More on AAC+

This site goes into a litle more detail about the coding technology.

A few cool things

I've been neglecting the blog recently -- I've been extremely busy with work and life -- but I have some cool things to mention:

AAC+: Dolby's new sound format, which is part of the MPEG4 standard, gives really good sound at bitrates as low as 24 kbps. Don't believe me? Try Tuner2 and find out for yourself. I think you need Winamp 5.05 or above to use the format

Star Wars Republic Commando: The game demo is out. I liked it.

Lifehacker: This Web site explains how to do lots of techie and non-techie things. Pretty nifty.

Picasa 2: The new version of Google's photo-management software is out. It's free, and makes managing photos easier than it is on the Mac.