And He Blogs

  As much as anything else, the purpose of this post is to demonstrate once again how technology is literally changing our lives. This Times story describes how the Navy is spending $600,000 to camouflage a building on the Coronado naval base in San Diego, because it’s shaped like a swastika. As the Wikipedia article [...]

"Izza Blendtec blender", states the poor soul who tripped and his video camera (accidentally) fell into this obviously not-your-average blender. More Brilliance from the folks who brought you "Will It Blend – iPhone Edition".

  Sorry, but I couldn’t just do an update in my original post on Falling Water. I wanted to highlight the fact that a DivX version is available for Fallingwater, The Movie . Which means you can watch this movie full screen, if you so choose. It is featured quite prominently on the video page, [...]

  This is short, but it’s a stunner. Done entirely with computer graphics, watch Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece Falling Water come alive. Thanks Apollo Pony! UPDATE! The good news is that there is a DivX version. The bad news is that the video has exceeded their bandwidth.

  As I promised in my screencast on Embedding (live) YouTube Videos In PowerPoint, here is a video demonstrating how to download a video from YouTube, convert it, and insert it into a PowerPoint slide. I’ll be using my old friend Riva FLV Encoder to convert the downloaded FLV into an MPEG1 video file. This [...]

  A blast from my video encoding past has resurfaced. Three Faculty Academies ago, I spotlighted a program called Riva Producer Lite. It essentially lets you encode video into the FLV (Flash Video) format with an interactive component. You could create web linked "hot spots" right on top of the video, with very little programming. [...]

I have a new and blossoming relationship, with a blog editor, and it’s from . . . gulp . . . Microsoft. I’m trying not to feel icky about it, and that’s not hard because there is so much to like about Windows Live Writer. It’s a cinch to set up the connection to your [...]

It’s the start of a new semester and that means that the senior seminars get under way. Those classes are designated “speaking intensive”, and so they will have a presentation component to them. One of the popular questions I get asked is how do I embed video in my presentation. Well, you certainly can insert [...]