I haven't paid much attention to YouTube—until now. There was a song on the vid screens at the gym by a New Zealand artist I'd not come across, and a Google search led me to the video on YouTube. I decided to see what else was there. Some of the videos available are for songs I currently love (q.v. Bic Runga) but never got to see the video for until now (maybe they weren't on UK TV). But there are also old favourites to remember and new discoveries to appreciate. Here are a few personal highlights from the past 3 decades: enjoy!
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I recently spent an extortionate amount of time adding a site preferences panel to my site design. It's a solution composed of many parts, put together piece-by-piece with the knowledge and assistance of several Netizens. It is by no means perfect and certainly not indispensable—but it sure put my tinkering skills to the test. It surprises me how obscure information about adding site preferences is; Google searches on the subject have a high signal-to-noise ratio, and a couple of e-mail enquires to webmasters went unanswered. In keeping with my blog's tagline, here is the "stuff worth sharing". But mostly, as usual, I document the process mainly so I can remember how it was put together!
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The world has too many video formats. We mere mortals are dazzled by the cacophony of audio codecs, video codecs, and file containers. Too frequently the "same" format becomes incompatible as you move from one player to another, or go cross-platform. Some Windows Media files play fine on Windows, yet trip up Windows Media Player for Mac. An MPEG-4 file made on a Mac may not play on a Windows machine. Your QuickTime files on the desktop become wasted space on the SD card in your Palm or Pocket PC. Now we have the iPod that does video, with a predilection for H.264.
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Here's a simple solution to the difficult task of finding tracks in your iTunes library that are not listed on any playlist...
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The iTunes Music Store (UK) contains some great NZ made music.
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When smart announced the smart fortwo cabrio edition i-Move, they also announced plans to sell an iPod car integration kit as an accessory for the fortwo and roadster models. This kit requires an iPod with a dock connector—excluding earlier iPods. If you own a smart and an original iPod, what options are available to unite the two?
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