chance to transfer them to digital format before they self destruct!

so the question is..

If any of you who read this blog in the US have converted Audio tapes to MP3, is there a product out there that you would recommend? (some kind of tape recorder that outputs MP3? or connects to your laptop through USB? and then you can import it into itunes?)

Please do let me know.

Life has been busy with work, ice cream, physiotherapy, listening to music, voting, enjoying time with the wife and kids, not particularly in any order..

Lots to write, but it has to wait. Until Friday...

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"Handy" helper

The little one is fantastic..

Small hands
Not turned off by flaking dry skin (which Jr. refers to as boogers!)
Willing to help daddy...

24 more hours to go.

I have never looked forward to anything like this before in a long time....

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iPhone help request

Is there a way to change the order in which the apps appear in the iPhone?

It shows up in chronological downloaded order in the phone
Shows up alphabetically on the Laptop before you sync to the phone

Can I organize my apps on the first page, jr.'s apps on 2nd page, the little one's apps on third page etc. etc.?

As you have probably figured out by now, the kids are running amok on the itunes store.. they know that daddy will only download free apps.

you should see their marketing pitch.

Daddy, download this. It says "FREE"!

LO: can you also download that one. I like that game.

Me: you just saw a small box with a picture of a monkey on it. you don't even know what that game is. how can you like it already?

LO: I just like it, that is all!

Me: It is not free. It costs money

Jr: how much money?

Me: It costs a dollar okay. We don't know if the game is any good. So we are not buying anything if we have to pay money.

Jr: you are lying. you said one dollar. It says only point ninety nine! There is no dollar

Me: !!!!!!! (noothukku oru rooba kamminnu Vivek comedy pannuvaan.. adhu real lifelaye comedy ayiduththe!!! non Tamlish folks, please excuse me.. that cannot be translated)

We now pretty much have the top 25 free toddler games, kids games all downloaded. We also have a six year old who can go to youtube directly from the iPhone and watch videos!

so, once again.. a request to those i-wizards out there.. if there is a way to rearrange the apps, please let me know...

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