Archive for the ‘ Techie Stuff ’ Category
Good grief how the day just files by when you’re concentrating. I’ve been focussed on putting together a load of video demonstrations for this online training course I’m writing. Time has just flown by. I’m gradually figuring our an effective (and increasingly efficient) workflow so my hope is that I will continue to increase the [ READ MORE ]
Okay. Sometime in the past couple of months. One of the updates from Apple has fixed my Mail application and it can now open PDF files correctly. (No, I have no idea why it was not working either.) This now allows me to migrate from Thunderbird to the Apple Mail tool. Why? Why Mark? Why [ READ MORE ]
If, like me, you spend a significant amount of time editing text on-line (and you use Firefox) you will appreciate the It’s All Text! plugin. This marvellously simple idea saves time and effort when editing text in text areas on-line. Better yet, it allows the use of your favourite text editor when doing so. Once [ READ MORE ]
This morning my MacBook Pro did something odd. Or rather it didn’t do something normal. This morning I booted up and logged in as normal. My machine is configured to start a whole host of helper applications and a few applications I always fire up in the morning, but this morning the machine booted, I [ READ MORE ]
There are few things in life important enough for me to venture out onto the British roads during a Bank Holiday weekend. The sense of horror that washes over me when I merely contemplate the plunge into the tarmac terror that is Bank Holiday traffic is enough to persuade me that, short of life threatening [ READ MORE ]
Flavour of the moment in computing architecture is the notion of cloud computing. Whenever I see these new terms (well, newish in the case of cloud computing) being bandied about, particularly by the mainstream media, I immediately start to suspect that it’s largely hyperbole and marketing fluff. Cloud computing does not disappoint in this respect. [ READ MORE ]
Image via Wikipedia I’m in the process of developing a lot of video demonstrations. To do this I am using SnapzProX on Mac OS X to capture screen video at HDV720p25, which provides 25fps at 1280×720 resolution, ideal for my purpose. These screen capture videos are then assembled with titles, voice over, music, etc. into [ READ MORE ]
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