I have a New York Fahgettaboudit Kryptonite lock and it is great. It’s big and heavy but that’s to be expected from a chain that protects against the hardest of thieves who are out to steal a bike. If I’m out with my bike, you can bet I carry my Kryptonite lock with me.
And while Kryptonite locks are known to be incredibly strong and resilient against attacks, there’s gotta be something said about the lock’s construction quality. In plain words, it sucks. The black plate that covers the hole where the key is inserted is falling off and it doesn’t seem to be an isolated case as my brother who also owns the same lock has had his plate completely snap off. While mine hasn’t snapped off just yet, it’ll be a matter of days before I know my Kryptonite lock will be without a plate covering the keyhole from the weather (thus increasing the potential for rust, etc.).
The problem it seems stems from 2 very weak screws that hold the black plate onto the lock body. Without much abuse, these screws seem to just fall right out of their holes.
So Kryptonite, if you’re reading this, please find a way to remedy this problem. While not essential to the actual protection of a bike, the fact that your locks fall apart so easily makes me have a bit less faith in your product.
This young fella hated the MacBook Air’s cheap build quality so much that he decided to stab it to death and then praise the construction of a nearby IBM Thinkpad X300. [via]
If this turns out to be a viral marketing scheme for IBM, then it’s a pretty damn brilliant one at that.
Every time you save a JPEG image, information gets lost in the file. Usually the difference is hard to tell, but the fact still remains that a JPEG is a lossy format.
With that said, what if you were to save a JPEG 600 times over and each time you saved it you compressed it a bit more too? This video above shows the results.
A lot of online video services now offer the ability to upload and view videos in HD. This is great but not all HD video is created the same. So if you’re looking to view the best looking HD video, where do you go? CNET has a great article comparing web video services that offer HD and they break it down easy by providing screenshots of each video player.
The 6 video services reviewed are YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, DailyMotion, SmugMug and Blip.tv and each is put through a still test and a motion test to see which video quality is the best.
If you’re a content publisher and you’re looking for the place to upload and discover the best looking video, this article is a must read. I can’t say that I agree with their findings (I actually think Vimeo has the best HD quality), but their #1 choice is definitely deserving of at least one of the top spots when it comes to HD on the web.
This is great! The White house has an active dedicated channel on Vimeo featuring the President’s weekly address along with other official White House clips. I think it’s a much better alternative than YouTube’s identical channel because the video quality on Vimeo is far better than it is on YouTube. The only thing I can think of that makes YouTube’s channel worth visiting is for the closed-captioning option (in case you need it). Otherwise, Vimeo wins this distribution race hands-down.
