Posts Tagged ‘video’

Viewing MOD video files using VLC

Posted on April, 3 at 3:18 pm | Filed Under Software

Certain video cameras save their files as .mod files.  These are modified mpeg4 files and vlc has built in support for this file type.  Install VLC from their website for your platform.  Once vlc is installed, you need to delete one file prior to running VLC and viewing the MOD files.  First make sure that [...]

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Dan Roam at Google – The Back of the Napkin

Posted on August, 27 at 1:25 pm | Filed Under Collaboration

I’ve picked up The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam at least 3 times and haven’t bought it.  His presentation at Google’s Author series has convinced me to buy it. As a consultant, I spend a huge amount of time at the whiteboard and this is just [...]

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More Ken Robinson

Posted on July, 24 at 8:06 pm | Filed Under Collaboration

I was surprised last week to hear myself recommending Ken Robinson’s Ted talk on children, creativity and education to another colleague.  Its surprising because I don’t exactly work in the education field, and don’t really work with children … at least not for pay anyway.  But Ken Robinson is one of those people whose work [...]

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Introduction to JavaScript – Doug Crockford

Posted on April, 3 at 9:52 pm | Filed Under Software, Web Tools

Just discovered Yahoo Video YUI Theatre. Here is one of the many gems in there .. an excellent Introduction to JavaScript by Yahoo’s Doug Crockford. Here are the other parts of the series: Part Two Part Three Part Four Besides having an encyclopedic knowledge of JavaScript, Doug Crockford is also the author of the online [...]

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