Check out the latest CorePlayer!

Now I am able to watch my favourite film, music concerts and videos on my mobile phone and if I would like to have a bigger screen I just switch to my iPAQ 214.

And a bug lol

Dobrodošli na Facebook ili tak nekaj

I’m sad. My Youtube video didn’t load. It’s kind of …  puzzling!

A sad message:

I was making my plans two weeks ago. Last week I have changed them … and a few little changes in my plan made it possible to make something (important) true this year … and not in the year 2015 as I have planned previously.

Matt is a life saver if you have multiple twitter accounts! You log in once, add all your accounts and you can start writing messages.

When a message is written, you must select a twitter account where you want it to appear (picture above) and press go go go. Piece of cake, right?

You can get your own certificate here:

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/certificate_form

And the numbers are quite interesting. Here you can look at the spreadsheet with number of users (+ male and female) across the countries. The numbers were gathered with facebook’s advertising tool that shows the approximate number of the target group.

Here are two quick facts:

There are over 77 million active facebook users (who logged in in the past 30 days) and 51.940 out of them are from Slovenia.

See the data for your country!

An explanation of the sign

Setlist:
LOST HIGHWAY
BORN TO BE MY BABY
BAD NAME
RAISE YOUR HANDS
OLDER
CAPT. CRASH
SLEEP w/ Mercy & Start Me up
ALWAYS
WHOLE LOT OF LEAVIN’
IN THESE ARMS
RUNAWAY
WE GOT IT GOIN’ ON
HEY GOD
IT’S MY LIFE
FAITH
I’LL BE THERE FOR YOU - RICHIE VOX
BLAZE OF GLORY
SATURDAY NIGHT
WHO SAYS YOU CAN’T GO HOME
HAVE A NICE DAY
BAD MEDICINE
PRAYER

ENCORE:
I LOVE THIS TOWN
TWIST & SHOUT
WANTED
BLOOD ON BLOOD

Hopefully I’ll post a video later this week.

The first that I tested was Yahoo’s Jumpcut.

Jumpcut

I loved the easiness of uploading the files. It’s graphically appealing and each clip in uploaded separately so you can see the progress of each clip.

Editing is also quite easy to learn. Basically you can add video clips, pictures, effects, transitions and captions to your movie. I was a bit disappointed because there are only predefined captions (you can’t change the font, size, movement of the text and background) so the caption, subtitle or the title might look awkward.

There are also several possibilities to share the video with your friends or just post it online.

JayCut

JayCut on the other hand seems to have more complicated interface, although I was excited at first as there are two timelines for video - Video A and Video B. Uploading of videos took a little longer because you can edit the filenames and add title or description. But when uploading starts the progress bar shows the overall progress of all clips.

Again I was searching for nice captions and I soon learned that it had even less possibilities as Jumpcut - actually there is only one available!

Actually both video editing offer similar features. I have just started using them but I think I will use Jumpcut more often as it has more intuitive and usable uploading and editing possibilities and above all the quality of the final movie is in my opinion slightly better (I was able to compare it as I have uploaded and edited the same video clips on both services).

So here is the finalist:

The famous retoucher (of the celebrities) Pascal Dangin has revealed in his interview for The New Yorker that Dove’s pictures of real beauty are not so real after all. They have been retouched!

Here is a small part of the interview:

” I mentioned the Dove ad campaign that proudly featured lumpier-than-usual “real women” in their undergarments. It turned out that it was a Dangin job. “Do you know how much retouching was on that?” he asked. “But it was great to do, a challenge, to keep everyone’s skin and faces showing the mileage but not looking unattractive.” Source

Well didn’t you know that? Everything you see in ads is…an illusion.

Even I can admit that every photo of me that I put online is retouched. At least a bit. ;)

Great views and who would have thought that such divine place is so close.

See the pictures in the gallery:

Here is an example:

It has an interesting concept of charging for displayed and clicked ads. In general advertisers pay 0.2€ CPC (Cost per Click) and 0.0002€ for confirmed ad and publishers get half of it, therefore, 0.1€ CPC and 0.0001€ for every ad that has been viewed for at least 2 seconds. But here comes the question how to know the sistem is working on your site? Maybe your number of displayed and seen ads is low and you want to check how and when your ads get confirmed by ToboAds sistem.

