ord.ca

The new version of Drupad works great except it forgets your previous settings.
Now working on updates to Drupal itself.

After reviewing some recent mp4 movies, I realized there was a second audio track added in.
Changing the audio to a single 160 kbs track reduced the overall movie size by ~ 400 MB. The old profile was a mod from the standard Apple TV2 profile which contained a second audio track.
Still testing Handbrake but it seems this new single audio track approach will save 15-20 percent.

The tech guys solved the problems and now all ord.ca mail is working again.

The ord.ca domain mail has been down for 48 hours.
Hopefully mail will be up and running by Monday.
Please be patient. The ISP techs are working on it.

It looks like there are some hidden meta data fields for iTunes video.
When you buy a movie from iTunes, there are lots of extra fields displayed while searching on AppleTV. If you try to edit the info, the fields aren't there i.e. actors. This becomes very frustrating as the only way to resolve this is with a meta editor which has to rewrite the file. When changing basic info with iTunes, the file is edited in place and is not rewritten. When dealing with lots of movies, this becomes a problem. Also, you want to make sure the original encoding stays intact.

Running the new iCloud service hasn't been without issues.
The main problem has been calendar syncing. During a cleanup of calendar categories, some entries ended up without any category. It seemed that most of these entries were repeating events - not sure why.
The only solution was to delete the repeating events then re-create the entries.
Now all devices are in sync and updates are also faster.

Apples new OS is very power hungry mostly due to changes in default settings.
The time zone setting by default is auto which constantly checks your location to set your time zone. By manually setting the time zone this 'feature' is disabled and power consumption is reduced.

Working with Drupad for a while now and it's fantastic.
It gives enough management with decent content creation.

Seems I am back to square one after doing some hacking with 7.8 and then breaking it.
The easiest way to recover was to blow away the mess and do a fresh 7.9 installation. Starting to better understand the critical areas of Drupal and what shouldn't be touched.
Doing some site customizations now to get back to where I was.