Techno-wibble
Conversion of .MOD files used on Panasonic camcorders. SDCopy by Sektionschef .mod files will play if you just change the file extension from .mod to .mpeg however if you do that and you recorded on your camera in 16:9 it will try and read the file as if it was shot in 4:3 resulting in [...]
No audio – this thread sorts it http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=88369
Although I use Textpad editor for search & replace functions generally, it does not extend to changing filenames. At work I needed to replace part of a filename in a number of PHP files. I found a very useful utility for doing a find and replace on large numbers of filenames at once. It’s called [...]
I’ve had two monitors on my office desk for as long as I can remember. There was a nice Dilbert cartoon last week that sums up the feeling of smugness very nicely – click the pic to see the entire comic strip.
Jargon overheard at the ICANN conference in Brussels: Push-back: I’m going to push-back on your suggestion, I don’t think it’ll stand up to scrutiny. On-boarding: We’re not seeing much on-boarding of that new feature so it might get dropped.
I recently met the creator of the ‘crabble’ at a business seminar and he had some examples of his product with him which caught my eye. The ‘Crabble’ is a mobile phone stand which suits most smartphone types. Unlike most desktop stands it’s very portable – it fold flat and will fit inside most wallets. [...]
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Having searched for webcam drivers for the Sony CMR-PC2 without success, I finally found the original CD. Here are the drivers. As even the Sony Europe website does not provide these drivers, only the manual, I am proving a link to download the drivers for Sony CMR-PC2. Download Drivers-Sony-CMR-PC2.zip (13MB) I have no idea if [...]
if you’re using Evolution on a small pc like a notebook, you might find that the preview email pane has very little space to display the message because the message headers take up too much space. To reduce or hide the headers shown in the Evolution Preview Pane, you can go: Edit – Preferences – [...]
Recently I’ve been playing with a mapping app on the iPhone called Waze. This allows you to do free turn by turn routing on a smartphone (at time of writing Android and iPhone’s supported), with the added bonus of up to date traffic reporting by fellow users of the service. Waze started in Israel, and [...]
I’ve used Thunderbird for a couple of years and recently moved to TB3. It’s not been without pain though, and here a couple of the issues and my workarounds Indexing – lots of talk about this on the web. Despite leaving it going for over 24 hours, Thunderbird 3 had not finished indexing all my [...]
