Billy Fire LLC – design, marketing and technical commentary
I recently took another look at the current state of play for AVCHD video editors. Things are definitely improving. I downloaded a trial of Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Edition and I have been VERY pleasantly surprised. Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Edition is from the Sony stable of editing software and falls between their entry level [...]
Mon, June 9 2008 » Gadgets, Technical, Video » No Comments
I’ve been struggling for the last couple of days to get password-less ssh to work between two linux machines running Ubuntu 8.04 on my local network. I went through the correct procedures, i.e. ssh-keygen -t rsa, copied the public key to authorized_keys and used scp to copy it over to the .ssh directory of the [...]
Thu, June 5 2008 » Technical » No Comments
I have recently written an introductory article describing some of the options available for authenticating e-mail, including Sender Policy Framework (SPF), SenderID and DomainKeys. I also include instructions on setting up DomainKeys on a cPanel based system where SSH access is available.
Thu, April 17 2008 » Marketing, Technical » No Comments
I mentioned previously that my Canon HG10 replaced a ZR, whose firewire port had ceased to function. I realized a few weeks ago that the ZR replaced another Canon, but not a video camera, a Super 8 film camera, the Canon 318M. I’ve had this camera in my cupboard for over 25 years and I [...]
Wed, April 2 2008 » Gadgets, Technical » 3 Comments
One the huge benefits of a hard drive video camera is the ability to find and playback any clip within a matter of seconds. On the Canon HG10, when you change the mode to play, up to six clips are displayed on the screen. You can easily navigate between the clips using the control to [...]
Fri, March 21 2008 » Gadgets, Technical » No Comments
We recently introduced a virtual PBX into our business. The system from 800PBX.com provides us with a toll free number, together with a local fax number. I have initially opted for their lowest cost option ($14.99) per month, this means that since a fax number is included, it is almost cheaper than what I used [...]
Thu, March 20 2008 » Gadgets, Marketing, Technical » 9 Comments
Podcast feeds use RSS (‘Real Simple Syndication’). The beauty of RSS is that once you have subscribed using a ‘feed reader’, you automatically get future episodes of a podcast. There are many options as far as feed readers are concerned. Some of these are on-line services such as those available from Google and Yahoo. Others [...]
Wed, March 12 2008 » Marketing, Technical » No Comments
Shedworx has just released a new version of their software that allows you to do a conversion into the WMV format as well as the AVI format. The added advantage for the Canon HG-10 is that the conversion keeps the video in the correct 16:9 format. For this version to work Windows Media version 11 [...]
Wed, January 30 2008 » Gadgets, Technical » 1 Comment
I was just reading how Matt Cutts had had some issues with his backup server and it reminded me that someone may be interested in a couple of recent occurrences where my backups saved my bacon (well actually not quite that serious, but it would have required me to do a lot of extra work [...]
Mon, January 21 2008 » Gadgets, Technical » 1 Comment
I recently bought a Canon HG10 video camera to replace my old Canon ZR DV camera. The ZR is still going strong, but the firewire port on the camera is broken and hence I cannot transfer videos to the PC anymore. I am left with pile of mini DV tapes, many of which I forgot [...]
Fri, January 11 2008 » Gadgets, Technical » 2 Comments
