Archive for August, 2009
August 30th by chip
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Five things that impressed me about snow leopard
I picked up a copy of Apple’s Snow Leopard today and I have to say it is an improvement. It’s a hard sell to make “under the hood” adjustments seem sexy to the consumer, but here are my inital thoughts: 1. Hard Drive Space–I have an older Intel Ma...
August 30th by chip
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Final Cut Pro–Color Corrector 3-Way Tutorial
Here is a quick tutorial of how I use the Color Corrector 3-way filter. I feel it is one of the most important filters on Final Cut Pro. In this tutorial you will see how I make my footage look much better and keep it TV safe....
August 28th by chip
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My first Camtasia for Mac screencast
Ok, I completed my first screencast for my job, because most people use PC’s so I used Parallels 4.0 to run my virtual machine and Camtasia for Mac and screencast to host the files. I used Final Cut Pro 7 to edit the intro video and Adobe After Effects CS4 to create the c...
August 27th by chip
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Camtasia verus Screenflow and screencasting for Macs
This week was a big one for for screen capturing software, especially if you are on a mac. TechSmith released their version 1.0 Camtasia for Mac and Screenflow announced their version 2.0 upgrade that will be available in September. There are spirited debates across the int...
August 27th by chip
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Camtasia for Mac Review–Smart Focus
Today Camtasia for Mac was released and I did a quick video on smart focus, one of the many impressive things that comes with the software. I have been following their blog often and waiting for a Mac version. Well here it is, I will be writing a more in depth review once I u...
August 25th by chip
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Mapping Main Street–Turner Station (Dundalk), Maryland
I was listening to NPR Weekend Edition on my iPhone and came across a great collaborative documentary project called Mapping Main Street. There are 10, 466 named Main in the United States so I decided to map a main street in Turner Station (Dundalk), Maryland. I have a been a...
August 23rd by chip
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Camtasia for Mac
I am a big fan of screen sharing programs, and I use them often for tutorials and in videos. Camtasia for Mac is coming out this Tuesday, August 25th and I will be purchasing it. I have been a fanboy of Screenflow, and have used iShow HD, but Screenflow by far has been the [...
August 22nd by chip
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Frost/Nixon and the power of the television interview
Say the name Nixon to most people older than 45 and all sorts of images are conjured up, most of them unpleasant: Watergate, resignation, the 18-minute gap, Cambodia, etc. Say the name to most people younger than 45 and . . . who? President or something? Frost/Nixon ought to chan...
August 16th by chip
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Hide your Desktop with Desktopple Pro
I am using my laptop soon for our school system CEO to do a major presentation to over 1,200 people soon and I want hide my desktop but I am lazy and didn’t want to “clean it up” because I really like how my computer is organized. I also do a few screencasts a...
August 6th by chip
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