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Archives for December 2010

Excellerate


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From Excellerate: Excellerate is a complete church management system specifically designed for churches with small groups. Small groups are extremely effective at reaching and discipling many people, but as Proverbs 27:23 tells us, "Be sure you know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds." We are responsible for knowing how our people are doing. God has entrusted them to us, and we must be good stewards. Excellerate helps you do just that by tracking all of their ... Read More

Photography Fundamentals: Lighting


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[Part three of the Photography Fundamentals series, be sure to check out all 10 posts!] In part one of this series, we talked about luminance. A lot. So why another post about lighting? Because it’s kind of a big deal (like Ron Burgundy). To shake things up a little bit, I’m going to approach this one from a different angle. We’ll look at some of the most common lighting mistakes made by amateur photographers. Make these mistakes and it’s a dead give-away that you don’t really know what ... Read More

Free Online Video Editor: JayCut


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This is pretty amazing: A free online video editor right in your browser! JayCut lets you do it with ease. Trying it out for the first time I was honestly floored that someone's created something like this. Built in Flash, I imagine that a lot of people will find a lot of their needs satiated with it. You have to try it out. ... Read More

Handful of New Rails 3 Cheat Sheets


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Cheat Sheets are great resources especially when they're layout and design make it exceptionally easy to find relevant information. They guys over at Envy Labs have put together one of the best cheat sheets I've seen for a framework and it's for Rails 3. ... Read More

316 Networks Rolls Out HD Streaming, Dynamic Bitrates


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Chance Mason of 316 Networks announced that they have successfully implemented HD streaming and dynamic bitrates for their online video streaming platform: I can finally say that we have launched our first customer leveraging VX Media Suite (our online video platform) as the player delivering a live feed in six different bitrates ranging from 2000kbs to 500kbs with adaptive bitrate. This technology essentially eliminates all buffering issues for your viewers. The player automatically ... Read More