Media

Quick and Easy Flickr Slideshows for your Blog

Flickr has released a new and improved version of their fullscreen slideshow. The slideshow is available from almost every page including search results. Flickr videos can be played from within the slideshow and the slideshow will automatically pause while you are watching the video.

The best feature is the ability to embed a slideshow [...]

How to Make an Animated Gif from a Video Clip

Last night my friend, ronobvious, sent me a link to this video clip of Cesc Fabregas from Arsenal doing a little dance.

He then said he wished he could make an animated gif of the dance to use as an avatar. I thought that there must be a way, so I started looking for resources.

I [...]

Time Tube by Dipity - A YouTube Timeline

TimeTube by Dipity, which is a personal timeline of historic events manually entered or created with a feed, is a timeline of YouTube videos. Simply type in some keywords and a timeline of videos will be created that can be embedded on your website. The embedded timeline contains four views; timeline, list, [...]

Spain wins Euro 2008

Since I have been spending too much time watching football (or soccer to us Americans) and playing with video capture software, I haven’t written a post for today. I have always had a passing interest in football and would half pay attention to the World Cup but for some reason I have become [...]

Where in the Hell is Matt

Matt Harding travels around the world, dances in various locations, and films it. The first video was released in 2005 and was created to let friends and family know where he was. The video became viral and he obtained a sponsor to do the trip again and the 2nd video was released in [...]

Firedoglake Book Salon - Chat with Progressive Book Authors

Firedoglake hosts books salons or author chats on a variety of political, social justice, and progressive issues. Today’s chat was with Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now, and her independent journalist brother, David Goodman about their book Standing Up to the Madness
Since I enjoyed the chat so much, I started adding [...]

Extract Audio from YouTube Videos

I located an online tool that will allow you to extract the audio from any video file. You can provide the link to an online video, including YouTube, and the utility will create an mp3 of the audio. You can also upload your own video file. I’m not sure what the [...]