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Sometimes, Mencoder is too complicated for such a simple task due to its flexible options. FFmpeg is much more simpler and straightforward for that task. For example, you have a music video in MPEG but it seems too big. However, you don't want to drop audio quality too much.

Drupal is one of the greatest CMS right now. It is possible to build a site in minutes and a few days for customization without changing single line of existing codes. That means upgrading is painless. CCK is very powerful for customizing existing content types such as blog to have inline image per node using image field. However, default behavior is to display the image separately. It is not nice so I have to customize myself.

I was asked to find a solution for making a horizontal dropdown menu in HTML. I don't know how to do it but I'm sure it is possible especially in Firefox. After searching in Google, I found a good tutorial.

Sometimes I have videos in DVD structure. It is a suitable format for burning to DVD disc directly. However, I don't want this high quality format. AVI is enough to reduce disk space usage. My tool is Mencoder again.

I have just installed the latest 's project called . It works with perfectly. Anyway, I have some problem with internet connection during in on-line mode. As a result, javascript was corrupted but Google Gears didn't realize this problem. Even though I moved to better internet connection, the broken javascript was not redownloaded again. I also tried to clear cache in Firefox with no luck. Eventually, I found that Google Gears have its own cache.

Sometimes character encoding sent via e-mail are incorrect. The most often scenario is as follow.

• Actual encoding is TIS-620.
• Header indicates ISO-8859-1.
• The e-mail reader displays contents in UTF-8.

As a result, it is very difficult to recover the failure. However, it is possible to solve this problem using Python.