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"How To Sync Multiple Shared Google Calendars On Windows 8 By Brian. Filed in How-To Guides Windows 8 now syncs with a Microsoft account (Outlook, Hotmail, MSN) and retrieves all your contacts, email and also your calendar information from it. If, however, you have most of your schedules and calendar information on a Google account, you can opt to add that account to the Calendar app instead. If you have more than one Google account, particularly those that are shared, after adding your Google calendar to Windows 8, you might notice that only the main account calendar is synced, while the shared ones are not."

"I've got a Panasonic HC-V750 camcorder which supports AVCHD and MP4. The highest quality AVCHD settings are called "1080/60p", while the highest quality MP4 settings are called "1080/50M" (also at 60p). Both are 1920x1080 full HD resolution.   When I check out some sample files recorded in those 2 formats with MediaInfo, I see the AVCHD bitrate is variable and seems to be in the 22.8 - 25.0 mbps range, while the MP4 bitrate is close to the advertised "50M" at a variable 45.4 - 49.2 mbps.   So, although I know the answer is a bit subjective, I am interested in which format people think has better video quality.  By bitrate and file size alone, I would be inclined to say MP4 in this scenario.  But the instruction manual implies that the AVCHD is better quality.   FYI: on the audio side, the AVCHD has AC3 384 kbps 6 channel audio, while the MP4 has AAC 128 kbps 2 channel, so the AVCHD AC3 audio clearly seems superior."

"One of the biggest issues concerning UHD/4K is how it will be encoded/compressed and what bit rate will be required to convey a high-quality image. As I've written before, everyone at NAB 2014 seems to have settled on H.265 (aka HEVC or High-Efficiency Video Coding) as the codec of choice for UHD/4K. HEVC is said to offer up to 50 percent greater efficiency than H.264 (aka AVC or Advanced Video Coding), which is often used for high-def content, and even greater gains in efficiency over MPEG-2.   So I was particularly interested in a presentation called "Bit Rate Requirements for HEVC: Comparing H.265, H.264, and MPEG-2" by John Pallett, Director of Product Marketing for Enterprise Products at Telestream, a company that provides video capture, encoding, transcoding, and network-based delivery. The testing he discussed was based on SD and HD content, not UHD, but the findings should apply similarly."

"Comprehensive guide to .htaccess Tutorial written and contributed by Feyd, moderator of the JK Forum, with additions by JavaScriptKit.com. Please see tutorial footnote for additional/bio info on author. Last updated: Jan 18th, 06' for additional section. I am sure that most of you have heard of htaccess, if just vaguely, and that you may think you have a fair idea of what can be done with an htaccess file. You are more than likely mistaken about that, however. Regardless, even if you have never heard of htaccess and what it can do for you, the intention of this tutorial is to get you two moving along nicely together. If you have heard of htaccess, chances are that it has been in relation to implementing custom error pages or password protected directories. But there is much more available to you through the marvelously simple .htaccess file."

Python runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, OS/2, Amiga, Palm Handhelds, and Nokia mobile phones. Python has also been ported to the Java and .NET virtual machines. Python is distributed under an OSI-approved open source license that makes it free to use, even for commercial products.

"Open Journal Systems "Scholars need the means to launch a new generation of journals committed to open access, and to help existing journals that elect to make the transition to open access..." Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002 Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research."

"Gatekeeper is new security feature starting in Mac OS 10.8. See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5290 for more information about Gatekeeper features and benefits. If you are unsure what version of the Mac OS you are running, see http://its.uiowa.edu/support/article/101460.  You can find Gatekeeper settings in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General. To disable Gatekeeper, click on the lock on the lower left of the window and type in your system password. By default Gatekeeper will only open apps purchased and downloaded from the Mac App Store or from a list of "identified developers" that have been given the ok from Apple by obtaining an unique Developer ID.  To install other apps, select the option to install from Anywhere."

"This report sets out the findings of a review exploring how distributed ledger technology can revolutionise services, both in government and the private sector. It covers the: technology governance and regulation security and privacy disruptive potential applications in government global perspectives It recommends 8 actions for government to maximise the opportunities and reduce the risks of this new technology."

"In the opening chapter of his famous Lectures on Physics, Richard Feynman pondered the nature of science, the laws of physics, and the best way to teach it all. He emphasized that much of the vast accumulation of scientific knowledge could be condensed into some essential principles that allowed all sorts of sophisticated deductions."