Father’s Day Time-lapse
June 17, 2010 - 11:39 pm
Happy Father’s Day, folks. Best part about this video was the 38 minutes worth of peace and quiet as the camera and kids did their things.
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Birthday Party Time Lapse
June 7, 2010 - 4:48 pm
Kids birthday parties always feel like a chaotic blur of cake, screaming, and truncated conversations. We just hosted our son’s fourth at NYC Elite gymnastics and I set up this little time-lapse of the pizza/cake portion and I think it really captures the spirit of the day. I like the way the balloons dance around.
I used a Canon SD 780 IS with a CHDK intervalometer script. Then I imported the image sequence using Quicktime Pro. It was so easy to do. Hardest part was getting the right framing since I didn’t have a view of the LCD screen from the highest shelf I could reach. So I just did a trial and error for a few frames.
A Mobile Site in Minutes
June 2, 2010 - 1:53 pm
I have been having some fun playing with an easy to use mobile site creation tool over at Widgetbox. While my blog works with the mobile browsers, the Widgetbox tool makes it dead simple to create a standalone mobile site.
I like that it requires absolutely no programming or design skills. You can implement any number of widgets for the site including latest posts (from RSS feed), YouTube channel, Twitter, Facebook Page, Photos, Maps, Polls, Share, and Custom Content.
It works best on the iPhone. It’s easy to set up a shortcut on the homepage for quick access to my mobile site. It is supposed to work with Android as well, but I found that you have to scroll to get to the navigation buttons, which naturally sit at the bottom of the iPhone screen.
Aside from that, the scrolling, navigation, load time, thumbnails, makes for an excellent mobile user experience. I was happy with it.
It takes a minutes to get a free, ad-supported, site. Or you can upgrade to Pro for the ad-free version. ($3.99 or 19.99 a month, depending on bells and whistles and any other Widgetbox things you want for your site).
Check out my site here: http://m.wbx.me/dadhoc and vote in my poll! So far, 50% of respondents think that kids should be over 12 before having an iPod touch. But so far sample is too small to really draw any conclusions.
The get started page on Widgetbox.