Technology

8/10/2010

• How to record a webinar using Camtasia Studio

  I know this is a bit off topic from my usual, but I’ve talked to so many people about this and nobody seems to have a good solution.
  Here are the steps I use to get PERFECT video AND AUDIO gotowebinar or gotomeeting recordings using Camtasia.

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9/2/2008

• My Remote Control Toilet Seat

  Get Flash to see this player.

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  so.addParam(“autostart”,”false”);
  so.addParam(“autoscroll”,”false”);
  so.addParam(“overstretch”,”true”);
  so.addParam(“thumbsinplaylist”,”false”);
  so.addParam(“allowfullscreen”,”true”);
  so.addVariable(“shuffle”,”false”);
  so.addVariable(“thumbsinplaylist”,”false”);
  so.addVariable(“skin”, “http://www.jonasblog.com/wp-content/plugins/mediacaster/player/snel.swf”);
  so.addVariable(“image”,”http://www.jonasblog.com/media/2008/09/02/my-remote-control-toilet-seat/my-toilet-seat.jpg”);
  so.addVariable(“file”,”http://www.jonasblog.com/media/2008/09/02/my-remote-control-toilet-seat/my-toilet-seat.flv”);
  so.addVariable(“displayheight”,”330″);
  so.write(“toilet”);

  Since I was on a roll with my blog, I thought I’d also talk about the most recent technology that changed my life.
  Night light…
  Heated Seat…
  Heated Water…
  Pressure Control…
  Heated Air (For after…)
  Settings for Him, Settings for Her…
  It’s Perfect!
  We were playing Apples to Apples the other night and [...]

9/1/2008

• The Unthinkable Just Happened – 6 Years Of Digital Pictures…Gone!

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  so.addParam(“autostart”,”false”);
  so.addParam(“autoscroll”,”false”);
  so.addParam(“overstretch”,”true”);
  so.addParam(“thumbsinplaylist”,”false”);
  so.addParam(“allowfullscreen”,”true”);
  so.addVariable(“shuffle”,”false”);
  so.addVariable(“thumbsinplaylist”,”false”);
  so.addVariable(“skin”, “http://www.jonasblog.com/wp-content/plugins/mediacaster/player/snel.swf”);
  so.addVariable(“image”,”http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jonasblog.com%2Fmedia%2F2008%2F09%2F01%2Fthe-unthinkable-just-happened-6-years-of-digital-picturesgone%2FJonasBlog-how-to-make-backups-1.jpg”);
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  so.addVariable(“displayheight”,”330″);
  so.write(“JonasBlog-how-to-make-backups-1″);

  Fortunately, I had about 16 different backups of them…so it wasn’t as bad as it sounded.
  But, what if that just happened to you?
  What if your hard drive failed?
  What if Windows just went crazy and won’t boot?
  What if your computer just failed and you can’t turn [...]

8/1/2007

• Opening and Managing 2 Google Accounts in the Same Browser

  This is a follow-up to my post about why IE sucks so much.
  I figured out how to not use IE, and still be able to open multiple google (or gmail) accounts in Firefox at the same time.
  I had two different people tell me to use FF and Safari, which Apple just released for windows.
  I figured [...]

7/27/2007

• Why does Internet Explorer suck so much?

  Can someone please tell me?
  I mean, this is ridiculous.
  I have quite a few google accounts that I spend a significant amount of time in.
  I hate logging in and out of each of them, so I open up different browser windows that allow different cookie sessions and I don’t have to log out of one to [...]

8/31/2006

• Browsing an S3 account

  A little bit ago I wrote a php program to backup the data on my linux computer (I know, I know…all the linux geeks are swearing at me for how stupid I am…I just don’t care).
  I hooked it into S3 when that came out so I could have reliable remote backups. The only problem [...]

8/28/2006

• Berry411 for Blackberry: Awesome

  I just downloaded and started using Berry411 on my blackberry.
  It is SOOOO well done.
  Previously I always used google maps mobile to do any 411 lookups I needed but from now on, it’s Berry411.
  The 10 searches I’ve done so far have given me

  better results than google maps

  faster results than google maps

  more options than google maps

  more information [...]

