Jing is absolutely brilliant when it comes to recording and sharing media hosted on Screencast.com, but its ftp output enables some incredibly powerful, customized experiences. Unfortunately, ftp support is extremely rough around the edges making it not all that accessible for the layman. This post aims to change all that by providing a complete example [...]
Being awake and trawling the web at 3 AM sometimes means you get an early jump on tomorrow’s big announcements. Here’s a snapshot of the Photoshop Express uploader. Great workflow with a sophisticated and understated UI. I dig it, MUCHO.
Looks like they will be using a tiered model with a free basic version and a [...]
Jing is absolutely my favorite piece of software made by TechSmith. It’s a quick and simple recipe for broadcasting images and video of your mac or pc that I believe has the potential to redefine how we think of screen capture / recording. It also has the opportunity to have a profound impact on how [...]
I was reading about Sam Ruby’s experience as an OS X switcher and he mentions the phrase uncanny valley which is an interesting theory on the emotive response of humans to technology (robotics actually) based on how similar the tech is to humanity.
Now I’m guessing our connections to tech are highly subjective and I might [...]
A few lessons learned while serializing custom classes.
Compiler metadata tags only get you part of the way. Metadata alone is perfectly suitable when you’re not serializing classes with members that contain complex datatypes where those complex types have private members.
If there are private members in your complex data types then you’ll need to implement [...]
Here in the US, and Michigan in particular, the near term economic forecast is pretty gloomy, but I don’t think the same is true for the screen capture / screen recording (screencasting) industry. I was struck by this thought as I was reading how shark fans are tracking the location of a great white shark [...]
One thing you have to give credit to Microsoft for is they know how to get boots on the ground and press flesh. At SXSW, Josh Holmes managed to get Silverlight 2 installed on my otherwise pristine Macbook Pro by proffering that age old question, “have you ever seen Silverlight’s ‘Deep Zoom‘ feature?” Naive, thirty-something [...]
Just got back from SXSW — Austin definitely lives up to its reputation as killer town full of music. Here are the pics that made the first cut in my digital lightroom (Adobe Lightroom is by far my favorite piece of software ever).
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The killer Lightroom generated gallery was provided by Airtight Interactive.
On my way to SXSW I was sharing a cab ride from the Austin airport to my hotel with coworker and friend Nick Gorsline when I turned to him and said, “**ck you, I don’t need to talk to you, I’ve got my iPhone and the Edge network–I’ll just check my email.”
This got [...]
The end of an era. Brett Favre retired yesterday kicking the American sports media into a frenzy. Despite the media overkill and the threat of damaging my reputation (we Americans love our illusions of independent thinking and non-conformity) I feel it necessary to add a bit of commentary, emotive though it may be.
Thank you Brett. [...]