Monthly Archives: March 2010

Cloudy with a Chance of Work

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Tom Long

My grandfather, Papaw, had the kind of tool bench too seldom seen.  Labeled jars with fasteners, outlines of tools on the pegboard where I was supposed to return them, etc.  Papaw was organized and took good care of his tools.  … Continue reading →

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Browse the Web Like Me

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Tom Long

I don’t know why you would want to browse the web like me, but if you do, here is how I do it. Search Most of my surfing time begins with a search. I get my search on either directly … Continue reading →

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Make Your Own Web TV Show

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Tom Long

Making a video web log is fairly simple in WordPress. 1 – Produce a Video The preferred format is an mp4 container with the AVC/H.264 video codec (mpg with the mpeg2 codec is second choice) and MP3 or AAC (needed … Continue reading →

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FLASH FIRST?

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Tom Long

Last time we looked at making your HTML5 video degrade to a flash player.  This post will look at how to default to the flash player and fall back to links to the HTML5 video for the smaller segment that … Continue reading →

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Is Your Blog iPad Ready?

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Tom Long

Distributing a video product can be very simple. I just shoot a video with my iPhone. Touch the share button. Touch the ‘Send to YouTube’ button and I’m done. But if one wishes to produce a regular video program or … Continue reading →

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