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Trippin over players…

appoulsen — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:13:32 +0000

Video players, that is.

Where I work, we – amongst other things, thank God – design and develop videoplayers.

And it just struck me – or actually my man Christian just pointed out, that there is something inherently illogical to the conventions surrounding player-design. It revolves around the ‘play/pause’ and ‘mute/unmute’ buttons.

Why the hell is it, that when a video is playing you see the pause icon on the ‘play/pause’ button (meaning ‘this is what will happen if you press the button’) whereas when the sound is on you see the ‘unmuted’ icon on the mute/unmute button (meaning ‘this is the current state of the video). Is that not hellacounterintuitive?

Video is paused, sound is on

Video is paused, sound is off

Video is playing, sound is on

Can someone explain the logic to me?

Youtube video jukebox

appoulsen — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:56:59 +0000

Got a kick out of this nifty thing while I had my morning coffee today. A youtube video jukebox generated from my last.fm lists. It’s made by Morten Just. (Via)

Reblog THIS, nerds

appoulsen — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:43:58 +0000

So goes the final line of this documentary on tumblr – a not too shabby micro blogging service. The video is pretty cool too, if you ask me:

Click here to view the embedded video.

So there ya go – video reblogged. I’m a nerd, I know

The Flip & Flickr video

appoulsen — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:31:52 +0000

I ordered Pure Digital’s Flip Ultra camcorder yesterday. I can’t wait to see if it’s all it’s cracked up to be! I bought it as a supplement to my regular camcorder – the point and shoot version so to speak. I’ll write a proper review once it arrives and I’ve had time to test it out.

While on the subject of video. Flickr now supports video! I’ve been waiting for this day to arrive for ages, and it looks promising. I am, however, SERIOUSLY bummed to learn that videos are limited to 90 secs. To me this just means that I will probably stick to using Vimeo (love Vimeo) and using the nifty little ‘share’ option.

But hey – perhaps Flickr will be the place to post Flip vids while Vimeo holds the longer vids shot on the regular camcorder.

Animoto

appoulsen — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:34:43 +0000

Colleague pointed me towards Animoto. I’m testing it now – I’ll return with a review at a later point in time, but here’s my first Animoto-vid:

Click here to view the embedded video.

I need to check out Fliptrack as well… What’s your favourite slideshow, picture/video editing service? I’m inspired at the moment, and looking to check out a bunch of them!