I love being a designer but sometimes you just have to shake your head and sigh at the common requests that clients have. This video effectively pokes fun at what clients think they really want. It's funny because we all know someone who likes this stuff.
http://www.makemylogobiggercream.com/
NBC "Video Rewind" sucks. We missed 10 minutes of the office on TV last night, so tonight we went to nbc.com to watch those first 10 minutes. Was it to much to hope for that their online episodes were as easy to watch as ABC's? Apparently, yes. NBC is completely incapable of delivering video online. It would have been much easier to download it over bit-torrent. Also, the little bit of the video that did load was at the wrong aspect ratio. Widescreen squeezed into a 4:3 player. Weak. Commercials load and play just fine, they are even larger than the video provided for the actual show. In fact I've sat here writing this while waiting for NBC's crappy video player to buffer, of course I have no idea if it is buffering, because there is no busy indication or loading bar.
And I would try to submit a complaint to NBC, but that is entirely impossible. I've looked before, all you can find online is a general survey form that offers no field for comments or questions. So, they want to prevent you from watching their shows on their website through their new video player, and you can't let them know when it doesn't work. So here I am... here we are... fun.
Oh, and yes, I'm on windows, and I tried both IE and Fire Fox. Same problems in both.
May I submit for your perusal, a proposal to institute a new internationall observed holiday?
Today I cleaned up the contents of my iPod, an activity that should have been completed a long time ago. My MP3 collection stretches back at least 7 years, and this is my second ipod. I almost never used the shuffle feature of the iPod anymore because of the annoying need to skip through three tracks everytime one song that I enjoy listening to ended.
I primarily use my iPod as background noise while I'm working, but needing to skip repeat songs and songs you hate (why did I have 4 copies of the Jeopardy theme song?!?!) can really break a persons flow. When I find music, I usually use the artists menu, but this doesn't work when everyon mispells artist names all the time. This is a common problem with songs you get from P2P networks, especially with the songs I got from older ones like Kazaa and Napster. Remember kids, buying music ensures higher bitrates and accurate ID3 tags!
So I spent a little time viewing all the songs that just had filenames with no artist info in iTunes and applying the right artist info, or deleting songs I have always hated. Also, going through the entire library sorted by artist alphabetically shows where artist were named inconsistently. Red Hot Chili Peppers was spelled 8 different ways, and I think Guns 'n Roses came close to that as well. It's much easier to find music now on my iPod.
So, please tell your friends, the second Friday in October every year is International iPod Cleanup Day.
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Clever editing, perfect simplicity, funny without needing voice-overs and fan-made effects, truly an exercise in comedic timing.
Flashpaper was always underappreciated, but here's another way to share documents in a similar way. Actually maybe it is still flash-paper, but let's see what it does with a big image... snip
Ok... nope, that's just annoying. It says it can do previews of images and PDF's but that's an image and there is no preview... so I guess this service is pretty much useless. And it trys to open a popup window, and there's no option to turn that off. So, nope Adobe Share kinda sucks in beta.
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