If your digital camera has a screen big enough to act as a photo album to show off your pics, then this tip may be helpful to you...
Even if you have a huge memory card in your camera, you still may be only able to store a few hundred images on it, and if you have that many images already on the card, there isn't much room to take a lot of new pics with it.
Well, I came up with an idea that is working very well for me....
1) First, whenever I take pictures, I always archive the full-res images to another media so I will always have access to the original shot.
2) Then, using my camera's browse and "resize" features, I resize all the images in my camera to the lowest resolution - such as 640x480. Even this size is probably higher then the native resolution of the LCD on your camera, so the appearance of the low-res images on the LCD is indistinguishable from that of the original high res files (except if you try to zoom in on any of the low-res ones).
3) My particular camera creates a copy of the original when I resize an image, with the copy being the low res. So, I then delete the hi-res version of the file.
After doing the above steps with all my images, I end up with the ability to store hundreds of low-res pics on the memory card, and becaue they take up only a fraction of the card's memory, I still have a ton of room left on the card to take a ton of new photos and videos!
In summary, by converting all the pics in your camera to low-res, they will now only take up a fraction of memory they once used, so it's then possible to keep hundreds of them in your camera to use your camera as a photo album (because the low-res images look identical to the original hi-res images when viewed on your camera's LCD screen) and still have a ton of room left on the card to take a bunch of new pics/videos. For example, I have a 6MP camera with a 2GB card. I currently have 300 low-res pics on the card, and still have 90% of the card FREE to take another 1000 hi-res pics.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Download Tivo Shows Using A Browser
I thought that you needed Tivo's Desktop software in order to transfer shows from your tivo series II to your windows PC, but apparently not.
My brother has a mac (yeah, I know...) and he showed me that by simply typing in HTTPS://yourtivosip/nowplaying/index.html (The S at the end of the HTTP is important), you can then log into your networked Tivo using "tivo" as the username and your tivo's media access key as the password. You will then be presented with a webpage with download links to all the recorded shows in your tivo. It worked on my Windows XP PC just fine.
Yes, the files will have a .Tivo extension, but apparently there is a mac app out there that will strip the tivo wrapper from what is otherwise an MPG-2 video file, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's a version for PC's.
However, if you have a PC, you can download the Tivo desktop software and it will install a codec that windows media sees. Meaning, that by double clicking on it, it will play in Windows Media Player just fine.
As a bonus, since the .Tivo codec is registered with windows, most programs that handle video will now be able to handle the .tivo format as well. For example, you could use Spb Mobile DVD and specify one of the .Tivo files as the input source and it will easily convert it into an AVI or WMV for your Pocket PC or Smartphone so you can watch your shows while on the go.
My brother has a mac (yeah, I know...) and he showed me that by simply typing in HTTPS://yourtivosip/nowplaying/index.html (The S at the end of the HTTP is important), you can then log into your networked Tivo using "tivo" as the username and your tivo's media access key as the password. You will then be presented with a webpage with download links to all the recorded shows in your tivo. It worked on my Windows XP PC just fine.
Yes, the files will have a .Tivo extension, but apparently there is a mac app out there that will strip the tivo wrapper from what is otherwise an MPG-2 video file, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's a version for PC's.
However, if you have a PC, you can download the Tivo desktop software and it will install a codec that windows media sees. Meaning, that by double clicking on it, it will play in Windows Media Player just fine.
As a bonus, since the .Tivo codec is registered with windows, most programs that handle video will now be able to handle the .tivo format as well. For example, you could use Spb Mobile DVD and specify one of the .Tivo files as the input source and it will easily convert it into an AVI or WMV for your Pocket PC or Smartphone so you can watch your shows while on the go.
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