Free legal movies to download

Wanna watch the top free legal movies to download.  There are films like Dick Tracy, The 39 Steps, Blackmail, and even Rescue from Gilligan’s Island.  Here is the link TECH.BLORGE.

White background

The online magazine Videomaker has an interesting piece on How to make an Infinite White Background Cheap....

My kind of camera

Lytro has developed a camera that allows you to focus the photos after you have taken the picture.  This is my kind of camera.  It has it's own image processing software, and the user will be able to refocus on any object in the picture after it was taken.

The design of the camera is also different.  Check it out here.

Options for finding storage space in the cloud

We always stress the importance of having students save their work to an external device, since it won't be saved on the computer once it is restarted. We have a couple of options that we've recommended to students over the semesters: checking out an external hard drive and having them send the document to themselves using UD's Dropbox service. Something else you might want to consider is referring them to cloud storage, where people can save their data to a remote server. The NYTimes has a good article that goes over several free and paid options for saving information to the cloud. Here are some options, in a nutshell:

Google Drive

SkyDrive from Microsoft

Dropbox.com

SugarSync

Google Changes The Way It Does Search

Today Google announced a big change in its approach to searching. Google has declared this as the first step in transitioning from an "information agent" to a "knowledge agent".

Google is going to implement the changes slowly, but some users will begin seeing the feature this week. The major change will be that you'll see a separate "knowledge panel" to the right of your regular search results that provides information about whatever you are searching for.

Read more about these changes on the Google blog.

Video Editing...in Photoshop?

With Adobe CS6 getting a lot of attention as of late, I looked over the updated feature set that Sara posted about earlier this month. When I learned that Photoshop Extended would include more video editing features than previous versions, I was stunned--you mean to tell me that Photoshop has had a full-featured video editor built in since CS3? For students who have video projects at the end of the semester, we can suggest several programs: iMovie, Movie Maker, Final Cut, Premiere, and now, Photoshop Extended! Especially for those users more at home in Photoshop than a program like Final Cut (and want more filters, text options, and level adjustments that the basic editors offer), this is a "hidden gem." Check out this tutorial from Pro Video Coalition to see how PS (CS4) handles video surprisingly well.

Trabant Copy Center services

I was in the Trabant University Center the other day and stopped by the Copy Center to check out services there. (They don't have a handout or web site with price info.) So as of now:

Color printing and copying:
8.5x11 up to 12x18: $.70 per copy, over 50 copies a discount (doesn't say how much)

Black and white printing and copying:
8.5x11 up to 12x18: $.10 (may also have discount for over 50pp)

Posters/banners, black ink on color or white paper only, no color ink posters:
18x24: $5.00
18x48: $10.00

Fax:
US: 1st page, $2.00, each additional page, $1.00
International: 1st page, $5.00, each additional page, $3.00.

They also have a station to print out photos (Kodak kiosk), didn't get a price on that.

Rich