Jul 21 2009
Thanks to LifeHacker for pointing out a very cool and interesting feature of the latest version of the VLC media player (one of UMW’s favorite tools). By enabling the Advanced Controls under the View menu, you can now record a segment or an entire DVD as it plays in the VLC player window. [...]
Jul 01 2009
I was getting nostalgic about my blogs (as nostalgic as I can get with something that started in 2004). I wondered how I could get an easy view of my blog posts, and review where I had gone over the last 5 years. I decided to use a plugin that I used at the New [...]
Jun 29 2009
liamlivestrong.MP4 — powered by http://www.livestrong.com
He may not be your ordinary Internet user, but Lance Armstrong comes up with some pretty compelling content to entertain us with. 8 year-old Liam is riding up the Col de la Columbiere with our boy Lance, and he’s making it look easy. The Columbiere is not the steepest climb in [...]
May 27 2009
Lance and Levi Postrace Recap After Giro’s Stage 15 — powered by http://www.livestrong.com
I’ve got lots of things on the burners right now, but along with the Hockey play-offs, I’m watching unprecedented coverage of the Giro d’Italia (even as I write this). The Tour de France has gotten lots of play over the years, with the [...]
May 15 2009
The best comment about where this “debate” went horribly wrong wins a prize!
May 14 2009
This is just a quick post that will be used as an introduction to my New Media Buffet presentation. Actually this is old, new media, but the Video Toaster/Webcam Max/Ustream.tv was put into service once again this year to stream the events. We also recorded the video so that we can post them online for [...]
Apr 23 2009
Here’s a deal from Warner Bros. Studios that is intriguing. In their effort to get me started on my Blu-ray library, they are offering to let me buy the Blu-ray version of movies that I have purchased on HD-DVD format. You remember HD-DVD right? Their “upgrade” (teehee) program works pretty simply. I Select the HD-DVD’s [...]
Jan 27 2009
Here’s a neat trick to use next time you want to show a YouTube video in class, or in your home theater (h/t to WebWare). You need to have the Firefox web browser and an add-on/plugin called YouTube Cinema. So you can go from this:
To this:
You can still view a given YouTube video in a [...]
Jan 25 2009
Then ask this guy . . .
President Obama not only makes his case for why we need the stimulus package, but he announces a new website to track the spending of it – Recovery.gov. If your reaction to all this is “We’ll see”, then you’re right. We will.
Hat tip to Eric Holscher for his tweet!
Jan 21 2009
Sarcasm notwithstanding, the sentiment in the above video is held by many people – “YouTube is a site of millions of sucky videos.” I have, in the past, argued against that statement here, here, here, and here. Until recently, a valid argument for YouTube’s suckiness would have been that high quality video was not an [...]
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