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Converting video files
My daughter wanted to watch on the TV some music videos that a friend sent to her, but the problem was that some of the videos were on WMV format and our DVD player only supports DivX (in fact I think that no players with support to those formats exist,…
Web traffic from image searches
Checking the stats of the blog for the last 3 months, I noticed that the posts with more pageviews are referred from image searches. The images are from Salma Hayek in Ugly Betty, illustrations of Nathan Petrelli and Nikki from the Heroes TV Series, a test…
The hand of Google
While looking at a library book scanned by Google, I found this image, the hand behind the scanner revealed. Dale Dougherty Saw this at O’Reilly Radar, and other “hands” are at Book Patrol
Who goes first?
This morning I saw this great cartoon from Calderon, usually I don’t care about this kind of stuff but I found this amusing. If you don’t know what does the cartoon is about here and here you can find more information about the issue.
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MTV.es on Rails
I see in a post from furilo that the new MTV.es site was made with Rails
It has everything a site like that (or any big site) has to have: artists info, news, reports, features, blogs, etc..
The site was made by The Cocktail.
3D feed reader
When you think on a feed reader you assume that it will show the articles in a chronological ordered list, because we are used to see the information in 2 dimensions, but, what happens when we add a third dimension?. That’s what they did with Voyage…
Master Chief papercraft model
To make the wait for the release of Halo 3 more tolerable you can try to build this papercraft model of Master Chief.
The model is 13″ tall, has close to 2100 faces (over 800 faces for the gun), and is composed of 42 pieces (+ 10 for the…
How does the Microsoft and Yahoo deal affects me