Unfortunately, Microsoft seems to have gone to extra lenghts to make the Windows Live suite of software go away, without anyone thinking that there were people who were using them and without offering file/project-level compatible replacements for user-friendly tools like Windows Live Movie Maker. Only Windows Live Writer was at some point ...

One thing you should always keep in mind is backing up your precious work. Bad things may happen sooner or later, so better be prepared for the “unexpected”, than sorry. In a recent talk with a friend, I found out that he wasn’t aware of how easy it is to backup a web app hosted in Azure App Service; so why not write a...

I’ve been puzzled for some days now with the IIS Transform Manager installation we have at ClipFlair for automating the conversion of media files (for example using Microsoft Expression Encoder) into IIS Smooth Streams. The watch folder I’ve set up for this task was ignoring some of the media files I was dropping in for no [...]

Opensource movies made with Blender (http://www.blender.org) http://orange.blender.org/download http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/index.php/download/ http://www.sintel.org/download http://mango.blender.org/download/ At the download page for some of them you can also find subtitle files. Also at list of featured Blender movies ...

One of the main goals of the ClipFlair project is to explore the use of Video Captioning (together with Revoicing) for Foreign Language Learning (FLL). There both are important enhancements compared to the simpler two-line subtitling that was put in use in its ancestor project LeViS. Captioning means that multi-row text is needed while text [...]

Since our onoing project ClipFlair is a follow-up of the succesful project LeViS, during its development I’m also looking at covering possible use-cases I infer from feedback entries at LvS application issue tracker on Codeplex (note that ClipFlair is also opensourced on Codeplex at http://ClipFlair.codeplex.com). One such issue ...

Here are some Smooth Streaming URLs I found on the Internet that you could use during development to test your smooth streaming players (like those based on SMF):   http://streams.smooth.vertigo.com/BigBuckBunny_30sec/bigbuck.ism/manifest http://video3.smoothhd.com.edgesuite.net/ondemand/Big%20Buck%20Bunny%20Adaptive.ism/Manifest   ...

This is the second post in the new HTML 5 post series. You can find the first post about HTML 5 input form elements and validation here . In this post I would like to show you how to use audio and video.We all know that audio and video are everywhere...(read more)

Since I got many complaints about the low resolution of my videos I am on a search for a better video hosting service than YouTube. Robert suggested to use Silverlight service at Blogger Video embedding resolved but this one looks the same as YouToube. After spending some more time on researching on this I came across http://blip.tv/ excellent ...

I recently most ModelArtifactState and with the congratulations for it I got many complains about the video quality. This is because I host my videos to YouTube which has many drawbacks The actual resolution of YouTube videos is limited to 320 x 240 pixels. The video suffers from strong compression (limited to 250 kbps). The YouTube ...

Bad news regarding Soapbox service from the MSN Video Team: MSN will no longer offer Soapbox, the user generated video service within MSN Video, as of August 31, 2009. Beginning on July 29, you will no longer be able to upload videos to Soapbox. People who have uploaded videos to Soapbox will have until August 31, 2009 to download them. Please ...

Ο φοιτητικός πολυχώρος ZUNI.GR σε συνεργασία με τη Microsoft Hellas προσφέρει δωρεάν πρόσβαση σε μαθήματα e-learning της Microsoft σε όλους τους φοιτητές. Τα μαθήματα είναι τα εξής: Collection 2543: Core Web Client Programming with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Collection 2778: Writing Queries Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Transact-SQL ...

Μόλις τελειώσα το uploading των videos από το 5ο StudentGuru Event!!!Πληροφορίες για το πρώτο μέρος του event μπορείτε να δείτε εδώ, και για το δεύτερο εδώ Τα ανεβασμένα videos του event (καθώς και videos από άλλες παρουσιάσεις) μπορείτε να τα βρείτε εδώ Αν θέλετε direct links, από το πρώτο μέρος, μπορείτε να δείτε τα Η πρώτη μας Windows ...

Την Πέμπτη, 15 Νοεμβρίου 2007, διεξήχθη επιτυχώς η παρουσίαση ''Windows Forms via C#'', στο Τμήμα Πληροφορικής του Πανεπιστημίου Πειραιώς, στα πλαίσια του μαθήματος ''Αλληλεπίδραση Ανθρώπου και Υπολογιστή''. Υπεύθυνοι για αυτή την παρουσίαση ήταν ο υποφαινόμενος και ο καλός συνάδελφος και φίλος Βασίλης Βρυνιώτης. Καταρχάς, οφείλουμε να ...