• Groove Shark and Mozilla Prism

    Create a free desktop Groove Shark player in 2 steps (and save $3)

    How to create a free Groove Shark desktop player in  2 easy steps Groove Shark is a free streaming audio service that allows you to play music in a browser window. The company also offers a paid VIP service that offers an Adobe Air desktop application so that you can play music outside of your browser. Follow the steps below to save yourself $3 a month (especially useful considering how temperamental Groove ...
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  • The Corner

    It rained on that Friday night. But then, it always rained on Friday nights, These thoughts and not many others puttered around in his mind as he stepped out on to the sodden sidewalk. Why did it always rain on Fridays? Home. Sleep. Alone. Peace. What more could a man ask for after a hard week's work? He lifted his gaze to plot his path home and then, he saw her. Or rather his eyes traced the slow sensuous...
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Archive for January, 2010

Waxed Mojo Dojo the Swinger's Club

The Swinger’s Club

After getting loads of requests from folks to burn The Swinger’s Club to disc (especially this past weekend), I figured I’d repost the link to the set. The Swinger’s Club is a house music set I put together sometime ago. 90% of the tracks were selected because they had an old school jazz feel or sample to them and they are 100% wicked.  You can listen to the entire set on MixCloud by clicking the link below:

Lester Hein Presents The Swingers Club by Lester Hein on Mixcloud

Here’s the tracklisting for the set:

Note: I’ll post the link where you can download the set as an MP3 in just a bit, the set it busy uploading to my server at the moment

Why I hate checking voicemail

It’s annoying how often this happens. I much prefer a text message

How to convert a WAV file to an MP3 with Audacity

I work with a lot of media files, video and audio and a large part of the challenge when working with many media types is that formats are often incompatible. This is a quick tutorial on how to convert files with a .wav extension to a .mp3 file using the free open source audio editor Audacity. It includes instructions on how to install the LAME MP3 encoder required by Audacity to process the MP3 files.

Converting a WAV file to an MP3 file using Audacity from Lester Hein on Vimeo.

For the love of house

I know that I could write some really long post about how great house music is and how I fell in love with it, but frankly, I’m not in the mood for a lengthy post so I’ll let the music to the talking.

(if you’re readin this on Facebook, watch the video here)

If you’ve seen Avatar

Then you’ll probably find this funny :)

I finally managed to see it, and while I think it’s  great film, I just can’t believe James Cameron called the mineral in the movie ‘unobtainium.’ Maybe his kids named that part. I really enjoyed the additional depth of field that the 3D offered and it reminded me of what it was like to watch movies as a kid – to have my disbelief suspended almost entirely and be immersed in to the world created on the screen. I think that the future of cinema is definitely going to be exciting thanks to 3D.

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