Billy Fire LLC – design, marketing and technical commentary
Shedworx has just released a new version of their software that allows you to do a conversion into the WMV format as well as the AVI format. The added advantage for the Canon HG-10 is that the conversion keeps the video in the correct 16:9 format. For this version to work Windows Media version 11 [...]
Wed, January 30 2008 » Gadgets, Technical » 1 Comment
I was just reading how Matt Cutts had had some issues with his backup server and it reminded me that someone may be interested in a couple of recent occurrences where my backups saved my bacon (well actually not quite that serious, but it would have required me to do a lot of extra work [...]
Mon, January 21 2008 » Gadgets, Technical » 1 Comment
Images of Canon HG10 Camcorder The following are several images showing some of the main parts of the camera. Excuse the dust. The camera comes with several cables, notably a sound cable, a component out cable and a USB cable (not shown). The component out cable only transfers video data and hence needs to be [...]
Thu, January 17 2008 » Gadgets » No Comments
I recently bought a Canon HG10 video camera to replace my old Canon ZR DV camera. The ZR is still going strong, but the firewire port on the camera is broken and hence I cannot transfer videos to the PC anymore. I am left with pile of mini DV tapes, many of which I forgot [...]
Fri, January 11 2008 » Gadgets, Technical » 2 Comments
Before attempting to register a domain name at Network Solutions, read this article. Apparently, Network Solutions takes the domain name that you enter and puts it on hold. This means that once you have seen that the domain you want is available at Network Solutions, if you want the domain you have to pay their [...]
Wed, January 9 2008 » Marketing, Technical » No Comments
