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Horas depois do lançamento do iPhone 4, twitei sobre como seriam revolucionárias as novas capabilidades de VoIP do iPhone, batizado de FaceTime. Fiz questão de vasculhar a Internet para encontrar empatia naquela visão, mas aparentemente todos estavam facinados somente com o aspecto “videochamada” do aplicativo. FaceTime é uma nova função integrada na aplicação de telefone [...] Antena ou “conversor” digital é bobagem para quem tem TV a cabo. Só serve pra quem precisa captar sinal digital do ar e por enquanto só serve para a cidade de São Paulo. Sobre OLED vs LED vs LCD vs Plasma, é o tipo da coisa que você só sente a diferença de imagem na [...] By  Avi on  Fri, 07 May 2010 03:41:15 +0000 | Tags:  lang:pt tech:ok | Categories: Community and Society Multimedia Web 2.0 This is my reaction to The iPad provides the ultimate browsing experience? that appeared on the Flash Blog. I’m not an Apple fan but I tend to disagree with that campaign of Flash support. Clearly, this is another platform war. The Apple platform versus the Flash platform. It is very strategic for Apple to keep [...] Today I spent several hours testing the almost amazing Samsung LED TV on a local store. More specifically the UN40B7000 model. The image quality is great and all but I was more interested in the digital multimedia features included in these new models, branded Medi@ 2.0 (or Media 2.0). You actually plug these TVs on [...] Here are some technical details an analysis about the formats used by the Apple iPhone 3GS to record video. This is an annotated screenshot of the excellent Mediainfo by Jerome Martinez. Some notes: Apple always uses MOV as the extension for standard MP4 files. The recorded video uses an MP4 container so it is [...] By Avi on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:51:27 +0000 | Tags: lang:pt tech:yes | Categories: Mobility Multimedia This is a set of personal notes and a tutorial for everyone about how to correctly organize and tag MP3 files using the id3 command line tool. General way to tag MP3 files: id3 -M -2 [-v] [-t title] [-a artist] [-l album] [-n tracknr] [-y year] [-g genre] [-c comment] file.mp3 Recursively tag with [...] By Avi on Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:32:37 +0000 | Tags: lang:en tech:yes | Categories: Linux & Open Source Multimedia Since we got a 52″ Samsung LCD TV almost a year ago as a gift from relatives, I knew it was time to attach to it a dedicated computer and have a full digital media experience in the living room. I’ll tell you here my experiences building and running this thing that makes all my [...] By Avi on Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:39:38 +0000 | Tags: best best:tech featured lang:en tech:ok | Categories: Linux & Open Source Multimedia This is the 12 weeks plus 4 days ultrasound result of our baby. We don’t know yet if its a boy or a girl. Stay tuned, it will be revealed in the next one. He is growing fast and we are looking forward for his arrival in february. Get the Flash Player to see [...] By Avi on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:40:40 +0000 | Tags: lang:en tech:ok | Categories: Metaphysics Multimedia Agências de Publicidade ou de Marketing são 100% digitais hoje em dia. Geram conteúdo digital em forma de videos, animações, documentos, imagens etc. Às vezes preciso interagir com essas agências e é importante que todo seu potencial criativo esteja materializado em formatos abertos para que seus clientes (nós) tenham máxima flexibilidade ao usar seus serviços. [...] By Avi on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:50:36 +0000 | Tags: lang:pt tech:ok | Categories: Info & Biz Technology Multimedia I just participated in very successful proof of technology with Siemens OpenScape video conferencing products. We made a point-to-point SIP high definition video conference over a local area network. Another test used H.323 protocol. We also included my SIP-enabled Nokia E61i in the conference over the office WiFi network in a direct multipoint call simply [...] By Avi on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:58:58 +0000 | Tags: lang:en tech:yes | Categories: Mobility Multimedia After a long study of months I found this method to be the best way to rip/encode or backup my DVDs. The resulting digital file uses the best standards and technologies (as H.264, MP4, Matroska, AC3 etc), looks practically lossless to human eyes and has reasonable good file size (about 1 to 1.4GB per movie). [...] By Avi on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:36:50 +0000 | Tags: featured lang:en tech:yes | Categories: Multimedia Adobe’s press release says it all: lab version of o Flash Player 9.0 supports latest and best multimedia technologies. Thanks to YouTube and other online video services, the Adobe Flash Player browser plug in is probably the most popular video player in the world. But before this version, only the proprietary and now [...] Its a Nokia E61i. The Nokia E Series smartphones are currently the most advanced in the market. Some may say iPhone but there is no more than great usability and fancy-ness on it. These are a few characteristics I like in E61i: QWERTY keyboard. I’m tired of loosing stylus pens and even use them [...] A short and practical guide on how to install proprietary technologies on Fedora Linux. Get MP3, DivX/Xvid, MP4, AVI, Flash, and fonts installed easily on Fedora Linux. [...] By Avi on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:31:03 +0000 | Tags: best best:tech lang:en tech:yes | Categories: Linux & Open Source Multimedia A Apple finalmente deu a data de lançamento do iPhone: 29 de junho. Em seu site há 3 lindos videos mostrando a operação fácil do aparelho. Mas exige Quicktime e sem isso não funciona. Para um leigo. Mas como já sabia que a Apple usa padrões ISO em seus videos, tipo MP4, H.264 e AAC, [...] By Avi on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:26:37 +0000 | Tags: lang:pt | Categories: Linux & Open Source Mobility Multimedia Sabe aquela multa de radar que você recebeu? Foi enviada pelo Tux. [...] By Avi on Wed, 09 May 2007 17:48:05 +0000 | Tags: lang:pt tech:ok | Categories: Community and Society Linux & Open Source Multimedia Andei estudando tecnologias de compressão de vídeo e é um mundo fascinante. Tudo sobre Linux. DivX e Xvid são compressores ainda bons mas de gerações anteriores. O mais moderno e avançado é o H.264 também conhecido por MPEG-4 AVC, padrão ISO. Uma das melhores implementações desse compressor é livre: o projeto x264. E sobre [...] Uma vez perguntei a um amigo o que é um podcast, e ele disse que é um MP3. Bem, isso é tão minimalista quanto dizer que um Gaudí é um amontoado de tijolos, ou que a Internet é uma porção de bits dançantes. Um podcast é um blog não-textual. Seu conteúdo pode ser audio e/ou [...] By Avi on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:11:50 +0000 | Categories: Community and Society Essays Multimedia Music & Podcasts Web 2.0 A concise guide on how to convert YouTube videos to MPEG files on your disk. [...] By Avi on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:09:00 +0000 | Tags: lang:en tech:yes | Categories: Linux & Open Source Multimedia Web 2.0 |
 Avi Alkalay is an Information Architect, Enterprise 2.0, Open Standards and Open Source do-it-all hacker at IBM Brazil. hCard/vCard
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