January
31
I bought a tripod! Also made the Commentluv API skeleton from Andy Bailey on Vimeo.
This is my video made as soon as I opened my new Toshiba Camileo Pro HD cam (well, a bit of charging was needed). It’s 720p HD footage and Vimeo do a good job of streaming hd footage.
Little Venice London new hd cam test from Andy Bailey on Vimeo.
You’ll have to view the video at Vimeo to see it in HD. I had all the light settings wrong and I didn’t have a tripod but, it’s a pretty good camera for a hundred quid and will be good to do future video blog posts.
video blogging
camileo HD little venice London toshiba
January
21
I spotted a tweet by @jquery about a new plugin for jquery called pop! which turns out to be quite a nice little pop up box for blogger commentluv.
here’s what it could look like in the comments of blogger if you’re using js-kit with blogger. Not that now you can click on the links for where the comment author has been and what other posts they have.
You can download and install the pop jquery plugin and read the instructions at http://pop.seaofclouds.com/
view as a single post to see the comments after the break. read more… »
Blog News
January
20
phew, I have managed to get back to the pc after a little while away and just in time (well, close) to announce the winners of the PacktPub contest.
All someone had to do was visit the PacktPub website and choose a book they want to win, link to it in the comments and post about the contest on their site.
First winner is Dominique Goh from http://www.dominiquegoh.com/ who wins a Wordpress Theme Design book by Tessa Blakeley Silver
Second winner is Kelly from http://www.myqute.com who wins the Wordpress for Business bloggers book.
well done you two! I’ll send your email addresses to packtpub tomorrow (just time for you to change your mind about which book if you email me quickly) and they will send you your books as a PDF attachment soon after.
Blog News, contests
book contest packtpub winner
January
11
My haircut calamity from Andy Bailey on Vimeo.
So, did you want to hear about my haircut? This video blogging lark is all new to me so I don’t really know what you’re expecting when you visit FiddyP. Care to share your thoughts in the comments?
Maybe a more tips/advice kind of way instead of telling you the banal events of my life. It is fun though, being able to speak instead of type is more my style anyway. I tend to get carried away with typing and then have to keep revising what I’ve written whereas, doing a video post kind of makes it more personal. It’s just a shame I have bugger all interesting to talk about!
If you think I should go back to text entry or stop blartin on about haircuts and get down to some serious stuff, please let me know!
(and that mark on my t-shirt? that’s a splash of tea!)
video blogging
haircut video
14
How I used the recession to get 2 cracking good deals. Vidblog post
January28
kick the recession in the credit crutch! from Andy Bailey on Vimeo.
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