Youtube High Quality Embeds, My Cichlid Tank
Friday, August 22nd, 2008 Posted in computing | No Comments »Whilst Youtube offers a "view this video in high quality" link below most videos on their site now, when you embed the videos they are still low quality. I have found a way to embed the high quality videos, detailed ...
Putty Tunnel/Proxy, Enable AllowTcpForwarding
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in computing | No Comments »If you need to fake your geo-location on the web, and don't want to use a free/open/slow proxy that will probably steal your credit card info then you will need to have a server in the desired country. Get Putty, set ...
Mini CDN For My Blog Videos
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in computing | No Comments »After posting an example of 720p resolution H.264 video I was annoyed that whilst viewing my own blog I was not receiving the best video load rates, as my blog is hosted on a server in the USA and I ...
H.264 Video in Flash
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized, computing, funny videos, technology | 1 Comment »Adobe announced last year that the beta flash player supported H.264 video, and since then the latest Flash Player 9 release version with H.264 has rolled out and most people seem to have it installed (thanks to MySpace and other ...
Send Faxes via Skype with PamFax
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in computing | No Comments »Trying to contact someone that is stuck in the 1980s? Previously I would hook up my laptop to a phone line to send faxes, but that was a real hassle. I have just recently discovered the PamFax plugin for Skype, ...
Vista SP1 Stable
Monday, March 31st, 2008 Posted in computing | 1 Comment »Vista Service Pack 1 was released a while ago but at the time there were a lot of reported install problems, these appear to have been resolved. I have just installed SP1 which took about 30 minutes to complete. Amongst other ...
Video Transcoding With Quad Core
Sunday, March 30th, 2008 Posted in computing | No Comments »More programs are making use of multi cores now that they are being programed or reprogrammed to do so. Only a few games currently make use of multiple cores but Nero Vision and Windows Movie Maker (vista version) both make ...
Web Spider On The Crawl
Monday, March 3rd, 2008 Posted in computing | No Comments »I've created a web spider and sent it on a crawl for specific pieces of information. I will update this blog with the findings in a month or so once it has analyzed enough data. The current crawl rate is ...
Adobe UK vs US Pricing
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in computing, money | No Comments »I purchased a copy of Adobe's "Creative Suite 3 Web Premium" today, but I did so via the Adobe US store rather than the UK store and saved £604/$1209 by doing so. Adobe sell the product for $1599 on the US ...
Encryption Keys Cold Boot Attack
Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in computing | No Comments »If you are using an encryption program like TrueCrypt to keep your hard drive data encrypted, you should power down your PC when ever it is not being used. A recent video, by researchers at Princeton, demonstrates how an attacker ...