Samsung SYNC - My E-Book Project Part 1

Hi all, some thing's been bugging me for a while and it's about time I started things to set it right. Here is the problem, while reading Clay McGovern's blog about the SGH-A707 (dubbed the Samsung SYNC by recently purchased cellphone property Cingular, now AT&T) I ran into a rather great idea... this is the viewing of text on the SYNC with the web browser vrs. using the Picsel file viewer loaded on the phone for viewing text's spreadsheets and PDF files (see wiki for more info on file opening capabilities of the phone.) The Results with the web browser yielded much better results than opening with the provided file viewer, as the web browser sized the text better than the viewer could for the screen and seamed more simplistic to me. GREAT! I thought, project gutenburg here I come! Not 20 minutes into the endeavor I in countered problems, mainly with text formatting and the shier size of the text file being opened on the phone.

My proposal is simple, but direct, what are the size property maximums, for pre-formated text to display properly on the phone? Answering this question will allow the creation of a text filter for notepad++ or similar text editing programs (perhapses emacs and lisp?) for the splitting and creation of pre-formated .html files for opening on the SYNC. come back in the next few day's for a follow up on my findings and where this has all lead me.

ICO Violates GPL

Well normally I don't like to blast away at PS2's thunder. Seams to me the publishers of ICO could benefit more than suffer by releasing the source code and providing space for a community to thrive. However past experiences with this sort of thing tend to lead me in an alternate direction. hop over to Digg or the website linked below for the proof.

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Fun with CCE or one of the things less fun than shooting yourself in the face.

This is just a quick slap up here, i've started to work with the MPEG output generated by my DVD player.... I am currently working on a project to convert some off air episodes to DVD (yeah i know i just recored them to DVD), with subtitles, and chapters... the easy part is pulling apart the commercials but when it comes to taking CCE (closed captions) thats where the fun begins. I have tools for riping them right out of the MPEG output generated by dvddcrypter... but; then i have to cut out the commercials leavening the subtitles badly out of sync... what's a boy to do? well currently i am trying a method involving a frame server and subrip. I want to eventually write a little app to cut the subtitles from one of the various output types that comskip generates; but as far as i can tell that's going to be a pain in the ass as well. well here's hopeing :)