We all know that the Google Video Player is Flash based and that most Flash movies can be customized using additional parameters. So what parameters does Google use that will allow us to customize our players? Google Operating System blog has a short little post that will show you how to Customize the Embedded Google Video Player.
A year ago I posted my method for uploading images from Picasa to Flickr. My solution was pretty simple, but if you’re looking for a more technical solution for uploading images from Picasa to Flickr, you might want to check out this Python solution fo Using Picasa to upload to Flickr. The technique does involve some pretty advanced computer expertise (installing a programming language and running scripts) but the solution works very well! It also has the advantage of allowing you to upload your original images as opposed to my solution where the images are resized by Gmail.
Dana Boyd has 2 really great articles that discusses issues relating to when media becomes culture. Part I looks at Rethinking copyright issues and part II explores the concept that remix is active consumption not production.
PhotoShop may not be free, but these 10 Free Plug-ins to Enhance Photoshop reviewed by ExtremeTech certainly are! OK - one or two of them may be a bit dorky but the others look quite interesting.
I recently experimented with creating a torrent file to distribute a video I made. This tutorial on How to create a torrent was extremely useful and helped demystify this great peer-to-peer technology.
The Songbird open-source media player that is built using Firefox technology and XUL Runner is now available in a early beta release. The Songbird site is pretty overloaded right now, so if you’re interested in checking out this new player, you can find it a couple of mirrors (here and here). What makes Songbird different from other media players is that it promises to free you from connecting to one locked store full of DRMmed goods and instead it will let you connect to any and all available music (and video) on the internet.
It’s a beautiful photograph, but do you know WHY it’s beautiful? iStockphoto has a fabulous article that explains in quite a bit of detail photographic Composition and Impact.
The Songbird Media Player is a very cool looking product. Actually you can’t download the product yet, but the screen captures and articles on Songbird’s blog make the product sound very compelling. Songbird is a media player that is built using XUL and the Mozilla Platform to create a cross platform, Internet enabled player. I’ll be really interested to see how this product develops. I proposed a similar idea to a client over a year ago, and it was met with very little enthusiasm. I thought is was a great idea as I had been developing in Visual Basic, but was looking to take my work to a devleopment environment that would make my software cross platform.
Trevor Morris has put together a great collection of Photoshop and ImageReady Resources where you can find some great free tips, tutorials and actions.
