Monthly Garbage Bag
Enable AVI, FLV and DivX encoding in Podcast Producer
Excited at the prospect of using Flip Ultra and Flip Mino cameras and uploading the video via Podcast Producer, I was disappointed to discover that both Flip cameras wrap their video in AVI files, and use the 3ivx codec, effectively thwarting my Podcast Producer plans. Videos uploaded via the Podcast Capture utility resulted in audio-only [...]
Google flagging all search results as “harmful”
Searching for GarageBand ‘09 topics this morning, I noticed a pattern — one that’s virtually impossible to notice given Google’s new self-appointed role of protector of digital humanity.
Every link is flagged as “This site may harm your computer” — even trusted pages on the topic, such as pages on Apple.com. Any attempt to visit the [...]
Strap-on jet powers human flight
Somehow this article didn’t get posted when I wrote it in May of 2008. Nevertheless, it’s still mighty cool, the whole notion of individual jet-powered human flight. Strap on wings, a turbo fan, and get your flight on!
“Praise song for the day”, the poem from Barack Obama’s Inauguration
The following is a transcript of the Barack Obama inaugural poem recited by Elizabeth Alexander, which I thought was great:
Praise song for the day.
Add Google Maps iframe & YouTube embed to Apple Wiki Server
Apple’s Teams Wiki Server supports very few HTML tags out of the box, in order to keep things simple. But, like Any Good Unix Ought To, Mac OS X Server gives you the ability to manipulated things, such as adding iframe, embed, param, and object tags to the Wiki/Blog server. Here’s how:
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