After much trial and error I’ve finally figured out how to extract a specfic frame from a video file using FFmpeg. The command to accomplish this looks like:
ffmpeg -i swing.avi -ss 6.0 -t 0.001 -y -f singlejpeg swing.jpg
While I’m not sure how to specify an exact frame number, you can specify a start time [...]

I recently posted abut pulling PNGs from video files using FFmpeg. Since then I’ve received a few emails about doing the same for JPGs as well as exporting files at a certain frame. While I’ve figured out to achieve the former, I’m completely baffled with the latter. To extract the jpg frame you can use [...]

If you haven’t seen one of the new Mac Intel ads then check it out:
http://www.apple.com/intel/ads/
The new MacBook Pro looks nice and almost makes me regret getting my PowerBook earlier this year.  I figure I’ll be do for an upgrade in about a year.  In the meantime it will be interesting to see if the new [...]

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A former co-worker sent me a link today informing me that SensorLogic (the company I work for) received an additional $4.67 million in funding. You know you’re growing when people outside the company are more in touch with what’s going on than those inside….I guess that’s a [...]

PCWorld has a great article covering the 50 coolest gadgets over the last half century:
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123950,pg,1,00.asp
This is one of those articles that definitely makes me feel old since I remember quite a few of these gadgets. Among my favorite are:
2. Apple iPod
7. Atari
16. Texas Instruments Speak & Spell
26. Nintendo Game Boy
37. Commodore 64

While the ranking [...]

I recently posted on PayPal phishing and wanted to follow up with what a legitimate PayPal email looks like. I received this email yesterday asking me to update my credit card information. The interesting thing is that there are no hyperlinks in the email. The email contains all necessary instructions on what [...]

Recently I was faced with the challenge of embedding fonts in Flex. This enables you to set the alpha and rotation of text, which doesn’t work with standard device fonts. If you’re familiar with Flash you can set which fonts to embed by editing a text field’s properties. To achieve the same [...]

My father-in-law occasionally forwards emails asking if they’re legitimate or not. Today he forward an email from what appears to be eBay telling him to update his account information. You can see a screen below:

Of course to the average user this email looks completely legit until you find out where the link directs [...]