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No news is good news.
So how about there is some news? (Actually, scorp is watching Friends and I want to do something, so I choose blogging)
About job application:
1. Before the New Year, I received a call about a job application. It went pretty smooth: “How is your working visa status?”, “I am holding F1 now [...]

movie embedded in PDF

Previously, I mentioned some methods to convert video formats. Today, I managed to embed a video in a PDF file. This is truly the idea of Portable Document Format, that is, a single file can be ported to anywhere for viewing.
So later, when I want to convert html to pdf, I even can convert the [...]

Multimedia in Linux (II) – video conversion

So after the failure of the initial attempt, I have to go back to the command line for video converting. Actually, it is pretty easy to convert the quicktime movie to mpeg just by issueing the following command:
ffmpeg -i input.mov -target ntsc-svcd output.mpg
Sure, you need to install ffmpeg first, which is free&open sourse, largely distributed and even [...]

Multimedia in Linux

Today was a mutlimedia day to me. In the afternoon, I was searching the linux counterpart of iphoto (from Apple, as recognized by the renowned initial “i” as in ipod). There is a package available called lphoto from linspire, a linux vendor/distro (interestingly there are several programs/softwares from this Linspire linux with the names started [...]

Flock

In August you guys created about 56k blogs, 57k users, 1.2 million posts, 188k pages, 1.3 million comments, 3.5k support requests, 196k file uploads, and around 45 million pageviews. (Not counting admin section, images, CSS, RSS feeds, etc.)
The most popular theme is Regulus, about two thousand blogs are using the Meebo widget. The tag surfer [...]