Finally got all my old cell phone voice mail messages archived to the PC. These are messages mostly from the kids calling me to tell me they lost a tooth, they got the (baseball) game ball that day, asking for password for the laptop to play AoE, etc.

Since I hassled around with various connections, here's the golden setup for future reference:

(Starting from the PC side)

• Blue "line-out" connector in back of Gateway PC
• Splitter into red/white RCA jacks
• Red only side of a red/white RCA cable on one side to a 3.5 mm plug on the other
• 3.5 mm to 2.5 mm converter
• 2.5 mm female adapter to proprietary cell phone side plug (3 sided input converter thingy for my Samsung u740 phone)
  

Software:

• Make sure Windows Recording Devices lists the Line-In device (set play through this device in properties to make sure you hear the sound, play a song for example)
  
• Audacity, record from Line-In (Edit, Properties, set Recording Device), Recording channels = 2 (even though this is mono, the SECOND channel is the one that comes through, so you wont see it if you're recording one channel)
  
• Call voice mail, play messages
• Crop each message, save as MP3

Here's a screenshot of what the Audacity settings should look like:

And what the windows recording setup should look like:



Posted 8:17 AM    |    0 comments    |    Permalink   

I've never really had any trouble with gaming connectivity on the 360, but now that I'm hassling with a dead router and choosing a new one, you never know.

Here's a rundown on what ports are needed for XBox Live.

Set Up Port Forwarding on Your Xbox 360

Posted 8:05 AM    |    0 comments    |    Permalink