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DVD-Lab GOP Size problems
VideoHelp.com Forum Archive – DVD-Lab won’t create .IFO files!! (Yes, I’ve searched….) I’ve been battling the same problem as this guy. There is a problem with this very nice tool called DVD-lab. Appears to have to do with demultiplexing files and something called a GOP size and whether it is closed or not…whew, now I…
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Get an Athlon 3000+ Winchester
!{float: left; margin-right: 10px;}http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/Additional/athlon64_logo_86x94.gif!:”http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2242″ _Anandtech just reviewed the new Winchester chips, this is a 90nm Athlon in socket 939, with a MSI Neo2 Platinum, OCZ Platinum Rev 2 DDR3200 memory, its a screamer with a huge overclock. Newegg.com has them for about $170 in the OEM version. Of course, to be really cook, you have…
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Andy is a Cool dad and CEO too…
!{float: left; margin-right: 10px;}http://members.judysbook.com/images/judysbooklogo.gif!:http://judysbook.com A Sack of Seattle. Andy is working on “Judy’s Book”:http://judysbook.com and doing a great job helping parents everywhere. He also started a blog that I think is great. I think “Ludwig”:http://www.theludwigs.com had a big hand. His posts on the election are great too.
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Call of Duty United Offensive
FPSCentral – File Downloads. Ok just about done with Call of Duty United Offensive. Not nearly as exciting as the first Call of Duty. Maybe this is serial fatigue, but this one didn’t surprise me as much. it is harder in that there are way more people in each battlefield, but really nothing new. I…
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Making MPEG-2 Work in PowerPoint
Well I’ve been struggling for days to figure out how to get PowerPoint to show a DVD fragment in slideshow mode. I just couldn’t get it to work. The movie would embed properly, but would not playback in place. You would have to launch a standalone viewer. This is one case where google was absolutely…
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Ken Kelley
!{float: left; margin-right: 10px;}http://k2bioventures.com/templates/34/img/user/masked/K2BIOVENTURES.COM.jpg!:http://k2bioventures.com Ken Kelley, an old buddy from business school dropped me a line. What did we do in the days before the Internet, I don’t know. Anyway, he’s got his virtual shingle out and is helping bio-tech firms make it. Another example of the cyber world that we live in, you can…
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Jeff Ort on Color Management
_A comment Jeff wanted to post, but my site wasn’t quite configured right_ I have been following your posts on color management, and I wanted to offer you a few thoughts. I have been implementing a color managed workflow since April of this year, and I have climbed the same learning curve that you are.…
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Art Classes
“Brett”:http://purenetworks.com has started an Art School in Seattle (Ravenna) and is opening a new location in Madison in September. Check out the “Drawing School”:http://www.drawingschool.com
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Coolest Ultralight Notebook
!{float: left; margin-right: 10px;}http://www.sonystyle.com/intershoproot/eCS/Store/en/imagesProducts/180×180/VGNT150L.jpg!:http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SY_BrowseCatalog-Start;sid=vnu0O_r5gG-0DruV1Aq-MLX3-QBirtIQz8s=?CategoryName=cpu_VAIONotebookComputers_TSeries&Dept=cpu_VAIONotebookComputers The new Sony T-series is finally here. Its an ultra portable with a smaller screen so you have some chance of fitting in when you are on the airplane. Weighs 3 pounds *and* it has a CD/DVD drive, so you can watch movies and things. A nice form factor since the…
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What is Personal Productivity
I just love all these add-ons that are being done in the browser world by “Opera”:http;//opera.com, “Firefox”:http://firefox.com and “Maxthon”:http://maxthon.com. Also, there are an amazing number of add-ons that you can add to Outlook and can anyone have enough IE toolbars. All this leave me wondering what the new “Office” is for the average business user…
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USB 2.0 Hard Drive Problems
I thought it was my NSLU2 that was the problem, but now when I try to use my USB 2.0 Hard Drive against Windows XP, I get delayed write failed. Here’s the diagnostic from “viaarena”:http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.cfm?catid=16&threadid=50469 _I tried the same thing with a Maxtor complete system and it didn’t fail, so this probably means the el…
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Editable Movies from DVDs
Someone was asking me how they can edit DVDs that are already created. As Jeff said, if you have a TIVO you can now make DVDs of the stuff you create there, but what happens if you want to edit it down. There are actually two ways. One way is to edit a little with…
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Firefox Rocks
“Brad”:http://www.ignitionpartners.com/about/brad_s.asp asked me the other day what browser do I use. Got me thingking quite a bit. I actually like “Maxthon”:http://maxthon.com an awful lot mainly because it is built on Internet Explorer, so it is very compatible (even Microsoft pages like hotmail, outlook web access) render correctly with it. I’ve had to drop the latest…
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PGP comes to Thunderbird
mozdev.org – enigmail: index. One of the amazing things about both Firefox and Thunderbird is how open they are. They leave lots of room for developers to add features. Enigmail is a great example. For once there is a usable secure mail system using PGP.
