Wordcamp Louisville
Be sure to come to Wordcamp Louisville 2010. Thirty hours of learning and fun!
Google Wave Lives On, Sort Of?
Google has announced despite there recent demise of the Google app Wave they would now let it be open-source and allow anyone to run the application on a server of their own. This experience would not be the same as the original Google app. It will not be the same universal application experience as before.I guess it’s better than nothing!
If you have not experienced Wave check it out before it’s gone.
Edit Video Online
JayCut is a an online video editor. You may ask, “Why would you use an online video editor?” The answer is for power. I have a relatively slow computer. Editing video does not require a powerful machine but rendering the video after editing requires an awful lot of computer (both CPU and RAM). My machine is a single-core AMD Sempron 1.8 GHz with 2 gigs of RAM. Not bad for what I normally use it for (Web Apps, media playback, Photoshop a
nd Lightroom) but it really chokes when rendering video. That’s where JayCut comes in. You upload your video, edit it using there drag and drop interface then render and download to your computer, mobile device or upload it to YouTube. Use Jaycut to do the work.
Of course JayCut is not Finalcut but it is easy, works very well and it’s free!
We’re Just Monkeys
Is it true? Are we monkeys and nothing else? Stand-up comedian Ernest Cline examines the these questions. Profound and funny!
H.264 The Winner
Today MPEG LA announced that the H.264 CODEC will be royalty-free in perpetuity.
What does this mean?
The new HTML5 needs a standard for playing video. Mozilla wants the open-source Ogg Theora. Apple wants H.264. Google wanted H.264 and change to VP8 their own CODEC because of H.264s encumbrances. Now that MPEG LA has made H.264 free there are no impediments to using it for HTML5.
Why should we care?
We are talking about standards here. Without standards you would not know which wrench to use on your car. There would be no number 2 pencils to use when you take a test. We need to finish work on this standard so the Internet can move forward.
Lets hope all the parties agree and this is the last word on this subject.
Google Wave, We Hardly Knew It
There was sad news this week. Google Wave is to be terminated. Google Wave is an online software application formerly developed by Google. It was described as “a new web application for real-time communication and collaboration”. Google has decided that there is not enough interest in it so they’re pulling the plug.
I think everyone that tried Wave had the same feeling about it, “Cool but what can I use this for?”. It was to big an application. Maybe if they had broken it down into many apps. It was to big and to hard to understand for non-technophiles.
RIP
Here’s what I think is a fitting tribute to Wave.
Caution Rate L for strong language!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcxF9oz9Cu0
Create Secure Passwords
The longer your passwords are the harder they will be to crack. How long should they be and what sort of characters should you use? Steve Gibson on episode 256 of Security Now suggest ten characters. Both upper and lower case with numbers. This gives you 7.6×10 to the 17th power possible character combinations. You could also use twelve characters numbers and lower case alphabet (easier to type) to get a similar amount of randomness. Use Lastpass to generate and manage the passwords securely.
My Apologies
My apologies to anyone viewing this blog in a RSS reader. I know you’ve been receiving a lot of duplicate post. I’m sorry I’m still trying to tweak some settings on the new theme. This however was not the problem with the last post. I was having a problem getting Audacity to make the file a reasonable downloadable size. Although I lost a little quality I got it down to 7.05MB. That’s pretty small for a program that’s over an hour long.
In the future I will try not to repost anything but I ‘m a pretty bad speller and typist and I find mistakes later. I’ll try not to post until they’re ready from now on.
The Lastpast You’ll Ever Need
For the last six months I’ve been using Lastpass a password manager that is truely extraordinary. Lastpass is easy and safe. Lastpass is everywhere you are. It works on PCs, Macs, Linux and other operating system. It works with Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Chrome and nearly any other web-browser. Adroid phones, iPhones iOS, Blackberry and many other smartphones are supported with apps included with the premium service, cost $12 per year.
Some of Lastpass features are…
- Automatically fill forms! See Demo
- Synchronizes across browsers!
- Store secure notes. See Demo
- Easily Import existing passwords form many different sources.
- Secure password generator! See Demo
- Access from anywhere on any platform.
- Save to USB key for easy secure access anywhere.
There are so many features I can’t list them all in this post. The best thing to do is check out their website for a full description or listen to this excerpt from Security Now with security expert Steve Gibson. Steve tells you about the features and the its terrific security.
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