The DVD collection is no longer on this site, so some of the links below are to half-broken archived versions in the Internet Archive. I’ve finally made an update to my sorely out-of-date DVD collection page, now with additions for music (mostly there), books (a long way to go) and games (console’s there, but nothing…
Category: geek
Anti-Spam
Wow! Finally, a way to combat comment spammers that seems it will work! I found this excellent comment verification code on Jeff Barr’s blog. Instead of the type-in-a-name method, I went with the simpler checkbox next to the phrase “I am not a spammer.” Simple to implement and easy to use for readers. Yay!
16fps Countdown
I found this awesome little 16-frame-per-second film countdown leader on an old tape, and reconstructed it, bringing it back to 16fps from a wrong-speed transfer, and removing the timecode burn-in. If anyone wants the full-rez version of this let me know, and we can work something out. Enjoy! [The original is in the SheerVideo codec,…
Removing 4:2 Pulldown in Seven Easy Steps
Referencing my original post on the subject, I finally found a solution to removing a 4:2 pulldown from a 30i clip, to get back to a 25p clip. It’s not pretty, but if you’re interested in the tech stuff, read on…
Removing 4:2 Pulldown?
Calling all video gurus: Help! I have a few clips that I’ve got from a stock tape that exhibit a weird pulldown pattern. The footage looks looks to be originally shot in 25p (such as european film might be), and then converted to NTSC 30i in a 4:2 pattern, so the frame progression goes like…
Allowing .htaccess Use in Mac OS X
I found this solution to the problem I was having trying to use .htaccess files in my web server (Apache under Mac OS X Server) to block access to certain spam-dumping IP addresses. I was formatting the .htaccess files properly, and putting them in the right places in my server folder hierarchy. I had even…
Macintosh. 20 years later
A series of posters detailing different aspects of the original Macintosh, and just what made it so revolutionary.