This is the personal website and blog of David Little, a professional web designer and developer and outright amateur at some other things. Find out more about me.
Any ideas or views expressed in these pages are mine only and do not necessarily reflect those of any organisation I have worked or am working for.
I’ve downloaded Chrome and am playing around with it at the moment (all in the name of work obviously). I’m pretty impressed so far, and am particularly enjoying the “Application shortcuts” which allow you to create shortcuts to websites on your desktop. OK, nothing new in that, but they open in self-contained minimal windows which make them seem more like desktop applications. I’ve set one up for Gmail, which I have to say is also running very fast. Nice work.
Yesterday I had fun creating a video slideshow with Animoto. It’s turned out quite well I think, which I hasten to emphasise is due in large part to Animoto rather than any clever video editing on my part.
The only problem I’m having with it is setting a title frame. I uploaded it to YouTube which will do this automatically for you but the quality’s not too good. I tried adding one myself in Flash but failed miserably, showing unfortunately my rather limited grasp of Flash. If anyone can give me any pointers on this I’d be grateful to hear more.
I’ve also uploaded it to Flickr which was quite exciting, as it’s the first time I’ve used the video upload functionality. Again, I’m stuck with a rather dull black screen for a title which isn’t exactly inviting but at least it will display some basic authoring details.
Anyway, here it is: my Animoto video slide show of my Lofotens photos. I’ve used a track I like off the last Explosions in the Sky album (”It’s Natural to be Afraid” from All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone) as the background music. I’m probably not meant to do this so am happy to remove it if required.
The photo shown here is of the Fotobrygga, Skrova. An amazing little place which offers courses for photographers as well as accomodation. As I was there for the walking rather than photography I didn’t get as much of a chance as I would have liked to check out the gallery and chat to the owners about what goes on there, but maybe one day I’ll head back.
