PAST 2012 TOPICS:
NOTE: IN ORDER TO SAVE FILE SPACE IN THIS 2012 ARCHIVE, MOVIES HAVE BEEN DELETED
Dec 13, 2012 - (7PM at Steve Miller's house). CREATE VIDEOS: best software and practices
1. WHICH SOFTWARE ? ("Videomaker", Oct, 2012, pages 20-25)
video editing tutorials (Camtasia, Final Cut Pro, Movie Maker, iMovie) adobe ADOBE2
2. BEST HARDWARE? - good tripod is critical; tripod trick; Important: Minimum System Requirements; i.e. ADOBE1
3. BEST CURRENT PRACTICES
4. TECHNIQUES FOR BEST SHORT VIDEO (then upload to YouTube, and link to Facebook and web pages)
Editing techniques that make this great!
Another example - watch these techniques
Natural transition techniques
Reaction Shots and Vocal Effects in Star Wars
Webby Awards - best animation; best editing (people's choice winner)
How to create a highly emotional video
How to download from YouTube, transcode, and save to DVD movie
Watch best techniques for commercial & movie
Unorthodox video: Conservative
documentary "2016 - Obama's America" vs anti-Bush "Fahrenheit 9/11" 8/29 review&clip
Atlantic Highlands annual "FilmOneFest" - one minute video submissions ; "How to Make a Baby"
5. DEMONSTRATION USING ADOBE PREMIER PRO 5.5
Mar 8, 2012 - create a video: techniques to heighten emotion
- "Often Awesome" YouTube documentary
- Mar 11, 2011 Japanese earthquake
- Russian boarding school
- Stomach of Anger (best); Burnstein Community Ctr ; Frain Group ; Melbourne Virtual Office Solution ; Feastivities (best)
- Spain travel documentary
- Excellent multi-camera shoot
- short/simple/effective 2 minute advertisement
- why songs make you cry ; interview/song examples (4min) on NPR
REFERENCES: (see back issues of "Videomaker")
- Video editing training: ($30/hour from videomaker.com): basic on May 2, 2PM ; intermediate on May 16, 2PM
- "Videomaker Plus" on-line training (free 2 week trial)
- On-line training for $25/month, on hundreds of topics & software from beginners to experts Lynda.com
- Recommended "Videomaker" resources
AND, a supplement to last month: which mobility products NOT to buy in 2012
Feb 9, 2012- The battle: Android Smartphone/Tablet vs iPhone/iPad (SETUP)
- 20 minutes: Review Technology and Market (based upon references, below)
- 2 minutes: Gail Abrams - Monmouth County Library - eBooks download signup
- 5 minutes: Cass Lewart - Internet Radio demo vtuner.com
- 90 minutes: Demonstrations of Smartphones/Tablets using ANDROID and iOS (Apple)
.....................................Apps shown in previous months
.....................................Apps shown on Feb 9, 2012
REFERENCES
FUTURE TECHNOLOGY
- in the next 5 years
- Cheap WiFi chips on everything
- Quad-core for 3D- high def - Android 4.0 tablets summary
DATA USAGE ACCELERATING
- top 1% consume 50% ; top 10% consume 90% summary
- 500X network data increase in next decade - for Smartphone, etc. summary
- By 2014, there will be 90M American owners of Tablets (2/3 will be Apple)
2011 MARKET
- Hottest Android tablets of 2011
- $170 Android 4 tablet from ViewSonic has serious bugs
- Hottest 2011 Android Tablets
- 8 reasons iOS is gaining on Android
- 10 alternatives to iPhone 4s
- Top Android phones of 2011 - Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Motorola Droid Razr
- 3Q2011 worldwide phone market: Android phones: 52%; Apple 15%
- Android 47%; Apple 29% (3 months mkt share, ending Nov, 2011)
- 1st US Android 4.0 is Galaxy Nexus (Verizon)
- 4Q2011: Android Smartphones down, tablets up summary
2012 MARKET
- Apple wins key patent against Android
- (Feb 7)Apple loses patent suit by Motorola summary
- NY Times most useful apps
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10 challenges, to Apple in 2012
- Android 4 (ICS - Ice Cream Sandwich) to run new phones
- Samsung Android tablet/smartphone hybrid -5.3" screen; dual-core 1.5GHZ w/stylus; avail AT&T Feb 19
- LG Spectrum Android (Verizon) review: weird UI customization; 4.5", dual-core 1.5GHZ
- Decline of RIM-blackberry NYTimes: Blackberry Under Siege in Europe
- Best Android Smartphone battery life - Razr Maxx 4.3"; dual-core 1.2GHZ
SECURITY - TROJANS
- Android Trojan - Android.Counterclank - proliferation in Jan, 2012 summary
(other Android root trojans: GingerBreak; Exploid; RageAgainstTheCage)
- Security enhanced SE Android from NSA
- Android Norton Anti-virus (free)
MANUFACTURING
- Chinese manufacturing conditions for iPhone iPad
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Jan 12 , 2011
"My favorite App" user demos of APPLE I-Phones/I-Pads (SETUP)
1. State of the market
2. Bring and show your favorite apps for iPhone and i-Pad and/or other Apple products; (these apps were demo/discussed)
3. iPad, iPhone, MacBook - all synchronized via iCloud for mail, calendar, address book, documents, notes, music, photos, (McEowen)
REFERENCES:
Background:
- Apple wins key patent against Android
The market is HUGE and rapidly growing:
- 6.8million Android+Apple activations on Dec 25, 2011, vs 2.8m onDec 25, 2010
- ANDROID: 200 million Android devices activated; 550 thousand activated daily.
- APPLE: 250 million iOS devices activated; 450 thousand activated daily
- 50,000 apps developed in 2011; 73% developers prefer IOS first (73% of new apps are first IOS; then Android OS)
- 1 million apps released by 12/2011 (1 app counted once for each platform)
- Apple and Android tied at 10billion app downloads by end of 2011
- Apple's iPad has 59% share of the .Tablet Market (4Q2011): Android 40%;
- NYTimes, Jan 5, 2012; Sorting Out an Avalanche of iPad Apps for the Best of 2011
- What Apple doesnt want you to know about iPhone 4s
Jan 2012 Smart Computing article, Fresh Fruit, that features 5 business apps for the iPad/iPod/iPhone