Monday, January 21, 2008

Codec Hell!

What's with the proliferation of video and audio codecs out there?
Can't we just get along?

Each OS operator is pushing their own multimedia platform and with each newly revised OS upgrade, the previous hard work we have all completed will require new re-encoding to keep up with the Jones...

Beauty in the Eyes of the Beast

What is your favourite application?

When I was working in Windows 95 exclusively (oh so many years ago), I loved Irfranview (www.irfanview.com).
It opened in the blink of a eye, snapped through my high-res 1.2 megapixel Kodak snaps like there was no tomorrow. I promoted this lovely tool to so many people, I should have made up a t-shirt with the URL on the front.

In the office I still use this tool daily, although its feature set has grow exponentially. It still opens fast and just gets the job done.