I've been playing around with various software and settings for transcoding video for the Nexus One. The bright, clear 800x480 screen of the Nexus One makes it great for watching videos. In order to have the smallest possible file size and to take advantage of the decoding hardware the video needs to be encoded using the H.264 codec.

Here is one way to store your stuff more securely in the Ubuntu One cloud.

0) If you mess up and need to start over again follow these directions to completely remove Ubuntu One and start again.

1) Install the file encryption program Cryptkeepter with sudo apt-get install cryptkeeper at the shell, or your favourite package manager. This uses an encrypted file system called EncFS for pass-through file encryption - essential for having your stuff be readable to you but gibberish to anyone else.

I upgraded both of my laptops to the final pre-release version of Ubuntu 9.04 yesterday and am happy to report that they are both running great. The upgrade on my 16" Sager was as smooth as possible - just download the new packages and reboot. On my netbook (10" Asus Eeepc) I had to jump through a few hoops installing wifi drivers and ACPI scripts but it was all well-documented on the eeeuser and Ubuntu forums.

I initially installed the array.org kernel but was having more trouble connecting to wifi than with the generic Ubuntu kernel so I've switched to Ubuntu's offering. Yay Ubuntu for sorting out issues for netbooks so quickly that we don't even need a custom kernel anymore!

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