How to transfer wma-protected audiobooks to a MP3 player
October 12, 2009
This is a handy tutorial for copying your audiobooks files to a portable media player such those as made by Creative, iRiver, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba, Arcos, Philips, Rio or Sandisk.
The Process works differently for iPod so if you have one of those devices please watch our video we put together for iPod users. If you have another player this tutorial is the right one.
As a means of avoiding piracy each audiobook file you purchase is encoded with special protections to help to ensure that it is only available to you.
Your computer will download a special license so that you are able to listen to it.
With taking your audiobook with you on a MP3 player keep in mind that your player will need the ability to play DRM-protected WMA files.
Most of the major brands now support these files.
If the player carries the Microsoft playforsure logo then you are good to go. You can browse a comprehensive list of supportive players there.
Let me start by telling that the Windows in 2000/XP is not a viable option for copying your files because it doesn’t support the DRM technology.
The file would copy but won’t actually play on your player.
You have 2 choices for copying.
1. The software which came with your device
2. Windows Media Player
Let’s choose the latter as it’s found on all computers purchased in the last 6 years and it is also quick and easy to use.
Before you can move your audiobook files to your device you must open you audiobooks at least once on your computer to authenticate the licence.
This effectively licences the audiobook to you and give you the permission to move it to your MP3-Player.
It’s easy just enter your email and your password. Once it confirms that it opens successfully close the file again. You needn’t listen the whole way through.
Additionally, if the audiobook is split in multiple files you just only need to open the first one.
- Now the first step is to locate the downloaded files on your hard drive.
- Select all the files you want to synchronize. Hold on the ctrl-Key to select multiple files at once.
- Then, making sure your device is attached to your computer just right click and use “Add to Sync List”.
- Windows Media Player launches automatically showing all files queued up for synchronization in your sync list.
- The “Ready for synchronize” message should appear next to each track.
- Then simply click the “Start Sync” Button to move the files to your player.
- Once the files finished copying your files to your portable device you can unplug it and enjoy your new audiobook files wherever you go.
Now there are a handful of devices that won’t copy files using the Windows Media Player.
If you have one of these devices simply use the software which came with your device rather than Windows media Player and you should be fine.
Copying files to your portable device should work usually in a similar way, but we found that Windows Media Player quick and easy and it works fine with almost all players sold today.
The first time you transfer to digital players can seem a little daunting. Particularly, when you are not technically experienced. But if you follow the instructions you should be absolute fine.
It will become second nature.
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Something scary is happening to boys today
September 12, 2009
From kindergarten to college, they are less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago.
Fully one-third of men ages twenty-two to thirty-four are still living at home with their parents, about a 100 percent increase in the past twenty years.
Boys nationwide are increasingly dropping out of school; fewer are going to college.
Family physician and research psychologist Dr. Leonard Sax argues that a combination of social, cultural, and biological factors, ranging from environmental estrogens to the over-prescription of ADHD drugs, is creating an environment that is literally toxic to boys.
Here, he presents his practical solutions, from new ways of controlling boys’ use of video games to innovative education reforms.
Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men [5:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men [5:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadBob Proctor Coaching - For A Life of Abundance
March 13, 2009
Exuding an energetic demeanor with succinct, yet comforting words, Bob Proctor, Philosopher, has advanced himself to being known as one of the leading authorities in life coaching.
Who is Bob Proctor? He was once part of the unknown crowd; a high school drop out and in and out of pointless jobs, with a future weighed down by nothing but the prospect of debt. But, he found a way out after being turned on by Napoleon Hill’s ‘Think and Get Rich’ book. For himself he had come upon a way to turn his life around in just a few short months. Living confirmation that a life of abundance, not only meaning economic wealth, but in relationships and one of a spiritual nature too, can all be generated from nothing.
This is a man who is not prepared to keep any secret of success to himself, instead, Bob Proctor coaching promises to show you how to do it for yourself! With all of the requisite experiences behind him, the Bob Proctor products, which are available via his website, are offered to everyone as he wants to impart his wisdom about life success.
