I own a Flip video camera and for what it is meant to do I like it. However once I get my videos off the camera I can not hear the audio anymore. I still haven’t found a solution on the internets and even their own website admits the problem, but their solution of “update your software” does not work for me nor does it seem to work for a number of others. The odd thing is, if I upload the video to YouTube or Flickr the audio track comes back.

What a pain!

update, after some more searching around I found this solution, which if you read the comments the author recommends removing old QuickTime video codecs and only leaving Perian installed. Worked for me!

I own a Flip video camera and for what it is meant to do I like it. However once I get my videos off the camera I can not hear the audio anymore. I still haven’t found a solution on the internets and even their own website admits the problem, but their solution of “update your software” does not work for me nor does it seem to work for a number of others. The odd thing is, if I upload the video to YouTube or Flickr the audio track comes back.

What a pain!

update, after some more searching around I found this solution, which if you read the comments the author recommends removing old QuickTime video codecs and only leaving Perian installed. Worked for me!

After trying to rent two movies I realized there was trouble in paradise. When I try to sync via iTunes I get the following error.

The Apple TV “Apple TV” is not responding. Check that any firewall software running on this computer has been set to allow communication on port 3689.

A quick Google search reveals I am not the only one and there is no known solution. Thanks Apple!

After graduating college I had quite a nice debt. I had private loans from my two semesters at Penn State Erie, credit cards, and various private and government loans from my two years at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh.

It didn’t stop there though. I wasn’t smart with my money after graduating and spent more than I could afford. While I could technically afford to purchase that new camera, I would put it on the credit card and “pay it off later” all the while paying just a little more than the minimum amounts on all the debt, not just the credit card.

When I made the decision to get out of debt I started with the credit card. I would take out a 0% interest card and pay as much as I could on it each pay check and paid a little over the minimum on the school loans. Once the credit card was paid off I took that payment and rolled it to the loan that had the highest interest rate. I just kept rolling over my payments until the end where my payments were $600-700 a pay period.

The only debt I have now is the house I share with Monica (currently in her name.) My car is paid off. School is paid off. And if I buy something I make sure I can pay for it within a month.

I waited until all of this was taken care of before I proposed to Monica. We will have our honeymoon paid up before we leave.