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I gave up after several attemps to embed my YouTube video on this blog and have it play back in my iPhone’s Safari browser. I went through this once befor about a year ago but it looks like I still didn’t learn a thing. I guess I got cocky being that I was able to embed a few YouTube videos, some of which were my own, but today proved to be most troubling. The Brightkite video posted below refused to play or even display a thumbnail. Odd because after uploading it to YouTube it did play….but only once followed by a broken video thumbnail. I uploaded it several more times in an attemp to shake something loose but it was a no-go. I also re-encoded the video from scratch but that was of no help.

I ended up posting the video to an outside source - twitvid.com. The video quality is awesome over at twitvid.com, much better than YouTube. But the embedded link provided by twitvid still remains a useless boken video link in the eye of my iPhone browser when posted to my blog. Some how others are able to record, upload, embed, post, and play back video without issue from their iPhones. With me it’s hit or miss and lately it’s been mostly….miss!

If the iPhone is unable to correctly encode it’s own video in a format that YouTube understands then I may have to pick up a copy of QuickTime Pro. I don’t wanna - but I gotta because I’m itching to post more video but I want it posted to my blog, not another 3rd party site.

I can’t wait for the day when high-speed recording comes standard on any average hand held camcorder. I might be wrong but I bet it’s just a matter of swapping out the shutter, and tweaking the firmware….right? Maybe a hi-capacity battery. Oh wait…better lens too. Well, maybe a completely different image stabilization feature. And maybe go from a plastic frame housing to metal…..

…..ok maybe we won’t see high-speed video capture anytime soon.

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My daughter is on day 3 of being infected with strep throat. She picked it up from one of her cast members while performing in a play last week. She got all the med’s, soups, pills, and other concoctions to help her get through.

Strep throat can be passed from person to person. When a person who has strep throat breathes, coughs, or sneezes, tiny droplets with the strep bacteria go into the air. These droplets can be breathed in by other people. If you come into contact with strep, it will take 2 to 5 days before you start to have symptoms.

….from WebMD

I’ve kept my distance by hanging out in a completely different part of the house, but as far as my wife and son….well I’d better keep Kaiser on speed dial.

Strep Throat has an incubation period of about

Talking with my coworker “Leilani” about some of the pitfalls of using Facebook. I have 2 Facebook accounts - one geared more towards photography the other for everything else. I’m growing the friends/contacts list of both organically. That is to say that if I don’t actually know you, we need to at least share something in common….like photography.

It took 4 attempts over 3 days - but I finally got my co-workers NEW Comcast Hi-Speed Internet working. It really sucks that the Comcast installer only installed the modem and bailed without even giving the slightest instruction on how to set it up the everything else. The average home user would NEVER know to clone the Mac Address of a laptop and transfer that info to a Linksys WRT54G Wifi Router….now would they. Or better yet, how about the fact that the Arris TM402P Cable Modem log’s, locks, then sends the Mac Address info (of the first device attached) off to some distant Comcast server thus preventing any other device from connecting without first completely resetting and powering off the Arris modem…..bogus! Any way - lesson’s learned all around and the wifi bubble once again surrounds my co-workers home.

Can’t wait to get my hands on the NEW Photoshop Lightroom 3. I’m still running Lightroom v1.4.1 and feeling very behind in my photo editing skills. There’s still Lightroom 3 beta that I could download and use but I’m saving myself for the real deal coming this summer….or sooner I hope.

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Used MotionX, which is a voice based turn by turn GPS navigation iPhone app yesterday. Once I figured out the menu and tools the app was a joy to use and listen too as it guided me along my way towards my final destination. The app followed my position down to a few meters and sometimes it felt like it even knew what lane I was in….wow! I really loved how it tells me when I’ve reached my final destination - even telling me what side of the street my final destination was on….sweet! The voice voice feature cost $30 per year bet the app works fine without it I’m sure - but once you’ve used it with voice enabled it’s hard to live without it….I’ll gladly pay the $30. You can also play music in the background while using MotionX but I didn’t get around to trying that. This app us a keeper!

It would be great is you guys could make customers more aware of the NEW check-out process. That snazzy app you guys are running on the iPod Touch to help customers pay for their purchase is awesome but customers still believe they have to stand in line to finalize their purchase. I knew about the iPod touch check-out thingy so I was in & out in less than a minute, but I saw others with pending purchases weaving in & out of the line for people waiting for help at the Genius Bar.

Now I know that Apple store employees sometimes get hung-up assisting customers who are simply there to kick the tires,  but customers with pending purchases should be made “more” aware of this awesome NEW check-out process.

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