Comments on: Geek News Central 2006-01-24 #139

By: MazXNapalm

MazXNapalm — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:29:56 +0000

DVD Shrink is great. Been using it for a while.

URL’s – We have all, at one time or another, told someone about a great site that we visited. But when it comes to giving them the URL, it can be quite tricky. What if it was very long, or easily misspelled? For a while now pc mags have been using tinyurl’s in their print. A tinyurl (see tinyurl.com) takes any lenght url and condences it to a 5 didget alphanumeric code. For example geeknewscentral.com is 2ttlf. This cuts down on mis typing the url and ending up on another site.

I live outside America where some words are spelled very differently. Centre (center), Tyre (Tire) and so on. This could be of great use in podcasts. Not for every url, but those that may be difficult to give out. Just a quick “..or tinyurl 2ttlf….” at the end of the url.

By: ReasonAble

ReasonAble — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:51:52 +0000

DVD Shrink has been around for years. Development stopped in 2004 I believe. The author went to work for Ahead (Nero). It’s still very useful but I understand that it fails with some encryption due to it’s age.

By: penmachine

penmachine — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:24:37 +0000

Thanks for playing another one of my tracks, Todd. In case anyone’s interested, I played all the guitar and bass parts of “Had a Plan, Had to Change It” myself, over some drum loops. Everything was recorded in GarageBand 2.0 on an eMac.

By: Techeon

Techeon — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:37:23 +0000

If you are looking for the amount of caffeine in various drinks here is a really big list. It looks as though red bull is on top. Notice the size of the bottles that you buy though. Seems to be that Jolt is still the most caffeine for the actual amount in each bottle. I still prefer Bawls over everything on the list. http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/caffeine/caffeine_info1.shtml