Tips & Tricks Tobi on 23 Jul 2008
I don’t know if it is a problem with my current theme, or what else caused it, but there is no blank line after an unordered list and a following paragraph that makes it look like the following line belongs to the list like so:
item 1
item 2
Not part of the list.
The quickest and [...]
Videography Tobi on 23 Jul 2008
Here’s another quote of important concepts from the user manual (pp. 387 ff.):
Even if there are no clips highlighted, Final Cut Express usually considers something in the Timeline to be selected. This occurs in two situations:
If no clips are highlighted and there are no In or Out points set, clips under the current position [...]
Videography Tobi on 23 Jul 2008
The following tips come directly from the FCE 4.0 user manual (p. 410 & 413). These are keyboard shortcuts for arranging clips in the time line.
Using the Command Key to Drag More Slowly
When you’re dragging clips, edit points, or keyframes, usually the default one-to-one correspondence between the motion of your mouse and the motion of [...]
Transportation Tobi on 21 Jul 2008
Comparing the German and US offerings of Volkswagen is very frustrating. I’d imagine most people in the US won’t know (since they don’t speak German) and thus happily buy their 2.5 liter/170 HP Jetta with EPA estimated mileage of 24 MGP (9.8 liters/100km).
In Germany, this is not even an option, because the engine is [...]
General Tobi on 17 Jul 2008
For the last two weeks in a row the recycling pick-up truck in my town, New Britain, CT left our carefully sorted plastic bags sitting on the street. New Britain recycles only #1 and #2 plastic. So we always make sure to only put these two kinds in the recycling. In the past this was [...]
Software Development Tobi on 15 Jul 2008
A very useful Wikipedia article summarizing the details about a large number of commercial and free file and directory comparison tools.
Transportation Tobi on 14 Jul 2008
Since it was first introduced, Google Street View has now a significantly increased area of coverage. Check for yourself here.
MS-Windows Platform and Tips & Tricks Tobi on 14 Jul 2008
This morning MS-Office SP3 was pushed onto my machine, and afterwards I noticed that all my former “.mat” files were missing their file extension and were identified as “Microsoft Office Access Table Shortcut” as can be verified by looking at Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types.
Deletion of this file association, and creation of a [...]
Videography and Workflow Tobi on 13 Jul 2008
As I am working on my first video project with Final Cut Express (FCE), I will try capture the essential steps for future reference. The steps are taken directly from the user manual, but with its 1152 pages it is a bit unwieldy and not a good quick reference guide.
First a few preparations:
Connect external [...]
Language Tobi on 12 Jul 2008
As the title of this post — Analysis of Text Jumbling and Legibility — demonstrates, jumbled text is not always as legible as is the widespread (mis)belief spurred by frequent mass mailings with texts like this:
Mac OS X Platform and Tips & Tricks and Workflow Tobi on 12 Jul 2008
If you want to print address labels for mass mailings, you cannot do that with Apple’s Pages, because Pages puts only one address per page in its mail merge function. This is fine, if you want to write a lot of identical letters to different people and also want to add custom printed envelopes. But [...]