Posts made in November, 2009

Hi, I’m an editor of messa.tv. Today I’ll explain how to edit videos taken by our favorite cam Vado HD. That is because iMovie 7.1.4 doesn’t support container format of Vado HD. To make a long story short, can’t use AVI format. Need to convert to some formats or through iMovie away if you don’t want to lose video quality. OK, let’s start it. First of all, you need to get the MPEG Streamclip (Free App). Install the MPEG Streamclip and launch it then select your video file. Choose [File] > [Export to MPEG-4] Videos which taken by Vado HD have these kind of file informations. (By VLC media player.) Now we need to be careful to pick the better format to keep video quality. [Quality] to [100 %] [Sound] > [Channel] to [Mono]...

a member of messaliberty.  The newest member in fact.  You might have seen me making a guest appearance in messa.tv episode 008 Anyway, as a team we’ve decided to post to our blogs more frequently at last meeting. Our boss has agreed to treat us to nice yummy cakes if we post good entries and get good reputation so that please bookmark or comment on my posts :) I have one topic in mind to write about but I thought my first post would be the ideal place to introduce myself (and probably no one knows me yet). So, my name is Kenichiro Kanechika, and my nickname is “Kenichi-Uji” named after Japanese cartoon. The guys here gave me it, and I think it has a certain ring to it :) I love to travelling overseas and am especially keen on Chinese spoken...

A few months ago, suddenly I got a message with the link below on our internal IRC channel. Module: ActiveRecord::Serialization Here is a screenshot. You know what? Those are famous characters from the Japanese anime Lucky Star in the sample code! Wow! Hi guys in Rails core team, we can be good friends :P

I know what you are thinking, WTF??? Before you start to flame me in the comments, let me explain. There are two common problems with passwords.  One is that they are too easy to guess, and two you forget them.  In fact, they are inter-related or inversely proportional, if you make your password less easy to guess, it becomes harder to remember.  So some people use things like pets names, birthdays and so on.  One additional problem is that it is a hassle to change them if you have many accounts.  OpenID helps but not all sites use OpenID. The way I am outlining is more secure, you are less likely to forget them and changing them is easier. Here’s a photo of my plain text passwords. It folds up into the size of a credit card and so can be easily stored...

We’re using Google Wave for our internal text meetings. And learned how keyboard shortcuts are important especially in real time text communication. Here’re keyboard shortcuts you must know. Shift + Enter Open/Done reply message. Space Go to next unread message.