More Geekery

Well Ciara and i both just got new cell phones. Our contracts with Bell just ran out, so we went with a “special” plan Ciara gets though her work, which is still Bell, but cheaper rates. We also upgraded our phones to the Motorola E815. I choose this one because there is an abundance of info on how to hack it.

Since this phone can play video, i’ve also been fooling around with converting some of my DVDs to mobile friendly formats. I’ve found 2 very useful and free tools for Windows users to do this painlessly. DVDShrink is used to pull the content off the DVD itself. Pretty excellent if you want to be doing backup’s too. Then i’m using MPegable 4x live, which has all kinds of great params to tweak, or you can use the excellent built in defaults. The company that created it, Mpegable/Dicas no longer sells or supports it, so use at your own risk.

I’ve got some video all converted and ready to go, now i need to get a memory card and a card reader! Well, and a data cable for the hacking, but that’s already on its way…

Update: I’m actually going to get the memory card and reader from my local computer shop, Roger’s Computer, 1 gig for $64 + tax. Let’s see - i can get a one hour show (2.6 gig) down to 38 megs. So, that’s about 28 one hour shows on the card. Nice.