So you want to shoot video in 3d, but you don’t want to pony up for the 5 figure Panasonic?  Well you can get great results for under $400 with a little bit of elbow grease, and a LOT of work in the editing room. Using a Drill, a “Shoe Bracket” from Best Buy, and [...]

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Jimmy Zhang is the best Ruby on Rails programmer.  He currently works at Howcast.com where he uses his Ruby Programming skills to advance the backend of the Rails powered Howcast platform. You can’t actually hire Jimmy to be your Ruby on Rails programmer, because unfortunately while he is the best, he is also spoken for. [...]

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The Plextor PX-M401U ConvertX MPEG4, USB 2.0, Digital Video Converter, was the foundation of Video Archiving at Akimbo.  In real-time you could capture any video source to a better than DVD quality at 4 megabit Mpeg4.  You could crank it to 9 if you liked but at 4 you could get better than DVD quality [...]

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Despite Parallels and VirtualBox both being programs which run virtual machines on Mac OS X, they both use different file formats for storing the virtual machines on disk. Though I believe Parallels will open a VirtualBox disk, VirtualBox cannot automatically import Parallels disks. But it’s not impossible… If the guest operating system, i.e. the system [...]

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This Guide will walk you through how to install a firewall on linux using IPCop   What is IPCop The IPCop project is a GNU/GPL open source project that offers an exceptional feature packed  stand alone firewall to the internet community.  Its comprehensive web interface, well documented  administration guides, and its involved and helpful user/administrative [...]

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This guide will walk you through how to install wordpress.  It includes illustrations where useful, and links to everything you should need to get started. 1 Manual Installation 1.1 Getting The Code First go to http://wordpress.org From here you can go to all of the different parts of this site, including: Support (http://wordpress.org/support) forums where [...]

Filed under : How To, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Technical

So I got DirecTV2PC working on almost all of the computers in my house, but not with out some effort, so I thought I’d quickly crank out a review. DirecTV2PC is a media extender which talks to your DirecTV HD DVR unit.  You can watch any show which is already recorded or being recorded, but [...]

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I had recently plugged my Xbox 360 in to my 1080p LCD, but now I’m in Hollywood with my Sharper Images Glasses rather than a TV, and they only support 640×480 so I needed to swap the resolution.  Sure I could try the slow button press and pray method navigating the blades, but there is [...]

Filed under : Gaming, How To, Technical

Michael Jackson has been criticized for lightening his skin, but Katie Holmes is a bit darker this week, as the result of a reaction to the Hypervitaminosis which often results from Purif.  Purif is the "cleansing ritual" or Scientology’s Purification Rundown meant to detox ones body of all of the drugs stored in body fat [...]

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If you are going to have your photo displayed on an iPhone, don’t show your teeth when you smile, don’t look directly at the camera, and don’t be wearing white… I had a "discussion" with someone who I work with who used the "authority by association" argument that Apple was the best platform for video [...]

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I don’t get to pull the Sex Ed instructor card all that often, but there is a lot of news surrounding a German Spray on Condom.  I had actually been sent a "dip in" condom demo a few years ago, and both of these products have the same problems. The first is that in order [...]

Filed under : Life Hacks, Technical

Just because someone writes for StreamingMedia.com, doesn’t make them an expert in the space.  Most the time it means quite the opposite.  I work for a company that is betting on H.264, but I quite strongly think Jan Ozer’s piece (OS) about Microsoft dumping VC-1 is so poorly researched that Jan should consider a change [...]

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Google is introducing a Web site tool called Friend Connect today that promises to extend the reach of social networks such as Facebook to any site that wants to use the tool. That’s right, now when I Google your name instead of getting your Linked in Page I’m going to see that your secretary bought [...]

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I couldn’t find any good resources to really show me how easy or hard it was going to be to replace the lamp (bulb) in my Samsung DLP.  So Christina made one, and it was quite simple. Christina shows how easy it is to swap the lamp in your front or rear projection DLP, LCOS, [...]

Filed under : Hard on the Pocket Book, How To, Technical, Videos

I decided I was going to run Windows 2008 Server on my Asus G2S Laptop. Not just any version, but the full blown 64bit version with Hyper-V. I found the experience Amazing. My Laptop runs much faster, and is rock solid. I even got Power Management to work the way I would expect. So here [...]

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For the most part it won’t.  Hard Drives are virtually immune to magnetism from all but the strongest magnets.  While we used to all walk around paranoid a small magnet would destroy the floppy with our term papers these days short of setting your laptop on the Bulk Demagnatizer that is used to deactivate the [...]

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Skip all the other specs, this is about why Digital Keystone Correction, sucks and why Optical is the only way to go. (as found in the Sanyo PLV Z2000) Lets start with what Keystone correction is just in case you don’t know. When you set up your home theatre it is unlikely that you put [...]

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Windows 98 Optimization Guide: This tweak guide was written for advanced users. Smart users, who change one of these settings at a time, will find it useful… Those of you, who change all of these settings and then reboot, will watch their PC melt down before them (maybe not, but don’t try and sue me [...]

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One of the duties of Dr. Watson, a Windows NT default system debugger, is to take a snapshot of the process space when a user-mode program crashes. Unfortunately, like Sherlock Holmes’ friend, Windows’ Dr. Watson is well-meaning but dim. It puts the snapshot in a file called user.dmp and saves it by default to a [...]

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Peroxide, Mountain Dew, and Baking Soda is all you need to make your own Glow In the dark, not for drinking used to be a beverage nectar of the gods. Anyone who knows me knows I have a small addiction to Mountain Dew, and now I can read buy it. Yes through the miracle of [...]

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