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Monthly Archives: april 2009

Amazon S3

dinsdag, april 28, 2009

How I automated my backups to Amazon S3 using s3sync
Amazon has made an effort in the past two years promoting their Amazon Web Services (AWS). They are unconventional but appeal through the sheer simpleness and power. Large web services like Smugmug.com use Amazon S3.
Introduction to S3
Honkiat.com has a nice detailed beginners guide to Amazon S3, and [...]

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World Digital Library of the UNESCO

zondag, april 26, 2009

The United Nations UNESCO has opened “The World Digital Library”. It has a substantial amount of original work of historic significance, and because it is funded by the UN (that means all of us) there are no issues with copyright.
One of UNESCO’s goals is to preserve historic and cultural monuments and to do so, opening [...]

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How to access your HUMAX digital PVR on OSX

zaterdag, april 25, 2009

An Andrew Smith has a nice solution to access your HUMAX PVR with Apple Mac OSX or Ubuntu Linux. The software that comes with the Humax PVR is Windows-only and actually not that superb. I haven’t had the time to check it out, it should be worth your while (as my Bootcamp partition with Windows [...]

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Producing 1080p with 1080i source camcorder (Mac)

donderdag, april 23, 2009

Shooting and processing video is quite a chore. I still use my Panasonic PAL camcorder that produces quite decent SD video on MiniDV tape. However the iMovie ‘08 as well as the new iMovie ‘09 software just won’t import the video like it should. It takes only one field of the two interlaced fields effectively [...]

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Get your head out of the cloud: use Tonido!

dinsdag, april 14, 2009

 
Are you fed up with Google scanning through all of your (digital) life? Internet startup Tonido is getting your Web 2.0 experience back to where it belongs: on your own systems. Lifehacker has a nice article about this new start-up, and if it delivers, it just might be a next big thing. 
Although in beta the website [...]

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