I had the good fortune to use the Edirol R-09HR wav/mp3 recorder for some time (firmware 2.0). Of course this machine has been reviewed earlier so i will not repeat the previous conclusions but i have some interesting findings that i did not read about before. First the volume of the built in speaker is low. Putting the volume at 100 does not really make it better. You have to put the speaker against your ear to hear anything. Headphones on the other hand can be set very loud. So don’t expect to fill the room with sound with this speaker. You have to find some amplified speakers to do that.

When you change the batteries some of the settings resetted themselves, at least on my machine. The file naming was reset to the default instead of the date as the filename. But the second time i changed the battery my settings were preserved. Strange but since i did not use the machine for some time, the internal? battery or capacitor ran out of power? But i could be wrong.The first time i started using the recorder i had to set the time. The second time when chancing the batteries i was not asked to set the time.

The remote control worked nicely, but i got some problems with the reception. Earlier (in some review video during a convention) it was mentioned this remote worked by radio. Well it does not. It used a infrared LED. So you really need a good line of sight to control the recorder from a distance.

Lastly this recorder can not stand “up”. The bottom is too rounded and the recorder will fall over when you try to set it upright. Too bad, but that’s probably why Roland is selling this thing.

Overal i am very impressed with the responsiveness, menu usability and built quality. It is worth each and every penny.

I will be visiting India during the lovely Kartika time again. From Oct 16th till Nov 4th i will be improving on my spiritual life.
During this time you can of course order any article, but i will send it after the 4th of Nov. Please forgive me any for this inconvenience.
I have updated the shop page extensively. All articles are now on 1 page. Since there are not yet many articles this makes sense. So you get
an quick overview of our shop. After Nov 4th i will updated the shop with a new CD and DVD’s from Kadamba Kanana Swami and Jayadvaita Swami’s.

See you maybe in India

It was time again to update the website after almost 5 months. So here is what’s changed:
- Moved the KKS and JAS (in the top menu) to the Media page
The Main Menu does not have so many items anymore, so it should be easier and clearer to navigate for you
- Moved the previous Upload Page (in Media) to the Main Menu.
This provides easy access to those who want to upload. Also the uploads go directly to me instead of the ISP server in the USA.
- Changed the frontpage a bit. The links below the video have changed.
Prabhupada stays of course. I really like this video.

I am thinking to delete the different bhajan/classes/seminars pages. All these classes can be found in our download section anyway.
What do you think? Let me know.

To make uploading photos, classes and other media a bit easier i have created a new upload page.
Now you can easily upload your files to me. Please let me know when you send your media. Then i can check if everything went without errors!!

GO! and upload something : http://library108.com/upload/

Or try it now ->

(oh yeah, do not send garbage files please. These will be removed)

*update* 8 oct 09
Western Digital offered a “solution”, see link below, to their Smartware software. It involves a lot of steps, certainly not for a newbie… Image your mother doing this??
Come on WD! Sell hard drives without your annoying software……

I have been selling media for some time now which is stored on a hard drive. I was using Western Digital’s Passport serie hard drives because they are small, look nice and i never had problems with them. This week (6 oct 09) i bought another drive. It was the latest model (500 GB, model WDBAAA500AWT-EESN). When i plugged it in (windows) for the first time two screens popped up. One screen was the “cannot find a driver” -screen. And they other was the “Smartware screen”. And in the windows explorer screen 2! new devices were installed. The hard drive itself and a new CD drive…???. After some digging around i found out that this “Smartware” automatically installs the CD drive everytime! you plug it into your computer. And it is NOT REMOVABLE!!! Shame on you Western Digital

So since i cant remove this annoying smartware i cannot use the drive… Thanks WD….. Goodbye WD…

So be warned and buy the older models!!!!!

Read some more :

• http://superuser.com/questions/44318/how-do-i-remove-a-mybooks-wd-smartware-virtual-cd-from-my-desktop
• http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10351853
• http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=3779