Category Archives: General

Automating renaming files

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Stephen

Heres a frequent problem l encounter, and l’m sure a lot of others may encounter. You have a series of files, say animation sequence files or pictures, and you need to rename them all in some sort of order, sequence, … Continue reading →

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In pictures: Nigeria’s colourful masquerades

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Stephen

You can always count on the BBC for excellent world news and photo journalism. Heres a link to a good set of pictures of masquerades in Nigeria/Enugu etc. My home town in Nigeria is Enugu State. Heres the Google map … Continue reading →

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HD Content Encoding

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Stephen

Heres the process and tools l use for preparing HD content for uploading to youtube. I copy the video file from my HD Canon camcorder’s internal 8Gb in-built flash memory to a folder on my PC as shown below – … Continue reading →

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External USB Drive

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Stephen

Bought this compact external usb drive for media backup. The shock resistant, fast rpm, interfaces are an additional plus as the video link below shows, especially 320Gb for $44. Other backup drives l use/own for diffferent backup purposes are a … Continue reading →

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Android

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Stephen

Just about everyone must be familiar or has seen tons of TV ad’s showing Android based cell-phones. Heres a link to notes/screen-shots l saved while trying my hand at a first programming project targetng the Google Android 2.2 Operating System. … Continue reading →

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The Law

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Stephen

The sun may be clouded, yet ever the sun Will sweep on its course till the cycle is run. And when onto chaos the systems are hurled, Again shall the Builder reshape a new world. Your path may be clouded, … Continue reading →

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Street Car Racing..

Posted on June 20, 2010 by Stephen

BMW M5 vs. Mercedes CL65 in Russia. Thanks for this link Steve D. 

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Video compositing

Posted on June 19, 2010 by Stephen

Just created my first good composite video using Adobe Premiere CS4, Adobe Media Encoder CS4 – for h.264 720×480 final media output, a video clip from ArtBeats, and a sound clip from The Nutcracker. Reference book l used is Adobe … Continue reading →

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Interesting Pictures…

Posted on June 19, 2010 by Stephen

Below is an amazing picture l found on the web. This brings to mind deep meditation on light, life & universal source: Below is one of the first 8 bit computers built. Current computers use 32/64bit architecture.

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MCITP Exam 70-450

Posted on May 28, 2010 by steve

Microsoft Exam 70-450: PRO: Designing, Optimizing and Maintaining a Database Administrative Solution Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Passed this exam on 5/25. It rained heavily all day. Books for this exam arent really out yet, even from Microsoft. Theres a … Continue reading →

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