Month: April 2009

  • Streamlining with Quicktime Pro

    Reading Time: < 1 minute If you’re learning about editing but don’t want to spend much money then Quicktime pro is a cheap and easy straight cut editor. It’s quick and easy to use. With the short cut apple+c apple+N and apple+v you have a very simple editor. Using J to play backwards, k to…

  • Interview with the creators of Minsh tomorrow

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Minsh is launching tomorrow and I will be meeting with them to record an interview with them about the website. They’re university students who did this as one of their projects. Minsh is a 3d virtual environment in which twitter users are represented as fish swimming in the ocean. Each…

  • Nanox,TRP files and Mpeg streamclip

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Satellite television broadcasting is an interesting field to looik into, especially now that there are thousands of channels available on a multitude of satellites. Over the past two days I have been learning about the Nanox HDTV recording device. What I like about using the Nanox receiver is the ability to…

  • Here is the Nouvo video where you see me speak about twitter.

    Reading Time: < 1 minute And there you have it, me speaking about twitter. As promised update – I’m happy with all the positive reactions this video is having. Thank you.

  • Happy and slightly nervous – as would be expected.

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Nouvo is a show I have enjoyed watching many times, aired on Swiss television and in podcast form until recently. They are changing format and appearing on the website and news programs from now on. What makes this particularly interesting is that they left a comment on this blog, asking…

  • Sociability and the web

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday I had the pleasure of someone deciding to spend a good portion of the day with me, something that is quite rare. It’s also something that is important to a topic that I have spent quite a bit of time thinking about. How much of your time do you give…

  • It’s a question of Gravity – Twitter on S60

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Gravity is a twitter client for the s60 and I recently installed it on my N95 and so far I’m very happy with it. With an intuitive interface it makes being logged in to two twitter accounts and one identica account very easy. What is especially nice is that you…

  • Nambu is great

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Nambu is a desktop client for Twitter available only to users of Leopard 10.5. What makes this application great is that it has automatic threading of conversations, making it easier to keep track of conversations. The multi-column to single column view is also easy to interact with and creating groups…

  • Sportstracker has been improved.

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Today I was pleasantly surprised after racketing in the mountains to discover that my phone’s battery had not depleted. I was using sportstracker for over two hours and some charge was still left after an hour and a half. There was so much battery left in fact I went for…

  • Swiss mountain cleaners

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    Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s April fool’s day and the swiss have taken advantage of their reputation to start a funny promotional campaign. It’s about the birds soiling the mountains and having crews of people specifically to resolve this problem. Of course it’s an April fool’s joke.