Thursday, May 31, 2007

Augmented Video Overlay

I came up with the idea of having a transparent overlay, a dynamic image
map, if you will, that could be displayed over the top of video
playback, synchronised at the frame level, several years ago.

Think of the overlay track as a clear tape that has been placed over a
spool of existing film. For every frame of film, you have a transparent
overlay frame.

. . . More on this in a later posting . . .

Shannon Norrell
(C) 05/31/2007
--webdood

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

How to set up Windows Explorer to "Open to a Command Prompt" without installing Power Toys or manually editing the registry

How to set up “Open to Command Prompt” without installing Power Toys or manually editing the registry (which is what I usually do):

1.      In explorer, open Tools, Folder Options.

2.      Select the File Types tab.

3.      For Windows XP: Go to NONE / Folder.

4.      For Windows 2000: Press n to scroll to the N/A section.

5.      For Windows NT/98/95: Press f to scroll to the Folders section.

6.      Select the entry labeled Folder

7.      For Windows 2000/XP: Press Advanced button.

8.      For Windows NT/98/95: Press Edit button.

9.      Select New

10.  In the action block type "Command Prompt" without the quotes.

11.  In the app block type "cmd.exe" without the quotes.

12.  Save and exit Folder Options.

 

It’s somehow comforting to find that there are things that I didn’t already know about configuring Microsoft Windows.

 

I came across this one on Petri

Starting a Free Range Thinking, Webdood Tech Blog. . .

As the "webdood" for going on 13 years, and being the total geek that I am, I thought it might be useful to have a central place to where I can log random tech-related findings that I feel are noteworthy.

Over the years, I have come up with quite a number of "Tips and Tricks" and algorithms that were pretty gosh-darned cool at the time, but that now have been lost to the ages.

(Example conversation between me and myself)
"Remember that cool widget that I wrote for Dreamweaver when I worked for Macromedia?
"Yeah. Pretty slick for 1997!"
"I could really use something like the "List of Lists" algorithm that I wrote for it."
"I still have the hard drive from that era . . . . now if I can just find my ESDI controller......

I really don't care if anyone ever reads this blog. It will serve as a storage place for my techno-ether-nerd-thoughts and code snippets. If I stray off-topic, then that's perfectly alright.

Postings that are deterministically constrained by having a Blog "topic" or theme, somewhat defeat the purpose of free-range-thinking that makes a blog interesting.

I will attempt to keep it to the subject of tech.
It should be expected that I will stray off-topic from time-to-time.

As I go about it.

-webdood