October 23rd, 2007 by Jake
I’ve dealt with a lot of video converters over the years, a lot of which were utter crap. But recently I stumbled upon a converter that did it all, for free. I’m actually impressed that other converters aren’t as simple as this one.
It’s called Any Video Converter. No, I’m not getting paid to write this, I just wanted to tell the world that I think this is a great program.
It’ll convert to/from MPEG, AVI, FLV, or MP4. There are even advanced options for customizing size, aspect ratio, bitrate, and start/endpoints. It even works with the custom codec and unusually high bitrate used by Fraps, so I can take a 1GB game video and compress it into a 15MB MPEG-2 video for YouTube with a few clicks. And while there’s a “nag screen” after converting is complete to buy the Pro Edition (the standard version is freeware), it’s a small price to pay for a solid, working video converter.
To all the other video converters out there: Take a page out of this program’s book.
October 9th, 2007 by Jake
I’m happy to report that I’ve jumped on the bandwagon and made my site iPhone/iPod Touch accessible (It was only a matter of time, right?). Hey, if there are going to be ten million of these things by 2008, I might as well start now, right?
To view the site in iMode, just visit us on an iPod Touch or iPhone (or tell your browser to pretend to be an iPhone). Enjoy.
(I promise, the next article will not be about anything related to Apple.)
October 7th, 2007 by Jake
I usually don’t like to relay Digg stories here, but I thought this one was important. This is a step in the right direction for the iPod touch, and if this email is really from Steve himself… well, let’s just say my hopes are a little bit higher.
Article Source (MacWorld Forums) | digg story
October 1st, 2007 by Jake
I just posted some pictures I took of my new iPod in a Flickr Photo Set. The iPod came on Friday, Sept. 28, the day that it was supposedly officially released by Apple nationwide. Good timing Apple.
I really like it a lot. It’s exactly the way I envisioned it, too. Of course… some of the gripes that you’ve seen circulating the Internet still hold true (crippled Calendar app, anyone?), but most of them are fixable. And my iPod is thankfully a Week 38 iPod, so I can confirm it does not have the infamous screen defect. And, despite what people are saying, I didn’t ever expect this device to be or act like an iPhone (however similar it is), so I’m quite happy with it.
