Convert on Evan Hoffman

Converting Exchange 2003 conference rooms to Exchange 2010

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:25:27 +0000

I’m wrapping up moving mailboxes to Exchange 2010. The last ones to be moved (except for BlackBerry users… thanks BES) are the conference rooms. So the first step was to move them using the Local Move tool, which was pretty simple. But I don’t want them in 2010 as user mailboxes if they can be designated as “rooms,” which they can. So here’s how I’m doing it:

Identify the mailboxes to be moved

Ripping a DVD to iPhone or iPod-compatible m4v for free?

Tue, 04 May 2010 08:43:48 +0000

I was stuck somewhere the other day wishing I had the full movie “Cars” on my iPhone. Surprisingly, this is not something you can presently do through iTunes. After some searching I figured out an easy way to do it for free. The two programs you’ll need are good old DVD Decrypter and WinFF. Put DVD Decryptor in IFO mode and set it not to split the .vob files by size (so it rips them to one huge 6+ GB .vob file). Then drag the .vob file onto WinFF (making sure to use the proper preset for iPhone/iPod) and click “Convert.” It’ll take a while but it works. With my first attempt there seem to be some audio/video sync issues but I’ll play around with it.

One-click converting .avi to .mp4 for iPod or iPhone

Wed, 27 May 2009 22:06:42 +0000

I found a way to convert my camera’s .avi files to iPod and iPhone-compatible .mp4 files with minimal effort. The .mp4 files are also significantly smaller.

Flac to MP3 (flac2mp3.pl)

Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:00:44 +0000

I wrote a crappy perl script to read all the .flac files in a directory and convert them to MP3 using LAME, extracting the meta-data and inserting it as ID3v2 tags. I figured this might be somewhat useful to others, so here you go: <flac2mp3.pl>

https://gist.github.com/1642637.js?file=flac2mp3.pl