[How-to-Fix] Google Maps Short URLs (old)
10 July 2011 - Found a way to get short URLs again for GoogleMaps!! :D Click here
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30 June 2011 - Doesn't work anymore due to the implementation of Google+?
Guess we're back be stuck with super duper long GoogleMaps urls :(
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25 June 2011 - Who doesn't use Google Maps? I use it a lot to check out locations, get travelling directions and to find restaurants and cafes. :)
Now the most annoying thing is that the URL is so damn long when you want to share your current Google Maps search with people. It clutches the whole screen and it quickly becomes chaotic when you have several links listed underneath each other.
There's a way to get short URLs on Google Maps. Go to http://www.googlelabs.com/, select "Labs voor Google Maps" on the right and enable "Short URL".
Your link will now be something like "http://goo.gl/maps/wtIy" instead of having a super long URL :)
The Unofficial LEGO Minifigure Catalog
The LEGO Minifigure Catalog promotion video that I was making is up and running! The purpose of the video is to show how extensive the book actually is with over 3600 minifigure photographs with professional quality, interconnected metadata and theme taxonomy.
My contribution to the book was helping out with the design of the book, editing and processing a lot of data and pictures; scaling, cropping, color correction, etc. And after processing over 1000 photos all the figures started looking the same, especially when I was cropping out the heads for the head-index of the book.
Anyway, the book itself will be available soon, but in the meantime the book is available now! Visit http://www.minifigure.org/ to find out where to buy it! :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VLRDt2JlLk
Premiere CS5 Blue Lines
I rarely use Adobe Premiere. A week ago, I made some animation clips in Flash and wanted to stitch them together in Premiere. Editing the video went all well, but when I tried exporting the movie it created these blinking blue lines in my video :S
I tried exporting it as .mov, .wmv, H.264, .avi, etc. but nothing worked! :@
What did remove the blue lines was was exporting my video as MPEG-2. But then the interlacing was screwing up my video. Turning off the interlacing lowered the quality so much that it really looked like crap....
Finally, I figured out that the problem was the discrepancy of the FPS between my source videos and the exported video file. My Flash animations were in 30fps while the video exported in Premiere was 25fps.
I changed it in Flash, exported the final video with Premiere and there no more blue lines and the interlacing wasn't a problem :D :D The video is done and will be posted really soon!!
Another solution is to put a title over the flashing video and set the opacity to 0, it forces Premiere to re-render the area.
Hope this post will help and save someone some headaches :)