Cheapest Domain Registration Available

After over 3 years I decided to make this blog a little more professional and bought the domain name ezhex.com. Although I must admit it was mostly because of the extremely inviting price of $ 0.99 a year for a .com domain from 1&1 .
Here are the settings to linking a new domain name with your blogger account:
After you logged on to your account, click domains link shown below.

Click new / create subdomain

Enter www as address and choose your domain name from pull down menu. Click OK.
Tick the checkbox next to your subdomain name.
From the DNS menu, select Edit DNS Settings.
 
Click the radio button next to CNAME.
Enter ghs.google.com as Alias. Click OK.
If you don’t do this you can only access your site with http://example.com address and not http://www.example.com address.
Now check your main domain name, from destination select edit destination. From pull down menu select Forward your Domain, as your forwarding destination write your full url address beginning with http://www and as forwarding type select http redirect. Do the same with your subdomain.

You should see a dashboard similar to the one below after you have done all the settings described.

Wait for some time until your domain statuses change to ready.
Then log on to your blogger account, go to settings, publishing, enter your new address click save and you are done.

Go grab your domain name before limited period offer expires. I don’t think there will be a cheaper option than this

Wrap Raw AAC Files Into M4A Container

I won’t try to explain the difference between a codec and a container. You just need to know that aac is a codec and mp4/m4a is a container. And also there is no technical difference between MP4 and M4A. M4A is created by Apple just to differentiate between video and audio files inside MP4 container. (Wiki articles: codec, container)
Why it is a good idea wrap raw aac files into M4A container? Because some music players only supports certain file types and aac is not a popular one, one other problem is that aac does not have a standardized documentation for tagging songs. So if you tag your files in one application another application may not be able to read these.

Lately I have been using a wonderful stream saver application called StreamWriter with which you can listen online radios and at the same time save the songs, you can even specify some keywords and StreamWriter will save every song that matches your keywords depending on their tags whether or not you are listening them at the time. Most of my favorite radios are streaming with aac format since it is more efficient than mp3. The problem with aac is like I explained above its tagging features (or lack of them). I cannot use auto tagging programs like MusicBrainz Picard with this format. So I decided to convert all my aac files to M4A without losing any quality. And since aac is a raw format and M4A is only a container it is possible.

Wrapping process:
Download MP4Box for wrapping the files and Batchenc for automating the process for all the files.
Extract all the files in one folder.
Open Batchenc and drag all the files onto it.

Write:

MP4Box.exe -add <infile> <outfile.m4a>
in Command line area, you can change m4a to mp4 if you like (you can also add this line in Batchenc_presets.cfg for future uses – open cfg file in notepad).
If you want you can specify a different output directory.
Click start and few seconds later you are done.