Within Nerd Fortress there is a certain clock that you may enter at a certain hour, after giving a certain skeleton some particularly fine wine to drink. It helps if your friend is a Unicorn, but this is not strictly necessary. Once you enter the clock you will immediately find yourself in the catacombs below the Fortress, among fire-breathing bulls and other pleasantries. And, if you consider yourself quite lucky, you may stumble upon a secret room with walls lined with bookshelves and tables with dual-monitor workstations. This is where we make tools for nerds.
We have been told that magical secret rooms are the best place to make Really Useful Software. It turns out that if you make something Simple Enough, people might actually use it. As a bonus, you can even make the software Do Something Useful. We’ve been told, actually, that making useful software is the best way to get people (other than VCs) interested in what you are doing.
Get Organized With a Good Weekly Meal Planner
Having trouble finding time to plan meals? Dining In makes it fast and easy to create meal plans and shopping lists. When you plan ahead, you will save money on your grocery bills and avoid having to eat out all the time. Give it a try!
Download the Dining In Weekly Meal Planner from Nerd Fortress
Slice It Nice: Podcast & Audio Book Media Splitter
Podcasts can be pretty long, and audio books can go on for hours. It takes forever to seek forward or back through these files on your lame MP3 player you bought from Woot, or that cool car stereo your brother gave you last Christmas. Have you ever been listening to a podcast or audio book track in your car and accidentally skipped to the next file? All you really wanted to do was fast-forward, but some genius decided to overload the function of that particular button. eBooks from your local public library are particularly frustrating to deal with, because the entire 8+ hour books are usually contained in one massive file.
Well, Slice It Nice is a pretty sweet little Windows media splitter utility that solves all of that and more. It takes a monolithic podcast or audio book file in Windows Media (WMA) or MP3 format and splits it up nicely into bite-size chunks. You can choose to output to WMA or MP3 (requires LAME). Heck, Slice It Nice is even kind enough to detect breaks in speaking and split the media only between words.
Try Slice It Nice today for all your podcast and audio book splitting needs. It’s free. It’s malware-free. And it’s useful.
Download the Slice It Nice media splitter from Nerd Fortress or Get the Source Code
Note: If you want to output to MP3 you will need to download LAME for Windows, and either put the path to LAME in your system PATH variable, or copy the files to the Slice It Nice program directory.
