Yeah the multiple active windows is cool - I briefly put the 10.1 ROM on my phone to play with it (it scales down really tiny obviously but is a cool experiment). I have found that I use the multiwindow feature on my phone very rarely but think it would work better on a larger screen.

smonster,

I could not get over how ugly toodledo is. I keep trying it every year or two, but that is a serious barrier for me.

So I had a youtube channel, and I tried accessing it, but it refused to unless I used my real name or a name I was willing to use on all my google accounts, on which I call bullshit. Maybe I'm too tired for this, but i aquiesced and now I can't seem to find any of the vids I uploaded.

Some guys helped me make a great quicktime video. And then gave it to me uncompressed. And both are out of town. How do I compress it from over 300 meg to a reasonable size? I'm not sure Quicktime even allows uploading videos that size, and google gives me conflicting info on how big a file is allowed in youtube. At any rate is 324 meg reasonable for a 4 minute video. If not how do I compress it on Windows 7.

On the low end uncompressed standard definition video at 8 bit takes up 20 MB/second, so that would be 4,800 MB. What they gave you is already very compressed, but it probably isn't set up for streaming.

Quicktime is also just a wrapper, it's not an actual encoding standard, so you'll have to dig a little deeper to find out what codec was used for encoding, then you'll need to transcode it into something that is suitable. h.264 is popular and good for streaming HD video at a small file size.

They most likely gave it to you in a larger format so that you could encode it using your a preferred codec with less loss to the image. Transcoding from an already highly compressed format can leave lots of artifacts.

Unfortunately I do most of my video work on Macs so I don't have a good recommendation for software on the PC for encoding the video.

Windows live movie maker is the default video editor. Here are the settings it shows:

Width 1280 pixels
Height 720 pixels
bit rate 8000 kps
Frame rate 30fps

Which of these do I reduce?

[On Edit] My problem was not file size but account setup. However, I still had probably best have a lower res alternative to full size out there. So the question of which to cut remains. My instinct is size (width and height), but not my field.

Try Handbrake - it's free and has a Windows version.

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Ask it to generate a 640x360 H.264 .mov file at 1mbps. You can also reduce the audio bitrate to get the file size down further.

If Handbrake doesn't recognize the file (which I can't determine since you don't know the codec), try MPEG Streamclip [link] It's a little less user-friendly than Handbrake but it can handle a wider variety of file types.

Does anyone have any recommendations for usability resources? Not just having users perform usability testing, but also about setting usability standards, performing IT evals, etc.

Toodledo is the first package so far to have both recurring options, so I'm going to try migrating there.