Monthly Archive for June, 2007

Not dead!

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jonh
on Monday, June 25, 2007
in FYI
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I’m not dead - I just brought an xbox 360 :)

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Screencasting for free! On a Mac! Using CamTwist and iMovie!!

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jonh
on Wednesday, June 13, 2007
in FYI
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[Screencasting] is a nice useful technique where you can record your desktop to try and show something or teach something. The people at [Ruby on Rails] use this technique to good effect :)

I spent ages looking for some stuff to this with on OSX, but the only things recommended by people cost cash :(

So after watching lots of the [Zooomr MKIII launch on ustream] and seeing what Kris was doing with [CamTwist] (which is free!) I had a bit of of a brain wave.

So for a free screencast solution try the following:

  • Download and install [CamTwist]
  • Start [CamTwist] with no effects
  • Start iMovie
  • Flick the switch at the bottom of iMovie to Recording - click on the arrow to select the CamTwist camera
  • Do some recording!

There you go. Just a few things to look out for:

  1. This will beat the life out of your CPU meaning fan noise might be an issue
  2. Export the movie from iMovie in CD quality or it won’t work for most video sites (like [vimeo])
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Bournemouth Beach

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jonh
on Tuesday, June 12, 2007
in days out
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On Sunday (10/06/2007) me and the missus woke up early and decided to head down the Bournemouth beach - which is only 30mins away!!

It was very nice, the sea was very cold and for most of the morning there was no bugger there :)

We walked most of the way to Christchurch before getting hungry and finding a Wetherspoons pub to have breakfast in :)

Also I took some photo’s…

Ripples

Emma

Hearts of Stone

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Mightyv - Online TV guide thingy (vs RadioTimes)

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jonh
on Wednesday, June 6, 2007
in Reviews
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Mightyv Logo

So lets get some things ironed out.

  1. Freeview has lots of channels, lots of them are crap and I would _never_ watch anything one them.
  2. TV Guides cost money, harm the environment and are full of gossip about soaps and people that I could not care less about.

Right. Good. So this is where Mightyv comes in! It’s a free online TV guide! Now if you’re anything like me (with the hatred of magazines) you might have already tried the RadioTimes website - which also provides a ‘free’ online TV guide (when it’s bloody working).

In many ways these two things are quite similar:

  • Can choose the channels you want to see in your view - removing QVC etc
  • Let you look a week or so into the future
  • Give descriptions and ratings of shows

But in some ways they are different…

  • Mightyv lets you create your own schedule and export it as a calendar (in ICS format) which you can then integrate into 30Boxes (the best online calendar there is)
  • RadioTimes is better at regional variations
  • RadioTimes has _all_ the channels Mightyv doesn’t cos of legal and money issues :(
  • Mightyv has a little widget (shown below) that shows the next 5 things on your schedule
  • Mightyv lets you make friends, change your buddy icon and see what your friends are watching
  • Mightyv DOES SERIES!!! - Yes you can add a series to your schedule - HOW GOOD IS THAT!!??

Mightyv vs RadioTimes from bluemonki on Vimeo

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Important Links!!

Published
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jonh
on Monday, June 4, 2007
in internet linky thingies
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I got too much stuffs in my head so I gotta drop some off here, k? Good.

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