Wicked clever idea coming from @thejrod over at NewSpring.cc. IT people, take note.
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I just got an email from someone on the NAB Show Team letting me know of a couple of exhibits at this year’s show that might be of interest to some of you.
The Technologies for Worship Pavilion offers comprehensive training for house of worship staff and technical volunteers and is the focal point for all things related to worship technology at the NAB Show. In addition, you may be interested in Destination Broadband - the newest broadband-centric exhibit at the 2010 NAB Show. It will be featuring technologies like online video platforms, streaming video, mobile video distribution, and much more.
Technologies for Worship Schedule: http://ow.ly/1fCqd
Destination Broadband: http://ow.ly/14hgA
Check out that first link. Looks like some informative and fun stuff!
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I love animoto like I love Apple. It just makes things easier. Now they’ve released a developer API! I’m looking forward to seeing what people do with that!
If you’re into digital photography or videography you may have heard that shooting video on your HD capable DSLR is all the rage. This post from the ProVideo Coalition provides a great case study in how using these cameras to shoot an entire program can work. I need to get me one of these cameras!
There’s been a lot talk about the publishing industry and how eBooks and other technologies will change things. This brief article from Joe Wikert, GM at O’Reilly publishing, has some interesting thoughts on what the step beyond eBooks might look like and a company you may be familiar with that has been doing it for years. Thought provoking stuff.
Looking to build a mobile website? Hoping to take advantage of huge screen sizes without leaving out the little guy? Check into Less Framework. It’s pretty cool!
With mobile sites being all the rage, don’t forget your visitors who, like me, are still rocking their non-iPhones and non-Androids and whose mobile browsers are limited by speed, rendering and bandwidth issues. If the group of mobile browsers in this situation is big enough for Facebook to consider, I’ll bet it’s big enough for your church to consider.
Don’t have the skills or time to set it up? There are services that make creating a mobile site quick and easy!
ProPresenter 4 is out for Mac (Windows version on the way!)
I got a welcome email in my inbox this afternoon. ProPresenter 4 has been released and with it a bunch of very excellent features that, in my opinion, keeps this app firmly on the throne as King of Presentation Software.
Even more interesting is Renewed Vision’s announcement that they are working on a Windows port of ProPresenter. I know a lot of PC users who will be happy to hear that.
Here are some FAQs that were included in the email:
WHAT WILL PROPRESENTER 4 WINDOWS LOOK LIKE?
We have put a great deal of thought into the user interface of ProPresenter 4 on the Mac, so why ruin a good thing? We are building the Windows version to look and function identically. If you know how to run ProPresenter 4 Mac, you will know instantly how to run ProPresenter 4 Windows.
WILL IT HAVE ALL THE FEATURES OF THE MAC VERSION?
We are working hard to make sure that every feature of the Mac version is implemented in Windows. In some cases, a feature may be less robust on the Windows platform while others may work even better. Some technical realities beyond the scope of ProPresenter may have an impact (video codecs, shared storage, etc.), but we’re going to make sure these are minimal.
WILL I BE ABLE TO USE BOTH IN MY ORGANIZATION?
From the ground up, we have worked to ensure interoperability between ProPresenter 4 Mac and ProPresenter 4 Windows. This means you will be able to move files back and forth, and they will run largely the same way on either platform.
WHAT ABOUT THE ADVANCED AND ALPHA KEYER MODULES, OR THE PROPRESENTER REMOTE FOR IPHONE?
We’re not planning our initial release of ProPresenter 4 Windows to include any modules or iPhone remote functionality. Depending on market acceptance and customer demand, however, we may consider developing them in the future. Be sure to let us know your interest in these additional features.
WHAT IS THE PRICING OF PROPRESENTER FOR WINDOWS?
ProPresenter for Windows has the same pricing structure as its Mac counterpart. Single user licenses will be platform specific and sold for $399. However, a Site License for ProPresenter 4 will work on either platform, allowing unlimited use on any platform for a single campus, making our site license an even better value add. This means for a $799 site license purchase, you can run ProPresenter 4 on either a Mac or a Windows machine. Existing ProPresenter 4 site license owners will be able to download and unlock the Windows version immediately after it becomes available.
WHY ARE WE ANNOUNCING IT NOW?
Because site licenses of ProPresenter 4 will work on both the Mac and Windows versions, we want people to know these benefits before placing their upgrade orders.
WHEN WILL PROPRESENTER 4 WINDOWS BE RELEASED?
We don’t have a specific date for release quite yet, but are working towards Summer 2010. We will certainly have a public beta test for registered ProPresenter users prior to the wide release. Stay tuned to this page for such an announcement in the coming months.
WILL PROPRESENTER 4 WINDOWS EFFECT THE MAC DEVELOPMENT CYCLE?
Above all else, we want to create the most functional products possible. While ProPresenter 4 has a great many features that we’ve been thinking about for years, we still have a great many more ideas we are looking forward to implementing in the future. Because we have completely separate development teams working on the Mac and Windows versions of ProPresenter, we can concentrate on making each platform’s product the very best it can be and developing new features quickly.
So yesterday I released my first iPhone app, Audio Footnote. I’m busy sending out press releases and promo codes now and I figured I’d plug it here as well.
I’ll never listen to another sermon podcast without Audio Footnote. Now I can record voice notes while listening to podcasts on my iPhone and those notes will be saved and sorted by what I was listening to, when I was recording the note and how far along in the podcast I was. Works with audiobooks and the iPod Touch too.
I created this app, with the help of some wicked smart guys, because it solved a problem I was having. I hope it is a help to you also. More info at http://www.audiofootnote.com.
MediaCore is a free open source video, audio, and podcast publishing platform. It is built for organizations who wish to distribute media in a variety of formats on their website while maintaining the ability to control the user experience.
The purpose behind MediaCore was to make a central media library that could pull media from any source, track statistics, enable commenting, and provide a high degree of control over the presentation and administration.
