Here’s an online service that will transcode FLVs for you into several common formats, such as AVI/DivX, MOV/MPEG4, 3GP, etc. I’ve only had a chance to try it on a couple videos, but it seems to work well. You can submit a YouTube URL or a direct link to an FLV and it will kick […]
In Building the Perfect PC, 2nd Edition, authors Robert Bruce Thompson and Barbara Fritchman Thompson suggest a way to tell which drive is which in a RAID array: use a felt-tip marker to label each end of the cable (no stripes for drive 0, one stripe for drive 1, and so forth). Brady was perusing […]
The Associated Press warns us all about the dreaded March 11 and April 1 problem… For three weeks this March and April, Microsoft Corp. warns that users of its calendar programs ”should view any appointments… as suspect until they communicate with all meeting invitees.” Wow, that’s sort of jarring — is something treacherous afoot? Actually, […]
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For anyone looking for a last-minute Valentine to send instantly, Google Maps Mania advises heading over to GeoGreeting.com: a virtual greeting site that lets you send a message to others on the web using buildings that are in the shape of letters and punctuation. In this recent tv news piece where GeoGreeting’s creator Jesse Vig […]
If you have an older Symbian or Windows Mobile device, it probably either came with support for Flash Lite 1, or no Flash support at all, whereas the newer devices are starting to be available with support for Flash Lite 2 content, which will allow developers to make use of more advanced programming features, not […]
In Hack #59 of their book Digital Video Hacks, Josh Paul shows how to create the effect yourself, as I’ve done in this video, and use it in your own movies to fool your audience. Here’s an example of an applying the effect. Watch my lips as I mouth a couple words, while dubbing over […]
