TV / Video
« Previous EntriesGlobal Financial Crisis hits Sesame Street
Thursday, March 12th, 2009The recession has spread from Wall Street to Sesame Street. Sesame Workshop, the 41-year-old non-profit educational organisation behind the Sesame Street television programmes and home to such luminaries as Elmo and Oscar the Grouch announced on Wednesday that it would eliminate a fifth of its 355-strong workforce as market turmoil ate into its income and [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisEasily add High Dynamic Resolution to your images
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008CreateHDR is an online tool that lets you easily add High Dynamic Resolution effects to images without using Photoshop or any other HDR software. HDR images show greater range of tonal detail, than your camera could capture. This site emulates HDR effect so you can play with it with no Photoshop or other software. [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisCan you create your own 3D cartoon ?
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008This is my first xtra normal video.
Very basically, the tool takes what you type, for one or two characters, and creates a video of your selected characters. You can control pretty much everything in the video, from background music to camera shots, and character appearances and actions, by dragging icons and dropping [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisWho would Homer vote For ?
Friday, October 31st, 2008Homer tries to vote for Barack Obama, but runs into a few problems. Note the YouTube user id
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisThe Simpsons Spoof The Mad Men Intro
Friday, October 31st, 2008The Simpsons spoof the Mad Men, the intro into one of this year’s annual Treehouse Of Horror stories.
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisConverting MP4 to MP3
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008I know there’s a lot of sites (like vidtomp3) that let you extract music from online videos. But what if you already have the video (in my case, some *.mp4 files) on hand ?
Converting MP4 files to MP3 is quite easy, once you have appropriate software. I used google to find the free [...]
Free online media file conversion
Thursday, July 31st, 2008All-in-one style web-based file and unit converter. Quickly convert between:
- measurement units: size, area, distance, time, velocity, mass, etc.
- file formats: documents (.DOC, .PDF, …), images (..JPG, .GIF, …), audio (.MP3, .WAV, .AAC, … ), and video (.WMV, .3GP, .AVI, …) formats.
Jon Stewart, Daily Show on The New Yorker
Friday, July 18th, 2008from jeff jarvis at Buzz Machine:
Jon Stewart was, of course, brilliant in his defense of satire and The New Yorker:
TiltViewer provides a different look at online images
Monday, July 14th, 2008Tiltviewer
provides an interesting way to present your photos online. Generally photos are
presented in a slide show presentation where photos are displayed one
after the other. However, Tiltviewer presents
your photos in an almost 3D like grid allowing people the freedom to
glide around your photos.
You will have to download some code and
place it on your website in order [...]
Play YouTube Videos in a Loop
Monday, July 7th, 2008There are two ways (that I know of) to play a youtube video in a loop.
The first one requires that you manipulate the loop parameter of the embeddable player (here’s the complete list of parameters) – in the example, replace VIDEOID with the ID of the video you’re playing:
href="http://www.youtube.com/v/VIDEOID&loop=1
If you add the autoplay [...]