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Windows Safe Mode
CHSAFE: Getting into Windows Safe Mode. I always forget the exact key sequence to get Windows into safe mode. I need this quite a bit when I switch monitors since Windows can lock into a higher resolution than an LCD can display (for instance right now I have a machine that is at 1280×1024 while…
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Besweet
BeSweet. This is *the* tool for transcoding audio. In my case, I have MP3s that are encoded from CDs at 44.1KHz, but to use it for DVD, you need to transcode it to 48KHz. There are lots of tools for this, but the most common one that is a standalone utility is besweet. You download…
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Resetting Activity Logs
Interesting to see that for my blogs, I’ve got gigantic activity logs, I’ve never looked at them and they are filled with errors. With Firefox, I found that it just thrashes with gigantic files. Gets to be 500MB of swap and then just seems to slow. This is one area where Internet Explorer is better,…
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MT-Moderate requires reinstall after MT Upgrade
Don’t Back Down – Moderate Archives. Just a reminder to folks that most of the time, when you upgrade from say 3.15 to 3.16, the plugins are fine. That isn’t true with MT-Moderate because it modifies one of the standard templates, the list_ping.tmpl, so when you do a dumb upgrade, you overwrite the file and…
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CD Media
Media – Club CD Freaks – Worlds Largest CD/DVD Community. This is where the hard core folks who study the various CD media live. _Interesting that google doesn’t index any of it, so there is still reason for blogs like mine._ An interesting factoid on “CD Freaks”:http://cdfreaks.com “poll”:http://www.cdfreaks.com/poll/26 is that 39% of all hard core…
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CD-R Tools
cd-rw.org: Software: CD-R software: CD-R tools and “CDMediaWorld”:http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_utils_2.shtml. In trying to figure out exactly what CD media I’ve bought, I bumped into some pretty cool tools. Here’s a list of fun things on this page: * Alcohol 120%. This is a CD drive emulator. Let’s you mount CD images you have on your hard disk…
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Verbatim DatalifePlus
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Adobe Premiere Elements
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Home Video Editing
Haven’t done this in a while, but to remind folks here is the workflow that I use and here is the work flow # Video Explosion Deluxe. This is an old program, but I use it to capture the video from the DV Camera and to build up the scenes. It is underneath really Sonic…
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Bike Buys
So after talking with “Brad”:http://www.thesilverbergs.com, here is what I’m going to get to update my bike and get ready for the 2005 STP: * Lickbike.com | FSA Carbon Pro Elite Compact Road Crank. He uses these and confirms they are just great. $280 from Lickton’s as part number 0086-72. Discontinued now, so “Excel Sports”:http://www.excelsports.com/new.asp?page=8&description=Carbon+Pro+Compact+Crankset+ISIS&vendorCode=FSA&major=1&minor=13 has…