After all the goo gah about how HTML 5 video (which I christened HV5) may put an end to the predominant use of Adobe Shockwave Flash for video use on web pages, now look what has happened. Read more »

Photoshop Thumbnails back in File Explorer

For a long time, I haven’t seen any thumbnails for Photohop PSD files in Microsoft File Explorer.
It seems to have arisen from some lack of communication and love between Adobe and Microsoft, which is a darn shame for both customer bases.

Point is thumbnails save eons of time knowing which file to load, without having to load it.

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HV5 the new old news in web video

Lots of people jumping on the HTML 5 video band wagon, so let’s just clarify a few things, as I see them.

Will HTML 5 video, let’s nickname that bull frog to HV5 shall we?!

Will HV5 make me money this month? No! Read more »

One sharp cookie

This is Stefan Weitz. He’s one of the most araldite speakers I’ve heard from Microsoft since the Bill.

Sure he’s a “geek”, but who would you rather have? A bad tempered accountant in a suit, or someone genuinely enthusiastic about what he does and he thinks he can help people?

Add to that araldite communication and does it remind you of any one?

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I was using RAIDSEARCH to look through my hard drive for past banner ads of my own stuff.

I was branding a piece of viral software and it allowed me to add some of my own banners to it.

But something soon became apparent. Read more »

When you are in the video marketing creation industry, it’s easy to forget what it is like for real people.

Because we have all the video production and creation tools, by default we have all the players and all the video compression codes installed. But… Read more »