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Codec Comparisons
Doom9.net – The Definitive DVD Backup Resource – Codec Comparison May 2003. The latest motion Codec comparison that I could find. Pretty interesting results. Basically says that DivX 5.05 is fast and has OK quality while Xvid is slower with better quality. I ran Xvid against Raiders of the Lost Ark and in two passes,…
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Spyware and DivX 5
How to deal with spyware/adware. Yuck spyware, here’s a good source of information about it. Specific data on DivX: When you finish installing DivX, it will immediatly start a program called ?gain trickler,? which slowly downloads GAIN onto your hard drive. It will also put the trickler on your start list, so that it executes…
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Washington Wine Lists
Wine Press Northwest magazine online. A good web site focused just on Pacific Northwest wines.
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Xvid Settings
Nic’s XviD Binaries & Paraphernalia 😉. Because DivX now doesn’t let you remove GAIN for the free ad version (how sad), I’ve switched over to using XviD. This is an open source MPEG4 codec. Since it is open source, the settings are very strange and hard to understand. Check out the source page here that…
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Codec Comparisons
Radified – Audio Codec Comparison. The latest on codec comparisons between Lame, Ogg Vorbis and others
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IntraVnews
intraVnews | Features. Here’s a free for personal use Outlook RSS reader. The other one I tried required a subscription.
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Newsfeed Readers
Rss Readers. There must be a thousand of these. Here’s a Wiki that compiles them. Way too many to try in a lifetime 🙂
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Real Time Bus Location
Busview Applet Launch. An amazingly cool thing. They’ve put position hardware into Seattle buses, so you can actually see using this Java applet in real time where your bus is. Cool!
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Playing Monopoly and Scabble
The kids have been playing lots of our old favorite board games lately. Here are some places to look for tips and tricks: h4. Monopoly This is a game that really teaches you how to add and subtract. Here are some strategy guides: * Monopoly.com – Downloads. This has a strategy guide online that is…
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Photo Scanner
I’ve been taking quite a few 35mm photographs laterly and have about a years worth that I need to scan. The Nikon 4000 is the one I really want, but it is way too expensive. The Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 is a new one that is about $800, so I thought I’d look at…