Monthly Archives: January 2007

I have updated my Client List to reflect the current state of my business. I have severed my business relationship with Car Accessories because they owe me a lot of money and refuse to pay it. I had to sic a … Continue reading →

I’ve discovered a new social networking site today, Newsvine, which is based on news rather than video. Newsvine allows you bookmark any newsworthy content you find on the Internet which then becomes part of the news gathered on the site. … Continue reading →

I have completed the first three chapters of Creating Motion Graphics With After Effects Volume 1: The Essentials. I read about keyframes and compositions and explored many features of the program. I also jumped ahead and read chapters 25, 26, … Continue reading →

I’ve been too busy to blog but earlier in the week I had an opportunity to work on a web site design using Photoshop. I did not create a new design from scratch. I had to modify an existing web … Continue reading →

Today I installed DotNetNuke 4.4.0 on my local web server. DotNetNuke is a web application framework written for ASP.NET. The installation gave me considerable problems because the installer could not establish a SQL Server database connection. Then I created a second … Continue reading →

Today I received my boxed copy of Adobe After Effects 6.5 Standard from eBay. I was really glad to get this because the book I am reading Creating Motion Graphics With After Effects – Volume 1: The Essentials was written … Continue reading →

I’ve upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007 and discovered that Outlook 2007 can export emails to Access 2007. I don’t think this was possible before. It is certainly useful because a lot of data comes in via email. When you export … Continue reading →

I’ve found a few interesting web sites that are taking Internet video in new directions. Podzinger attempts to index the audio of YouTube videos so you can search for a word that has been spoken by a video blogger. This … Continue reading →

My hosting company finally upgraded my WordPress version to 2.0.4 after I complained about the old version I was forced to use. This was important to me because I have done some work creating custom WordPress designs and I wanted … Continue reading →

Video bloggers are abandoning YouTube in favor of a new video sharing site, LiveVideo, which can be found at: http://www.livevideo.com/. YouTube users have been frustrated by problems with the site’s messaging system. Many people have had problems posting comments on … Continue reading →

I am learning how to do text animation using Adobe After Effects. This video was created by applying the Tinderbox T_LensBlur effect to make the text appear out of focus to start and then come into focus. I changed the … Continue reading →

Last week I went downtown and shot some video of landmark buildings in Williamsport to serve as stock footage for my video editing projects. I got this idea from my After Effects book which includes some stock footage on DVD … Continue reading →

Today I got a new video card for my computer, a Diamond Stealth S120 Radeon 9550. I needed a better video card to play more games but it is also supposed to improve the quality of video. I also recently … Continue reading →