With AT&T facing lawsuits for not delivering MMS features at the iPhone 3GS launch, they kind of had to do something. I’m not sure if I’d be satisfied by this video if I were among the plaintiffs, but I think it does a good enough job. The stat about 300% annual increases in mobile data [...]
Posted September 7, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: ATT&T, iphone, video. Be the first one.
Okay, I don’t want to watch all the movies depicted in this 100 year overview of film special effects, but I did just add a few to my Netflix queue.
Posted September 6, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music. Tags: history, movies, special effects, video. Be the first one.
Liam Lynch explains the origin of the video, but what was Dan Deacon thinking as he recorded the audio? Of all the free MP3 downloads he offers, Two Friends from the Acorn Master album may be the most, um, listenable.
Thanks to daily songsmith Corey B (Corey Blanchette) for the tip.
Posted August 15, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: Dan Deacon, drinking out of cups, funny, Liam Lynch, music, spoken word, video. Be the first one.
I’m simply in love with this video. Watch through the credits to see a bit of how it’s made.
Posted June 12, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: animation, Sorry I'm Late, stop motion, Tomas Mankovsky, video. Be the first one.
[I]n theory, I should be able to issue one command to VLC and have it receive the MPEG4-ES stream from the camera, transcode it to h.264, and stream it to the Wowza, which would handle the rest.
via John Beales.
Posted June 7, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: Axis web cam, FLV, streaming, transcoding, video, VLC. Be the first one.
Well, not ‘leaked,’ but just in time for the new Transformers movie, Patrick Boivin has posted this video of Bumblebee breakdancing.
Posted June 5, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: autobot, breakdancing, bumblebee, dancing, movie, transformers, video. Be the first one.
In line with yesterday’s discovery of the Viddler WP plugin, Riffly Webcam Video Comments also supports video or audio comments within WordPress:
Riffly is a free service that easily plugs into your site allowing visitors to create video and audio comments.
The service is advertising supported. We cover all the costs for bandwidth, servers, and maintenance. Optionally, we [...]
Posted June 5, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: audio, audio comments, comments, podcast comments, Riffly, video, wordpress. Be the first one.
The Viddler Wordpress plugin promises to “Enrich your site’s commenting experience by enabling video comments….” Users can record direcly from a web cam or choose a video they’ve previously uploaded to Viddler.com.
Viddler evangelist Colin Devroe has it on his site, where I can see it requires would-be commenters have a Viddler account. That last bit [...]
Posted June 4, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: comments, Viddler, video, video comments, wordpress. One Comment.
Doesn’t everybody need a PocketTorch? It’s a “safe, practical tool,” they say. More amusingly, the list of suggested uses includes: melting your cache of gold, scaring grandma, lighting illegal fireworks, dental/lab work, and making friends jealous.
Posted May 9, 2009 by Casey
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: melt a penny, pocket torch, PocketTorch, torch, video. Be the first one.