Archive for August, 2008
Way back when, I setup Expression Encoder to convert my DVR-MS files to WMV (for size and portability). One thing I found was the command-line switch to make the conversion run at close to real-time, even for HD. While I assume this will work with the new WTV format (and EE 2, for that matter), [...]
UPDATE: A few new entrants into the market. UPDATE: No Exchange support, but Task2Gather is pretty cool. UPDATE: A new entry syncs directly with Exchange. Strangely, the iPhone has no in-built Tasks list, which means, of course, it doesn’t sync tasks OTA. I used to rely heavily on tasks, but I’m changing the way I [...]
The App Store notified me that 5 of my apps have been updated, but I don’t have an “Update All” button anymore. PITA. Not the best design decision, IMO – this can’t be that hard to implement.
Regular expressions are the bain of my existence when it comes to DTb. This isn’t because of any particular failing in DTb – Andy has made it extremely flexible by allowing regex. Mostly it’s because I don’t have a lot of experience with using them (beyond the occasional search in TextPad), and I didn’t have [...]
Edit: Here is another. Just stumbled across this batch metadata importer tool. I need to give it a try, as I’ve got a few hundred TV shows and movies (pretty much all kids’ stuff) recorded and converted that is floating around in Sage.
According to an interview with its founder in the Washington Post, Pandora is getting close to shutting its doors: “We’re approaching a pull-the-plug kind of decision,” said Tim Westergren, who founded Pandora. “This is like a last stand for webcasting.” Basically, the Copyright Royalty Board decided to double the royalty payments for Web radio by [...]
I’ve been putting off upgrading a site I help maintain from WordPress 2.0 to 2.5 (2.6.1, actually), because I just didn’t have the time. I still don’t have the time, but the site got “tagged” by spammers for some sort of injection hack, so, no time like the present. Total time (including backing up the [...]
This topic came up at DHT, and I thought it was worth passing on. The short version is that I have 138GB of data from 4 different computers backed up to the cloud for less than $5/month with remote access to everything, using a combination of FolderShare and Carbonite. FolderShare is a p2p file sync [...]
The Logitech Harmony remote software does not have a native way to support Vizio’s input switching. Vizio has a dedicated button for each type of input, which is different than the 4 methods offered by Harmony. To get around it, choose an input that you don’t use (e.g., RGB), and use that as the input [...]
This looks like an intriguing project. You can use the iPhone or a Touch to control multi-room audio, at a cost of just $100 per room. Basically, the Airport Express lets you use iTunes to stream music wirelessly, and iTunes can manage more than one Airport Express. The iPhone can wirelessly control iTunes, and it [...]