Ah, the joy of PCs. Mine had been acting up for awhile, randomly freezing at progressively shorter intervals — days at first, hours by the end.

For the last few months I’d incrementally ruled out everything but the motherboard and/or CPU. Eventually I arrived at the “acceptance” stage of PC death, and took the requisite trip […]

Sorenson Squeeze is a very nice, multi-format encoding tool. This almost-entirely-Flash-focused update…

Adds alpha channel support for the On2 VP6 codec Adds On2 VP6 Pro plug-in support for Macintosh Allows you to create embedded cue points for Flash Improves Flash Player skin templates for SWF and FLV Lets you create linked or embedded FLV for SWF files Lets you to enter […]

Today, two more signs of the forthcoming apocolypse.

(1) Apple announces the first Macs with Intel Inside, as Steve rubs “man, can you believe how friggin’ slooow the PowerPC was?” salt into our collective wounds several times during the keynote. (Wouldn’t want to be Kottke right now…)

(2) With somewhat less fanfare, Microsoft delivers Windows Media Components […]