Mike
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Polish People Think We’re Pedophiles
Feb 25th
It seems that a Polish newspaper, Gezeta Olysztynska, published a news story a while back about the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. This featured a picture of our mascots, and, it seems, a certain internet meme that involves lolitas. As part of the picture, Pedobear, the deceptively harmless little bear that prefers sexual partners of the underage variety stands opposite the Sasquatch.
OS War: PC or Mac?
Feb 25th
Loading ...Do you like the polished OS X or the Windows, the stock car of the computer world?
To IF or not to IF?
Feb 24th
One of the most used and important things you can do in PHP is an “if” statement.
if (!$variable1) {
echo “variable1 is NOT set”;
} else {
echo “variable1 is SET”;
}
Your typical IF statement. But if all you’re going to do is use ECHO to write a short string as output, then there’s a shortcut that I don’t see enough these days in people’s source code.
echo (!$variable1) ? “variable1 is NOT set” : “variable1 is SET”;
You’ve just condensed an IF statement into a single line. Obviously there are times when you would use this and times when you shouldn’t. But if you’re simply outputting a one liner like me here in the example code, this code is your friend.
Sam’s “Outtakes from Fail U”
Feb 4th
Here are the outtakes put together by Sam of some hilarious Fail U sketch comedy recordings we did for Rich Media. Done using iMovie and QuickTime, compressed with Episode.
Fail U – Mr. McGafferey’s failure of an Accounting class
Feb 1st
He got played. It’s sad. But hilarious.
Played by Joe, with a short appearance by Thomas.
Coda
Jan 31st
There are a TON of different text editors out there, everything from Windows’ NOTEPAD.EXE to BBEdit to Coda. BBEdit is great as far as simple text editors go, but it lacks specialization. While it does have autocorrect features, Coda has a comprehensive CSS editor as well as the autocorrect. It also has an organizational feature which, a lot like Dreamweaver, but what Coda has over Dreamweaver is that it is simple, uncluttered, and easy to figure out.
So give Coda a shot if you want to build your alternative suite of tools.
So You Made a Video for Youtube, Now What?
Jan 29th
So you just finished filming that super awesome video you plan to stick right in your Youtube account. You’ve shot it, edited it, and now you are about to upload it, but then you suddenly think: what is the best aspect ratio for my video for youtube?
It’s not that simple, friend. There are more things you need to do than just fix the aspect ratio. So here, in the rest of this article, are the things you will need to do before you put up your video to youtube’s public eye.
Aspect Ratio & Resolution
YouTube has two different ratios, one for regular quality and one for High Def.
- Regular quality uses 4:3 ratio, and the best size is 640×480. This will allow it to be halved to 320×240 and keep a lot of the video quality.
- High Definition uses 16:9 ratio, and the best size is 1280×720.
If your resolution differs, remember that Flash’s FLV codec works best if you use multiples of 16 for the size of the video.
Sound
Sound is another thing that you will have to watch for to optimize load speed and sound quality.
- In Regular quality, the sound will be compressed to 22.050kHz mono
- In HD, the sound will be made CD quality at 44.1kHz stereo
Codec Choice
Youtube recommends the H.264 codec by Apple.
ExpanDrive
Jan 29th
There are hordes of different FTP tools out there, for every platform. Some are better than others, some have better interfaces, but one thing that few of them considered is no inteface at all. Enter ExpanDrive. This tool uses Google hosted MACFuse technology to connect to an FTP, SFTP, FTPS or SSL sever and have it mounted on your desktop, behaving just like a USB drive or a network drive.
Edits are made instantly, so that as soon as you hit “save” the program autosaves to the server. The actual program sits in your menu bar, and connecting to a server only takes a click once you save it into the connections list.
Fail U – Mrs. Robinson
Jan 26th
Yet another rich media project, this one from the Fail U group.
Lauren Pagan plays a partying “calculis” teacher who likes to share too much information with her class.
Site’s Ready!
Jan 24th
Capilano University’s Interactive Design program’s student blog is now ready to go. We’ve posted some tools, tutorials, program details and other stuff, so check back often as we’ll be posting new stuff daily!