First of all you have to know that (besides clicked ads) the confirmed ads also get you money (0.0001€) so try to optimize the position of the ad spaces on your web side.

Here is an example from princessdesign.net:

I have marked the browser content area (which can be seen without scrolling) in yellow. These ads get a chance to become confirmed if the visitor sees them for at least 2 seconds. If they get confirmed, you get 0.0001€.

On the other hand the ads positioned lower on the web page are regarded as displayed ads. The visitor cannot see them yet and they cannot get confirmed unless the visitor scrolls down.

How to see if the confirmation sistem works?

1. First download the Firefox add-on FireBug.
2. Install it and restart Firefox
3. Then open FireBug (Tools - Firebug-Open Firebug) and go to a web site with ToboAds, for example http://www.princessdesign.net
4. In Console tab the request is displayed after 2 seconds any you can clearly see when your ads get confirmed.

Here you can see that in this particular case the time was not 2 seconds but rather 240ms. While testing I have also seen cases when the number was between 150ms and 250ms.

What is your experience?

Example of Lightbox:

Example of Slimbox:

But how to localize Slimbox into, for example, Slovenian language?

There are few things to do:

1. Localize the images (Next, Prev, Close)

2. Localize the text Image … of …

3. Change the keyboard keys which control Next, Prev and Close

1. Localize the images (Next, Prev, Close)

Under the folder /images you have four gif files: closelabel.gif, loading.gif, nextlabel.gif and prevlabel.gif. Just open the files (in bold) in yout image editor and delete existing text with localized version. Be also careful about the letter that will used for navigation - in original Slimbox c is used to close the overlay, n for next, p for previous (some other keys are also available) - and underline the appropriate letter.

Original Slimbox labels:

Localized Slimbox labels (in Slovenian language):

You can also download these three files as zip file.

2. Localize the text Image … of …

As you can see under the picture there is an indication of the number of pictures in the gallery and the number of the picture you are viewing.

For example: Image 1 of 5

You can change this in the file slimbox.js, line 144. Just replace words Image and of into appropriate words.

3. Change the keyboard keys which control Next, Prev and Close

In original Slimbox you can navigate between images with the following keyboard keys:

Next: n and right arrow
Previous: p and left arrow
Close: Esc, x and c

These can also be changed in slimbox.js, lines 106-108.

You must use JavaScript Character codes to represent different letters on the keyboard.

Therefore the keys are coded as:

Next: n (case 78) and right arrow (case 39)
Previous: p (case 80) and left arrow (case 37)
Close: Esc (case 27), x (case 88) and c (case 67)

And when you want to localize it, just map the right keys.

Example of Slovenian localization:

Next - Naprej: n (case 78) and right arrow (case 39)
Previous - Nazaj: j (case 74) and left arrow (case 37)
Close - Zapri: Esc (case 27) and z (case 90)

Example of the localized code (slimbox.js, lines 106-108):

case 27: case 90: this.close(); break;
case 37: case 74: this.previous(); break;
case 39: case 78: this.next();

Have fun using Slimbox!

Wanna swim?

Peace I guess…

Hint: in color

On My Videos page choose the Insight button.

Then an Insight page is loaded and you can choose between three tabs: Views, Popularity and Discovery.

Insight > View

Insight > Popularity

Insight > Discovery

The most interesting for me is Discovery, because you can see the source of visits to the video. Then if you click on list of top sources you can see the keywords that were used, pages which link to your video … For example, my video Jesenice Fans in Ljubljana was found by keywords: olimpija (33%), jesenice (8.3%) and olimpija police (4.1%).

After a mobile Gmail I had to add mobile Google Maps and Search to my mobile phone. Maps have a nice feature which locates you on a map. I can’t wait to test it on some of my bike trips around Ljubljana. I wonder if it is accurate enough to never get lost again. I’ll keep you posted …

Here is the link (again): http://mobile.google.com or http://www.google.com/mobile/

So what to do:

1. Go to mobile.google.com with your mobile phone

2. Download the application

3. Log in and use it - check emails, send them …

I actually LOVE this app because you can use your email account wherever you are. And the User interface is easy to use. I have checked and there is no problem to open a doc file and if there is a phone number written in it just point the cursor there and you will be able to call it. BTW press 7 to delete the email

Happy emailing!