Here’s a great detailed summary of WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco, which is organized by the folks at Automattic, the creators of the best blogging software available, WordPress.
For those of you who belong to a social network (who doesn’t), you have to watch this hilarious video.
The folks at Common Craft have created yet another interesting video, this time teaching concept of podcasting. For those of you who want to understand what podcasting is and how it could be useful to you as a producer of content or consumer of content, then watch the video below.
Another conceptual video from the people at Common Craft explaining the idea behind online social networks. If you are having a hard time getting your arms around the idea of social network services or know someone who is, then this video offers a very straight-forward simple explanation of the idea.
Another great video from the folks at Common Craft, which explains in simple terms the web technology of Wikis. Like their previous tutorial, RSS in Plain English, they offer an easy-to-understand and concise explanation of the technology.
Harnessing collective visual intelligence…. Wow!
Blaise Aguera y Arcas of Microsoft Live Labs demonstrates the power of Photosynth:
Photosynth takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and then displays the photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing you how each one relates to the next.
This video tutorial, RSS in Plain English, not only does a good job at explaining how RSS (Really Simple Syndication) works, but also shows how to setup and use the Google RSS Reader, if you already aren’t taking advantage of the technology.
John Mahoney over at the DigitalEdge Blog and DigitalEdge TV produced a second show of Practical RSS. I referenced his first show in an earlier post which explained the fundamentals of RSS and its benefits for the average user. The second show teaches how to use Google’s Feed Reader with FireFox and RSS to track news events. John also demonstrates how to create custom news feeds on specific topics.
As I mentioned in my previous post, Other World Computing (OWC) not only has a great selection of Macintosh hardware products at decent prices, but they also have taken the time out to produce some easy-to-follow videos on installing the hardware in your Mac.
Here is an example of a video showing how to install memory (RAM) into G4 AGP ‘Sawtooth’ and ‘Gigabit Ethernet’ Macintoshes:
Click on the PLAY button to watch the movie.
Here’s a list of computers which have videos for installing memory (linked to the medium resolution videos):
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Other World Computing (OWC) not only has a great selection of Macintosh hardware products at decent prices, but they also have taken the time out to produce some easy-to-follow videos on installing the hardware in your Mac.
Here’s an example of a video showing how to install a Parallel ATA hard drive into G4 AGP ‘Sawtooth’ & ‘Gigabit Ethernet’ Macintoshes:
Click on the PLAY button to watch the movie.
OWC offers each video in various different resolutions (High Quality, Medium Quality, Low Quality, and Modem Quality). Depending on your bandwidth restrictions, I would suggest the highest quality video, since the video is easier to view. The video above links to the medium quality video.
The only drawback to using video to explain how to install hardware is that if you only have one computer, you cannot watch the video while you are installing the hardware. I typically watch the video from my PowerBook G4 while doing the hardware installation on another computer. Using the video pause button, allows you to stop the video, while you complete the step just explained to you.
Here’s a list of computers which have videos for installing hard drives (linked to the medium resolution videos):
How to install a hard drive in G4 AGP ‘Sawtooth’ & ‘Gigabit Ethernet’ Macs
- Parallel ATA& PCI Card Installation
How to install a hard drive in a G4 Cube Mac
How to install a hard drive in a G4 ‘Mirrored Drive Door’/'FireWire 800′ Mac
- ATA/133 Connection
How to install a hard drive in a G4 ‘Mirrored Drive Door’/'FireWire 800′ Mac
- ATA/66 Connection
How to install a hard drive in a G5 Mac
How to install a hard drive in a Mac mini (G4)
How to install a hard drive in a G4 PowerBook ‘Titanium’ Mac (all models)
How to install a hard drive in a MacBook Pro 15″
How to install a hard drive in a Mac mini (intel)
How to install a hard drive in a MacBook 13.3″ (intel)
How to install a hard drive in a Mac Pro (intel)