Amazon S3 is a popular choice when it comes to storing and delivering videos. But actually managing videos on S3 accounts can be a chore. Most people use the free Firefox plugin S3Fox Organizer to do this. But is has plenty of drawbacks, doesn’t always work correctly and often has to be updated when Firefox Full Article…
YouTube Creates $5 Million Fund For Content Creators
Until now, the only way to get paid by placing your videos on YouTube was through their partner program, where YouTube displays ad’s on your videos and shares any revenue generated from them. But that’s changed with the new YouTube partner grant program. YouTube has set aside $5 million in grant money…which will be given Full Article…
The Invisible Gorilla Video Strikes Again
In 1999 cognitive psychologists made a video intended to illustrate how we’re oblivious to things around us when we focus on a single task. In the video, viewer’s were asked to count how many times a ball was passed around between people. What over 50% of the people who watched this video didn’t see was Full Article…
Canon Releases Firmware Update For Popular T2i DSLR Camera
If you use the Canon Rebel T2i to shoot video (like me), you might be interested in a new firmware update that Canon has released for the camera. It fixes an issue when shooting in manual mode, where the aperture setting mysteriously adjusts by itself. But beyond that fix, updating your camera’s firmware to the Full Article…
YouTube Testing New Feature Called Leanback, For Lazy Web Video Viewers
The average person watches around 5 hours of TV each day and YouTube wants to capitalize on that market with a new feature called Leanback. You see, the average person only watches about 15 minutes of YouTube videos a day and Leanback is designed to bump that number up. How? By playing an endless stream Full Article…