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S3 Amazon and DreamHost: a perfect marriage
By placing all heavy files on S3 Amazon/CloudFront, you only need a lightweight solution like DreamHost for your site itself. That way you have the best of both worlds. Both services are very cheap and easy to deal with. In the past, I had my doubts regarding DreamHost and indeed, playing video or audio from [...]
S3 Cloudfront: How to setup a bucket for private streaming – revised
To avoid problems with streaming video and audio, in particular private streaming, the way to go is to start with a fresh S3 AWS bucket without any content in it. Decide upfront which bucket is going to contain media for streaming and which one for private streaming. This way, you avoid confusion about the nature [...]
Joomla: How to serve videos based on subscription type
Here we discuss a free Joomla plugin to serve content on your site, depending on a subscription plan. For those not familiar with Joomla, you can register new users and give them a Joomla group status, like Registered, Author, Editor, Manager, etc… just as you would in WordPress. Depending on that status, a user can [...]
Results of a Survey on branding
Last week, I launched a survey on twitter, facebook and various forums to find out what consumers would think about 3 logo versions representing different versions of the same software. I created 3 logos, looking exactly the same, except for the background color. On the basis of those differences, I asked the readers to indicate [...]
S3 Amazon: How to embed video in your site
You want to embed video or audio from S3 Amazon into your site? This article tells you how to deal with the code involved to get your videos and audios up and running. You can use this code in practically any cms or regular website. Now, for content management systems like Joomla, WordPress or Drupal, [...]
Best wishes for 2010 !
Dear readers, I wish you all the best for this new year with its magical name two thousand and ten! I shall be honest with you: I’m happy 2009 is over. It was a stormy year for most people, I think. But this year I feel there is going to be a fresh wind and [...]
Importing bookmarks from Firefox to Opera
If you notice weird things happening to your blog or content management system and you are using Firefox, chances are that Firefox is messing up. Especially versions starting from 3.x are so bad that I decided to migrated to Opera. I’m not happy leaving Firefox because it has always been a great browser, but it [...]
How to embed Vimeo’s Badge widget
The badge widget of Vimeo shows thumbnails of your video collections on your post or page. Once embedded on your site, just like the HubNut widget, when you change settings in Vimeo, the changes reflect on your pages immediately. Selecting and customizing your widget Go to www.vimeo.com and log into your account. At the top [...]
Server down for maintenance
Friday 1:00am – 4:00am CDT (GMT-5), the server will be down for maintenance. During that time, the website will not be available. We are sorry for the inconvenience. May the server rest in peace for a couple of hours
Back up online recorded podcasts and video
Many audio- and video services offer to record podcasts or video online. The videos or audios are then saved on their server and conveniently, you get an url that you can link to in your web site. Easy and no worries, yet, there is one thing that most subscribers forget, and that is to download [...]
The Video Watermark Contest!
To celebrate Spring after a loooong winter, we organize The video Watermark Contest which will run until the 1st of May 2009! The winner of this contest will receive a full license of VidLogo, an excellent utility for Windows to burn mark existing- and new videos fast and easy. Read our review on Vidlogo to [...]
Blogs don’t die, they go to sleep
No posts in 14 days, I should feel bad about it, but there are reasons: First, I went on vacation and directly after that, my body explained to me that the vacation wasn’t long enough, so it used a weapon I cannot resist, it went on strike. Hence, I’ve got the flu. That will happen [...]
Embedding video & audio in WordPress – revision 3
If you want to play a video directly in your posts or pages, you cannot use the iFrame method because it doesn’t work in WordPress. iFrame is a way to import existing pages into your own page and it is frequently used by AudioAcrobat and other podcast services. The only way to make iFrame work [...]
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