Mac OS X Platform and Tips & Tricks and Web Authoring Tobi on 30 Jan 2008
This is just a quick note, Mac-loving web designers might find interesting. I just stumbled upon a really neat menu design at this website www.webprint.nl (somebody at that IP address found my blog, and that’s how I found them). It’s all in Dutch, but to see what I am talking about, you don’t need to [...]
Tips & Tricks and Videography Tobi on 30 Jan 2008
As discussed in the Section “Choosing Audio File Sample Rate and Bit Depth” on Page 212 in the Final Cut Express User Manual, Consumer mini-DV camcorders can record four channels of audio using 32 kHz/12-bit audio settings for sample rate and bit depth. After reading this, I checked my Panasonic PV-GS500 and sure enough, this [...]
MS-Windows Platform and Tips & Tricks Tobi on 25 Jan 2008
If you select an image file and choose “Send To — Mail Recipient” in the context menu, the Send Pictures via E-mail dialog appears to ask you if you want to resize the image. To disable the dialog and to directly open the email client with the image attachment, follow the instructions below. This tip [...]
Audio Recording and Mac OS X Platform and Workflow Tobi on 24 Jan 2008
When recording a screen movie, e.g., a software tutorial, with SnapzProX, you can choose to record a voice-over with either the built-in or an external microphone. The problem is that the sound quality is not very satisfying given that it is a straight recording. It would be better if you could filter that audio recording [...]
Audio Recording and Mac OS X Platform and Workflow Tobi on 20 Jan 2008
I recently started getting into home-recording, primarily to do voice-overs on videos or to record screen tutorials for my parents. Of course I don’t have a quiet sound studio at my disposal, so my study has to do. When I turn off the radiator and close the door, it is actually pretty quiet except for [...]
Transportation Tobi on 16 Jan 2008
The final straight section of on-ramps, just where or before where you merge with traffic on the highway is also known as the acceleration lane. You can read more about it here at the Federal Highway Administration Website.
Tips & Tricks and Transportation Tobi on 16 Jan 2008
It’s winter again, we’ve had out first two snow storms, so it’s the time of year when I use plenty of washer fluid. To my dismay, prices have gone up quite a bit recently. Last year I was able to buy a gallon for about 95 cents, this year, the cheapest I can find is [...]
General Tobi on 14 Jan 2008
It was time to change the face of my blog again, therefore, a new theme — Fast Track — by the same author as the first theme I used. And another plug-in too. In addition to adding the post ratings, I thought it would be nice to just get a count on the post views [...]
Mac OS X Platform and Photography and Tips & Tricks Tobi on 14 Jan 2008
With so many documents organized in data bases these days, primarily music in iTunes, and photos in iPhoto and iView MediaPro, I find it more and more important to clean my databases of junk, music I never listen to, photos I never look at, if you have used any of these programs you likely know [...]
General Tobi on 12 Jan 2008
It is a welcome (indirect) feedback, that I recently see more and more traffic on my site, especially, as a consequence of Google searches. This tells me that I must be doing something right. By writing about problems that people care to find out about. This is great and exactly what made me start this [...]
Videography Tobi on 12 Jan 2008
The day is finally here, on Thursday I received FCE 4.0 in the mail from Amazon, it was $10 cheaper than directly from Apple. Unfortunately not all went as smoothly as expected.