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So my grandmother recently called me to ask if I could work on some old family videos that she's had for years. Apparently, because I "work with computers", it's assumed that I can do everything, including convert 8mm film to dvd. In reality however, I'm an Online Marketing Specialist, I don't do any video conversion other than streaming videos on my websites. So, I recommended that she look for a shop that the 8mm film to dvd conversion for her.

It turns out that it's not exactly the easiest service to locate. A lot of local shops are pretty shady, it's hard to tell how good of a job they'll do. And they won't provide a guarantee - if it turns out bad they can easily blame the film quality! So anyhow, looking online for film transfer services, I found the Video Conversion Experts. I would feel much safer recommending my grandmother to them. They guarantee your satisfaction, and are even able to improve the final picture quality! I don't know enough about pricing to tell you how they compare to the competition, but it seems pretty reasonable for the level of service that they promise. I also really like that they've provided a gallery of past conversions, it gives you a good idea of the quality of the DVD that you'll be getting.

You may however, want to try a more upscale production if you're looking for corporate videos instead of just home videos.

Most web developers are quite comfortable using CSS to stylize their websites. But oftentimes they will design (or have designed) a template in Photoshop before creating the HTML template. Sometimes it can be a real headache to convert the RGB colors to the proper hexadecimal values for use in CSS. (more…)

This is perhaps the coolest thing the Mac/PC world has ever seen! With the latest release of VMWare, there's an app/feature called fusion, which allows you to virtually run the Windows applications right within Mac OS X! You can minimize to the dock, you have the same drop shadow effects, it truly is like running any other Mac application!

I want it! Now!

At some point or other, pretty much every web developer has wondered if there's an easy way to create an image from a text variable in PHP. There are many potential uses for this, the simplest of which being aesthetics. A heading rendered as a JPEG or GIF can make use of anti-aliasing for the edges of the text, so it will look much smoother and more refined, as opposed to a basic text/HTML heading which can be somewhat crispy. (more…)