I was suprised to find out that FFmpeg supports 3GPP format. I’ve been using this mobile format to take videos of my daughter with me on the road. Quicktime Pro supports exporting to this format and does a great job of it. My only complaint is that it takes an EXTREMELY long [...]

It seems that IE has spoiled me. I used to rely on the ALT attribute of the image tag to provide tooltips for images. I found out this evening that this doesn’t work in Firefox. If you mouseover the images below you’ll see that the tooltip only works in IE with the [...]

I’ve been spending a decent amount of time lately with Flex skins (aka themes). While this is a great step forward from Flash this comes nowhere near the capabilities of raw HTML/CSS. My task was simple: create a custom background image for the Flex application. I’m working on a “Brushed Metal” theme [...]

Last year I put together a video documenting my daughter’s first year of life. I created a couple of DVDs several months ago and have been meaning to get around to creating some web friendly versions of the video. In raw format the video is 720×480, 30 frames/sec, 15 minutes long, and right [...]