The Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates discussion tends to lean heavily on the side of Jobs in terms of his presentation style, coolness and overall likability. I have no real thoughts on either but thought this video was one that tipped the scale back to Gates’ side. It’s a video shown to Microsoft employees that looks like someone grabbed their camcorder to pirate. If you like Napolean Dynamite, you’ll love this.… Read the rest
With the number of new photo and video sharing services that pop up daily, I appreciate someone that looks at them and offers a snapshot of the pros and cons of each. Here’s a great review of the top video sharing sites. I’ve tried a few of these services and certainly like youtube for its sharing and embedding into webpages.
Recently a number of these services are offering editing online as well. For quick and dirty edits, this offers a great solution.… Read the rest
I’ve been trying to figure out how to create either easy enhanced podcasts on Windows or else simple v-logs. I know I haven’t discovered anything new for many but this may be helpful to others.
Thanks to Miguel’s love of open source and time spent with VLC, he showed how to rip audio from a video. I also realized from this demo you could easily transcode any video to the .mp4 format and thus make it part of your podcast subscription.
Here’s the credits clipI stick on the end of my videos as a sample.
Another one of those, “I’m not sure how this will work but it’s interesting“.
Update1:
I’m having some trouble getting the video to download as an itune subscription. First issue was my feedburner feed was invalid. Discovered that copying and pasting from Word, creates major issues. Fixed that, now it’s still not downloading the video. Posted a message to Feedburner Forum and will await their response.
Update2:
Thanks to the good folks at feedburner, they let me know the following was wrong with my video:
… Read the restSo, looks like your mime type is incorrect. The mime type for the video should be