Found this on YouTube today.
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Apple Store Love Song
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LEAKED: New iPhone Commercial
I found this video by Adam Sacks on Youtube tonight.
One of my favorite TV shows was “Who’s Line is it Anyway” from ABC. I was bummed the show was cancelled several years ago, and never thought too much of it since then. About two weeks ago I was on YouTube and found clips from Who’s Line. After watching a few of them, I decided to download the video to my Linux PC and move the video into the path /home/george/Video/YouTube/Whos Line. However, the YouTube down is not installed with Ubuntu. You need to install the file from the universe repository using the following steps:
- Open a Terminal Window
- enter without quotes “sudo apt-get install youtube-dl”
- enter your password
Leaving the Terminal Window open, you can down run the command youtube-dl <url address of the video>. In a few minutes the file will download to your /home directory as a .flv file. Now I hate the fact when the file downloads the title of the file make no sense to me what so ever. If you change the command to youtube-dl -l <url address>, the title of the video will be inserted into the file name. To see the list of other parameters for downloading videos type youtube-dl -h.
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Purchased New Digital Camera
Well I purchased the Canon SX10 IS camera from Best Buy on Thursday. I took some initial pictures with the camera set to Auto. I plan on reading the owners manual this weekend and will see about this free class at Best Buy on how to use the camera.
I did not purchase a travel bag on Thursday. I wanted to see about getting the Lowepro SlingShot 100 bag to hold this camera and the camcorder I purchased several years ago.
Because my PC and my external USB 1.1 card reader is old I did not purchase the 4 GB SDHC card. Instead I got a 2-pak of 2 GB SD cards from SanDisk. If I do get my PC in October, I will upgrade to the SDHC cards.
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New Digital Camera
I’ve been shopping around for a new digital camera (point and shoot) and narrowed my choices down to the following; Canon SX10 IS, and the Nikon P90. Both cameras are considered “super zooms” since they are at 20x and 24x optical zoom respectively. Neither camera does not support HD or HDMI connections. However, I am having a problem making a decision on which one to get.
Canon SX10 IS:
The Canon has a 20x optical zoom, 10 MP (mega pixels), can use SDHC memory cards, records movies at a maximum resolution of 640×480 with stereo (file is saved as MOV format),can use the optical zoom while recording movies, MovieSnap (lets you take a high resolution picture while recording a movie, can shoot 1.4 fps in 3 MP while in sports mode, ISO 1600, uses SD/SDHC, MultiMediaCard, MMC Plus Card, HC MMC Plus Card, and a 2.5″ Vari-Angle LCD which rotates 270 degrees.
Nikon P90:
The P90 has a 24x optical zoom, 12.1 MP, can use SDHC memory cards, records movies at an unknown resolution in mono (file is saved as something format), can not use the optical zoom while recording movies (only digital zoom is available), can shoot up to 15 fps in 3 MP while in sports mode, ISO 6400 capability at 3 MP, has approx 47 MB internal memory, uses SD/SDHC memory cards, and 3″ Vari-Abgle LCD which can tilt upward 90 degrees and downward 45 degrees.
On Friday June 5th I stopped at Cameras Etc to asked about the Nikon P90. Dan the salesman said it is a great camera but they are out of stock. He really liked the 24x optical zoom and the 12.1 MP. When I asked about some other models, he said they were OK, but fell short of the P90. Dan checked with his manager to see when the P90 will be in, and I have to wait until Wednesday or Thursday to see it.
On Sunday June 7th, I went to Best Buy to check out each camera. Max the salesman from the camera department was awesome. he let me borrow a SD memory card, plug it into the Canon and let me take a bunch of pictures and movies. After shooting, I put the card in a PC at the Computer Department so I can upload the files to my Dropbox account so I can view them on my home PC.
We tried to get the Nikon to work after installing the SD card, but for some reason the camera would not work (yikes!!) Could be just a fluke.
The pictures from the SX10 IS look great, too bad my subject (me) could look better. The color looked natural, it didn’t look over saturated, and the brief movie I took looked nice. According to VLC and Totem Movie player, the movie was recorded in stereo at 640×480. The file was huge at 18.7 MB for a 14 second video. I guess I can get a smaller file size if I change the resolution down to 320×240.
I hope Dan will let me shoot some pictures with the P90 and send them to my Dropbox so I can compare with the SX10 IS.
This has been around for a while, I just happen to come across it tonight on YouTube.
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Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock
I saw this episode when it first came out on Big Bang Theory. I forgot about it until someone mentioned it to me the other day. So this is more of a test post with YouTube stuff. Enjoy!
Drahusz 