Rambling

If you read my post about using JDVoiceMail to record memos and “To Do’s” to my self, you may be wondering how I solved the problem of recording them when I was away from my computer.

Well, the answer came sort of accidentally. I originally thought of buying a hand held dictating machine. I found some good ones on that well known auction site, and bid on a couple. The ones I bid on also had the facility to connect to a computer and copy files to and from it. Luckily for me I was out bid on both of them, one sold for £25 and the other went for £27.

I say it was lucky because at the same time I had bought an MP4 player from a seller in China and was waiting for it to arrive. It arrived after I had been out bid on both dictating machines and was busily watching several other auctions to see how high the bidding was going.

When the MP4 player arrived I was pleased to find it was fully working and a great little gadget. It can play music, videos, radio, you can even read ebooks with it, and it can be used as a USB drive. But what really pleased me was it can also record sound. You can click record and talk to it and it records everything you say in crystal clear quality.

So I had been bidding £20 on dictation machines that had 256kb memory and had the facility to copy files onto a computer. And all along I had bought this MP4 player which could do exactly the same thing, but had 8gb of memory.

So now I have a much better “dictation machine” that also plays music, videos, radio, shows photos etc, when it is not being used as a dictation machine. And it was nearly half the price of the dedicated dictation machine.

All in all I am well pleased with this little gadget, and so pleased I set my maximum bid at £20 for the dictation machines.

The one, small, draw back is the MP4 player saves the recordings as Recording01.mp3, Recording02.mp3 etc. so I have to rename them to something meaningful after copying them to my computer. A small price to pay for such a great little gadget.

Click here for a good selection of MP4 Players.

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