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My new Media Server doesn’t come with everything to play all file types. If I didn’t want to play files in Windows Media Player or Media Center, that wouldn’t be a problem. I highly recommend the Video Lan Client (VLC) as it plays just about every file type you throw at it. There are times [...]

One nice thing about Windows Vista is that it has built in support for unzipping compressed files such as those with the .zip extension. It is nice until you have to unzip a file that contains lots of directories and small files.
Tonight I was updating the Wordpress software that runs this blog. I downloaded the [...]

html2wiki - Convert HTML text to wiki markup
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Solution to Missed FriendFeed Comments: FriendFeed Comment Finder
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FriendFeed’s goal: More than just a feed aggregator
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If the news is important it will find me
Recent article from Mark Cuban. Worth a read.
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Just because one media-storage format suffers a merciless death, it doesn’t mean the media itself still can’t be enjoyed in some other form. Follow Wired’s How-To Wiki guide to rip, convert and burn your now-obsolote HD DVDs to the Blu-ray format.

Go to:
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Convert_Your_HD_DVDs_to_Blu-Ray

This past February I posted a launcher for Windows Live Writer so that you can take it with your between computers and retain all your settings. Today I am releasing version 2.0 of the Launcher. Much has changed with Windows Live Writer and I have learned some new techniques for making it portable. This is [...]

I’m into podcasts both audio and video. Except for live things like baseball games I rarely even listen to the radio in my car any more.
One of the things that I don’t like is that most podcasters encode their video for the iPod. I don’t blame them. The iPod is the market leader and bandwidth [...]