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Comment on Healthy Living Kitchen embraces video to deliver their message by Tish

Tish — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:17:00 +0000

Wow! Makes me want to do my own gardening/cooking show!

Comment on Strange resemblance between Intel and MAC by William Ryan

William Ryan — Mon, 17 May 2010 12:36:14 +0000

It does resemble it. Thanks.

Comment on What’s this funky image? by Steve

Steve — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:46:16 +0000

Congratulations Bram! Right on the money!

Take a pic of this with your web-enabled phone and get instant driving directions to my office. See more here http://www.google.com/help/maps/favoriteplaces/business/barcode.html

Comment on What’s this funky image? by Bram Van Londersele

Bram Van Londersele — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:11:10 +0000

That’s a qr code!

The code directs me to a google maps website.

QR (Quick Response) codes are 2 dimensional barcodes which can contain a lot of information.

There are applications available which allow you to scan this code with the camera of your mobile phone.

Great invention!

Good luck Steve

Comment on Not all DVD-Rs, CD-Rs Are Created Equal by Steve

Steve — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:46:37 +0000

Thanks for reading Dave!

What kind of audio issues do you experience? I find it odd that you’d have sound problems and not video issues as well. Have you tried burning at different speeds?

Comment on Not all DVD-Rs, CD-Rs Are Created Equal by Dave - Video Prodction

Dave - Video Prodction — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:23:45 +0000

Hi great post, very interesting.

I completely agree, as I have had issues with the durability of DVD-R products. Mainly I have experienced sound quality issues.

It is worth spending a little more on DVD/CD products to maximise quality of your video works.

Thanks Dave. ;-)

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Comment on How to apply for a job. by Mike Cohen

Mike Cohen — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:31:07 +0000

Steve Great post. Linked here from the COW. Mike Cohen

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Vi — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:13:50 +0000

Loved it!

Comment on Not all DVD-Rs, CD-Rs Are Created Equal by Steve

Steve — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:02:14 +0000

Hey Brian! Thanks for reading.

Well…. I have CDs on my shelf from the early 90s that are as good as ever. Like most anything laminated, extreme heat and cold wreak the most havoc as do extreme humidity changes. Keep them in a cool, dark place standing on edge with minimal temp and humidity fluctuations for best longevity. For client duplications we only use the highest grade blank media mainly because of playback reliability in a greater number of drives and players. I don’t know of any manufacturer with 100% playability. So we do this to eliminate call backs. For archival purposes we use the same hi-grade discs for the same reason – we spend weeks or months creating something costing the client $1,000, maybe $50,000, to produce and it all ends up as raw data on a medium that costs less than $1. Scary. Not worth the risk.

The 2nd item is never to use press-on labels (sorry stomper fans) the warranty is void as soon as you put one on. Oddly enough, the TOP part is what is being burned, not the bottom part, that’s just laquer. So if you write with anything other than felt tip perm markers, you take the risk of damaging the media. On-disc printers are pretty commonplace and affordable anyway. When we do write on the media, we always write the information BEFORE we burn the disc. Why? ‘Cause if you damage a blank disc you can’t write to it. If you burn and verify THEN hose it up with a pen, the next time you need to read the data it won’t be there. And again, for the small difference in cost, we typically make at least 2 backups of archival stuff and keep one set offsite.

Hope to hear from you again soon!
Steve