My newest short, the Misadventures of Bear, Episode 3: Macy and the Fish has been released on this very site. Just click on The Misadventures of Bear and you can watch the new episode, which is her first full adventure.This relied heavily on After Effects to remove the puppeteer from the shot, so I hope you enjoy it.
Maximum PC has an article on the new H.265 for Ultra HDTV which has 8x resolution or 4320p (7680x4320) or 16x bigger than 1080p. It will also have 35-40% increase in streaming efficiency over H.264, though that likely means a much bigger performance hit on processors and video cards.
Macgasm has a good article on how Warner is now offering free iTunes copies for those unhappy with the Ultraviolet Digital Copies included with their recent blue rays.I was one of those people, though I had thrown out my redemption code for one movie, so couldn’t get an iTunes copy of that, but was able to get one for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.Got to Ultraviolet’s Support Web site, if you too are unhappy with Ultraviolet.Personally I already don’t like Apple’s draconian copy protection, but to add even more and have to use another buggy application to watch or badly stream digital copies does not work for me at all!
For anyone else who relies heavily on RSS feeds, and Google Reader to read them, this hint is a real help. Google recently updated reader with an awful new look, and made it incredibly slow. Well someone on the Google Forums has found a solution that returns the old speed.In either Chrome or Firefox Adblock add a new rule and enter the following text:||plusone.google.com/u/0/_/+1/fastbutton^This should return the old speed, but getting rid of the +1 button on other sites (like it gone from 500px). Not an ideal solution, but anything to get my speed back!And if you added a custom google plus feed to the Send To it still works.
BORIS FX has announced Soundbite which seems to be replacing Get for FCP. The Introductory price is a reasonable $295, but it’s normal price is $495, and it is only compatible with Final Cut Pro 6 and 7, not X or any other program. I think the licensing for the technology is too much as they are charging way too much for all these apps. They need to make it work for AVID and Premier Pro as well.Still this needs to get out soon, as I was planning on using GET for this gig I am on, but it became unavailable, so hopefully will be released soon.
So if anyone wants an invite to Google Plus, just follow this link and it will get you signed up.So far I am digging Google+, the ability to share with who you want to makes a huge amount of sense and it something that Facebook should have done long ago.I just can’t believe that there is no Google Reader integration, as the Buzz feed just doesn’t connect (though you can see it in your profile). They need to add one entry that adds to google buzz, google plus and facebook all at once. And not just a Chrome extension, as I personally use Firefox.
Welcome to the new site.If you don’t know already Apple is discontinuing Mobile Me, so I am losing my hosting site for JonahLee.com and I decided to give RapidWeaver a try to develop a new site (I could have done it in Dreamweaver, but really did not want to take the time).This site will host the Foam Hedz, The Misadventures of Bear and some of my own thoughts as can be seen here.I am hosting this at bluehost along with Whale of a Tale, but this is a totally different domain.I hope you enjoy it.