How to compress speech
I’ve been playing round with getting good quality compressed speech with LAME. (See here for iTunes.) Here’s what I’ve found. 1. SMALLEST FILE SIZE ACCEPTABLE QUALITY. For very small file size (3MB for...
View ArticleThe best settings for movies for phones
Well, I’m on a bit of a run here with my new samsung D900 mobile phone, the latest being what are the best settings to compress a movie to watch on my phone. The phones resolution is 320×240, which I...
View ArticleHow to reduce the size of a pdf document in OS X
Depending on what program you used to create a PDF, the file size of your PDF file can be quite large. If you combine two or three PDF files together using preview, you can also end up with a bloated...
View ArticleHow to send lots of files or folders in an email
When you want to send someone a lot of files in an email, the best way to do it is to compress them into one file first, called an archive or a zip file. When the person receives the zip file they...
View ArticleHow to import songs into iTunes with no loss of quality
In this article I talked about the best import settings for iTunes. Since then with the increase in Hard Disk space I now think it’s best to import all your songs using the apple lossless encoder....
View ArticleHow to import songs into iTunes using the LAME mp3 encoder
Introducing LAME! Lame is an mp3 encoder that is open source, which means rather than being developed commercially, it was developed by unpaid programmers sharing together. It was originally not as...
View ArticleBest iTunes settings for importing songs from CD
Importing songs into iTunes is easy – you just INSERT the CD, SELECT it in iTunes, and press the ‘Import’ button! But… the default setting on iTunes is not the best setting to use when importing...
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