Converting Skype vmail to .mp3

Ok, six months later and much more experience but I still don’t have a sure fire easy way to do this. There has to be a hack out there for a small problem that I’ve come across in attempting to use Audacity to record Skpe vmails to .mp3 (but I haven’t found that yet).

What I did find was a successful use of doing this with Audacity when both Skype and Audacity were older. But what I see in the newer versions of Skype (or is Audacity doing it?) is that it mutes the “What U Hear” button in the “Record Control” dialogue for windows every time I try to use Audacity to record what I hear :-)

Well, so much for the evolution of the solution. In the meantime I am able to backup my entire Skype user directory, and put it in another location for safe keeping. Any time I want to listen to voicemails that ‘were’ in that backup, I have to close out Skype and replace my entire user directory just to listen to those.

I am sure I could figure out which cryptic file name relates to what voicemail, and what user configuration file is connected to the whole thing but that’s just more effort than I want to put into it for now. There is someone out there working on a better way to skin that cat in the meantime. But where are you buddy? :-)

Google TV

Yes yes, this has been around for a while. But for those of you that havn't heard about it yet, this one is for you. I've been watching Google video, which I endearingly refer to as GoogleTV for several months now. I don't even have a televsion anymore.

So if you have broadband and a desire to get rid of your tv, then check out my recommendations. The Evolution of Dance; Star Trek The New Voyages In Harm's Way; Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5. Enjoy!

Contact Groups

Well groovy! Now you can keep track of specific groups of people that you email frequently if you are a gmailer. For instance once of the ways that I use this to collaborate with all of the tech people that I’m working with in the Philippines on specific projects.

I've been waiting for this feauture. In fact I thought it was silly that gmail didn't already have it in the first place. "Contact Groups"; don't confuse it with google groups.