Archive for the ‘Just cool stuff’ Category

RealSki – Resort Technology Partners

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 18:54 No Comments

I’ve been going to the Boulder Denver New Tech meetup for about a year now. It’s always interesting and fairly often we get to have an aha moment when some company unveils something they are working on to the group. Last night was one of those times.
Resort Technology Partners presented their RealSki iPhone app which, [...]

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Cool (and useful) Google Calendar Tip

Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:23 No Comments

I have used Google (Apps) calendar for a couple of years now. Love it. But one thing I found annoying was trying to move quickly through the calendar to look ahead. Then, I accidentally placed my cursor over the small calendar that appears usually to the upper left of the main calendar and discovered my [...]

This was posted under category: General, Just cool stuff, Productivity Tools

FLV Good, Better, Best Aspect Ratio Sizes (Adobe)

Saturday, July 4, 2009 15:11 No Comments

Thanks to Adobe I found a great chart for encoding video to FLV at a variety so different standard (and not so standard) sizes which their gurus had tested to determine which were the best, better, and good settings. Problem is I cannot for the life of me find it online again and I have [...]

This was posted under category: Editing, Freebies, General, Just cool stuff, Video, Web Video

Something special going on in Boulder CO

Thursday, April 16, 2009 17:21 2 Comments

This past two weeks I had the opportunity to participate in an awesome project. The Silicon Flatirons Center (out of CU Boulder) was having a pseudo-gala event honoring several individuals and companies for their work in the entrepreneurial world and for who they were in business in general. One of the awards was a Lifetime [...]

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Calculate PayPal Fees

Monday, April 13, 2009 14:23 No Comments

Because it would reduce paperwork and time if they could pay by credit card, I had a client recently indicate a desire to pay via PayPal and a willingness to pay the additional PayPal fees to have that convenience. Not sure of the PayPal balance required to offset that I entered “calculate PayPal fees” in [...]

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Guys around table making decisions are too old

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 16:43 1 Comment

So today, Sony comes right out and says they don’t plan to offer x-box styled Netflix type streaming from the PlayStation3. Here’s a quote:
We’ve concentrated most of our efforts on our download service, both rentals and downloads of movies and TV shows. Our efforts will continue to be there, because our customers want to own [...]

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Common Craft: Explanations in Plain English is Their Business

Wednesday, July 2, 2008 11:06 1 Comment

So a friend of mine tweeted a link to an awesome video today. I find trying to explain social media, networking, twitter, and on and on and on to folks who are way out of the loop is terribly difficult. Thanks to these guys, there’s now a GREAT source for explaining and I don’t have [...]

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Drinking from a fire hose

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 15:42 No Comments

I remember the first time I heard this phrase. It was used in conjunction with a new employee being fed loads and loads of info on his first day of work. I’d never heard it before but it so fit the look on the guys face. He was so overwhelmed by information pouring into his [...]

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Simple Video Blog Solutions

Monday, May 19, 2008 10:57 1 Comment

It seems there’s a growing interest in video on the web and hence many folks looking to figure out how to get into video blogging.
My friend Bill Seaver over at MicroExplosion media posted a simple and user-friendly review of the Flip Video Ultra which seems to be a great solution if you are looking for [...]

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Permanent Email Address… Why all those weird looks?!

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:50 No Comments

Why is it when I give people my personal email address they look at me funny? Why does the fact that I own my name as a domain and maintain it as my personal email address surprise folks. It’s kind of like I’m a leper or something.
It all begin back in 2002 when I was [...]

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