I helped a friend out with a Final Cut Express problem yesterday. He was capturing footage from his camera and realized that the audio was only coming in in Mono. He had spent a few hours "googling", trying to find a solution but no luck.

It is possible to just de-link the tracks and copy the audio track and create (kind of) stereo audio and re-link them... except we had panned different microphones into different channels to be able to split them... so by losing the ability to capture stereo we lost one of our tracks which is a big problem!

Came across this page on the gmail blog today. Thought it was hilarious.

As I work a normal 9-5 job and then do a lot of work on the side I end up doing a lot of work late at night.... I thought this was the perfect solution to stop myself sending ridiculous emails late at night!!

How To Setup Windows Deployment Services - Step by Step

This covers the process of setting up a Windows deployment environment in Windows Server 2003, and configuring images to install completely unattended by configuring a Sysprep.inf file to do an installation for down-level images.

Instead of sitting in front of a computer for hours going through Windows setup and installing software... you can deploy a Windows image across a network whilst working on something else, come back in 15 minutes and start using the computer!

I've been working on trying to organize and plan out my days a little more. I'm working full time for TACF as well as random web projects for other clients. So a little while ago I decided it was time to start managing and organizing my time and projects a little more. A friend pointed me in the direction of Collabtive Project Management. It is an open source project written in PHP that does everything I wanted! I needed something simple and easy to use. The GUI is amazing!

One of the main reasons that I switched hosting companies recently was to enable me to host for other people. I've got room for about 25 sites and 1TB of bandwidth allocation as well as being able to upgrade/add another server without even batting an eyelid!!!

So if you need a website or need to host a website or just want to register a domain and have a few email addresses... contact me and I'll let you know the rates.