Links and Updates and Old Faves
I’ve been emailing myself links for a week to post – more to come tomorrow. But for now, if you’re a K-12 classroom teacher, click here to get your free copy of Mac OS X 10.2 “Jaguar.” Yow, good deal.
It’s probably too little for Steve Wood, who seems to speak from sad experience. Read his Straight Talk About the Education Market for a bitter point of view of the Mac place in education today. I work in a college, teaching multimedia skills – very basic ones – to teachers and eduction students. i don’t know how widely his experience is shared, but too much of what he says seems true from my vantage, even as Apple is creating the best, most timely products in its existence. We all seem to have the curse: that we live in “interesting times.”
Here’s the update: discreet [yes, small ‘d’] is shipping cleaner 6 [yes, small ‘c’] for Mac OS X. THE tool for compression to web, CD or multimedia. Charles at Playbacktime.com says that under OS X it doesn’t compress to WM 9 or Real, but the info I see on their site doesn’t say so… hmmm. [Can’t link directly to Charles’ comment – permalinks don’t seem to work yet on his new blog. It is still officially beta, so I sent him a bug report. I’d have permalinks here but I too often forget to do it. Sorry.] permalink to this item
Lots of good tips and tutorials at Digital Media Net:
- Steady Tracker Xtreme Reviewed
- Lighting 101—Part 4: The Background Light [how did I miss parts 1,2 & 3?]
- Editing From Another Planet: Alienware Invades DV
- Weekly Download: Custom Shapes for Photoshop 7
- Behind the Scenes: Editing The Man Who Knew for PBS’s Frontline
I mentioned old faves: the Little QuickTime Page is back, and has a boatload of links to follow if you do QuickTime authoring.
I found PlaybackTime.com through a link at Macintouch, and it turned out to be Charles Wiltgen, with whom I made email acquaintance when he worked for Terran Interactive when they owned Media Cleaner, which is now cleaner (without a capital c) and owned by discreet (without a capital d). [got all that?] PlaybackTime.com is a blog tracking developments in all platforms and formats of digital media.
It’s wacko busy here in the ITC. Lots of mid-term project angst in the air – and corrupted floppies ruining weeks of work, people uploading their first web pages, “Does Excel run on these machines?”, “The system won’t let me log in,” and people not showing up for their videoconferencing appointments. We love technology in Education!!!——-