Archive for November, 2008
I’ve been testing out the new release of Handbrake to convert my SageTV recordings, and I couldn’t get the file to load to my iPhone via iTunes. Thanks to G-Spot, I remembered that ABC shows are 60fps here in DC, and the iPhone tops out at 30fps. A freaking error message would have been nice.
Anytime you upgrade a jailbroken iPhone, you have to reinstall all of the jailbroken apps (iTMS apps and settings are retained). While there is no way to completely automate restoring the jailbroken apps and settings, aptbackup will automatically reinstall any Cydia apps. UPDATE: Scratch that – it didn’t work for me. I can’t say it’s [...]
I was researching Blu-Ray players, when it occurred to me it would be much easier to just get a BD drive for the PC, rip the disc to the SageTV server, and play it back from there. However, Sage does not appear to support this natively yet, either in the client or the extender. One [...]
When installing Office, etc. from our Microsoft Partner MSDN library, I usually take the lazy route and use 7-zip to unpack the ISOs. ISODisk lets you mount up to 20 ISOs simultaneously, and it seems like a more efficient path.
The wireless stopped working reliably on my laptop, so I needed to reinstall Vista. Instead of doing it all at once, though, I decided to resize the partition and install Vista to a new partition, which would allow me to access the old install. This way, I can still access the programs, settings, and data [...]
Looks like Windows 7 will support DivX and XviD, in addition to H.264 and MP4. It’s about time.
I’m pretty sure Gmail has some redundencies out there, but if you want a local copy of everything in case Google goes under, check out Gmail Backup.