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Jing Desktop Recording and Sharing Application

Feb 29th, 08 / 1 Comment

I stumbled upon this application called Jing through Slickdeals.net which is free. It is a program for the OSX or Windows which records a video or takes a still shot of your desktop.
The best part of it, is that after it captures, it uploads it to Screencast.com to share. You can also set it to upload to Flickr which I tested to put the picture above or FTP or to a File. (I captured this post.)
It then automatically puts the URL to your capture on your clipboard to share easily.
Here is a video capture I uploaded to test – http://www.screencast.com/users/LESLIEx317537/folders/Jing/media/4cbdf76d-a860-409b-9780-67e2a876e725

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Lunar Eclipse Time Lapse Video

Feb 21st, 08 / 0 Comments

I video taped the February 2008 lunar eclipse from a window inside my house.
Not the best shot but you can see it fade and reappear.
I had to reposition the camera every 30 minutes to follow the moon moving through the sky.
I also used the Aiptek camera and it doesn’t have a very large SD card in it so I had to transfer the video to my computer when it ran out.
I increased the speed by 10000%. This was my first time lapsed video.
I hope you enjoy.

Science and Technology

Apple Keyboard Firmware Update 1.0

Feb 20th, 08 / 0 Comments

I’ve been having this annoying issue with my MacBook Pro where the first letter you try to type will be ignored sometimes. It gets very annoying and posted on the Apple Forums about it only to have the topic closed and locked.
It looks like the finally fixed it. Yay!
I checked for a Apple Software update today and this is what it said:

This MacBook and MacBook Pro firmware update addresses an issue where the first key press may be ignored if the computer has been sitting idle. It also addresses some other issues.

The update package will install an updater application into the Applications/Utilities folder and will launch it automatically. Please follow the instructions in the updater application to complete the update process.

I’m going to update now and hope it fixes it!

Apple

Drop Box with Parachuting Ninjas

Feb 20th, 08 / 0 Comments

Tonight I made a Drop Box to drop different items from my Slow Stick RC plane.
I’ll be sure to make some videos.

Netflix Watch Now Plugin for Windows Vista MCE

Feb 18th, 08 / 0 Comments

Some developer created a really cool plugin for Windows Vista MCE that allows you to interact with Netflix via the MCE interface.
More importantly, it allows you to browse the instant Watch Now movies that Netflix offers through the MCE interface and allows easy playback.
I installed the plugin on my Vista MCE machine and it works really well. It was also easy to install. I highly recommend this plugin if you have a Netflix account and a Windows Vista MCE.
You can find out more and download the plugin from here – http://www.anpark.com/Software.aspx

Microsoft, PC

Plugin to post Videos to my Wordpress

Feb 11th, 08 / 0 Comments

This is the plugin I’m using to post videos to my wordpress.
http://www.daburna.de/dokuwiki/doku.php/instruction.
If you want to post videos to my wordpress, then follow the format in the instructions in the link above.

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