KC #8: My Thoughts on a iPad

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These are my thoughts on the Apple iPad. I will trying and go into more detail in text in the next couple days but I some how have made my life busy.

What are your thoughts on the new Apple device?

Tweeting What I Want

Not to name, names and they do have there own opinions but if you don’t like all the talk about the new Apple product just shot off Twitter for the day.

Here is my opinion on this kind of thing. I like to think it is a passion of mine to keep up with the tech news and especially Apple News. I like Apple’s stuff, I don’t know why but I do and I don’t want to try and defend it. I just do, and shouldn’t need too. Anyways when I see people complaining about how there are to many tweets about the Apple announcement I think they need to step back for a second. Obviously there is a reason for all the tweet and I know there are multiples of the same things but when it comes to Social Media and Tech this is a big thing. Hell Apple kept saying “The Internet in your hands”.

If people are tweeting about it, it is because they want to and are passionate about it. My advise to those who don’t like all the tweet is unfollow or turn twitter off for the period of the hype. In a couple day it will all go away and we’ll move on to the next big thing.

I’m just say’n!

Went out to the Cabin

I decided today I needed to find out the shape of The Cabin. So I took off by myself to the hidden cover on the shore of Great Slave Lake about 15km south of Yellowknife. It was peaceful and quiet. I got some stuff done around camp. Like actually digging out the front door, which was covered in snow. I broke a new trail to the cabin from the lake in by foot so when I go out again the snow will be hard packed enough for my snowmobile to drive over it. Much easier than trying to drive through a narrow path in 3ft of power snow.

There definitely was lots of power snow. While looking for the new path in I ended up getting stuck. Stuck good. The sled was completely cover in snow. A took a moment and caught my breath and slowly and comely dug it out and was able to carefully drive it out without getting stuck… again. Lesson learned, always drive faster.

Here is a quick video I shot while out there. Do you have a special get away you go to for peace and quiet?

Episode 07: Playing with new equipment

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You all know I get some new Podcasting/Audio equipment last week, well I have been trying to set it up and get it going properly. It hasn’t been working as well as I hoped. I seem to be having issues with getting the mic loud enough to record my voice with out taking in all the noise around me.

I think some of the problem is how I am recording it to the computer, I’m using a usb device that came with the mixer. I may just try a direct line in and out and see how that goes.

Anyone with any expertise out there want to offer some advice? It would be much appreciated.

Making a Video Camera Handle

Earlier today my brother came flying down the stairs to ask if I would take him to the hardware store. I reluctantly said yes and off we went. Once there we started discussing how we would make this device. We spent a good half hour in the store trying different things and seeing what might work best. When all was said and done we have what we needed all for under $7.

Here is what we got:

• 2 x “L” shaped mounts (Shelf mounts possibly)
• 1 x  1/4″ bolt 2″ long with nut
• 1 x  1/4″ Wing Nut
• 2 x smaller bolt and nut
• 1 x 1/4 Lock washer

We attached the 2 “L” shaped mounts together with the 2 smaller bolts to make what looks like a “C” or “[” shaped mounting device. Attaching a video camera was easy once we drilled out the hole to 1/4″. We then screwed the wing nut on the 2″ bolt backward. Once we did that we then put the bolt through the “C” mount and screwed it into the tripod hole in the bottom of the video camera. When the bolt was in as far as it could go, we tightened up the wing-nut to the bottom of the mount securing the camera to the mount. To get rid of the sharp edges and to make the device a little more appealing we covered it in electrical tape. Before we covered the handle we wrapped it in cotton and then loosely covered it with tape.

What the video of the process of making the Camera Handle Mounting Device:

Unboxing of Podcast Equipment

I received my podcasting equipment yesterday from Cliff Ravenscraft the Podcast Answer Man. I decided to film the unboxing once again.

Hopefully I will have a video of the studio setup some time soon.