Building my Confidence » Lifestyle http://www.buildingmyconfidence.com release my inner potential Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:48:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Commuting in london http://www.buildingmyconfidence.com/2009/12/commuting-in-london/ http://www.buildingmyconfidence.com/2009/12/commuting-in-london/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:28:24 +0000 totalwise http://www.buildingmyconfidence.com/2009/12/commuting-in-london/ I’m writing this blog post as I an trVelling on the central line to shephadds bush. To get to westfields shopping center. Communiting is a funny thing, we spend about 1 hour on the trains each journey, this should really be a time to unwind and relax, however it can be very stressful, avoiding eye [...]]]> I’m writing this blog post as I an trVelling on the central line to shephadds bush. To get to westfields shopping center. Communiting is a funny thing, we spend about 1 hour on the trains each journey, this should really be a time to unwind and relax, however it can be very stressful, avoiding eye contact with anyone and everyone, trying to look busy Reading the paper, loathing to iPod and what not. I wish I has the courage to strike up a conversation with the nubile chick in front of me. I dontk ow why I’m worried about really.

She’s quite pretty, probaly 30, looks professional and ….. She just got off the tube. My luck

Sheesh a couple oh hours later and shopping done and here I am again in the tube on my way back from westfields. Sitting on the tube carraige opposite yet another cute person. Yet unable to communicate let alone fathom up some carriage to go chat her up.

Why does commuting have to be this way, would be far better if we could make it fun somehow. Anyway i’m looking forward to going home and trying on some of these clothes I’ve bought once more. I’ve tried them on in the shops but I find the lighting sort of distorts how the clothes actually look and feel on you.

]]> http://www.buildingmyconfidence.com/2009/12/commuting-in-london/feed/ 0 My new iPhone and iTunes are amazing http://www.buildingmyconfidence.com/2009/12/my-new-iphone-and-itunes-are-amazing/ http://www.buildingmyconfidence.com/2009/12/my-new-iphone-and-itunes-are-amazing/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:25:35 +0000 totalwise http://www.buildingmyconfidence.com/?p=152 I kinda avoided using iTunes because it was unfamiliar to me, and I much preferred to play songs on a track by track basis on VLC players, and since windows media player stopped being an mp3 player and started to become more of a music managment device it because kinda difficult to manage.

I recently bought [...]]]> I kinda avoided using iTunes because it was unfamiliar to me, and I much preferred to play songs on a track by track basis on VLC players, and since windows media player stopped being an mp3 player and started to become more of a music managment device it because kinda difficult to manage.

I recently bought an iPhone and it sort of forced me to use iTunes, (it won’t allow me to use any other music player on it), and after being annoyed initially, I got into the full flow of things.

I started to rate every song in my music collection from 1-5, I deleted all the 1-star songs, then I got all the album artwork for every song, and name all my music correctly (correct artist, track, album names).

It took my quite a few days to do but got there eventually.

And sometimes it can be a bit of a mind-numbing chore, leaving you wanting to quit and go away and do something else. However once completed the rewards are immense.

Some of the benifits listed below

  • Much more organised music collection allowing you to find tracks quick and easily (thanks to correct tags used)
  • Better understanding of your music tastes, from rating track
  • Easy to create playlists of different genre’s, tempo’s etc of music allowing you to listen to music to suit your mood
  • Album artwork makes your music collection appear more “real”, especially when flicking through tracks on your iphone
  • Makes you more familair with your favourite artists, how many songs out there do you like but don’t know the name of?

I found this resource invaluable in teaching me how to oranise my music http://ipod.about.com/od/advanceditunesuse/ss/album_artwork.htm

Also the shazam app for the iphone is really good for identifying songs that you dont know the names of, I’ve had quite a few songs in my collection that I didn’t know the name of [because they had generic names like Track1 - Now69 etc], with shazzam I simply press ‘Tag’ and it recorded 10 seconds of a song and came back with the artist and song name.

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