8/24/2006

• Amazon EC2 – Scalable Servers On Demand

  I heard about this about a month ago but wasn’t sure when they would release it.
  Last night I got an email from Amazon announcing the beta release of EC2.
  Similar to S3, which allows scalable data storage on demand, EC2 allows scalable computing power on demand.
  As a web service!
  It basically allows you to set up a [...]

8/23/2006

• Free Services Online

  To add some of my favorites to Blake Snows list of free (I’m adding some almost free) services online:

  Google products: Gmail, spreadsheets, calendar, maps for mobile devices
  Amazon S3 – Super cheap online storage.
  Free Tracks Hosting – online todo list the way todo lists should be. There’s also backpackit and rtm. Both very well [...]

7/28/2006

• Questionable program + Idiot = Sypware

  Ok, today I’m going to admit it.
  I AM AN IDIOT.
  2 days ago I got some software that I thought was questionable. I’m not going to say what it was other than that I wasn’t sure if I should run it because I thought it might install spyware on my computer.
  I was right.
  It DID install [...]

7/11/2006

• Web Hosting

  I often want hosting where someone else is managing the server. I get tired of managing servers.
  For this extra hosting, I’ve been using Bluehost for a long time. They were the closest thing I could find to a perfect hosting account.
  The only problem I had with them is that they only allow 5 [...]

6/12/2006

• The last straw with iTunes and my iPod

  I can’t handle it anymore.
  I love my iTrip, it’s great.
  My liking of my ipod stops there.
  Today was the last straw.
  My brother-in-law was in town until this morning from Colorado. I had some educational mp3’s that some marketers had given away for free that he wanted to listen to. So, I bought [...]

5/29/2006

• I love my DVR

  It’s NHL Playoff season.
  It’s also NBA Playoff season.
  It was American Idol season.
  I like to watch all 3 (I prefer the NHL over the NBA, I know, I know…you hate hockey) but it would be almost impossible without my dvr.
  But that’s not what my post is about.
  This post is about how technology is making my [...]

5/25/2006

• Water as Fuel Video

  This is unbelievable. This guy has developed a way to use water as fuel for just about anything. He has a blow-torch that is amazingly hot. He has a car that runs on water!
  Imagine that…a water powered car. Combine this with some solar power with nanotechnology and the energy possibilities are [...]

4/14/2006

• Google Calendar Released

  I blogged a while back about moving desktop apps to the internet and said that I was using trumba as my online calendar app.
  Trumba is a REALLY good application. I have nothing but good things to say about it.
  However, yesterday google released their long awaited online calendar application.
  It’s really nice. Lots of [...]

3/29/2006

• Mozy for online backups

  If you haven’t heard of Mozy yet, I feel sorry for you.
  If you’re not using Mozy yet, I feel even worse.
  If you’re not going to go sign up for free at Mozy right now, I just think you’re basically an idiot.
  Either that, or you’ve never had a computer crash on you.
  Mozy does online [...]

2/3/2006

• Remove Scratches from Blackberry

  I use a BlackBerry 7105t. I love it.
  Recently it started getting scratches on the screen so I ordered a screen protector from www.theinvisibleshield.com.
  When I got it I tried to install it (following their directions) and got really close to installing it correctly. When I looked at it there were a bunch of bumps [...]

1/14/2006

• Firefox vs. IE

  I thought this was interesting. I haven’t seen any stats on how well firefox is doing recently until I looked at the browser stats for http://www.writingup.com.
  Writingup is a fairly normal website. It’s not technical, so I don’t think it would have a heavy slant either way. I know there are [...]

12/28/2005

• Virus targets Adsense

  It was only a matter of time before someone figured out that data mining was only going to get them so far
  Not that data mining isn’t profitable, by all means, it is! But, adsense is more profitable in the short term.
  Jensense writes about a new virus that installs itself on your computer and then [...]

12/5/2005

• Online Spreadsheet

  I’ve been waiting for this to happen.
  Phil Windley points out an online spreadsheet application.
  It’s hosted, it’s free, and it works.
  They have a “post this to my blog” link too, so you can post your spreadsheet to your blog:

  I believe you have to be the owner of the spreadsheet to edit it and have it be [...]