22 days ago
philgyford : iSquint - iPod Video Made Easy. - Free converter for making video into iPod/iPhone-friendly video. (via Haddock)
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10 month ago
deusx : Posterity | Jeni's Musings - "here I am using radically different software, in a completely different world, and these pieces from my past are lost, irretrievable because of the formats used to save them (as well as the hardware on which they’re saved: it’s getting harder to
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wearehugh : File formats - SuperTux - based on s-expressions. really.
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24 month ago
wearehugh : ASCII by Jason Scott: Looking Ahead: DVD Formats - "How quickly and easily can I strip all limitations out of the format and leave the most up to the people who have bought my stuff?"
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: Looking Ahead: DVD Formats - "It is also apparent that AACS will give the option of a computer/player "phoning home" if so chosen, so verify you got a good copy. Fuck that right in the ear. I will never do that, either."
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25 month ago
wearehugh : Playing Those Damn Videos on a Mac - OS X - video encoding is the tenth circle of hell
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26 month ago
Eric Meyer : Juggling oranges - Why open formats matter. Yes, I'm still a Mac user, but Mark's making me think hard about the price I could pay for that choice.
Milo Vermeulen : Mark Pilgrim on open data formats - Mark Pilgrim on open data formats and why he's moving away from Apple [related] [via]
deusx : Juggling oranges [dive into mark] - "I finally got everything into a single archive in an open, stable format... and just 3 short years later, Apple found a way to screw me one last time."
Matthew M. Boedicker : data migration, open formats and Apple - (via del.icio.us/deusx) [via]
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27 month ago
deusx : Wired News: The Dead Formats Society - "My CD-ROM is accessible only to cranks and connoisseurs, members of the "dead formats society" who've invested in the dead tech required to play it."
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30 month ago
deusx : OpenDoc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The basic idea of OpenDoc was to create small single-purpose reusable components responsible for a specific task, such as text editing, bitmap editing or browsing an FTP server."
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