And so it begins..

The primary plan is to use this space for IT related awesomeness (orsomeness?), this is to help other people and provide me with a space to keep handy info for my own reference. There may be rants on certain subjects, but I'll try and keep them to a minimum. Also links to general funny/cool stuff, and yes I know theirs already a ton of blogs that do that.

I will also be linking to and discussing some cool scripting projects I have been working on.
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MrCC : Monster right Click Converter

A gui front end for a large number of Lossy and Lossless audio formats, presently will convert or transcode over 108 different audio and video file types using the compiled binary CLI tools provided by the included projects.
Features include :

-Maintains ID2-3, APE1-2 (Monkey), Vorbis and FLAC tags as you convert from one format to another. Likewise cover art will be kept (except for APE2, at the moment I can read the data but am not able to write it. If anyone knows of a cli prog that will write the binary image data to an APE2 tag, please let me know.)

-Batch convert to same location, new location or to a portable device i.e Re sample your mp3's to a lower bit rate while removing the image tag to get more music on your MP3 player (Generic players like Creative Zen Stone etc Not ipods)

- Give detailed information on the audio files selected.

- Shell integration to the right click menu for all supported file types.

- Cut or up/down sample large wav files.

- Rip audio from video files into your chosen format.

- Output formats supported include : Mp3 Ogg Flac Mp4 M4a M4b Aac Wma Tta Wav Ape Wv

LTTools : Laptop Tools

Another GUI tool that resides in the system tray on your laptop that allows you to monitor all your network connections IP addresses and create profiles for one or all of them. Quick and easy IP changing, 2 clicks and your done.
Bring all windows to desktop, when you have been using an external monitor and the next time you are on the road and try to open a program that has remembered its last position, which is about 30cm to the right of your desktop on the monitor that isn't there (I hate that).
Find MAC address for IP.
Keep alive, when you are doing a presentation and dont want your laptop going into standby.
+ more features as I think of them. (Maybe a profile manager for services and startup apps etc)

GoBot

A simple script that will give you control over those annoying services and start-up programs that get installed and are always running in the background when they are not needed (I'm looking at you iTunes and vmware). Starts the required progs / services, runs the requested program and then shuts them down again on exit. Because nothing should get in the way of my gaming.

After I have finished these I will be open to any ideas you guys might have, so feel free to leave them in the comments.
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