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I have a pdf of my catalog on my homepage. How do I make it flip pages like Macys catalog on there website? I want it to flip pages on the website itself instead of my pdf that you have to open. If there was a way to do this for a amateur website designer, any help would be nice. Especially if it still has to be in a pdf format. | Flash is the best way to do what you are talking about.
You could also try:
blogs.adobe.com/pdfdevjunkie/2007… | Best amateur-turning-pro video camera? I'm a teacher looking to take videos of my test prep classes to stream online, and perhaps convert to DVD later on.
I would like to purchase a video camera with broadcast quality (or near) image and sound, but in an affordable price range (ideally around $1000, but I'd go up to $2000). My questions:
1. Because I'm shooting only indoors, with very little camera movement, can I get away with a less expensive model that still has great picture quality? Any recommendations for a good amateur-turning-pro model?
2. Is HD what gives a video camera that TV-like quality? Or can I get the same quality pic with a non-HD camera? I've tried some nice Canon HD cams, and was a bit surprised at how much they brought out the freckles on my skin -- I want TV quality, but would like to avoid clearer-than-life views of any blemishes I may have.
3. As I will be uploading these to my homepage, will HD vids have extremely large file sizes that I should avoid in favor of a non-HD camera? Again, I want high quality picture, but I want to be able to affordable upload my videos without paying an arm and a leg for hosting.
Thanks! | For a camera you need to decide what format you want to use.
1 Obviously if you are using a tripod then there will be little/no movement, lighting is very important, removing reflective surfaces, and the like.
2 if you want quality then you are going to have to pay for it, its that simple, there is a world of difference between standard def and hd, basically there is twice as much information in a hd frame then std def, just watch a hd television and compare it with a normal one.
as for your freckles and blemishes, they are going to show as you are using a higher quality camera, that's why film and tv companies use make up.
3 All video has a large file size, but you have to balance the two, file size and quality. you are obviously not going to upload a 1 gb video mpg, avi file, to your website instead you will convert it to another format, maybe flash, as its probably one of the most compatible formats. by reducing the frame rate and resolution, you can reduce the file sizes to something more reasonable, with out reducing the quality too much, but all that depends on the subject. lots of movement in the video will increase the file size as there is more information to process, but little movement will reduce the file size less information to process. if you are not using flash but another format the the system is the same. there are sites around the allow free hosting of video, maybe not alot but using a few of them you can got quite a bit of video onto the net.
as for cameras you need to have a look around and find something that suits the needs you have. at that budget you are unlikely to get a new pro camera but a high end consumer one. there is a difference. maybe a second hand XL1 or XL2 may fit the bill, still a high quality camera. used by many pros and semi pros, for all sorts of locations. its a lot of camera for a good price, but again we are going back to formats and you dont say what type you want. MIni-dv, HDD or media card, last two need a high end computer to edit the video, as the data is highly compressed.
just some thoughts for you
Good luck
RR | How much privacy are Americans willing to give up? Print E-mail story Most e-mailed Change text size
Is Google's data grinder dangerous?
It wants to know more about us than we know ourselves.
By Andrew Keen, ANDREW KEEN is the author of "The Cult of the Amateur." ak@aftertv.com.
July 12, 2007
WHAT DOES Google want? Having successfully become our personal librarian, Google now wants to be our personal oracle. It wants to learn all about us, know us better than we know ourselves, to transform itself from a search engine into a psychoanalyst's couch or a priest's confessional.
Google's search engine is the best place to learn what Google wants. Type "Eric Schmidt London May 22" into Google, and you can read about a May interview the Google chief executive gave to journalists in London.
Here is how he described what he hoped the search engine would look like in five years: "The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question such as 'What shall I do tomorrow?' And 'What job shall I take?' "
Schmidt's goal is not inconsiderable: By 2012, he wants Google to be able to tell all of us what we want. This technology, what Google co-founder Larry Page calls the "perfect search engine," might not only replace our shrinks but also all those marketing professionals whose livelihoods are based on predicting — or guessing — consumer desires.
