You can boost audio up 12 db in Final cut pro, but that’s your limit, sometimes that just isn’t enough, so how do we raise audio past 12 db?

1. Double click on an audio track, and raise the audio level to 12 db, if this sounds fine, stay here, if you want to raise it past 12 go to step 2.
2. This is a quick and dirty method but it works, Make your already boosted audio into a nested sequence, you can do this by clicking Option + C, or by going to Sequence > Nest Items
3. Name your sequence, your clip will be replaced with a nested sequence.
4. You can then boost your audio again, by holding down “Option” and double clicking the audio track, your now back at #1.
5. repeat this process till you get your desired boost

Remember, that when your filming, to use a boom mic, or even better a stage mic to get the best audio recording.

For those of you that don’t know what the Konami code is, here’s the wikipedia outline:

The Konami Code, known in Japan as the Konami Command (コナミコマンド Konami Komando?), is a cheat code that appears in many Konami video games, although the code also appears in some non-Konami games. The code was first used in the 1986 release of Gradius for the Nintendo Entertainment System but was made famous in North America in the NES version of Contra, for which it was also dubbed the “30 Lives Code”. While pausing the game or during the title screen, the player could press the following sequence of buttons on the game controller:

Konami Code for google reader

Now head on over to google reader and push those keys, you’ll get those 30 extra lives, next to your feeds, a ninja and the like button will change into a heart, which has a wicked animation when used.

This disaster, which some call a browser; was released on august 27th 2001, eight years old and still stinking up the tubes, many web applications today rely on a browser that is safe and can handle extensive Javascript and CSS, which IE6 can-not…

With its many security faults, crappy rendering, and no built in auto upgrade feature, we as website designers and developers need to help kill this rodent, and so spawns Project “IE6 No More!” a simple but effective way to tell our users they need to upgrade.

And its as simple as copying and pasting some html, check out the code samples over at:

IE6 No more

It notifies the user with a simple div container telling them to upgrade, this is how it looks;

There are so many other causes to help one way is a twitter petition:

http://twibbon.com/join/IE6-Must-Die

What are your thoughts on IE6?

The system message when updating gets to “Configuring Updates Stage 3 of 3 100% complete”.

So far the only methods of fixing this is to use the Microsoft System Recovery Options, found on the bootable Vista DVD, to restore to the last point.

Or, if you don’t have a resent restore point you can go into command prompt in System recovery options and delete/move C:\Windows\winsxs\pending.xml

You will still get the ‘configuring updates’ screen, but it will eventually finish and move to your desktop.

Form there,  you could disable updates and wait for Microsoft to fix the bug, or try and install the updates manually.

I cant wait for windows 7 to come out later on this year.

NameVirtualHost *

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
# This directive allows us to have apache2's default start page
# in /apache2-default/, but still have / go to the right place
# Commented out for Ubuntu
#RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/

Then all you need to do is restart apache2:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Thanks to this Ubuntu Forums post

1. Download the XPI of the Flash Player plugin. An XPI is generally a plug-in for FireFox which is in fact a ZIP archive.
2. (Rename to .zip if you want and) extract the files in the XPI.
3. Go to Start » Run » enter “%APPDATA%” » OK
4. Navigate to Mozilla\Plugins\, if this directory doesn’t exist, create it.
5. Copy flashplayer.xpt and NPSWF32.dll from the extracted files to %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Plugins.
6. Restart FireFox and flash will be installed!

Thanks to ce3c.be.

View list by going to the design cubicle. . .

There seems to be a lot of steps, and would probably need to be done on a rainy day, with plenty of coffee!

I assume, once this delicate tutorial has been completed, one could easily download game backups elsewhere, and run them straight from the external HDD without having to burn it to DVD..

What would be cool is if this data was taken live and inputted into your electric shock suit!

Boom headshoot! would seem a lot more realistic!

25 amazing years of Tetris, and the millions of variations was created by Alexey Pajitnov, a computer engineer who was working for the Computing Centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

It has sold over 70 million copies, and was first available on the IBM computer, but didn’t become worldwide until it hit the game-boy in 1989 (shown left).

Pajitnov came up with the name Tetris by combining the words “tennis”, his favourite sport, and “tetra”, a Greek prefix. The variously shaped groups of blocks that fall down the screen are called tetrominoes.

want to remember the good old days? then get a coffee sit back and prep your hands on the arrow keys, here’s neave’s remake.

Tetris today, still makes it into jokes for such shows as family guy: