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The Galaxy Tab 10.1 will play a large variety of videos, and plays them well, but there are a few older formats (like mpeg) that it doesn’t support. To play these videos, you need to convert them to a suitable format before copying them onto the tablet. Mac has Handbrake, and Linux has transcode. For Windows, I was able to track down a few free options. Any Video Converter is freeware and has a lot of flexibility. Freemake is also free. It doesn’t have as much flexibility, but is simple and fast. It can take advantage of CUDA video cards to greatly speed of conversions. It tries to install tool bars in your browser, but you can easily uncheck the boxes during install to prevent them.

I bought a Galaxy Tab 10.1 a few days ago. It took quite a bit of finagling to get it to connect to my computer to transfer files, so I thought I’d share how I did it. Sammy’s support site has some drivers you can download that are supposed to do the trick for Windows, but they didn’t for me. My trek through Google indicates lots of other people had the same problem, but the solutions were mixed, so your mileage may vary. Sammy’s American site has a download for a program called Kies listed for Mac, but not for Windows (since you supposedly don’t need it.) After trying lots of drivers and suggested solutions, I downloaded Kies for Windows from Sammy’s Canadian site. Kies installed the drivers, which allowed me to finally get connected. Best of luck.

Built my AVR Dragon Rider last night. Now on to writing some made avr-c

Visited Bullion and Coin in Mesa yesterday. They have uncirculated generic rounds and 1oz bars from Ohio Precious Metals for spot + $2. They also have minted coins (Silver Eagles, Silver Maples, etc) for spot +4.