Archive for October, 2006

Oct 31 2006

In Honor of Halloween

Published by Andy Rush under Audio & Video

Old Time Horror Radio . . . including Lights Out – “It-is-later-than-you-think!”

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Oct 19 2006

Seriously Shocked

I’ve been using a product from Serious Magic called Visual Communicator since it came out in 2001. An email in my inbox alerted me that the company has been acquired by none other than Adobe! It’s always serious news when a product you have known and loved gets bumped into the big time, and it [...]

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Oct 18 2006

Bravia (Paint) Balls

Published by Andy Rush under Audio & Video

Those Sony folks are at it again, quite literally painting the town in their latest advertisement for their Bravia LCD TVs. You may remember their previous “bouncing balls” ad (or advert as those in the UK say) a while back. There are some details about the setup for the shoot, but I’d like to see [...]

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Oct 11 2006

Firefox 2 Love

Published by Andy Rush under IT

I am always hesitant to profess my love for a new product or update, and there is the risk of jinxifying my life, but I must say that I am loving the new Firefox 2.0 (actually it’s in the final Release Candidate 2, or RC2, stage). You can see the list of new features at [...]

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Oct 09 2006

In This Corner . . . Stage 6

Published by Andy Rush under Audio & Video

I’ve touted DivX in the past, and you can’t go very long without hearing someone mention YouTube this or that. Well, for a while now, DivX has had a YouTube-like site called Stage 6, where they feature videos that are presented in the DivX format (you’ll need the DivX web player to see them). YouTube [...]

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Oct 01 2006

Free Hugs and Fixing Politics

By way of Dave Winer I saw what he describes as a sweet video on You Tube. However, there’s more to the story, and more to be said about the story. I’ll let you watch and read. File this under cock-eyed optimist.

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Oct 01 2006

President Frawley’s Inauguration

I had the opportunity to work on getting the video of President Frawley’s Inauguration up on UMW’s website this weekend. The people who asked me to “work” on a Saturday forgot how much fun this kind of stuff is to me. While the job of capturing video and editing is not hard work (and I [...]

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