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.

I have a very strange problem with Chrome on my MacBook Pro. Ever since I installed the last OS X update on it, Chrome has problems displaying b.org. All other sites work fine. But whenever I go to a new page on b.org, the first screen displays fine, but when I scroll down, there's a 2" gap in the browser where nothing displays. But when I do a select-all, I see the invisible text, and if I then unselect everything, the screen displays fine.

Handbrake is wonderful.

Also I had a weird problem with Chrome after the update which I fixed by deleting my cookies. Before doing that I tested my theory that that was the problem by going to the incognito window. You can do the same thing. Open an incognito window. Log in to the board. (Since you are in incognito, none of your cookies will be active and you will need to log in.) If you still have the problem at least you will not have deleted your cookies for nothing. If that fixes your problem then the permenant fix is deleting all cookies for this site.

[edit] My problem was more drastic, so I deleted all cookies, but I think some people are having trouble with cookie corruption since the latest update. But if it is only this site, that it is only this sites cookies that need deleting.

I think I'm trying remember the milk to start.

I take back what I said about the Toodledo product. It doesn't actually exist. There is a web back end, and a number of clients from various developers that work with it. I've been grabbing at a few, and it seems I like TppdleTasks well enough to pay for it on my phone while I evaluate the tablet version.

I have noticed, though, that ToodleDo having repeating tasks doesn't mean that all the clients do. This one does. I think I lost a task (at least to the non-recurring handling app I used to test it) with that experimentation. Though I would like an "other interval" option, but still. Like, I'd love an every 2 hour reminder for the headache log I'm about embark upon. Since writing an entry when I have a headache is kinda pointless.

I suspect ToodleTasks has GTD-oriented features, since the bits I don't understand smack of a methodology.t

Does anyone have any suggestions for incorporating business cards into Android's default contact manager? That would be optimal, and no, I don't want to replace contact pictures. I actually need more user features. Colin's gets changed every few months, but outside my immediate family and him, it's pretty dry.

I copy over all the info on each card I get, but it would be handy to have the image too--make me feel better about tossing the original.

Speaking of contacts--my main google accounts, where the contact info is supposed to live--fails to sync right "currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly." But all the other accounts sync fine. My Mac syncs just fine--changes seem to populate--what's the what?

Just realised I have a demo version of Cam Card for that very purpose. Will evaluate.

Other stupid question: I'm making an appointment in my calendar (so my phone will tell me when to leave home--I like that), and now I need to type in the address.

WHY? Why do I need to type in am address that's in my address book? Am I missing how to trigger an appointment from the address book, or lookup from the calendar?

And...what does it take to get something into history? Do I need to enable auditing or anything?

ok, I have a weird thing happening. Got my new computer (11" Macbook Air) set up, and loaded Chrome.

When I hit "read new" on Buffistas, Chrome shows me the stuff in the window, but when I scroll down, the posts below the original window are empty, and I have to manually refresh the page to get them to show up.

... this is very weird. It's as though the rest of the page is spoiler-whited. And in fact I can read it by highlighting it, just as if it were spoiler-text.

Any ideas? I'm thinking this is a Chrome problem rather than a Buffistas problem, but really I don't know.