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Don’t forget to report your crab catch. You can do it online, but only September 4-15 at “Crab Catch”:http://fishhunt.dfw.wa.gov/wdfw/puget_sound_crab_catch.html

Who knew that this would be so complicated. The new “iMovie ’08”:http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/ is supposed to do this directly, but the support is just awful if you are going to try it. Here are the list of bugs: * If you are using the 16:9 anamorphic format. What is called widescreen…

Apple software is really strange. iMovie 08 is a completely different program from iMovie 06 and you lose an amazing number of features. One big thing is the loss of chapter markets (!!!). You actually have to use an entirely different product Garageband in order to get them back as…

I normally use Exact Audio Copy on the PC to do my CD backups. This combined with the latest Lame binary usually results in incredible quality particularly at –preset fast extreme settings, so on the Mac, its a little harder. iTunes has an MP3 encoder, but if you want the…

Someone asked me about protecting the really nice 2.5″ screen on the D40x. “Invisible Shield”:http://www.shieldzone.com/item_description/NIKD40.html is something I use for all my cameras. It is really strong and light piece of plastic. Expensive, but worth it. I used to use for my iPod screens as well, but the new iPhone…

Had a chance to download iMovie ’08 and it does indeed “support”:http://www.notebooks.com/2007/08/10/imovie-08-adds-support-for-hdd-dvd-camcorders/ the Sony DCR-SR100. It is a little wierd though, you can’t just drag the .MPG files into iMovie HD, instead, you have to turn on iMovie HD, plug the camcorder in and then it detects the camcorder. It…

In trying to get videos on all the many videos down to gadgets, you have to know quite alot to get the maximum resolution and quality, so for iSquint, here are the detailed resolutions you need to know: | Device | Resolution | 4:3 Full Screen | 16:9 Widescreen |…

The new Pearl has video and mono sound. The new Curve has video and stereo, so not a bad video device if you can figure out how to encode for it. On the Mac, “the8thsign.com”:http://www.the8thsign.com/2006/11/22/encode-video-for-the-blackberry-pearl-8100-mac-edition/ has a freeware encoder called mencoder and then an automation script that lets you right…

There aren’t many benchmarks done, but the new iMac all-in-one is really very fast. It uses the new Santa Rosa chipset and also if you spring for it, they actually use the Core 2 Extreme 2.8 GHz as “Primatelabs”:http://www.primatelabs.ca/blog/2007/08/24-inch-imac-performance-august-2007/ | iMac | Processor | Geekbench | | 24″ mid 2007…