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<title>TedLindsey.com</title><link>http://www.tedlindsey.com/index.html</link><description>Technology&#x2c; Art&#x2c; Family Stuff</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:creator>ted@tedlindsey.com</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2007-2008 Teddy Lindsey</dc:rights><dc:date>2009-02-03T22:26:48-08:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:50:37 -0700</lastBuildDate><item><title>Laptop Bags: the Winner</title><dc:creator>ted@tedlindsey.com</dc:creator><category>None</category><dc:date>2009-02-03T22:26:48-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.tedlindsey.com/files/ddd27b1b8c5f18c649a7377d40372cb9-22.html#unique-entry-id-22</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tedlindsey.com/files/ddd27b1b8c5f18c649a7377d40372cb9-22.html#unique-entry-id-22</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Since my last roundup on laptop bags, I ended up exchanging the Booq Boa for a slightly smaller bag, the Booq Folee 2M, since the Boa was just too large for everyday carry. ...  Two things that I had mentioned that really bothered me are present on this bag: dual carry handles and a large flap opening.   Contrary to my expectations, these features are so well implemented that I no longer consider them to be problems.   Because the flap does not need to be pulled back to access the laptop compartment or the main compartment, I find it much less obtrusive.


...One of my favorite features is the magnetic closures on the main flap as well as the interior pockets. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Laptop Bags</title><dc:creator>ted@tedlindsey.com</dc:creator><category>Apple</category><dc:date>2008-09-22T19:59:34-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.tedlindsey.com/files/1383973143fc0f44f8584f4f9b638097-21.html#unique-entry-id-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tedlindsey.com/files/1383973143fc0f44f8584f4f9b638097-21.html#unique-entry-id-21</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The thing to keep in mind is that my primary machine is a 15&rdquo; MacBook Pro and that I consider my laptop bag to be my mobile office.   Because I travel and give presentations quite a bit, my bags tends to be fully loaded with gear so that I have pretty much everything I need to set up shop anyplace.


I always seek out bags that have a single carry handle rather than two handles that must be clasped together. ...  I also don&rsquo;t like bags that have a gigantic flap that must be opened to access the contents. 

...Very nice until you unzip one side of the case that is loaded with gear and it falls over. the semi-rigid materials also means that the bag is always going to be the same size, even if it is empty. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Working with AVCHD Video</title><dc:creator>ted@tedlindsey.com</dc:creator><category>Video</category><dc:date>2008-01-05T20:07:48-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.tedlindsey.com/files/62d03144785e78c43d5ed2a0ea19990a-18.html#unique-entry-id-18</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tedlindsey.com/files/62d03144785e78c43d5ed2a0ea19990a-18.html#unique-entry-id-18</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[AVCHD footage is approximately 2 Mb per second which is pretty good compression, especially for HD content.   Unfortunately, you can't edit raw AVCHD .mts files on a Mac, even though iMovie 08 and Final Cut Express 4 both claim to "natively" support AVCHD.   What they actually support is transcoding of AVCHD footage from the camera to Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC) format on import.   AIC files are optimized for realtime editing and they take up about 8 Mb per second* of footage, which uses up disk space pretty quickly.


* These numbers are just based on my personal observations, and compression ratios vary due to the variable encoding rates, but they are in the ballpark for my Sony HDR-CX7 camcorder capturing AVCHD footage at 960 x 540 resolution through iMovie 08.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Essential Mac Applications</title><dc:creator>ted@tedlindsey.com</dc:creator><category>Apple</category><dc:date>2009-04-14T11:00:00-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.tedlindsey.com/files/409eb20643374657473c92f0a14cfa27-15.html#unique-entry-id-15</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tedlindsey.com/files/409eb20643374657473c92f0a14cfa27-15.html#unique-entry-id-15</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[When I made the switch to Mac OS X, I spent a lot of time trying to find equivalents to many of the applications I relied on in Windows. 

...Pages is a nice blend of word processing and page layout and I haven't had a need to use the Numbers spreadsheet yet.


...Linotype Font Explorer X: Probably the best font manager I've ever seen on any platform and they give it away for free.


...Preview: In Leopard, Preview has gained some great new features and it really takes the cake over any other image viewers I've seen.


...Steermouse gives you control over this as well as all of the buttons on your mouse without having to load crappy Logitech or Microsoft drivers.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Editing AVCHD video with iMovie 08</title><dc:creator>ted@tedlindsey.com</dc:creator><category>Apple</category><category>Video</category><dc:date>2007-08-30T21:51:04-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.tedlindsey.com/files/112cd51e861e208fef35319e4f3e068d-14.html#unique-entry-id-14</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tedlindsey.com/files/112cd51e861e208fef35319e4f3e068d-14.html#unique-entry-id-14</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I've been experimenting with editing footage from my Sony HDR-CX7 HD Camcorder in iMovie 08.   It seems that some people are having problems getting the camcorder to work properly with iMovie 08 and here is the process that is working for me.


...	&bull;	Place the camcorder in the dock and power it on.


	&bull;	You should see a menu asking which method you'd like to use to connect the camera.


