Melastmohican's Blog

This is my first smartphone so I cannot compare to my past experience. I decided to have Palm device cause I wanted two from the same manufacturer after we switched to Verizon due to reception problems in our new apartment. Also I wanted a smaller form factor than most of present smartphones. My wife was [...]

I did expect to have my LR3 Upgrade shipped so soon but couple days ago I got info from Amazon that it will be sent earlier than at the beginning of July. I got it today and installed it without making any special preparations. I have been doing upgrades on this machine since version 1 [...]

New version of FFmpeg codenamed “Works with HTML5″ is released. It is first version that supports Google’s newly released libvpx library for the VP8 codec and the Matroska demuxer was extended to support to WebM container. WebM is an open, royalty-free, media file format designed for the web. WebM defines the file container structure, video [...]

Beta was out for while so we got a glimpse of what is going to be there. Briefly I want highlight what’s new: Noise reduction – natural-looking results from your high ISO images with noise reduction technology Lens correction – automatically reducing lens defects like geometric distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignetting with single-click profiles Flickr [...]

At Google I/O conference: WebM, a new project that will attempt to offer a standard, open format for audio and video on the web. WebM includes: VP8, a high-quality video codec we are releasing today under a BSD-style, royalty-free license Vorbis, an already open source and broadly implemented audio codec a container format based on [...]

After reading article about WordPress Caching on Tutorial9 I decided to give it a try on my blog. Recently I was experiencing visibly slower page load after installing few SEO related plug-ins. Based on article’s conclusion I choose W3 Total Cache and it seems to speed up my blog at least 10x.

I guess many people, including me, did not know that free media player, VLC, can be used to create screencasts of your desktop. It may require some experimentation to come up with the right settings but you do not have to buy any special software to do it. You need download and install VLC. 1. [...]

That was quick. A day after announcing bugs in latest firmware Canon releases update. I did not have time to really try previous one but I will probably upgrade to this version and next time wait couple more days before jumping on freshly released update var AdBrite_Title_Color = ’0000FF’ var AdBrite_Text_Color = ’000000′ var AdBrite_Background_Color [...]

A day after its release of the firmware 2.0.3, there are lot of reports about issue with audio functionality Custom modes. Canon is working on update to address it. They recommend to register your camera so you notified via e-mail when future firmware updates become available for download.

As an every day commuter I am really happy to see this happening. The bike directions take a lot of factors into consideration: designated bike lanes, tries to avoid areas with lots of hill climbs and drops, busy roads and intersections. In giving estimates on trip times, Google uses an average person at an average [...]