Category Archives: meta
How to Create iPad Formatted Videos Using HandBrake or FFMpeg
This is for those who may want to load a video onto their iPad with iTunes that isn't in the correct format. I needed to do this because I was trying to put an iTunes University video on my iPad a couple days ago and iTunes complained that it wasn't in the correct format for [...]
iPhone Windowed HTTP Live Streaming Server
After some more work I have enhanced the HTTP segmenter and uploading script from my iPhone streaming using AWS S3 and Cloudfront post. I added a number of features and tried to pull together some of the ideas from the comments. I'll go over some of the features here and there is a full list [...]
How to create iPhone wireframes with Inkscape
While developing ideas for iPhone applications I've played around with just using Interface Builder to stub things out. This works reasonably well but I know how to use Interface Builder so that makes a difference. If you are designing an application and want to stick with graphical tools only you are in luck because Yahoo [...]
BlackBerry screen and icon sizes
For some reason the old link I had that contained display dimensions for BlackBerry devices is resulting in a 404 now. When you are doing BlackBerry development it is nice to be able to go to one page that just shows you the screen sizes instead of having to look at each device page so [...]
Converting videos (flv,wmv,avi,etc) into a format that will work with the iPhone/iTunes
I have had an iPhone for a while now and I keep running into instances where I want to have videos outside of youtube in some format that I can watch on the device. These include windows WMV formatted videos from PDC as well as FVL formatted videos on Flex. I finally broke down and [...]
The Search for Timezone Maps
For a while I had been casually searching for a way to overlay US time zones over a map for a project I was working on. It was never important enough to have a solution that required paying for something so I was searching for some type of government data source.
Lots of new releases this week
It seems like this week has been release week for "web 2.0" stuff. Facebook F8 went live last week. All kinds of apps have followed. Google released Maplets, a mashup editor, and Google Gears Mapquest released an updated mapquest API that uses actionscript. The one thing I note in all of these new releases is [...]
SOAP vs REST
Recently it seems like the SOAP vs REST debate is heating up. Most of the debate seems to be leaning toward convincing people to not use SOAP based on its increasing complexity. Different people have different views on what REST is but in general if you look at the SOAP specifications or SOAP Standards and [...]
Even Amazon Can Hurt
It just goes to show that even the most redundant sites in the world have their limits. Amazon is mostly unusable ATM because they tried to sell XBox360s at $100.
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Compiling WebM into FFMpeg for Windows