Archive for the ‘Video’ Category

5 Things You Can Do To Ditch The Cable Company

Posted on April 13th, 2008 by Elliot

Hulu
Joost
Miro
Network Websites
ABC
MTV
Discovery Channel / TLC / Animal Planet
Find Internet TV

What would you add to the list?
P.S. Ditch work for a year and live your dream.

Revver Uploader Doesn’t Work On Leopard

Posted on November 7th, 2007 by Elliot

Here’s how to fix it:
All,
This morning we updated the MAC version of the Flash Player 9 Update beta on http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/ , specifically to address this issue.
Leopard users who would like to avoid this issue should update to 9.0.98.0.
Regards,
Bentley Wolfe
Senior Support Engineer, Flash/Flash Player
via the Revver Forums

Indeed, Yahoo! Messenger for Mac does not support voice, even though it supports webcam video.
For audio, you’ll need to go with iChat or Skype.

I was astounded that Yahoo would bother releasing a Video chat feature without sound/voice. I was helping my father-in-law install the new Yahoo client on a Mac (he’s a recent retiree and [...]

Ken Burns Effect

Posted on September 24th, 2007 by Elliot

My first thought, when I saw this effect, was that it had something to do with “burning”, as in fire.
I couldn’t have been more wrong.
The Ken Burns Effect is found in Apple’s iMovie ‘08, part of the iLife ‘08 suite included with every new Mac.
It’s the popular and now well-known effect of panning and zooming [...]

Convert YouTube to iPhone

Posted on September 3rd, 2007 by Elliot

Wow, I just had one of those rare experiences where I actually found exactly what I was looking for with a simple Google search!
I wanted to download and convert a video from YouTube to play on my iPhone, so I searched for “YouTube to iPhone”. First few results were about how you can watch YouTube [...]