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Comment on High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake by DVD Storage Binder

DVD Storage Binder — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:28:11 +0000

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Comment on Death to AT&T, Long Live the iPhone by uncle_joe

uncle_joe — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:02:40 +0000

Revolutionary device crippled by poor design…What you say now?

Comment on Signals in Django: Stuff That’s Not Documented (Well) by Crucialfelix

Crucialfelix — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:50:18 +0000

quite out of date, you should add a note to the top of the post. thanks tho!

Comment on Signals in Django: Stuff That’s Not Documented (Well) by Armando Pérez

Armando Pérez — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 01:12:49 +0000

I've a serious problem with signals. I have a base non-abstract model, and several child models that inherits from that base model. I registered signals for the base model and all of it's child models, but the signals are fired up when the child is saved, not when the base it's saved.

Comment on MODx: Simply the Best CMS by Charles Paul

Charles Paul — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:31:30 +0000

You are a tool. MODx sucks.

Comment on Best Practice SEO: File Extension or No? by SEOP.com

SEOP.com — Wed, 26 May 2010 06:51:40 +0000

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Comment on MODx: Simply the Best CMS by seopilot

seopilot — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:18:52 +0000

Thank you this nice post.

Comment on Signals in Django: Stuff That’s Not Documented (Well) by Brad Pitcher

Brad Pitcher — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:11:20 +0000

This is a great solution, but shouldn't signals be asynchronous to begin with? Django should spawn a thread to send the signals right? Then we wouldn't need to worry about this. This, of course, has nothing to do with you, I'm just venting. Thanks very much for the useful post

Comment on High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake by Chris Pratt

Chris Pratt — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:01:25 +0000

Yes and no. I still start with the Apple TV preset, but Handbrake has made a few changes. The quality slider works differently now, so I actually bump it up to 62.5%. I believe it's actually set this way by default in the Apple TV preset, but I also set two audio tracks: AAC Dolby Pro Logic II at 160kbps and AC3 Passthrough. Those settings will give you surround sound on virtually an device that supports 2.1 or more channels. For picture settings, I make sure it's set to Anamorphic Loose with Auto Cropping. That gets rid of any hardcoded black bars, and allows the video to stretch whichever way it can to fill the maximum amount of the screen. Also, if you make your own preset from this, be careful of the Picture Settings option. You need to choose “Current” for Picture Settings when adding the preset, or it will try to force fit every movie into the box set by the movie you had in the encoder when you created the preset.

Comment on High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake by parisian.goldfish

parisian.goldfish — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:34:45 +0000

thanks for writing this! might be really useful for me. However before I start compressing, I just wanted to know if you'd found anything better, as this was written last year!