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Continue reading →: Marketing Playbook is born
Hey for those of you who don’t know, our book, the “Marketing Playbook”:http://marketingplaybook.com was officially released. Hit #199 on the Amazon list and in the top 25 for business books on Amazon, so it is in the top 1% of all Amazon books! Wow. Kind of neat. Some good reviews…
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Continue reading →: Low-cost Hotel Rooms and Travel
Great ways to get low cost hotels: h4. Airfares Use “Fare Chase”:http://farechase.com, this is a meta search engine. As an example, tomorrow I’m flying back to Seattle. Rack rate on Alaska is $451, it is $251 on Jet Blue and $165 on Delta. That’s quite a spread! There are a…
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Continue reading →: Audio Books on the Road
Well, not exactly music, but the kids and I love to listen to books on tape or CD these days. They are really in an inconvenient format since a typical book takes 5 CDs because the encoding used on regular CDs is tuned for music. Even with MP3 or OGG…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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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Continue reading →: 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,…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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