Schmidt acknowledges that Google is still far from this goal. As he told the London journalists: "We cannot even answer the most basic questions because we don't know enough about you. That is the most important aspect of Google's expansion."
So where is Google expanding? How is it planning to know more about us? Many — if not most — users don't read the user agreement and thus aren't aware that Google already stores every query we type in.
The next stage is a personalized Web service called iGoogle. Schmidt, who perhaps not coincidentally sits on the board of Apple, regards its success as the key to knowing us better than we know ourselves.
iGoogle is growing into a tightly-knit suite of services — personalized homepage, search engine, blog, e-mail system, mini-program gadgets, Web-browsing history, etc. — that together will create the world's most intimate information database. On iGoogle, we all get to aggregate our lives, consciously or not, so artificially intelligent software can sort out our desires. It will piece together our recent blog posts, where we've been online, our e-commerce history and cultural interests. It will amass so much information about each of us that eventually it will be able to logically determine what we want to do tomorrow and what job we want.
The real question, of course, is whether what Google wants is what we want too. Do we really want Google digesting so much intimate data about us? Could iGoogle actually be a remix of "1984's" Room 101 — that Orwellian dystopia in which our most secret desires and most repressed fears are revealed?
Any comparison with 20th century, top-down totalitarianism is, perhaps, a little fanciful. After all, nobody can force us to use iGoogle. And — in contrast to Yahoo and Microsoft (which have no limits on how long they hang on to our personal data) — Google has committed to retaining data for only 18 months.
Still, if iGoogle turns out to be half as wise about each of us as Schmidt predicts, then this artificial intelligence will challenge traditional privacy rights as well as provide us with an excuse to deny responsibility for our own actions. What happens, for example, when the government demands access to our iGoogle records? And will we be able to sue iGoogle if it advises us to make an unwise career decision?
Schmidt, I suspect, would like us to imagine Google as a public service, thereby affirming the company's "do no evil" credo. But Google is not our friend. Schmidt's iGoogle vision of the future is not altruistic, and his company is not a nonprofit group dedicated to the realization of human self-understanding.
Worth more than $150 billion on the public market, Google is by far the dominant Internet advertising outlet — according to Nielsen ratings, it reaches about 70% of the global Internet audience. Just in the first quarter of 2007, Google's revenue from its online properties was up 76% from the previous year. Personal data are Google's most valuable currency, its crown jewels. The more Google knows our desires, the more targeted advertising it can serve up to us and the more revenue it can extract from these advertisers.
What does Google really want? Google wants to dominate. Its proposed $3.1-billion acquisition of DoubleClick threatens to make the company utterly dominant in the online advertising business. The $1.65-billion acquisition of YouTube last year made it by far the dominant player in the online video market. And, with a personalized service like iGoogle, the company is seeking to become the algorithmic monopolist of our online behavior.
So when Eric Schmidt says Google wants to know us better than we know ourselves, he is talking to his shareholders rather than us. As a Silicon Valley old-timer, trust me on this one. I know Google better than it knows itself. | People's personal data should be copy righted and user of that data (either personalized or categorically) should pay a fee negotiated between the data generator and the user.
For example, integrating a credit card spending event to a database may require the user to credit a penny to the credit card user, and integrating a larger spending such as a car may require the user to credit, let say, $20 to the car buyer's account. | Anastasia Romanov News Story? Recently there was an article published on the Yahoo! homepage about a possible discovery of her body. The article stated that her remains were found by an "amateur."
I want to reread the article, but I can't find it anywhere. Can anyone point me in the right direction? A link would be great. Thanks! | The story was interesting so i saved the link for myself..but here it is
cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/ver/250.1/p… | Surely 71 year old Frank Corti is the story of the week!? www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/new…
I boxed as an amateur teen for about 4 years and was always told that the last thing you lose is your punching power, 71 year old Frank Corti has proved that theory right! Hopefully the little sh*t will think twice about robbing oaps again. What a hero!
