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Editing Songbird Add-ons
April 8th, 2009 by Andrew
Project: Time Lapse Photography
January 22nd, 2009 by Andrew
I’ve recently come up with a good workflow for creating time lapse videos from still images, so I added time lapse photography to my projects page. While doing this, I’ve had a chance to use gphoto2, ImageMagick, FFmpeg, and Audacity. All of those are free and open source utilities, so anyone can follow the same [...]
Time Lapse Sunrise
April 27th, 2007 by Andrew
Way back in January I was playing around with this great software called gphoto. It allows you to attach your digital camera to your computer and take photos. This has many uses, one of which is to create time lapse movies by writing a script to take pictures every so often. So that’s what [...]
Changing File Extensions
April 20th, 2007 by Andrew
Today at work I needed to change a whole directory (with many sub-directories and sub-sub-directories and… etc.) of .php files to the .html file extension. Since the files were on a Unix server, I wrote a quick Bash shell script to take care of this for me.
#!/bin/bash
function change_extension_recursive {
#change all .php to .html
for f in [...]
Flash, _lockroot, Stage, and hitTest
April 3rd, 2007 by Andrew
While working on my portfolio project for my Flash class, I realized that _lockroot doesn’t help at all with Stage and hitTest when loading one SWF from another. I had to search around the Internet until I finally found something about _lockroot and hitTest on this guy’s blog. This is what I found to remedy [...]