All glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga

In-house Office Tips

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SCSMath, Nabadwip

SOUND:

• -) Spoken Sound Recording Tips. Direct to Computer. Nabadwip office. Including Generic Text to Add at end of each Spoken Book
• -) Tips for making CDs
• -) Using the Mini-Disk Player
• -) Recording regular cassettes to digital
• -) Converting aiff files to mp3 format
• -) Handling CDs. LIFE OF A CD: CD colours: Gold is best (life approx 10 years). Silver is next best (life 5 to 8 years). Then green (is aluminium = 2 or 3 years). Worst is blue (just one or two year's life). One CD reader may be able to read a CD, while another reader cannot! it depends on the intensity of the lazer beam...
• -) Video tapes. Handling Audio tapes, also Zip and Floppy discs

WEB-PAGES

• -) How to make gif text pages, i.e. so can put Hindi, Tamil, Bangla, etc. on Web
• -) Processing colour pictures for "Memories" web-pages. And making the pages.
• -) Using Lynx. Lynx keystrokes at a glance. Also, other Lynx tips. Also, using Pine for other mail boxes.

Taking a big file from an internet beareau:

• Taking more than a floppy holds from a Cyber Cafe PC can be a hassle. So here it is a tiny DOS prog (2K!) to slice files onto floppies. It's called Slice.
  Download it and put it in the "Windows" diretory on a PC. Run it using MS-DOS Prompt: Start/Programmes/MS-DOS Prompt. Navigate to the directory and locaton of the big file to be 'sliced'. Be careful to ensure the source file has a super-short file name. It's usage:

format: SLICE [s:\path\]filename[.ext] d:
where: s:\path\filename.ext is the file to SLICE.
d: is a removable media drive.

• Also the little programme (1.3K) to put the sections back together on a PC: Splice.
• Added those super useful: pkzip and pkunzip. They're self-explanatory and, as with Slice, are run using the MS-DOS Prompt.
• And, in case needed in one of those pesky internet cafes: telnet.exe and ftp.exe. And two tutorials on ftp to remind us how to use the raw ftp codes: ftp_tutorial.html and ftp_manual.html.
  

VSNL info, roaming in India, and phone numbers:

• This file was taken from the Web 10 January 2002, Includes also vsnl's advised modem settings, etc. TCP/IP settings and cost of their accounts.

Using the digital CAMERA

• -) The Nikon digital camera.
  • Ensure the Quality is on: "XGA FINE" it takes about 300 full-screen pictures in this mode using the 128MB card.
  • In general use it on "A" on the top dial = automatic. At night the flash has a SHORT range.
  • Still need to find out how to stop the Red Eye problem. All pictures of faces/people are currently spoiled due to this.

Keeping track of pictures.

• -) Use the programme "iView Multimedia" (or as named in earlier versions: "PhotoRelay") -- programme that come with "Toast". It allows the most versatility.
  • Arrange, orientate, rename, and keep an organised record of photos. Now we are able to burn CDs then organise the files and folders with a view to making Slide-Show CDs for distribution -- at the same time it autmotically keeps the pictures archived.
  • Be Careful: Uisng iView if you move the folder, or any part of the path is re-named, it is necessary to go to Tools / Reset Path so it now knows where the pictures are. Only then will it allow you to re-name files, move them, etc. Othwerwise it may be antisocial and simply forget everything.... Be careful to use only Process the folders/files only on a Mac disc, keep a copy, then rename the files using the Tools / Rename command, only use PC regular characters in naming files. Make captions on the pictures using Photoshop.
  • Using an iView catalog on a PC disc or partition seems to confuse the file names and the catalog may lose its Creator and Type.

Archiving Old Manuscripts

• -) Old manuscripts are brittle and need to photographed, not scanned. The procedure is given here.

Office--How to find useful places in Calcutta, etc.

• -) This is the maps, and "how to get to folder" on the office Macs

Extras: mdbr