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Nokia 6620 and Bluetooth Headsets
Well, time once again to get a great phone. The prices are pretty reasonable right now. You can get a Symbian phone that has full stereo plumbing for $100 with a 2-year plan from AT&T. This is an EDGE phone, so it is incredibly fast. “Letstalk.com”:http://letstalk.com is about $50 more expensive than Amazon.com for this…
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Debugging Video Codecs
AVIcodec. Al that money and Windows doesn’t come with an MPEG_2 (e.g., DVD decoder) as part of it, so you are reduced to buying various codecs that may or maynot work with Windows. Right now I’ve found lots of problems with CyberDVD’s codec and lots of oddnesses with the Ligos codec. Here’s a good site…
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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