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Can you tell the more compressed version?
Mar 3rd
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.
Square: God I love it
Jan 28th
Square has been on my radar for a few months – mostly for tinkering project ideas. Here’s some things I’ve been thinking:
- Human ATM (swipe card, give cash) for places like Dick’s in Seattle
- Buy tickets even easier from scalpers (ha!)
- Sell your merchandise easier at live events (hello, OSNAP.net!)
- Be the coolest lemonade stand on the block
Going broke with books
Jan 17th
I’ve been working on some iPhone applications as a licensed iPhone developer.
Doing so has really made my brain hurt as I’m not too familiar with Obj-C or CocoaTouch.
It’s been a fun ride, and learning in the method I usually do I’ve purchased books to help me along.
Thankfully I’m a member of both Barnes and Noble and Borders, so the discounts on these books was substantial. That and I bought a couple over the holidays at a really steep discount from Amazon and SitePoint.
searchy: update
Jan 7th
Just a quick update: searchy: is 90% done!
I just need to add the delete and detail actions for the history, and then (possibly) add searching across multiple websites at the same time.
Game on!