A brilliant example by agency Hello Monday, of connecting smartphone interactivity with physical space activity. It’s a game that encourages users to be creative by building objects, and using the phone to validate creations. It’s costly and unsatisfying to simulate the environment needed to engage in construction themed play on a computer. With this app construction is moved to its native habitat and users engage simultaneously virtual and real life interactions. The two worlds coexists, sustain and complement eachother.
Jing – a neat little screencasting tool
October 27, 2011 – 6:03 pm
Find jing here: http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
Jing is a desktop app which is highly intergrated with the web. The user creates an account on screencasting.com in the install process, in return it’s extremely easy to share the content created using Jing.
Providing your ftp information (including which directory you wish to use for video/images) in the jing settings, it’s possible to upload your content by simply pressing a button. No need to start an ftp client, locate the file in your archive and drag it to the right location on your webserver. A handy little feature is that in the same settings you can make sure that jing adds the filepath to your clip board so that that all you have to do is paste the URL where you need it to be. I use wordtube so I paste the URL into a field provided by the media>wordtube panel.
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converting video to FLV for Wordtube
October 27, 2011 – 9:52 am
Wordtube is a plugin for wordpress that makes it easy to upload and manage video.
Wordtube uses the .flv format which means it uses a flash videoplayer. If the video you want to upload is in .avi format or something else, you’ll need to convert it to .flv.
There are online converters out there. I’ve used this one: http://www.flvhosting.com/index.php?sc=10
About screen capture with VLC
October 27, 2011 – 8:13 am
The VLC mediaplayer is opencource and crossplatform.
It has a screen capture device, that lets you record the screen.
Note: There is a drawback…if you want audio in your video you’ll have to record this seperately.
Download it from here: http://vlc-media-player.en.softonic.com/
NB! This procedure was made running VLC v.1.1.12 on Mac OS 10.5.8
Quite different procedure for windows with unknown version of VLC found here: http://pctonic.net/use-vlc-as-a-screen-recording-tool
Start screen casting by opening the VLC player, select File>Open Capture Device
choose screen in the dropdown menu. If it’s already chosen and you don’t see any settings panel, choose something else from the dropdown menu, then choose screen again.
It should look like this:
These settings shown here, will give you a small square around the mouse, whereever it is while recording. The frame rate settings gives you a smooth recording.
Press settings…
Start by choosing an encapsulation method. I recommend AVI.
Press ‘Browse’ to set where the video file should be stored on your computer.
Add the rest of the settings. Press OK.
You’ll then see the screen from before. Press Open, and your recording will begin.
When you are done, activate VLC media player and select Playback>Stop.
Your video has now been added to the location you pointed to in the settings.
A list of alternative screencapture software here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_screencasting_software
The wordtube plugin
October 13, 2011 – 10:30 pm
Use with shortcodes, control from settings (media > wordtube)
Get the Flash Player to see the wordTube Media Player.
