Archive for February, 2009
I’ve been backing up the kids’ DVDs with Handbrake, but the UI for entering chapter lists is less than friendly. However, if you add the conversion to the queue instead of encoding immediately, you can export the command line to a batch file, which lets you then specify the text file of your choice for [...]
ToodleDo Sync Tool – syncs Outlook to ToodleDo (which, in turn, syncs with a bunch of iPhone apps) For Outlook 2003: ToodleDo causes Outlook to give a security prompt. Advanced Security for Outlook by MapiLabs lets you get around that. If you are in an environment where you don’t have admin rights to your PC, [...]
I got a Creative Vado HD for Christmas, and, for what it is, it’s great. It’s compact, takes decent video at high resolution (720p), and it is easy to use. However, I recently tried playing back some of the videos on the SageTV HD-100 extender (doesn’t this thing seem to be at the root of [...]
Up until now, every Blu-ray disc I own has had the movie contained in a single, humungous M2TS file (usually 20-25GB). Today I encountered a disc that has a bunch of smaller M2TS files. This is, apparently, called a “seamless branching” Blu-Ray disc. In order to play it back from the hard drive via the [...]
I needed my product keys for a couple of MS products, but after you enter a product key, it gets hidden pretty deeply. I found an app called ProduKey that extracts the products keys for all installed MS products. As an added bonus, there is no installation required, so just download it and run it [...]
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/zd/20090212/tc_zd/237037 Rest assured, the next iteration of Windows is on its way, but when and how? The latest rumor making the rounds in the blogosphere is that Microsoft will provide Vista users with a free upgrade to Windows 7 when it becomes available. Yeah, right. If that happens, I’ll eat my hat.
Adobe PDF Reader is pretty useless when it comes to manipulating PDF files. I found a few free tools that let you create, markup, and extract PDF files. PrimoPDF – creates PDF print driver, which lets you create a PDF from any application PDF XChange Viewer – allows you to markup a PDF, including text [...]
I pulled the trigger and moved the site. The WP.org plugins are just too freaking cool. Here are the “must haves” that I have found: WordPress.com stats Google XML sitemaps – generate sitemaps automatically Akismet – block spam comments WPTouch iPhone Theme Add to Any – share posts in over 100 different ways
I finally got around to rebuilding my HTPC (does anyone call them that anymore?) yesterday, so now I need to set my sights on getting file conversions working again. I’m pretty set on using DTb for file monitoring and processing control. For transcoding, I was going to use VLC (or possibly Handbrake), but I might [...]
So apparently it’s not that simple to get out from under the thumb of WordPress.com. I want to use a custom domain name and my own hosting instead of onlydarksets.wordpress.com, but I would like to retain my Google/Yahoo/Live search rankings. I had hoped throwing a little cash at it would do the trick, but apparently [...]