Embedding HD video: YouTube vs. Vimeo

In which I provide a link that compares HD video web page embedding options.
The design of this blog means I can’t show how large HD video embeds can be on web pages you control can be. This (non-designed*) page on my site compares size and quality between YouTube and Vimeo HD video.
The maximum embed size [...]

FCP users: “Doesn’t Apple want our money?”

In which I show evidence that Apple hasn’t given up on Pro Apps, and suggest why they aren’t in any hurry to update them.
Given recent upgrades for other editing software, Final Cut users have been increasingly frustrated with a lack of news of updates from Apple.
Today’s announcement of a very minor update for Final Cut [...]

‘As live’ comments while streaming

In which I suggest that timestamps of live comments during TV shows could be used to replay them when you catch up with a live event
A few days ago I started to be wary reading blog posts and tweets. I’ve been following the modern version of Battlestar Galactica. I may have not seen every episode, [...]

Almost time for the Knowledge Navigator

In which I remind you of Apple’s concept videos from the 80s and suggest it is time for a new one.
In 1987 and 1988 Apple were still facing an uphill battle with businesses when it came to convincing them that graphical user interfaces were better than MS-DOS command-line interfaces. Part of their campaign to show [...]

Final Cut feature idea: Moving markers

In which I suggest a very small user interface change to add a feature to Final Cut that editors have been requesting for many years.
I know… an idea that has been around for at least 10 years. However there are two parts to any feature request: the idea and how integrate it into the application. [...]

Control for all

For the last thirty years people have been trying to come up with clever ways to make TV interactive. In the early 80s, we had Teletext services. We later had phone votes. These days digital TV users know that they can get more content – such as games, documentaries and commentary tracks – by ‘pressing [...]

Voice to Twitter

Given that mobile phones have been irritating to use for years, I had a couple of ideas that might make them more appealing. They are based on two aspects of SMS texting that I liked: texts aren’t conversations and texts are cheaper.
An advantage of texting is that you don’t have to get into a [...]

Nokia’s big chance

When catching up with Maxine. a friend who is still in the conference business, she told me the tale of Nokia’s opportunity to impress some people at a multinational consumer products company.
She was working on a conference for the senior media buyers of this company who had gathered from all over the world to discuss [...]

1993 vs. 2009

1993:
I Love Typography – A reminder of the kind of stuff I used to read at the St. Bride Printing Library in the early 90s.
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web – Schizophrenia resulted from me being a SGML purist in the early days of the web while designing magazines. One part of [...]

Twitter search suggestion: roll-your-own ‘twitterrank’

Most people would never know it, but for the last few hours there’s been a big debate on the future of Twitter’s search function. Not a big deal, but it strikes at the heart of how different people use same social media platforms in different ways.
The story starts with a blog post by Loïc [...]