He has been refining his range of programs for over 40 years and his own trademark concepts have helped to change the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
The Bob Proctor Coaching Program targets the precise areas of your life in which you want to see adjustment or growth in, from self-image to love and job success. These are the very same strategies and tools which have helped to revolutionize the lives of ‘clients, celebrities and industry giants’ after traveling the globe, showing others how to accept the power of their own psyche.
The main focus and techniques help the individual understand that they already hold the key and all of the necessary tools to make these changes take place within themselves. All that is required is to accept that specific conditioning of the mind, those old mind patterns which make one set in their ways, are all that stand between you and your desires. The application and dedication to what the Bob Proctor coaching can teach you, can help you close that gap and experience amazing adjustments in your life, just by modifying the way you think. You will be able to re-create yourself.
Bob Proctor’s success has put him in a substantial position to offer a hand to those ready to change. Seminars are available on his life success techniques, reading material, live recordings, DVD’s and contact with other like-minded people who are all about to take the first step towards transformation and gifting themselves a life without limitation.
In Bob Proctor’s own words “Tell me what you want and I’ll show you how to get it!” A quick look at the materials open to you, and Bob Proctor coaching certainly appears to offer the techniques necessary to show the individual the path to life success.
Erica Polaris is a prolific researcher and writer of self improvement and wealth creation. She shares her research on Bob Proctor Coaching at her website which includes great tips and recommendations.
- Erica Polaris
Manifesting Abundance With the Law of Attraction
March 13, 2009
What is it that you really desire? How do you want your life to be? What are the things you would like to see attracted into your life? Questions that are often posed to oneself, but ones that are hardly ever answered.
Over the past few years, the Law of Attraction has risen to the fore in teaching people from all walks of life, how to achieve the best from their lives. This powerful Law of Attraction has always been around, but it has only fairly recently been explained that this law is ‘Universal, and every individual is affected by it.’ It is a potent mechanism of the universe, based on using your mind to accomplish and manifest your desires.
’The Secret’, a book by author Rhonda Byrne, helped raise the Law of Attraction into the public consciousness, especially when the movie adaptation hit the movie theaters around the world. In the book, Byrne brought together a collection of the world’s leading authorities such as Bob Proctor and Esther Hicks who knew and lived their lives by this big secret. This wonderful power called the Law of Attraction, that some of the leading minds in history knew about, but at the same time had somehow escaped the masses. Byrne and ‘The Secret’ brought it to their attention. Through quotations and well defined teachings from Philosophers, Metaphysicians, Physicians and Visionaries the Law of Attraction is laid out in everyday terms. It’s power is seemingly faultless and little is required from you, other than asking for what you want and being ready to receive it.
Anything that you need in your life, you can apparently make happen - if you learn the Law of Attraction and how to use it. You are able to acquire your desires, from finding your soul mate, to a promotion at work, to a new vehicle, to manifesting abundance. Nothing is too large or too minor according to the Law of Attraction, you just need to recognize how to ask and how to seize it. The Law of Attraction says, “That which is like unto itself is drawn.” Meaning the more you imagine about abundance and prosperity, the more abundance and prosperity you will attract.
One of the foremost advocates of the Law of Attraction, Esther Hicks explains the methods of finding a life of success through the Teachings of Abraham. “Ask, and it is given,” a powerful, succinct statement that simplifies the process of creating spiritual knowledge or manifesting abundance. The universe and all that is in it vibrates, and all one must do, through applying the intellect, is to bring the things which you desire into vibrating harmony and the universe will deliver it to you.
Bob Proctor, a predominant face and voice in ‘The Secret’ is living evidence that you can turn your life around within months, by simply applying the correct techniques and studying the Law of Attraction. His coaching comes from the experience of having nothing and making something from that nothing. A powerful message in learning the Law of Attraction.
Manifesting abundance along with any other want in your life is available to you as you learn the secrets of the Law of Attraction. There is no great myths being uncovered here, just simple fact. From the Teachings of Abraham, “It’s not your work to make anything happen. It’s your work to dream it and let it happen.”
Erica Polaris is a prolific researcher and writer of self improvement and wealth creation. She shares her research on manifesting abundance at her website which includes great tips and recommendations.
- Erica Polaris
