Category Archives: Video

“The iPad” Salute to Abbott & Costello: “What’s the 3rd?”

Had to do an Abbott & Costello “Who’s On First?” version for the recent “The iPad” announcement where Apple fails to give the third generation iPad a product model name. Thanks xtranormal. Enjoy!
What’s the 3rd?
by: jmergy

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Liberating Video From Flash or Silverlight via Quicktime Screen Recorder

I had a recent situation where some video I need to deal with was locked into Silverlight, Flash or other website embed from the source. I am not advocating you duplicate restricted material with this method. You shouldn’t. This is … Continue reading

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Compiling current clone of FFMPEG on OS X 10.7 Lion

 

Upgrading to OS X 10.7 (Lion) has really caused some issues for me. A big issue for me was not being able to easily grab the current clone of ffmpeg from the git repository. I was able to compile after … Continue reading

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Using Dock Cleats As Cable Managers In Classrooms

When it comes to computer cabling in classroom environments, no matter what you do for the long runs, you usually a mess on your hands those final few feet to the faculty equipment.
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Preparing Video for The WhippleHill Brightcove-Based Media Gallery

Starting January 10th, WhippleHill moved the multimedia back-end of their Podium platform to Brightcove for a number of reasons I won’t cover here but all positive in the grand scheme of things. But, this did leave me with the … Continue reading

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