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Free Video Backgrounds

26 Oct 2012

Here is a list of some of the best FREE Video Backgrounds for your website and media projects. Enjoy.

Video Blocks is the first subscription-based resource for downloading royalty-free video backgrounds, stock footage, motion backgrounds, production music, sound effects and more. Simply create an account, and you get unlimited downloads to everything on the site. (7 Day Free Trial).

Download FREE Video Backgrounds, for commercial or personal use!
all videos are High Definition, animated video backgrounds to use in your video editing projects.

Completely free animated 2D and 3D background animations, lower thirds and more from movietools.info

Royalty Free Video Backgrounds and Animated Backgrounds from AnimationFactory.com.

Free video backgrounds from Free-Video-Footage.com. They also have lower thirds, motion elements, video fonts, dvd menus, video overlays, sound fx, video transitions and special effects.

All of the video backgrounds at givemefreeart.com are totally free for you to use in your projects.

111 Volumes of animated video backgrounds from Studio1Productions.com.

And check YouTube for Free Video Backgrounds.

Good Luck with your projects.

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How to Make your Own Animation

In: Tools

26 Oct 2012

Learn how to make your own animations. Here are some of the best Animation Tools on the web. Enjoy.

Make your own Animations at GoAnimate.com
Learn to make movies and animations using xtranormal.com
Create Speaking Avatars at voki.com
Make Free Cartoons and Animations with Sketch Star
Make Animations on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch with doink.com
Kids can Learn How to Maker Their Own Animations at abcya.com

YouTube:
How to Make Your Animation using Source Filmaker

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High-res GIFs with Echograph

In: Animated Gif

26 Oct 2012

Echograph is a new storytelling medium made for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Explore new possibilities in animated photography. Created by artists for artists.
Echographapp.com

Links:
Wired.com – Meet Echograph, the Instagram of Animated GIFs

MacWorld.com – Review: Produce high-res GIFs with Echograph for iOS

Fastcodesign.com – Echograph App Lets Pros make Art With Animated Gifs

Video:
YouTube.com – What is Echograph?

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Where is Google Mail Priority Inbox?

In: Daily

12 Sep 2012

A friend emailed me today wondering where the setting for Gmail or Google Mail Priority Inbox was. It can easily be overlooked. See graphic below. Click to enlarge.

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How to setup DAP Email Order Processing with 1ShoppingCart and a Google Apps Email Address

In: Tools

12 Sep 2012

Having trouble getting Digital Access Pass Email Order Processing to work with your Google Apps Email account? I struggled for days trying to get this to work. DAP’s documentation was not helpful at all. Save yourself time and frustration by purchasing my my instructional video which shows you how to setup Digital Access Pass (DAP) Email Order Processing with 1ShoppingCart AND your Google Apps email account.

Purchase Video $15

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Expecting More

In: Usability

25 Oct 2011

I received this well designed email from Adobe this morning. They had my attention with a great design, interesting image, headlines and the right amount of teaser text. I clicked on the linked date ”March 20 – 23
Salt Lake City, Utah” for more information. Instead of going to the Adobe Digital Marketing Summit webpage a Save As dialog box came up prompting me to save the .ics file for my calendar program. I canceled and looked at the page again looking for a link for more information. None. Finally I clicked on the main image hoping it would take me to a webpage with more information, unfortunately it was the same .ics file link. The designer did a good job on this email but failed to consider the expectations of users to learn more. I can see now that the purpose of this email was simply to announce the date of the Summit, but it confused me because I was expecting more.

Other Issues:
I don’t use Outlook or the .ics format so these links are useless. How about adding a link to add it to my Google Calendar?

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Tags: Adobe, Digital Marketing Summit, Usability

Annoying Chat Screen

In: Usability

21 Oct 2011

A surprisingly bad usability issue with LuLu’s online chat feature. Notice the mirrored text at the bottom of the screen. Way distracting. It also updates the text as you type it making it even more distracting.

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How to add +1 to your website

In: Daily|Marketing|Tools

1 Apr 2011

Google recently added the +1 feature to web results. It allows you to recommend sites you like to those in your social network. To use it you need to enable it from Google Labs page.

You will be able to add +1 to your website soon. Sign up to be notified

How to Resize Images for Blogger

In: Blogger

4 Aug 2010

To make your blog images in blogger.com fill the full column width first try choosing “Large” size on the upload screen. If that doesn’t work you can also use a free online program called Picnik to resize your image and then upload to your post. See video below, make sure to watch it full screen.