VideoEgg Screencast

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In my last post, I mentioned iShowU, the Mac OS screen recording software. Below is a link to a quick little screencast I made about VideoEgg.

VideoEgg is a video sharing and creation tool. It has some very nice features including the ability to tap into webcams and if you have a recent Mac, your iSight camera. The audio level on the screencast needs a bit of work, but I was really impressed with how well iShowu worked.

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del.icio.us: tagometer

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del.icio.us: tagometer:
del.icio.us released two new tools for display on web sites. The Tagometer Badge can be displayed in two ways. The tall badge is meant for sidebars and shows in a narrow multiline presentation the number of folks who have bookmarked your site on del.icio.us.

There is also a one line version that fits well in individual blog entry footers.

It's Snöwing on My MacBook

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Snö is the Swedish word for snow, and is a little freeware Mac application that makes snow fall over your desktop. It can be invoked as a screen saver or on top of your open applications. The preferences allow you so select types of flakes, wind speed and wind direction, flake speed and flake size.

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Flickr Upgrades Pro Accounts to Unlimited

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Flickr recently announced they have upped the previous limits on uploads to unlimited. Basically for $24.95 a year you can get the following:

  • Unlimited uploads
  • Unlimited storage
  • Unlimited bandwidth
  • Unlimited photosets
  • Permanent archiving of high-resolution original images
  • The ability to replace a photo
  • Ad-free browsing and sharing

They have also made changes to the Free Account:

  • 100 MB monthly upload limit
  • 3 photosets
  • Photostream views limited to the 200 most recent images
  • Only smaller (resized) images acessible (though the originals saved in case you upgrade later)

One feature I would like to see, and I thought was coming, was uploading of video clips to Flickr. I would like to have one place to store video along with my pictures. Maybe with the new PRO features they are getting ready for this?

Google's Picasa recently announced this, but it currently only works with their PC updater. The Mac and Linux tools do not yet have this functionality.

I've been playing around with uploading video using Google Video. The process works well, but if Flickr did this I wouldn't bother using two services. I've got quite a community formed with Flickr, so even though Picasa has recently added a lot of features found in Flickr, I'm not going anywhere, but I do wish they would add video uploads as a feature.

Speaking of Flickr, I just learned that by adding date-taken-calendar/ to the end of your photostream URL (http://flickr.com/photos/timlauer/date-taken-calendar/) you can view your images within a calendar grid. Kind a nice way to look back as 2006 comes to an end...

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Photo Booth + Flickr = Flickrbooth

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Screenshot 01-47Photo Booth is an application that comes with Intel based Macs that allows you to utilize the built-in iSight camera. Flickrbooth is a plugin for Photo Booth by Tristan O'Tierney which allows you to upload photos you take with Photo Booth to Flickr. Settings allow you to automatically upload after each shot or to manually select Photo Booth images for upload. I wish I would of known about this yesterday. It would of been nice to set up during our holiday party...

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