One of the latest in online video sites Current.com has offered up a new gem with a Bill Gates vs Steve Jobs (Microsoft vs Apple) battle to the death, well sort of.
Video after the break or click here and watch it at Current.com:
http://current.com/items/76366762_gates_vs_jobs
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I don’t normally write about football (soccer) but I felt this was worthy of sharing. Since Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are all out of the European Cup we have all been forced to pick another European country to support at this years European Cup. I decided to support Spain since it’s the home of the new number one Liverpool striker Fernando Torres. I assumed other Liverpool fans might do the same but never on this scale. It’s a great ad I seen last night while watching Spain beat Italy.
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With all the hype that’s now buzzing about the new “Sex and the City” movie I felt it would be a good time to pull up an oldie but a goody. These flash animations were made by a website that no longer exists called Romp.com. The files thankfully are still alive online and available for us to enjoy.
There were only 5 episodes and each one takes it’s own spin and gives a smack on the butt to the whole “Sex and the City” cast. I still laugh each time I watch these.
Each of these are very much like “Sex and the City” in that they are not very safe for work. You’ve been warned.
Direct links to each episode after the break.
Once upon a time all you needed to fall in love was a bus pass, but times have changed, so in this world where is a girl to find love.
Should you have to beg for love? Just because thats what he wants?
Why do some girls do anything for there man?
Get your man to do anything you want play hard to get.
Where else to find a man than the police wanted board.
Thanks to Owen’s World for keeping them alive.
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Well I know this is a bit late but It’s been bouncing around in my head and I just thought i’d share.
Being away from America means missing the Super Bowl and all the Super Bowl parties. I know pockets of people who live here and did watch the superbowl but with the time difference it didn’t start until 10:30 pm. We also don’t get one of my favorite parts, the ads. The Super Bowl was on the BBC here but all the ads were replaced with ads the BBC decided to air and not the ones people in the states were watching.
Thanks to the world wide web I am able to see them online and in fact this year thanks to a youtube channel I didn’t have to go searching for them.
http://www.youtube.com/adblitz
I have placed a few of my favorites here after the jump.
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Tutorials are great. Even the most useful tutorial can be a bit bland and even boring at times. I am not knocking anyone who takes the time to teach. I admire them and appreciate the effort and patience they display each time they make a tutorial. I have even made quite a few myself and I know how hard it is to keep things interesting.
Donnie Hoyle is the new king of tutorials and he has made a few educational yet hilarious Photoshop tutorials called “You Suck at Photoshop”. His comedy style is pure genius and I enjoyed each second. Watch as Donnie explains how to do some of the more popular techniques while subtly shedding insight into his not-so-happy marriage.
Episode 1: The Van
Episode 2: Insert Carpet Stain
Episode 3: The Disappearing Ring
via PhotoJoJo
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If you have not seen this video released last night at CES 2008 as part of Bill Gates keynote speech you should really check it out. I am an Apple user but love the way Bill Gates can laugh at himself. You have to admire the richest man in the world on some level and props go out to the G man himself. I really laughed at Bono’s appearance, Guitar Hero? Very funny stuff.
http://gizmodo.com/341472/this-video-makes-bill-gates-look-cooler-than-steve-jobs
The video is a Flash video and may require the latest version of flash.
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This is sort of interesting and kind of fun. The new movie coming up very soon called “The Golden Compass” features a fantasy world where each person has a Dæmon which is a soul mate or best friend and is a reflection of their personality and is also an animal. So throughout the movie you see every single person with some sort of animal near them. This may or may not prompt you to ask “What would my Dæmon be?”. If you are asking yourself that and would like to know you can follow the link and take the test for yourself and see.
After taking the test myself I was given a Dæmon called Amantha and she is a terrier dog which is creepy because I have only owned two dogs during my adult life and both were terriers, granted not exactly like the one shown above but very similar.
You can also visit their well made flash site to take the test and find out more about the movie:
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Fixmymovie.com is one of the few sites using the new technology released by Adobe in their latest flash player. Without getting too technical it basically allows for much better quality for your videos. This means that eventually we will see better videos on places like YouTube and other video sites. In addition to using this new technology, Fixmymovie.com also fixes other aspects of your movies such as lighting, colour and pixelation making your videos look better. Below is a sample movie I created this weekend with my phone (nokia N70) to document the fact that we had no water on both Saturday and Sunday afternoon due to poor pressure at our new house.
If you have movies that need fixing then you may want to jump over to FixMyMovie.com
To see a sample video and my opinion of the service, just click the “continue reading” link.
Ok so here’s the catch and why I think they are going the wrong direction with this service.
At first I thought this seemed like a great little free service to help make movies or videos better but they only fix the first 10 seconds of the video for free. Now granted they give you a $25 credit for signing up which means you can have 25 movies fixed for free but after that you will need to pay $.99 for each movie you want “fixed”.
Here is why I can’t see paying for this service.
