woensdag 23 november 2011

GoPro Hero2 Low Light Test

I recorded this n my way to home.

maandag 14 november 2011

Slow Motion Quicktime Tutorial GoPro

A quick tutorial how you can create a slow motion video using Quicktime Pro I used my GoPro camera to shoot a 120fps movie under water.

woensdag 9 november 2011

GoPro Hero 2

Short update for this blog. I have bought the GoPro Hero 2 camera!

Why did I buy this camera? Well,  I feel that this is good, I have always like the fisheye lens effect, and this is just a neat little camera, good for some daily action.
I really like the concept of this camera and was sold after watching all the videos that are posted on Youtube. This camera has awesome features like true HD, slomotion, timelapse, super fish eye wide angle, mountable, portable and waterproof. I'm not planning to jump of cliffs or do base jumping, but I do plan on to make some crazy cool videos with it. Stay tuned, and for starters watch my Shave video below. I mounted the camera on my head and filmed my self while shaving. I don't know the purpose of that video, but I think it's just cool. 

woensdag 2 november 2011

Closing down http://youtw.it YouTube URL shortener.

It's exactly 3 years ago that I tweeted preparing...

What was I preparing?, well I was busy setting up a YouTube URL shortener, at that time there was no Youtube Url shortener, so I thought it was a nice idea the create.

Many people asked why anyone would need a Url shortener. Well in short, it's handy with Twitter, and the link indicates a video, and on top of that you get insight in the click views.

The first step was to register the Italian domain youtw.it
That was a somewhat difficult process and remember that I had to fax twice.

Then I started coding on the Google App Engine platform and created the service in Python using opensource ur.ly code 

After a few nights of coding I had a working service with a bookmarklet and ready to be used.
But when I wanted to put it live I found out that App Engine didn't support naked domains.

I checked Microsoft Azure and they didn't support naked domains aswell.

So I posted on googleappengine support thead 777 and had contact with the App Engine people, but up until now it's not there.

To be able to continue my plan I created a workaround using the free DNS redirecter service http://freedns.afraid.org

But I didn't put it live because I wasn't comfortable with the workaround.

In December my father passed away.

In 2009 we moved in our new house, lot of work needed to be done in the house.

Months passed by and then in late 2009 YouTube launched there own URL shortener http://goog.le and later even http://youtu.be

The idea faded between other ideas like creating my first iPhone app PicoZoo

I paid the domain every year, but now my money is finished. I decided to evaluate the idea and asked around if people would use it, and that's clear to me. 

So I have decided to discontinue the service. 

Here a screenshot of the service.

Youtw