September 25th, 2009 — Uncategorized
My wife’s non-profit organization needed to relocate to another ISP, hostgator. Along the way I discovered that the version of jpegtran they installed didn’t have the “-crop” option, which was required by Gallery2 to create thumbnails. Although they don’t include or support Gallery2 or jpegtran, here’s the fix:
- Go to http://sylvana.net/jpegcrop/jpegtran/
- download http://sylvana.net/jpegcrop/jpegcrop.tar.gz
- copy jpegtran into your ~/bin directory
- configure Gallery2’s Jpegtran “Graphics Toolkits” to specify your new jpegtran
Configure Jpegtran for Gallery2
Alternatively, you can also try this more radical suggestion.
February 20th, 2009 — technology
Sample Trivia Game
Recently a client called and wanted a quick set of sample images, movies and Flash animations created. He was attending a Higher Education technology conference and needed sample content for his booth. The deadline was just a few short weeks away.
This was a fun project, with a completely “open” set of requirements. The only constraint was two fixed sizes. Colors, theme, layout, messaging: just make them”look cool, believable” and recognizable to visitors at the booth. We took a road trip to a few nearby campuses and got “inspired”. Here’s what we came up with. The client loved ‘em! Continue reading →
November 3rd, 2007 — podcasting, recording, technology
I use Keynote ‘08 for my professional presentations at the office, I also use it for client work such as training and technical presentations. I am super-excited about the new features in Apple’s Keynote ‘08 update. Unfortunately, if you have decent audio recording equipment it seems Apple didn’t do a good job at testing this with the “Slideshow Recording” feature. Problem: Keynote ‘08 is not able to use some Firewire audio interfaces as the audio input source. If you try, you get this error message (Grammar Girl, where are you?):
The Apple Discussion board has been tracking this bug since Paul Figgiani reported it on Aug 10 2007. I respect Paul and like his work so I was extra-motived to find a solution. Someone posted a workaround that involved basically dumping the “Line out” of your interface into the “Line In” on your computer. Yes that works, but it feels dirty and you’re compromising your sound quality. Here’s a better way! Continue reading →
