I’ve been playing around with doing video and voice over for videos. Here’s a great video from Dan Benjamin at 5 by 5 talking about microphone technique.
See the video here.
Nice changes to Dropbox
TidBITS did a nice write up on the changes here.
The nice one is the increase to 1TB of storage for the Pro accounts.
I also happen to like the read-only feature for files and expiration dates for shared links.
Dropbox and the case of the missing contextual menu
Was working along yesterday, put a file into Dropbox and went to get the link and…
Wait… no contextual menu?!
I dug around a bit and found this video.
Don’t know why the contextual menu plugin would have disappeared in the first place but the video got my rolling again.
Clay Shirky – Last Call
Another article in a long line of articles describing the long painful death of newspapers.
See here.
There is one point he makes about the loss of journalistic talent. Important. I personally think that the biggest loss is the talent along with the role that many newspapers held of being a check on political issues.
Sure, we can report on the local politician being a corrupt or a good politician in digital but how many people are going to see these reports?
Emmett the Cat.. growing up
Emmett will be a year old in September. Grown up as compared to this pic. Seems pretty comfortable in the house.
Google Drive … I found out what was driving me to drink
I started using Google Drive awhile ago because my colleagues were. Easy to use applications that have the collaborative features we were looking for.
I didn’t install the Mac client for Google Drive that syncs the contents of your Google Drive to the local machine. About two months ago I did.
Shortly after that I noticed a weird thing that started to happen.
I would be happily typing along in some application and the application would move to the background. Click on the app or use the command keys to move the app back to the front…and it would happen again.
It was driving me crazy.
One day I was typing merrily along and it happened…again. However, this time I noticed the Google Drive Icon in the menu bar flash at the same time the foreground app moved to the background!
Sure enough that was the problem. Set Google Drive to ‘pause’.
Problem solved.
A few shots from Eastern Market in Detroit
Stopped by Eastern Market yesterday to pick up this and that. Thought I would take the camera and click off a few shots as it has been awhile.
Mac OS X – Javascript for automation?
It appears that Apple is adding Javascript as a automation tool in Mac OS X.
See here.
The Story of Fantastical
John Gruber recommended this application for the iPhone. I picked it up and loved it. Check out this story from Lifehacker.
The Loop – Nice review for a Digital Magazine
Not new information as ‘The Loop’ was revised back in the fall of 2013. See initial review here by Apple Insider. See the review I’m referencing here.
‘The Loop’ is powered by something called ‘Glide’ from ‘Glide Creations’. I guess I’m just confused as I thought this was something that was released but the web site doesn’t seem to indicate that’s not the case.