Edge Case, Community Builder, Tinkerer, and Teacher
I just realized that they really shouldn’t call the new Macs with Intel CPUs “Powerbooks” and “Power Macs”. Doesn’t the “power” part of the name refer to the PowerPC chips inside?
Any bets as to what the new Apple laptops and desktops with Intel chips will be called? Mac Mini and iMac would still work, but I doubt they’re going to be called “IntelBooks” or “x86Books”…
I’ve posted the video/screen capture of the Blogging Academy session on Photoblogging I did last week. The audio is the same as the previously-released podcast on the topic, but this adds a full video capture of my screen that shows everything I was doing as I talked about how I use Flickr for easy photoblogging. I think the video adds quite a bit to this topic, for someone looking for how to do “Photoblogging 101″.
The video is in WMV format, 1024×768 pixels, because I used the free Windows Media Encoder to record it. If someone knows of a free way to capture the screen to video in MPEG4, H.264, DivX, or some other more palatable codec, I’m all ears. I also posted a transcoded MPEG4 320×240 iPod-friendly version, just so I could put it on my iPod with video and show it to people. However, it’s a lot harder to make out what’s on my screen at that lower resolution. 
If you’re interested, or know someone who is (come on, we’ve all got a friend or family member that asks “so what’s this blogging thing I keep hearing about?”), head on over to BloggingAcademy.com for 101-type discussions about blogging, podcasting, wikis, and all the cool new stuff that you can do these days on the web. 
Brian and I just tried to record a podcast for this week. We spent 30 minutes trying to get Audacity to “hear” and record both sides of the conversation. For some reason, we can never get the setup that worked the previous week to work for second week in a row. We have to re-invent the wheel every. single. week. Grah!
To top it all off, once we got it working, I got kicked out of the conference room I was in. It’s getting so crowded in my building (Jones Farm) that there are never any conference rooms available to reserve unless you do it weeks in advance. Even on a Friday afternoon. It’s getting so crowded that the cafeteria is as crowded and noisy at 4:00 PM as it is at lunchtime. And they’re going to compress us even more. Great…
I’m just extremely frustrated right now. I’m sorry we won’t get a show out to you today. I’ll try to record one over the weekend, but I generally try to unplug and spend time with my family on the weekend, so we’ll see how that goes. Maybe a short mobile podcast or two recorded on my Samsung i730, since I’m teaching “Podcasting from Mobile Devices” at Podcast Academy next Thursday…
Have a great weekend! I’m going to try to listen to some upbeat music on my iPod to get out of this grouchy mood I’m in before my sister in law’s birthday bash tonight. Don’t want to be the wet blanket at the party.
It was one year ago today that I recorded the very first TinyPodCast:
Inagural TinyPodCast. Mostly a test to see if I can get all of the pieces of this working together. Recorded from an unusual location.
Hardcore TinyPodcast trivia tidbit: what exactly WAS the “unusual” location where episodes #1 and #2 were recorded?
It’s been a great year - here’s to many more!
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I’ve never paid super-close attention to web stats like hits, etc. I check them once in a while, and they seem like they’re impossibly large. Could it really be that this many people are reading my blog? *boggle*
Hits to TinyScreenfuls.com quadrupled from about 40,000 in January 2005 to more than 160,000 in October 2005. About half of the hits are coming from my site feed. Growth looks pretty linear - I wonder if it will continue? I’m not sure what accounts for the spike in March. (EDIT: Oh, wait. That’s when I got Scobleized
Many thanks to all of you who read TinyScreenfuls.com, subscribe to the feed, and listen to the podcast. The reason I write here is because I love to talk about this stuff. The fact that there are people out there who love to read and listen is very gratifying (and somewhat scary ;-).
Ok, this was pretty cool. I was checking out some new mashups on my PC last night, just listening to a few seconds, to see how it was. That meant I often jumped to about the midpoint of the song, listened to a few seconds, then went on to the next song.
The first neat thing I noticed is that when I came back to a song I had been listening to before, it remembered my position, and started up again right where I left off.
I transferred a few of the mashups that I liked to my iPod Video, and one of them came up in my playlist right now. Guess where it started playing? Yup, right where I was when I was listening to it in iTunes last night. And it’s just a plain MP3 file - not a fancy AAC. Looks like Apple has finally nailed the MP3 bookmarking problem. Very cool.
To reiterate, iTunes somehow embedded some metadata in a plain old MP3 file to bookmark the playback position, and that metadata survived being transferred to my iPod. I don’t know if it’s actually embedding in the file, or in the iTunes database, but it’s a feature that people have been bemoaning the lack of for quite a while.
It’s really nice to not have to worry about remembering where I was in the middle of a long podcast when playback gets interrupted for some reason.
Oh, and head over to MashupTown to check out some cool mashups.
I’ve posted Blogging Academy Podcast #8: “Photoblogging” over at BloggingAcademy.com. Go check out the show and the wiki page to hear us talk about using Flickr for sharing and blogging your photos the easy way.
Extra special bonus - I managed to capture a decent video screencast of the whole thing, which I’ll be posting soon, so you can watch my screen as we talk about Flickr and it’s features. Check it out!
Haven’t tried out the A/V cable yet, but I hope to at a birthday party I’m “DJ’ing” for this weekend. I’m also bummed that they don’t include the AC adapter anymore - it’s not a $39 accessory purchase. I used to use this in conjunction with retractable sync/charge cables to be able to power my whole stable of gadgets (PSP, Pocket PC, iPod, etc.) with that one adapter and a couple of tiny retractable cable.
You can check out more photos of the “opening” ceremony of my new iPod in this Flickr set. Enjoy!
I took these photos right after removing the plastic sheet protecting the face, and was careful not to let anything touch it, to document the “out of the box” state.
You can check out more photos of the “opening” ceremony of my new iPod in this Flickr set. Enjoy!
A clear plastic enclosure holds everything in place. The part holding the different silicone buds is removable, probably to prevent them getting easily lost.
You can check out more photos of the “opening” ceremony of my new iPod in this Flickr set. Enjoy!
# # # # I’m all for making things simple. in reply to jackbaty # She’s so wonderful! # in reply to krystlechung # I was just pointing out the “official” photo tagging/sharing tips we’ve been telling people. in reply to wajiii # in reply to Jmartens # in reply to ahockley # in reply to rachelbancroft # in reply to sumwan # in reply to aweiss # in reply to ahockley # in reply to strangelovelive # in reply to camikaos # # # #
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