Sunday, March 30, 2008

Some Tech Notes

1. Recently, I've been backing up my DVDs and it's a real hassle. I could rip the DVD quite easily with either VLC or Mac the Ripper but compressing a DVD9 to a DVD5 for free is almost nonexistent. I tried the Burn software but it screwed up the whole aspect ratio. So as of right now, I've been using Windows Parallels on the mac to run DVD Shrink. Grr... so much for DVD FLOSSing.

2. Mac and Windows compatibility is still a hassle. I synced my iPod with the Mac and now, I can't do it with Windows. So either one, I have to copy all my songs from the Mac to Windows or just stick with the Mac, which is a pain cause the PC hard drive is bigger.

3. Flickr, pshh, go Zoomr. While browsing through last year's Webware 100 winners, I noticed the unlimited everything image hosting service Zoomr (go google it, it's spring break and I don't want to do anything). Since I don't have a Flick Pro, I'm starting to switch to Zoomr as my blog/personal picture hosting service. Of course, I still use Picasa web albums because it integrates well with the Picasa software.

-runiteking1

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