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Lowest Fares
I have a theory that our “Ignition”:http://ignitionpartners.com travel agency called “Navigent”:http://navigent.com doesn’t give us the best fares. So, I’m going to see what fare are around for some of the trips I’m doing. So let’s start with USATODAY.com – A guide to booking air tickets online which is also the top google hit for google:”fare…
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DVD Backup
OK, this can be pretty complicated, but two freeware utilities have made it much easier: * DVD Decrypter. You need to set this in Mode/IFO and make sure to copy everything onto the hard disk. For performance reasons having two hard drives is very beneficial otherwise you thrash like crazy. * DVD Shrink. You use…
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Sefy is awesome
Sefy’s Complete DVD Backup Guide v2.6. Sefy is incredible. For once an easy to read step-by-step series of directions for DVD manipulation. Its great!
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Athlon 64 into Notebooks
GamePC – Clawhammer To Go : AMD Athlon64 3700 DTR Processor. A good overall review of the AMD Mobile Athlon and the Intel Pentium-M line. Also “AMDNotebooks”:http://www.amd64notebooks.com/index.php seems like a great source of data on actual shipping hardware like the new “Sharp”:http://www.sharpsystems.com/products/pc_notebooks/actius/al/27/# and “ASUS”:http://www.asus.com/products/notebook/a2series/a2000k/a2000k_overview.htm. These are raw performance numbers of course, but interesting to see…
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Benq DW-1620
AnandTech BenQ DW-1620 Review. Anand’s review of the drive shows that it is a decent performance, but you have to have the very latest beta firmware called B7J9 to really have decent compatibility and performance. Likesd the drive thoug.
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Winchester and nForce4 Ship
AnandTech says there news on a couple of fronts that are going to change recommendations quite a bit for this month, so if you haven’t bought wait a small tick AMD is announcing Winchester 90nm socket-939 low-end Athlon 64s! That is pretty amazing. According to the “board”:http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=40&threadid=1400299&enterthread=y newegg.com has them for $170 for the 3000+…
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Blackberrys and XP SP2 don't get along
Support – Protocol Error appears and BlackBerry Desktop Manager closes unexpectedly on a computer running Windows XP Service Pack 2. Heck, folks say going to SP2 should work. I’m sure glad I just have one machine there. There are certainly issues with it and here’s another gotcha. There is a very arcane thing you have…
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Blackberry T-mobile Web Client
It is nearly impossible to navigate through the t-mobile UI to find the web client interface for the blackberry. I don’t know who designed the interface but it is terrible. Here’s the link to the “Web Client”:http://www.t-mobile.com/bwc/ if you need it.
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Full Spectrum Warrior
It’s Full Spectrum Warrior Madness!. There is a God. Full Spectrum Warrior is the Xbox game based on a real simulation sponsored by the US Army. Its finally out now and Gogamer has it on sale for 20% off even. Also “Ludwig”:http://www.theludwigs.com points out Call of Duty United Offensive is also now available. Wow, get…
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A9 Traffic and Google Page Ranks Compared
A9 has a different scheme for page rank. Amazon actually lists all the sites in the same Amazon catalog. Pretty clever. They seem to be using Alexa to do this, so it isn’t really a ranking like google that is used to figure out what sorts to the top (the real use of such rankings).…
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A9
Zagula has been raving about this toolbar. I’ve also been bad and not been looking at other people’s blogs. As you can see most time I’ve had has been spent building computers and doing computer geek stuff, but I’m getting back to the basic blogging job. So A9 is cool and I hear ebay is…
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Minolta Dimage 5400 Elite Scanning Tips
OK, I’ve been putzing with this film scanner for a while now. I have to say the Minolta site is just awful in terms of finding things and this is one case where google queries don’t work well at all. So here is what I’ve found out: h4. Scanning software There are three basic choices.…
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Colorvision Spyder2
Colorvision Spyder and Optical Review. More reviews of this little gadget. As I’ve been doing some printing, they are right. The monitor color and the printer color doesn’t really match. The original Spyder got good reviews. “Spyder2”:http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/news/articles/story_1813.html. They are just now launching the Spyder2 ($179 list) and the Spyder2Pro ($279). The sensor is upgraded. The…
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Maxthon is great
Maxthon Plugins @ TaraPages.com. Been trying a bunch of alternative web browsers. IE progress has just been so slow. Maxthon seems to be the best of both worlds, its IE compatible since it uses the IE engine, but it has all the features like tabbed browsing, popup blocking, mouse gestures and plugins that I love…
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SR-520 BRIDGE OPPORTUNITY SLIPPING AWAY
_A quote from “Cascade Bikes”:http://cascade.org_ The good news is that no matter how many lanes wide, the new SR-520 bridge will make room for bicyclists and pedestrians. However, if a few noisy NIMBY’s get their way, getting to the bridge from the south won’t get any easier. For years, the State and other stakeholders have…
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Kryptonite locks are not…
I have one of these Kyptonite locks for my bike. How depressing when this happens. Here net is from “Kryptonite”:http://kryptonitelock.com Kryptonite U-locks with a typical cylinder lock can be opened in seconds with a common BIC plastic pen. Videos of how to do it have been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times from websites in…