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Poor quality MP4 output from PowerDirector

Wednesday 14th March, 2012 2 Comments

I finally worked out what was causing the poor quality MP4 video output from PowerDirector 10 – even at very high bitrates. Turns out that the hardware video encoder in my ThinkPad T510 really doesn’t do MP4 very well. I did discover that for certain source video formats (especially the AVCHD videos from my Sony … [Read More »]

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Profile privacy on meetup.com

Friday 18th March, 2011 1 Comment

My wife and I run a private meetup.com group and I was asked by someone about what information is displayed publicly on meetup.com and what information is private. While investigating, I discovered some things I didn’t know before – so I thought it would be a good idea to share them with everyone. There are two sets of … [Read More »]

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Ahaa!

Tuesday 29th July, 2008 1 Comment

*chortle* (via InkTank)

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Numb3rs do a PC vs. Mac Like Commercial

Monday 21st April, 2008 1 Comment

People who know me won’t be surprised that I like the TV show Numb3rs. I also love the Apple “PC vs Mac” adverts. … so I was quite amused with this video of a promo for the show which takes off the PC vs Mac concept:

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Why can't people type email addresses correctly ?

Thursday 10th April, 2008 Leave a Comment

I host a website for a friend and colleague who runs a small business. Rather than deleting or ignoring emails that are incorrectly addressed (as most email services would), I prefer to redirect them all to a postmaster account, which I check periodically for emails. Most of them are spam – randomly generated usernames and … [Read More »]

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