Jon Hardison

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Okay Video Peeps! I have a question. :-) In the pro video world, it's very useful to be able to use several cameras at once when you're out shooting on location, but it was difficult to "sync" those videos to produce and easily editable sequences with multiple angles where audio and time were actually in sync. High-end camera manufacturers now include sync options that allow cameras to connect to one another to ensure clips, takes and streams from multiple video and audio sources are kept in proper time. My question is: Do any of you know of options or apps for mobile devices that allow you to do this? I've been trying to find something, but every search comes back with tools to "sync" your video with your PC or cloud or other. At the end of the day, I'd like to be able to pull together video from 2-4 phones at a single event that may have taken short clips from completely different angles or of completely different subjects and pull them together without losing time. Sorry for the long description. :-)

Fixing the Retina Display "Fuzzy Image" issue - For the DIYer in you... If you're a diehard DIYer that masters your own website (and you have an eye) you've probably noticed that some of your images don't look so good when displayed on a device with the Retina display. They're not terrible, but they're not right either. Well, if you're totally anal (like me) you'll probably like this little fix. It's a script called retina.js Simply put, it goes just below the closing body tag on any site. Once there, the script will detect devices with Retina displays. When the script detects that a visitor's device has one, it automatically looks for replacement images, which you create by saving a high resolution version of said image with "@2X" after the name. Example: The script would automatically replace logo.png with the file logo@2X.png, which upload at twice the resolution of the standard logo image. This gives your visitors a really nice, visually clean experience you can be proud of. :-) For more information, visit: http://retinajs.com/ Disclaimer: We're currently testing this script for performance impact as it is possible it will double the number of image calls causing performance issues. You should also note that you should NOT replace all images on your site. Be selective. increasing image resolution means increasing the time it will take to download each page.

Just so's y'know: According to the NY Times, Anonymous is supposed to run a massive DOS Attach on the net's DNS infrastructure today. PC Owners: If things slow down or go completely batty, don't troubleshoot. Mac Owners: If things slow down or go completely batty, try desperately to fix it. (This should level the numbers in Patrick Berzai's last post. ;-)

FYI - Potentially Huge Facebook issue just found: THIS IS FOR ANYONE USING FACEBOOK COMMENTING ON THEIR OWN SITE VIA ANY PLUG-IN OR FACEBOOK NATIVE CODE. We've just seen a collision between two unrelated comment streams. At first, this may look like simple spam comments in your Facebook comment stream on your site, but these will be visible the moment you publish your post and you'll notice that you can't remove any of the posts. This may also manifest itself as a string of new unrelated comments on an old post. What appears to be happening in simple terms is that post IDs are being issued more than once. If you start to see strange comments in old streams you'll need to remove them and notify the new post author. If this happens in a new post or comment stream, you'll need to delete your new post and recreate it, hoping that you don't get an old ID again. We're notifying Facebook about the issue, but though the group should know about it.