I just got an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) account. With EC2 and Simple Storage Service (S3), I think I can convert my DVDs into iPod-video-sized files much more quickly than my desktop and laptop could do. Here’s one person’s experience with doing the conversion using FFmpeg. He estimates that it costs well under a [...]
After days of holding out, my co-worker iseff finally got me to join Twitter. Twitter is the newest trend among techies, and there are already many thousands of people using it, but I’m still at a loss to explain just what it is. The Basics Twitter asks every user to answer, in 140 characters or [...]
As my DVD stockpile has grown and as I’ve spent more time at work, I didn’t buy very much video in March. In fact, I’m still working through the $50 of iTunes Store credit I bought at a discounted price from a co-worker in February. My only iTunes purchase was of Andy Barker, P.I., at [...]