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Convert mov to avi: Mov2Avi

I spent a long, long time trying to do this for free. I looked and tried lots and lots of freeware and open source. This is what finally worked. Audio (sound) converted too. April 7, 2007: Since the site’s down, I’ll save a copy of the text here. How to Convert QuickTime MOV Files This…Continue Reading…

Disney Imagineering and Geoffrey Fox

Midnight Message time. I wonder what people who find my blog via search engines think of these. One thing that really amazes me is that a post I wrote about 2 weeks ago, Chuck Norris Jokes, now ranks #4 in Google for the search “Chuck Norris Jokes”, and people are leaving comments with more jokes….Continue Reading…

freegamesforyourwebsite spam

beware freegamesforyourwebsite.com (“Free Games For Your Website”). don’t sign up with your primary email. while they aren’t a scam, they do send you UCE. I use temporary emails for all my signups, and received an ad for “JogoGames.net” to my freegamesforyourwebsite address.

List of spammers

I’ve been getting a lot of this sort of thing lately. I’ll list them here. I expect the list to grow in the future. These people and/or websites are spammers and should be killed Jeff P., todaytemplates.com Example email follows…

SketchUp Note

In the SketchUp tutorial, I had some trouble around the 11th step. “You can also move single line segments to stretch an object. In the following example, a line is selected and moved up in the blue direction to form a sloped roof.” This didn’t work for me, but I worked around it by using…Continue Reading…

Excel: Make Paste Special Default

I was pasting data from a web page into an Excel spreadsheet, and I wanted to make everything have a consistent style. The function I used to do this is right-click -> Paste Special -> Text. This “inserts the contents of the Clipboard as text without any formatting” — exactly what I wanted. But it…Continue Reading…