Posted on November 5, 2006 |
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Hello everyone, after thinking about doing my own blog software I finally came to the conclusion that I didn’t have the time or the interest to do it. I have therefore decided to tranfer my blog from Blogger to WordPress. The main reason for the move is the fact that Blogger doesnt’ allow you to use categories and this is a bit of a pain when you want to organise the information.
The transfer process is very easy, just make sure you transfer your blog from your server to the blogger server first and everything is gonna be fine. If you know what you are doing it only takes about 10 minutes. I still managed to screw up the transfer and lost a big part of the videos hosted on my server.
Anyway, welcome to my new blog. I will update the design as soon as I get the hang of it.
Olive
Posted on November 1, 2006 |
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And what is that? “Mind Game” fantastic animated feature coming from Japan. Mind Game is like watching an episode of Lost with Psychedelic glasses. Watch one of the 10 episodes and you can say good bye to the stuff you had to do for the next 2 hours. Highly addictive.
Posted on October 31, 2006 |
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long time no see. My Palm T5 has replaced my chunky Filofax for nearly 2 years now but few weeks ago i discovered a new use for it. Watching movies!!!
I was first drawn to the T5 because of the wide screen which is great for browsing large Excel and word files but also do draw in the Tube but it never occured to me that since it is powered by a fairly powerfull processor I should be able to watch good quality videos like H264 or Divx.
I nearly got seduced by the Video Ipod after visiting the local Apple Store few weeks ago but the battery life is pretty crap, the screen is way to small and let’s face it. Apple products are not for computer geeks like me and seeing my girlfriend Alicia being pissed off at her Ipod helped me to stay away from the dark side.
Microsoft is about to release Zune, a nifty toy with a wide screen but hey, I already carry around a mobile phone and a Palm so I did a bit of googling… few hours actually and eventually found TCPMP.
TCPMP is a freeware that plays Divx, Xvid, but also Sorenson and H264 and in full screen (480*x)!!! How cool is that? With Autogordianknot, my new computer only takes 30 minutes to encode any DVD to 480*X which I set to quality 60 and the sound to 128 VBR. I can normally put about 4 or 5 movies on a 2Gb SD card.
Battery life is the obvious issue and I can only watch 2 movies back to back which is still good enough for commuting. Palm released the TX last year. It is supposed to have a brighter screen and better battery life. Too bad it doesn’t look as sleek as the T5 but I will probably give it a go very soon.
One thing though. Playing H264 and AAC files with TCPMP is a copyright infringement for sure but also I am not too sure if it is still legal to use TCMPMP since its creators are now selling a commercial product based on it.
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