1. The video or movies are on their servers and I can not download them back to my computer. I am forced to embed them using their tools anytime I want to “share” my movies. This means they are going to get traffic for my content and will be able to make money on the ads placed in or around the movie.
2. Their logo is always placed on top of my content. You’d think that if I am paying them to fix something they could at least remove the logo, right?
3. Youtube or someone else will do something similar for free very soon once people adopt the latest Adobe Flash Player technology.
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So you just bought a new gadget and you either love it our hate it. Well now you can make some of that hard earned cash back by making a video telling the world what you thought it. ExpoTelevision will pay you $5.00 (€3.64) for each video you make for their site, plus $.01 for each time your video is viewed.
That may not sound like much money but if you had 30,000 views you would make $30 (€22). The best part is that your opinion is being heard by the WORLD. You’d also continue making money as long as your video was being watched.
I know what I am going to do this weekend. Go around my house and find anything I purchased recently and make a video about what I like and don’t like about it. This is going to be fun.
It sounds like a great idea and I, for one, will be checking this site before I buy anything else EVER.
Check it out for yourself at:
Via ChipChic.com
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Now this is pretty cool stuff. It’s new technology that allows a new layer to be added to both video and printed material enabling digital cameras to see something that the human eye can not see. The photo to the right has an example of a t-shirt worn by the lovely model that with naked eye looks like a cloud. But if viewed with a digital camera you can see a lightning bolt below the cloud. This means we may soon be seeing things in our photos that we did not see when we took the photo. I can see advertisers using this all over the place and could even be used to stop (or hinder) pirated copies of movies.
You can find a bit more about the science behind the technology at their website and see a few more example images:
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To see my videos click the “read more” link.
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I had a bit of fun over the father’s day weekend with my son Connor. We sat down and decided to make a little movie using only my phone and the editing features of the site JumpCut.com which allows you to upload clips directly to their site then use their web 2.0 tools to cut, crop and edit your clips online for free.
We wrote about JumpCut.com before when it was first launched or rather when I first found it in January. You can see that article here (Make Movies Online for Free.
To see the movie and read more about the whole experience click the “continue reading” link.
Connor and I decided it would be fun to make movie about him and his favorite toy, his tractor. He received his tractor from Santa in December and on every nice day you can find him riding around the neighborhood working away.
It’s been months since I took a look around the site JumpCut.com and to be fair this is the first time I actually tried to make a movie from beginning to end. For being a free online service it’s very robust and very easy to use. The only thing easier to use would be Apple’s iMovie which comes free with every new mac. Importing movies was painless and being able to upload as many clips as you want all at the same time is huge plus for the site. I was using the stadard file format on most phones for movies which is 3GP and since these files are normally small it didn’t take long to get them online. However, when using jump cut your able to use pretty much any format you want which I can’t say about Apple’s iMovie. It didn’t even see the 3GP files so I would have had to convert them to another format just to use them in iMovie.
The only problem I had using JumpCut.com was the output options and how they make you use their site just to view your finished work. I would have also liked to keep a copy of the finished work on my local hard drive so I wouldn’t need to be online to watch my finished product but since it’s free you can’t really complain.
Making the movie with the phone was quite easy we only had to think out the scenes we wanted to include then between each one I was able to pause the recording mode using teh built in tools included with the phone. Jumpcut.com made it very easy to trim the clips so to avoid adding the small bits we didn’t want included. I think we will be making more of these in the future just for fun. The quality is not very good since it was a phone doing the recording but you have to admit it’s pretty cool for a phone movie.
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Ok it’s fair to say I really want one of these and I am not alone here. I would say that even people who don’t love Apple computers would still have to say this is going to be one very cool gadget. I am living in Ireland and currently use Vodafone and where I live T-Mobile does not exist. This means that if T-Mobile get the new iPhone for Europe then no one living in Ireland (not northern ireland) would be able to get a new iPhone when they do finally come out. That would be a real shame.
These new ads are great in showing the true “wow” factor these little things have and you get to see just how fun they might be to use as well. Steve if your reading this right now and I know your a big fan of the i spy site, please make a deal with Vodafone and not T-Mobile so I might get my hands on one.
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Some screenshots from the video:
via neatorama.com
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Today I found this light hearted view of the apple vs. pc ads that apple has been running for a while now. If you have not seen them here is a list of links to all versions:
American Ads
English Ads
Japanese Ads
Now here is one with a Southpark style to it:
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I have actually seen the making of this a while back but it was from a cell phone and the quality was not very good at all. I’d say the final version is much better and cool to watch. Basically Sony has taken over 25,000 gallons of paint and decided to totally cover an apartment block. It actually looks like fireworks in some places when it explodes into the air. What a great idea. ]]>
If you have a few hours or days to kill and love watching funny ads you may want to head over to Funnyads.com.
The site is built entirely in Flash and it’s very easy to use. Almost too easy, if you know what I mean.
Here are a couple of my favorites so far:
Junk mail meets an all time low.
A woman making room for her next meal
Like I said before. Expect to spend some time here if you do decide to visit.
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