]> http://www.blogcadre.com/tag/hard_drive en http://www.blogcadre.com/blog/samccone/o_no_2007_09_01_16_14_54 <p>So I am finally at college now... But nothing ever goes as smooth as it should. After setting up my computer (Mac Book Pro (Intel chipset) I discover that my entire external hard drive is wiped... 100 gigs of music and photos gone... So i was wondering if anyone knew any Data recovery programs for OS X that they would recommend...</p> <p>Thanks</p> <!-- <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.blogcadre.com/blog/samccone/o_no_2007_09_01_16_14_54" dc:identifier="http://www.blogcadre.com/blog/samccone/o_no_2007_09_01_16_14_54" dc:title="O no....." trackback:ping="http://www.blogcadre.com/trackback/3531" /> </rdf:RDF> --> crap hard drive skrewed Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:14:54 -0500 http://www.blogcadre.com/blog/justin/upgrading_the_4th_gen_ipod_hd_battery_for_rockbox_flac_2007_04_06_15_27_12 <p>Kill your iPod (part II).</p> <p>When it comes to audiophiles all is but lost.</p> <p>With the advent of MP3, the idea of lossless audio seemed to have fallen upon deaf ears. Enter: FLAC, the Free Lossless Audio Codec, it compresses waveforms by finding similarities (like bzip), not by changing the the waveform itself (mp3 et. al.).</p> <p>When it comes to playing FLAC on a portable, a HD based one is the only way to go because of the increased size of FLAC files -- roughly 1/2 the size of the original uncompressed stream. <a href="http://flac.sourceforge.net/links.html#hardware">FLAC players are listed on the FLAC website</a>, but as far as I see it there are only two choices for gapless MP3 and FLAC playback:</p> <ul > <li >Rio Karma -- purchase from <a href="http://www.karmalimbo.com/">Karma Limbo</a>, his are <a href="http://www.karmalimbo.com/catalog.htm">pre-hacked with upgrades</a></li> <li >a Rockbox enabled device such as iRiver, or iPod</li> </ul> battery emi flac hard drive hd iPod mp3 Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:27:12 -0500