Category Archive for 'tech'

OS X Printing

Friday, March 7th, 2008

One thing that invariably sucks royally on the Mac is printing. I think the situation is very similar on Linux. Drivers just aren’t made for other platforms. I haven’t taken the time recently to understand this but it bites me regularly. Basically I go through the process of trying to get a printer working on [...]

OS X VOB to DV conversion

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Needed to rip DVD video files to edit in iMovie. First you need to pull the VOB files off the DVD using software like Mac The Ripper if it’s encoded. If not you can just drag the VOB files to your system. Then I needed to convert the VOB files with the least compression and [...]

“code” HTML links

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

A couple of simple HTML hyperlinks. The first will open the the destination webpage in a new window and the second will open the destination webpage in the same window. New Window PLAIN TEXT CODE: <a target="_blank" title="link title" href="http://reddog.com">new window link</a> Same Window PLAIN TEXT CODE: <a title="link title" href="http://reddogg.com">same window link</a>