I got my brother’s old bicycle! Yay!
Theora : h264 : YouTube

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A lot of debate about cellphones and iTunes vs Zune. Personally I still think this whole market is in its infancy.
Archive.org : YouTube
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Workin on my comic, music, and editing videos for my family. I’ve been a very busy boy.
I’m trying to steamline a lot of what I do. Feels like a lot of my time is wasted and I don’t want to waste a single moment. I think I’m overdue for a new YouTube video, waddayathink?

DeadBeef

Back in the day, long ago when I was using Windows, I loved Foobar2000.  To this day it really is one of the brightest applications in the win32 world.  Since then I’ve enjoyed Rhythmbox in Linux but DeadBeef really made me remember why I loved Foobar2000.  It’s lightweight, feature-full, and fast.  I’d also recommend it to people who want a lightweight music player.

Trolololl

Theora : YouTube

The last time we ever saw Berny...

The lesson learned here was a hard one.  Berny didn’t make it out alive, but we do have awesome High Def footage of his final moments!  Yay!

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Theora : YouTube

Pocky!

I love pocky and you should too!

Download – YouTube

Pixelpipe

Pixelpipe solves two problems. Some cellphone companies fill you sms messages with advertisements which blocks compatibility with some social networks services. Also, this service allows you to connect to several social networks with one interface.

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Theora : YouTube

Google and an onslaught of other software developers and hardware vendors have finally decided on an open format for video. WebM will not only be implemented into YouTube, but supported by hardware manufactures such as AMD, ARM, Nvidia, and MIPS.

The video codec used in WebM is Google’s new Vp8 video codec which was released by Google as a free and open source codec. Combining Vp8 and Vorbis audio into a custom tailored Matroska container basically gives you the best of all the open source multimedia world. Unlike a basic Matroska file, the WebM container can only hold Vp8 and Vorbis. This is to assure compatibility with hardware and software across the board.

The Vp8 video codec is being compared by proponents to the h.264 codec which makes a bad case for a standard because of limitless patent issues. However the actual technical quality of Vp8 is far less than of h.264, it surpasses the Theora codec in terms of overall quality.

For now, Arthursucks.com will only use Theora, that is until the stable build of Firefox and Opera support the new codec. Let’s hope the new YouTube support translates into embeddable media for blogs such as this.