...	&bull;	iMovie with automatically detect the camcorder and prompt you to import video.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>First Try with Painter</title><dc:creator>ted@tedlindsey.com</dc:creator><category>Art</category><dc:date>2007-06-10T00:46:31-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.tedlindsey.com/files/4f71d3b9f746dbec284e84252aea3a5f-13.html#unique-entry-id-13</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tedlindsey.com/files/4f71d3b9f746dbec284e84252aea3a5f-13.html#unique-entry-id-13</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[After watching the Ryan Church "Intro to Painter DVD", I decided to try out Painter and see if I can make it work for me.   Painter has a tremendous amount of depth and the Ryan Church DVD was invaluable in giving me a good overview of how the program works.


This image is a very different approach for me since I'm used to tight line drawings rather than loose painterly stuff.   However, I really enjoyed experimenting while creating the image below, my first value study completed with Painter.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Video Compression</title><dc:creator>ted@tedlindsey.com</dc:creator><category>Video</category><dc:date>2007-08-25T09:08:21-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.tedlindsey.com/files/7a7efdcf4b39e0eb16a24eab47847298-4.html#unique-entry-id-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tedlindsey.com/files/7a7efdcf4b39e0eb16a24eab47847298-4.html#unique-entry-id-4</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[However, the quality of the MPEG-2 video was not as good as DV and most mainstream video editing applications seem to have a hard time dealing with MPEG-2.


Thus, it was a nice surprise to see that iMovie 08 supports editing of all the major video formats outside of DV such as MPEG-2 and newer formats such as AVCHD (Advanced Video Codec High Definition) and the MPEG-4 standard H.264.


I've found that recompressing standard definition video with MPEG Streamclip to H.264 format yields much smaller files: on the order of 1/20 the size of DV footage and 1/3 the size of MPEG-2.   There is very little, if any, quality loss evident in the video re-encoded as H.264 and I'm quite happy to use this format moving forward since it appears to be the format that is gaining acceptance across the board, e.g., Flash 9 and YouTube are both supporting H.264 these days.


I'm in the process of converting my old DV and MPEG-2 footage to H.264 using MPEG Streamclip. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>KVM Switchboxes and Apple&#x27;s Aluminum Keyboard</title><dc:creator>ted@tedlindsey.com</dc:creator><category>Apple</category><dc:date>2007-08-18T23:36:12-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.tedlindsey.com/files/cc4cddd5c402eca61e8b1506848a80f6-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tedlindsey.com/files/cc4cddd5c402eca61e8b1506848a80f6-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I just picked up one of Apple's new aluminum keyboards which is incredibly slim and quite nice to type on, contrary to appearances.


The problem I've run into is that it lacks the vestigial "scroll lock" key that is generally on the right hand side of the function key row.   Most KVM switches use a double-tap of the scroll lock key to invoke a switch of input. ...  It's pretty nice since it features a small wireless "puck", that when depressed invokes the input switch.   Now I can switch between my Mac and Thinkpad and I really like the tactile click when I switch between devices.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Email Conversion Pain</title><dc:creator>ted@tedlindsey.com</dc:creator><category>Apple</category><dc:date>2007-08-16T22:41:00-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.tedlindsey.com/files/60c83053bc8634e8aded9f9263c6b11f-1.html#unique-entry-id-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tedlindsey.com/files/60c83053bc8634e8aded9f9263c6b11f-1.html#unique-entry-id-1</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[After much casting about for solutions including the purchase of O2M from Little Machines and Emailchemy from Weird Kid Software, I will detail what worked for me.


...	1	Open Outlook Express (or Windows Mail on Vista) and import all of your Outlook items.


...It will be something like C:\Documents and Settings\tlindsey\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{5246B4AF-59D3-45E3-90FF-BC8F6E2732D4}\Microsoft\Outlook Express.


	3	Open the message store location and copy these files over to your Mac.


...	6	You should now have a folder in Mail.app called "Imported" which will contain your mail.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Switching to the Mac&#x2026;Again</title><dc:creator>ted@tedlindsey.com</dc:creator><category>Apple</category><dc:date>2007-08-06T22:02:00-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.tedlindsey.com/files/e60e239e8e5df9fa66154ffcbc09af29-0.html#unique-entry-id-0</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tedlindsey.com/files/e60e239e8e5df9fa66154ffcbc09af29-0.html#unique-entry-id-0</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[However, when Apple essentially dropped support for enterprise customers in the mid-nineties (and discontinued the Newton, a device way ahead of its time) I decided it was time to start figuring out this whole Microsoft Windows thing.


In any event, back in October of 2003, I picked up a 15" Aluminum PowerBook G4 on the day Mac OS X Panther shipped. ...  Unfortunately, I spend a lot of my time developing software for Windows and I had hoped that Virtual PC on a G4 would allow me to run applications such as Visual Studio quickly enough to be productive. ...  Unfortunately, I ended up going back to Windows XP after being frustrated by the inability to run both Mac OS X and Windows on the same computer.


...VMWare Fusion for Mac is allowing me to run my Windows software well enough and quickly enough that it can definitely serve as a replacement for my Thinkpad. ]]></content:encoded></item></channel>
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