Category Archives: umwnewmedia

The Kit

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Andy Rush

There’s a bit of history surrounding “The Kit”. It all started with a presidential initiative back in 2006. We worked with a company to provide live streaming of lectures, and “boxes” that included all of the hardware needed to accomplish … Continue reading →

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The Not Ready for Prime Time HTML5 Players

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Andy Rush

HTML5 video is taking over the world! It’s just that the world isn’t ready for it yet. Flash has powered both good and bad websites for years now, but video publishing has been democratized by the ability of anyone to … Continue reading →

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Evom. Is it Mov(i)e backwards?

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Andy Rush

Flickr photo by ShellyS Welcome to the new school year. I’m still shaking my head about where the summer went. I’m also still grinding gears from vacation last week, but despite those issues, I’m very excited about 2010/11 at UMW. … Continue reading →

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Recording DVD Segments on a Mac

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Andy Rush

In the “how long were you going to have that feature and not tell me” category comes the ability to record in the Mac version of VLC. What it allows you to do is record segments from a DVD. You … Continue reading →

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Picasa2flickr

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Andy Rush

I love Picasa, a free photo management tool, and Flickr, a great (also free) online photo sharing/storage service. Picasa, now owned by Google, does have its own photo sharing service and it is quite good. However, I give Flickr the … Continue reading →

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I Love This Time of Year – Part II

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Andy Rush

So CES is in full swing and there is varying opinion when the question “did you see anything cool at CES” gets asked. Some of the gadget blogs that I mentioned in the last post make it sound like everything … Continue reading →

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I Love This Time of Year – Part I

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Andy Rush

There’s no question that a new year brings a sense of anticipation for better things. The whole resolution thing is a great indicator that people at least psychologically want to make things better and are excited about what is to … Continue reading →

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The “Simple” Act of Resizing Images

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Andy Rush

Recently, a faculty member asked me a question that initially didn’t appear to be difficult to answer. “How do you resize an image?” When I’m working on multimedia projects, I do it many times over, or at least I did. … Continue reading →

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Macs and PCs can play nice

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Andy Rush

New Media can mean working with huge files. Moving them from one computer to another has gotten easier with large capacity USB powered hard drives ( I like the Western Digital Passport drives). However, trying to move files from a … Continue reading →

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