Your thoughts? | Well you know violence is never the answer..!!
But it did the trick this time..heh! | Can someone please explain me stylesheet in html? i had been making me site like imdb .....its completely amateur using basics of html images,hyperlink,table,colors and all so i had a homepage and had lots of sites linking to it i mean those sites can be accessed by this homepage.so i found out about this stylesheet ....i mean i read it helps in changing many sites with one go.but i cant understand how to use it....i mean if i wanted to change the colors and title heading of all the pages i have made at one go how do i do it....i guess i am talking about External style sheets.pleaSE HELP ME OUT
thanks | A stylesheet contains CSS rules that alter behaviors of elements defined within the HTML documents. Let's say I had 400 pages in my website and all of them had a header with a div id called "foobar".
Now, let''s say I wanted to change this header color to green so I create a stylesheet and attach this stylesheet (using the <link/> tag) to the top of all the 400 pages. Now all of the headers on the 400 pages are green. But let's say I don't want green. I want blue. Now instead of going through 400 pages to change the color, all I have to do is change the stylesheet and it will affect all 400 pages. | Apache virtuAL host / HTTP REFERER? I'm an amateur into the world of PHP, Apache, and mySQL.
I've installed WAMP Server on my PC. I was browsing a particular site shoppersclub<dot>com and accidentaly would have pressed a key...
Now when i try to open shoppersclub<dot>com, I see localhost (i.e. WAMP Server default homepage)
phpinfo() says: (notice shoppersclub)
Variable Value
HTTP_HOST shoppersclub.com
HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3
HTTP_ACCEPT text/html,application/xhtml+xml,applica…
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us,en;q=0.5
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip,deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE 300
HTTP_CONNECTION keep-alive
HTTP_REFERER shoppersclub.com/
PATH C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windo… Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\
SystemRoot C:\Windows
COMSPEC C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
PATHEXT .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;…
WINDIR C:\Windows
SERVER_SIGNATURE no value
SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) PHP/5.2.9-1
SERVER_NAME shoppersclub.com
SERVER_ADDR 127.0.0.1
SERVER_PORT 80
REMOTE_ADDR 127.0.0.1
DOCUMENT_ROOT D:/wamp/www/
SERVER_ADMIN admin@localhost
SCRIPT_FILENAME D:/wamp/www/index.php
REMOTE_PORT 57471
GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1
SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1
REQUEST_METHOD GET
QUERY_STRING phpinfo=1
REQUEST_URI /?phpinfo=1
SCRIPT_NAME /index.php
How do i remove this setting that on navigating to shoppersclub<dot>com, I see localhost... I wanna see actual homepage of shoppersclub...
Please help...
Thanks :) | Check your hosts file in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
open the hosts file in notepad and look for the website you are being redirected to and delet the line along with 127.0.0.1
Before
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 shoppersclub<dot>com
After
127.0.0.1 localhost
Failing that.
go into your apache conf file (Do Not know where it is in wamp, you will have to look) and change the
SERVER_NAME shoppersclub.com
to
SERVER_NAME localhost
also if it is in there check the HTTP_REFERER and change that to localhost too. | What do you think of Ron Artest's latest stunt? Go to the Yahoo homepage and you can see the video of Trevor Ariza blocking Kobe's shot and losing his shoe, but as he goes to grab for it Public Enemy #1 Ron Artest, in a display of class so synonomous with Artest's name, grabs it first and tosses it into the stands. That's the kind of player the Lakers got with the tight lockdown D.
Personally, I can see Ron Artest going down in flames after one too many of his amateur and extremely unprofessional shenanigans. Ron Artest is a straight up clown, and just pulled a move I would have looked down on during recess basketball in the fifth grade. You're making millions a year, you're on a Championship contender, but most of all, this is the guy you were just traded for straight up. Wouldn't you want to get the best of him on the court, not with some schoolyard mickey mouse bullshit?
