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My favorite party-invite yet

Mar 9th

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The Los Angeles Latebirds – Flock Yeah II from Brian Sowell on Vimeo.

Good lord this is just rad as shit, my friends.

Can you tell the more compressed version?

Mar 3rd

Posted by Chad Edge in Apple

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So I’ve been watching the various endings to Paranormal Activity (yes, I own the film – digital copy while on the go is a godsend).

While I don’t mind watching the film on DVD, I do like to watch movies while using my iPhone, and therefore the movies need to be seriously compressed.

I usually use VisualHub (now defunct, unfortunately), but sometimes dip into Compressor for the final encoding.

Today, I started to use Evom and I’m quite happy with the results.
While Evom did take much longer to re-compress my 1.6GB file (about 2 hours, compared to about 60-70 minutes with VisualHub), the resulting file size is a shocking 250MB less than what VisualHub gave me.

Here are the two compressed files, side-by-side. Can you tell which is VisualHub’s reduction and which is Evom’s?

Final note: if you CAN tell which is more compressed, do you really think it matters on the iPhone screen? I don’t.

Just Watched: “World’s Greatest Dad”

Feb 10th

Posted by Chad Edge in movies

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I just finished watching “ World’s Greatest Dad,” written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait and starring Robin Williams.

I was surprised to see some Seattle landmarks (most notably the Guild Theater), and it turned out to be a pretty good film.

True, the son is a total douchebag (as quoted from Robin Williams who plays the father), but that’s on purpose to the level of ridiculousness.

From time to time I get to watch movies at work while I’m coding away, and I’ve found that my productivity doesn’t get interrupted with a movie on my second screen – if anything, it helps me keep “in the moment” of my programming.

I’ve got to say, Bobcat did a dynamite job directing (great soundtrack, too), even getting a cameo in, but the “ghost” scene wasn’t my favorite. Can’t win ‘em all, right?