I find it really cool when a musician takes the time to create songs that can appeal to music-loving families with young ones.
To me, today's haphazard discovery is a really fun gem, and I want to share it with any parents out there whose children might get a total kick out of this:
I got this from a buddy of mine:
Got nowhere to go and you want to see major cities of the world?
This is the BEST time waster, ever!!!!!!
The first few seconds I got a fuzzy screen but then the picture came on and it might happen again when you change cities - over on the top right you can turn the street noise on, set the speed limit, etc.
This is really neat. 🚗🚖🚙
Because you can't travel, go to this site, and have a look.
You can set the speed of the vehicle, street noise, music and visit the world while still sitting at home.
You can drive in 50 cities around the world and spend as much time in any one of them driving.
Pick the city of your choice from the list in the upper right.
Travel while staying home…. obey the speed limit, and don’t pick up hitchhikers ;-).
The Drive & Listen app !
Do a search for that on the web and read all about it. This article by Sasha Brady at LonelyPlanet.com (May 6 2020) describes the app quite nicely.
Please find my own screenshot "drive" below.
Cheers ! Happy, and safe, "travels" !
Who knew such a thing is possible?
Oh what an intertwingled journey to figure that out.
For almost two decades, I've been trying to figure out an easy and budget-friendly way to backup/preserve years of precious family moments all on Hi8 video camera footage.
Although I tried, repeatedly by unsuccessfully, to create DVD backups with a DVD player/recorder, I had to give up on that idea. To me, the results were not all that great, and the process was much too tedious: no joy in it at all, and the thought of in the future backing up each individual DVD depressed me silly.
I then considered the purchase of a powerful enough computer, Windows or Mac, for digitizing the video tapes. It did not take long for me to discard that idea. Despite my whole career thoroughly enjoying creation of business applications for Windows with Gupta Team Developer, I am a Chromebooks-only-at-home kind of fella.
After a several-years-long break from the problem of digitizing my camcorder tapes, I started looking into it again last week. Very haphazardly, I found this very interesting YouTube video:
The Best Easy Way to Capture Analog Video (it's a little weird)
That's a really informative video, well-worth the time to watch. My take-away from that information:
