Don Draper And Big Tobacco, You And Social Networking: Tough Habits To Break

As one of the many Mad Men devotees trying to cope from withdrawals after the season finale last Sunday, I can’t help but see the connections to the world of Don Draper, played by John Hamm, in the hit AMC show and our world today. This, of course, is what the show does so well [...]

Using Cron In OS X To Restart Symantec Backup Exec 2010 Agent

Don’t get me wrong, I am happy Symantec finally released a Mac OS X 10.6 Agent for Symantec Backup Exec 2010 but it is a little buggy. So much so, that we feel we really need to just have it restart daily on the OS X servers. Here is what we did. This is just [...]

Fixing issues with Gallery 2 Import to Gallery 3

I have used Gallery for over 7 years or so now and really have found it incredibly valuable to have to share pictures with family and friends. I have migrated through many version updates and now that Gallery just released the flashy looking Gallery 3, I wanted to go ahead and move to that. We [...]

More On FFMPEG Settings That Work For Me

After more and more testing off HD video, I am finding the best bang for the download speed buck is sticking with qscale 10 and chopping the frames to 15 while sizing the image size down to hd480. Here is an example -
ffmpeg -i 051810Perf1.m4v -qscale 10 -s hd480 -r 15 -async 2 051810Perf1.flv
Using a [...]

Using FFMPEG To Prep Video For Whipple Hill Podium

Even going to Adobe CS5 and switching OS X 10.6.x to 64-bit doesn’t really make the process of taking Quicktime video to Flash in a reasonable timeframe. So, enter FFMPEG command-line tools. I have been playing with many different settings to get the performance and quality at an optimal state for playback in the Whipple [...]