Archive for April, 2006

What do you know!?

MP3 is not MPEG-3
In fact, there is no more MPEG-3 as it was designed for HDTV format, but turned out MPEG-2 is sufficient enough for it.  MP3 is a MPEG-1, audio layer 3 format.

Sync Google Calendar to iCal

A few people have also asked me how to sync the new Google Calendar to iCal, and then even to iPod. Here is the instruction:
Sync to iCal

Go to your Google Calendar, click dropdown menu on the calendar you wish to share.
Select Calendar settings
Click on the ICAL icon next to Calendar Address.
Copy the link.
Go to […]

These are a few of my favorite… podcasts

Quite a few people have asked me about podcast, and what podcast do I listen to.  So here is the list:

ABC News Nightline
Democracy Now!
MacCast
NPR: Wait Wait… Don’t tell me!
Security Now!
this WEEK in TECH
What’s up in Taiwan.

And some video podcasts:

ABC World News Now
MacTV Videocast
Rocketboom

Most of them are updated daily except for Wait Wait, Security Now, tWiT, […]

Travelocity Incident Update 3

Two weeks has gone by since I sent them my travel ID number and the ticket number. And just today I received an email from them, informing me that they have received the information, and will start working on this issue. ETA is 3-4 weeks to resolve this issue.