Lets look at a simple way to get your video project from Final Cut Pro burned onto a DVD quickly using Compressor and DVD Studio Pro. We will look at how to render your timeline, how to export from Final Cut, how to use Compressor to prep your files for DVD, and how to use DVD Studio Pro to burn your DVD.
Finally the day has come where you can connect add facebook chat to iChat on your mac and it’s simple too!
Directions:
1. Go to the iChat menu and select “Preferences.”
2. Click “Accounts,” then click the “+” at the bottom.
3. Select “Jabber” from the pull-down menu, then enter the following info:
Screen Name: yourusername@chat.facebook.com
Password:
4. Click the arrow next to “Server Options” and enter the following info:
Server: chat.facebook.com
Port: 5222
(Uncheck the box labeled “Use SSL”)
Hey folks… I was thinking about how many of my friends ask me tech questions and how much I enjoy helping them figure out the answer to those question… I love it!
In light of that, I decided to make a place to gather those questions and what better place than right here on my blog!? I was even thinking it would be cool to answer some of the best questions I receive each week in a blog post – so if your question is really cool it might end up on the blog!
Now I know you’ve got a nagging tech question on your mind you’ve always wanted to ask…
“How do I _____?” , “What’s a cool solution for ______?” , “Do you know a good way to ____?” – just click the link below and fill out the quick questionnaire and “woosh” the question will be in my inbox.
Or you can just leave a comment below…..
Ok, maybe you’ve seen this before… but that’s ok – maybe this will help…
I often get asked how I keep all of my projects backed up…
They always say, “Your not backed up till you have multiple copies in multiple locations.”
For the past two years I have accumulated more than 3 Terabytes of data from video projects, websites, and graphics I have done for my clients. All of that data has been stored on a local Drobo which lived on my desk connected to my iMac. The Drobo is built to create its own redundancy so that I would never loose data but this solution isn’t enough. If someone broke into my home and stole my equipment or a fire destroyed our home, years of work and all of my client’s data would be lost. I had to come up with a true backup solution because the mere thought of loosing that much work and that much information worried me.
My first idea was to use services like backblaze.com, mossy.com, or carbonite.com – each offer online backup solutions. I tried each of theses services on their unlimited data plans and began the process of sending 3 Terabytes of data to their data centers. I lost my patience when after 2 months of nearly constant backup I had not yet fully backed up my 3 Terabytes of data to their data center. If it took this long to run the initial backup, I knew when I added another 1GB video it would take too long to backup to any of those online services. What if I ever lost my local Drobo? It would take too much time to recover my data from these online backup services as well. Clearly this was not the right solution for me.
What I needed was a way to seed another identical Drobo with everything I currently have, then move that Drobo to another location. The problem was how to access the other Drobo remotely…? I didn’t want to have to purchase another computer or setup some kind of complicated VPN connection. That’s when I discovered the Pogoplug. The Pogoplug is an ingenious device that lets you access and share the contents of your external hard drives through the internet. HOLY SMOKES!
The Solution…
I purchased an additional Drobo (Drobo2) and filled it with 4 1TB hard drives (identical to the Drobo I already had).
Next I connected both Drobos to my local iMac and copied all of the data from my existing Drobo (Drobo1) to my new Drobo (Drobo2) thus giving me 2 Drobos with identical data on each.
I purchased 1 Pogoplug $120
I left Drobo1 connected to my iMac on my home network.
I connected Drobo2 to a Pogoplug at a friend’s house.
I installed the Pogoplug Drive Application http://pogoplug.com/downloads/ on my Mac so that any drives attached to my Pogoplug would show up on my machine as if they were locally mounted hard drives.
I purchased and installed ChronoSync $40 http://www.econtechnologies.com/pages/cs/chrono_overview.html
I setup ChronoSync so that Both target drives (Drobo1 and Drobo2) will be monitored for changes. Any changes detected will be copied to the opposite target drive. Basically, if I change, add, or delete a file on my Drobo1 the same file will be changed, added, or deleted from Drobo2 and vise versa. FYI: ChronoSync is the only application that I could find for Mac that would allow me to use the Pogoplug drives as targets.
I have to brag about the Pogoplug a little here… The Pogoplug not only gives me a way to access my files remotely but it allows me to access those files from any computer in the world using the web interface. Additionally there are sharing features so I can share a file on Drobo2 to anyone in the world via, Twitter, Facebook, direct link, etc…!
The Hardware List:
1x iMac 27″
2x Drobos
1x Pogoplug
1x Licensed Copy of ChronoSync
Backup that I don’t have to worry about PRICELESS!
Sooo… How do you stay backed up?
Here’s the scenario… you just finished your rock-solid CSS design and your page looks wonderful. Currently your viewing it in a nice big browser window and there’s no vertical scrollbar. Mmmm…. very nice! Then you click to another page in your template – a very long page – when “boink!” your whole page shifts to the left by about 20pixels?!?!
“What the crazy just happened!?”
Ah… The scrollbar appeared and bumped my page over….
How to fix it? = Always show the scrollbar
In your CSS just add this line:
html { overflow:-moz-scrollbars-vertical; overflow-y: scroll; }Presto your scrollbar problems have been solved!
How to manage your small business expenses and income automatically with 3 useful web applications for under $20! Believe my I’m no accountant. But for the first time ever I actually have my bookkeeping and accounting on autopilot. When tax time comes I’m ready!
Freshbooks – is the tool I use to manage my estimates, invoices, time tracking, and billings.
Outright – is the incredible app I use to combine my income and expenses to give me a live overview of my profits, losses, taxes owed, and more. Outright is the automatic accountant.
Shoeboxed – the repository for all of my expense receipts. The best part is I do no sorting their service does all of the sorting and input for me. All I do is take a photo of the receipt with my iPhone.
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