Greg Loesch (compulsiveguile) – Blog

I just purchased my first DSLR camera this summer (Nikon D5000) and have been messing around with time-lapse videos. Final Cut Express and iMovie were obvious options to create the video… but I didn’t want to mess with Final Cut for such a simple task (plus that’s not free). Most of the suggestions I came across on the internet said to use Quicktime Player, but I got a bit confused as the new version of Quicktime Player (Quicktime Player X) included with Snow Leopard (stupidly) doesn’t have the ability to create time lapse videos. However, Quicktime Player 7 (the old version that has the ability to do so), is most likely still installed on your computer. Way to make things confusing, Apple. Anywhooo … here’s the process of creating a time lapse video from stills using Quicktime (free) in Snow Leopard: Read more…

Some fellow students of mine at the Ohio State University participated in a “flash mob” the other day at the Ohio Union, our new student union. I missed this by literally a few minutes. I went in to get tickets for something around 12:30pm. I thought there were an odd number of people just standing around doing “nothing.” Kinda disappointed I missed it.

FYI: The guy walking with Brutus near the end is Gordon Gee, our school president.

Check it out! (Note: To view higher quality, click the video to be transferred to YouTube.)

Music is the Glee cover of “Don’t Stop Believing.”

Cable TV’s days are numbered. I say this in the way I say the phonebook’s days are numbered. Sure there are some people (of the *cough* older *cough* nature) that still frequent the physical yellow pages, but I can’t see the number of users doing anything but plummeting soon. No, I have no numbers. I’m using my super-keen 21-year-old intuition… which is as good as gold. Read more…

Update (01:41–05/15/2010): Google is now rolling out invites to students (anyone with a .edu email address)! More info here -> Google Voice Invites for Students

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I’ve been using Google Voice for about a week now, and I thought I’d share a few things I’ve learned along the way, things related to using Google Voice with Verizon Wireless. I wanted and hadn’t seen any resources out there regarding the Verizon + Google Voice duo, so I figured I’d put one together. This is a compilation of various things I’ve found on the Google Voice forums and from other sites.

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Overview (easy navigation):

-Calling – In or Out of Network?

-Contacts & New Phone Number Issues

-Texting

-Voicemail and Using Google Voice Without Changing Your Number

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For those of you who haven’t heard, Google has released a (free) phone management system called Google Voice. This is currently open by invitation only. Sign up here if you’re interested. Google Voice allows you to have all of your phones ring, during the times you’ve set, when somebody calls your Google Voice number… and a lot more. Opposed to rattling off all the GV features, I’ll let you check out the video Google has posted (see below). It gives you a pretty good overview.

On to the important stuff.

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I, along with a group of friends, got bored the other night, and we stumbled upon this YouTube video. Who knew this guy’s name was so hard to pronounce. I’ll keep it short and sweet. Here’s the video.