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Google still #1 in 2011, according to Nielsen. Facebook ranks #3. http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/top10s/internet.html

Previously I was under the opinion that Image Grabber II (IG2) was the top tool for the job of extracting video thumbnails into a single file: http://arturmarques.com/wordpress/index.php/2011/02/01/creating-a-single-jpg-with-many-snapshots-from-a-video/ Indeed, it was the only program to handle my Canon’s 1080p video files. But I was surprised to find that IG2 fails with my MPEG2 satellite recordings, so [...]

Right now, I am far from being a fan of the relatively new .application installer system. Some applications now distribute their installers not in the usual .exe or .msi formats, but as .application archives that are usually much less configurable and extremely opaque, hiding not only the files that will be sourced for the installation, [...]

This satellite picture, taken at ~10km altitude, shows an amazing array of green circles, each roughly 1km in diameter. Location: 43.49.02N , 112.22.14W

Frustrated with ThinkUp 0.8 beta database errors, I decided to invest a few minutes on the source code, just in case it was something trivial. Here is one common ThinkUp MySQL error, with the most informative parts on bold: Database error! ThinkUp could not execute the following query: INSERT INTO tu_users (user_id, user_name, full_name, avatar, [...]

Google just tweeted about their new Art Project, available at http://www.googleartproject.com/ It is just superb! Somehow it reminds me of Microsoft’s Art Gallery, a great CDROM product of the 1990s!

I spent some 2+ hours looking for a solution to create a singe JPG file with many snapshots from a single video file. It should have been a simple task: Media Player Classic even has a “save thumbnails” menu option! But the fact is that the easy solutions are all limited to an unacceptable extent. [...]