Entertainment
Making a High Quality Slideshow with Animoto
A little while after I arrived home from work the other day, my wife asked me if I had ever heard of ‘Animoto’. I gave her an odd look in response because on my commute home I repeatedly found myself behind a black car with the license plate ‘ANIMATO’ Fortunately, Animoto is a website that allows you to easily create dynamic slideshows from your pictures and video files and then add captions and background audio not the keyword in a me-centric conspiracy.
Funny Videos: Know Your Meme
If you’re looking to understand the Internet culture or keep up with the latest fads, Know Your Meme might be just what you’re looking for. Know Your Meme features a database of submitted memes (rhymes with ‘themes’), a catchphrase or concept that spreads quickly from person to person via the Internet. This resource allows you to have these cultural phenomenon explained and their background stories told. This way you can understand the jokes and use them appropriately in your Internet conversations.
Product Review: Flip Video
I won a Flip Video a little while back and finally had a chance to really test it out on a recent scenic trip through Colorado. I have the Flip Video Ultra, which I’ll be reviewing, and a new Flip Ultra HD version of the pocket camcorder is on the market. Flip Video started off as a creation of Pure Digital Technologies, a company which has since been bought by Cisco Systems. Despite the fact that I don’t have the latest version, the Flip Video is still an impressive device and amazingly simple to use. Hopefully this indicates a good trend for the newer Flip Video Ultra HD and Flip Video Minos.
Turn YouTube Annotations Off by Default
In my opinion, one of the most annoying aspects of YouTube, the Internet’s leading streaming video provider, is the user added annotations. Whether they’re stupid comments, spam-filled speech bubbles, or desperate requests to subscribe, I have yet to see a worth-while use of the annotation feature on YouTube. In fact, after a particular video, it led me to search how to turn it off by default. I was turning them off for every video anyways as soon as they popped up. Annotations, if you’re not familiar with them, are the little speech bubbles or rectangles with text inside them that pop up over top of the video you’re trying to watch.
Clicker – One Source for All Streaming Videos
Clicker is the next step in the evolution of streaming video. It solves the problem of keeping track of where certain shows are available and when new episodes are released. Between big portal sites like YouTube and Hulu, Clicker also checks network sites (like Fox, CBS, and NBC) to compile where streaming videos will be available for you to watch.
Monopoly City Streets
When you think of Monopoly in real-life, you might think of Comcast or AT&T but I’m talking about the other Monopoly, the one with this guy:
Monopoly City Streets allows you to do the traditional Monopoly wheeling and dealing but on the biggest game board yet: the real world. Using data from Google Maps and the OpenStreetMap project, you can purchase entire streets and build properties on it in this massively multiplayer browser-based game. Now is the perfect time to join! Monopoly City Streets originally launched September 9th, 2009 but due to overwhelming load issues and a number of bugs that cropped up due to its popularity the developers took the game down, fixed some bugs, and have just relaunched it. All user data was wiped out with the relaunch, so everybody has to re-sign up meaning you’re not far behind anybody at this point.
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