2 posts tagged “mp4”

I like my Eee. It's got its quirks (both good and bad) but on the whole I'm happy with it.  Still, whether you like this laptop or not is wholly based on what you want it for and where you're going to use it.  Just because I like it doesn't mean you will!

Out-of-the-box it's a little too basic for me (that's when it's in 'Easy Mode') so it's a good job there's the 'Full Desktop (Advanced) Mode'.  The trouble is the 'full' mode isn't an easy thing to switch to, at least not for the first time.  In fact, out-of-the-box there's not a great deal you can change but I guess that's the idea.

Fortunately there's an excellent resource out there that does what the manufacturer ASUS ought to, and more: Eee User

If it wasn't for Eee User I wouldn't be able to use Opera, watch a whole bunch of videos, hook up my phone as a modem nor get Adobe Reader and Firefox working again!

I haven't really gone in to the details of what I've used the Eee for and why I like it, I'll try to go other these things soon.  The thing is, there's plenty of stuff out there already about this dinky laptop and I don't want to go over much covered ground.  A couple of things I will say now though are that video playback is great on the device.  It doesn't struggle with DivX and once you figure out how-to, it does a good job of "ipod" video (H.264 MP4).  I've even managed to playback some HD stuff from Apple and although it struggles it does make a fairly good attempt at playback (not really watchable though!)

I saw this on Wikipedia so it could be complete and utter nonsense, but nonetheless...

Before the launch of Vox, beta releases of the service were named after The Daily Show correspondents; release 15 was named Stewart, while releases 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, and 9 were named Colbert, Corddry, Bee, Carell, Littleford, and Rocca, respectively.

Talking about The Daily Show here's what er, The Colbert Report looks like on an Nokia N73.  By the way Comedy Central, props for having the whole Daily Show with Jon Stewart archive online (and free!) now - but how about a mobile site?  Also, do you realise how many Americans, Canadians and Brits in Europe want to watch Colbert but can't?  You can never have enough truthiness.  Talking of which - there's now a Colbert search engine: COLBoogle!