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A Beginner’s Guide to Video: Part One

Complexity is an unfortunate byproduct of technology. Many substantial innovations we have seen in the last hundred or so years are very hard to understand on the surface. The process of compression is incredibly hard to understand in full unless you feel like studying volumes upon volumes of specifications for codecs (Compressor/Decompressors). Luckily, we don’t have to understand the intricacies of compression to use it handily. Before I continue further about compression, there are some important highlights about video sources that I need to touch on.

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Create a real DIY ipod/iphone dock.

There’s hardcoare, and than there’s really HARDCORE!!!1!!! We’ve all seen the do-it-yourself dock articles that are being passed around the internet lately, but frankly, they all suck the big one. These guys give you a step-by-step run through of creating a dock with your usb connector and the insert apple gives you with your ipod. Huge [...]

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Rar > Zip especially from the commandline.

Rar seems to be taking over the compression space for many people, and since I get some super satisfaction from using the command line to do things like these I thought I’d point out these command line application that lets you rar files Figure out your $PATH… type echo $PATH into the terminal.app Download the program here Navigate [...]

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Change your login screen wallpaper image

Sometimes default things get old real fast. We look at them long enough and they start becoming eyesores. This also seems to happen with ever single design project I work on — I start out loving it, and by the time I’m finishing up — I hate it. It’s a disease, and [...]

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Getting Front Row to Work on OS X Server

In my post ‘Front Row and OS X Server,’ I bitched about Apple not updating Front Row for 10.5 Server.  Well I have found a work around. Here’s how to get it working. Step 1: Download the latest version of Front Row from Apple (2.1.6 as of this writing). Step 2: Launch the DMG file. Step 3: Right [...]

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