HD movies rented or bought from iTunes tend to be encoded with bitrates of about 5 Mbit/s. Video clips shot on the iPhone 4 have bitrates of about 10-11 Mbit/s — the iPhone doesn’t have the processing power to compress movies tighter than that. [emph mine]

But that doesn’t seem to be the case. If you take a video shot on your iPhone, import it to your Mac, then put that clip in iTunes and sync it back to iPhone, you can then play that same video file over AirPlay using the “iPod” (on iPhone) or “Video” (on iPad/iPod Touch) app.

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View hidden files and folders in Finder.
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December 3, 2004 - 11:04am
As you know, the Finder hides the standard Unix files and folders from you. You can 'Go To Folder...' and type in the name of the folder such as /var/log, but that's fiddly and you still don't see the 'dot' files, so for any serious session, it's probably easier to drop into Terminal. Except, there's a terminal command that will make all files and folders display in your Finder. defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool true et voila

My first free Sunday morning in what seems like an epoch produces a complete rewrite of the original (and by far most popular) lab experiment, the “Unobtrusive Table Sort Script”, that addresses speed issues present within version #1.

<script type="text/javascript" src="../path/tablesort.js"></script>
 <style>
  td {font-size:11px}
  th.sort-active {
   background:#CAE8EA url(../path/bg_header_sorting.jpg) no-repeat 0 0;
   cursor:wait;
        }
  th.sort-active a {
   color:#a80000 !important;
   cursor:wait;
  }
 </style>

As a measure of “attention,” I started looking into click-through data. The wonderful thing about bit.ly is that it has an API that allows anyone to view the stats on any bit.ly link. I grabbed as many of the bit.ly-containing Tweets of several of the most followed and link-heavy Twitter accounts as the Twitter API allows (it imposes a limit of 3,200 total Tweets accessible per user) and the number of clicks each link had gotten.