Author: Chris

So I crossed the 5,000 mile mark today so I stopped by Champion VW in Florence to get my initial service today.  To be honest, I was going to stop by Friday since I had more time, but I called them first thing and got a VM.  Even though I left a message, I never…

As hopefully some of you noticed, my blog server went down for at least 24 hours.  Not sure why, but since it was a SUnday and I don’t post too often on Sunday I didn’t notice until I was at work today and tried to make a few posts before starting work.  I remember hearing…

I have been using Mind Jet Mind Manager since version 4 and am a very big fan.  I use it almost anytime I need to ‘compose’ something, whether it be a new program plan, a brochure or a presentation.  I have used it a few times as an ongoing program dashboard, but mostly I use…

Well I was somewhat dissappointed in the iPod announements on Tuesday.  As I blogged earlier, I lost my 30 GB 4G iPod about 10 days ago and I was waiting for the new iPod announcement before deciding what to replace it with.  If Apple had come out with the widely anticipated ‘true’ video iPod that…

As I ink blogged a few days ago, I installed Vista RC1 on my TC1100.  The install process worked fine and was complete in about 40 minutes.  It took me a bit longer to get the button drivers to work (the trick is to set the properties on the installer to run in Windows XP…

In addition to posting a lot about video yesterday, I have been doing a lot of work with video for my job. Two tools that I find indespensable are: MMConvert: allows you to quickly and easily (in one step most of the time) convert from one video format to another. Supports all the codecs you…