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My First Video!

I’ve been working pretty hard these last couple of weeks putting together this website for a client who is in Florida. The site is about 100 pages. It took me rougly two weeks to get it done.

So, tonight, or should I say this morning… I decided to take a much needed break… I was browsing around the net to find out how I can add some 80s music to my myspace page… I found a really cool player that I could just add music too and upload to the myspace… I wanted to post the player in the myspace blog, but realized I couldn’t do it. So I came to blogger and realized I couldn’t do it there because it was only for myspace…
Then I saw that you can post videos in blogger. Andy is pretty much the “video” guru around here. So, I wanted to see how easy or hard it was and what better video to make then a video that includes “music”… The music, of course, that I grew up with and I love… the 80s!
Then I thought, well, I don’t think I have a program on my computer right now that can do it… I looked around the home office and saw that I could load one program or another on the computer but then I wanted to see if they had anything free I can download quickly.
I found out that Windows XP includes a free video program called “Movie Maker” so I decided to take a stab at it… I only did about 5 songs and added some video effects and transitions.

It took me about 3 hours and about 25 minutes to encode the video, but here it is, My First Video…

Thoughts and comments are welcomed.


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Archos New products featured on TechtalkRadio


We talked with GM and VP of Sales Ron Ferguson from Archos about the new Internet Media Tablet which combines the features of its popular media players with an Internet device with Wi-Fi and 3.5G connectivity. Archos is calling the product the Internet Media Tablet or IMT and has some really great features with a 5″ or 7″ Screen. For More information check out our website and our interview with Archos at http://www.techtalkradio.com/hardware/archosgen6.html

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kudos to SanDisk

After using Windows ReadyBoost, I cannot recommend it:  I did not notice any performance enhancement…
 
I was using ReadyBoost on a SanDisk Cruzer Micro USB Flash Drive.  I decided to cease using ReadyBoost, and use the drive for storage.  I was unable to format the drive (I suspect ReadyBoost may have written to the drive too much:  as with other types of storage, flash drives have limitations as to how many times they can be written to).

I contacted SanDisk for assistance.  We traded a few messages about troubleshooting back and forth.  After not being able to get it to work, I was told to send the drive to them…and they would pay for shipping!  (I had to print the label, and package the drive.)

I always tell people, BEFORE purchasing something, inquire as to the return policy.  I recommend you consider SanDisk for your memory and storage needs:  I was not put through “support-hell”…I gave them the benefit of considering their suggestions, and they trusted I had done reasonable effort to resolve the issue.

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When I plugged the new drive into a Windows XP computer, the U3 software launched…and seemed to be causing my computer to become unresponsive.  I was able to remove the software, but it did not go very smoothly.  I have an identical SanDisk Cruzer Micro USB Flash Drive with U3 software, and have had no problems with it.

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