Artest, grow the hell up. Trevor Ariza is a better ball player than you are, and you just have to come to grips with that. | Artest didn't used to act like that in Houston. He was on his best behavior here, but since he's hanging with the Lakers they've made him back into a hood rat. Everyone knows they play dirty. I used to respect him, but now he can go jump in a ditch. lol.
How 'bout them Rockets, Lakers fans. lol. Lakers ain't doing so hot now.
#1 Rockets Fan | Is Yahoo! being irresponsible putting blogs on the front page? Yahoo is a major website. I have had my homepage set to Yahoo since I first got the internet. But pseudo-journalism is ubiquitous on the web and I am disappointed that Yahoo chooses to post these blogs on the front page in the highlights section. Reading these headlines, one might assume that these are columns or articles from respected journalists. Now wonder so much ignorance and false information is spread around these days like contagion. I feel Yahoo has a responsibility to its readers to clearly separate and differentiate the Blogs from the valid Journalism sites/entries. You know what a blog is most times, someone "hears" something (or reads something form another blog) and decides to weigh in with their amateur or unresearched opinion. often on significant matters. Millions tune in these websites and digest this gossip, later excreting it at their workplaces and social settings as if it is gospel. Tsk Tsk Tsk on Yahoo! What can be done? | Yahoo has been going down the tubes ever since the whole Jerry Yang/Microsoft debacle.
They are being irresponsible by putting blogs on the front page! It is almost as bad as SFgate! | What would you charge for this website design? I'm an amateur and this is my first website (not currently online yet - sorry!) and I have no idea what to charge my client.
Here's a breakdown of what it has so far:
5-7 regular pages
flash slideshow on the homepage
Very large gallary page - 60+ photos that enlarge in a new page when clicked (more photos to come and be updated)
2-3 more pages will be added later, plus a log-in system. I've spent 40 hours (2 weeks) on this so far, and my client wants me to send them a bill. What would be some appropriate amounts? Hourly and/or total is fine - I just need some advice! Thank you! | Current ww averages (freelancers):
Website Programming Services:
Contact Form - (1 - 10 text fields without any controls such as radio buttons, select fields or checkboxes): $200
Advanced Contact Form - (1 - 15 text fields + controls [radio buttons, select fields or checkboxes]): $450
Sign up for a Newsletter - (Script with the admin panel that includes the list of subscribers and the interface for writing emails. Options to choose subscribers and groups from the list of PHP admin panel, subscribe - unsubscribe): $850
News - (Script that allows to update the following type of the news content: Text blocks on the existing news page, articles with the full text linking to read more on the main news page blocks):$810
FAQ - (Script that allows to update [delete/edit] questions/answers in the FAQ section, add new questions/answers, supports categories, search on the page):$820
Content Management System - (Script that allows editing all the existing blocks on the page: text, images, titles): $1500
Simple Calendar - (The calendar is presented like the “windows” calendar on the pages with the recent date showing): $130
Advanced Calendar - (The calendar is presented like the “windows” calendar on the pages with the recent date showing. An event can be set for the date [text format]. When clicking on the date the pop-up will come up with the event description): $930
Date and Time - (The recent Date and time shows up on the website): $150
Tell a Friend - (The script that will send the email from the visitor of your website to his/her friends with comment and link to the website): $250
Google Search - (The scripts that allows to use Google search engine without leaving your site and show search results on your website): $480
User Authentication and Management - (Script that allows restriction to specific areas of your website, only registered/allowed users can access this section; includes login page, registration, user management, restriction of the pages [same for all registered users]): $900
Basic Site search - (Script that allows web site visitors to search for information on your website; includes search field [one parameter] and search results page): $750
Poll(Voting) - (Online poll [up to 10 questions], with possibility to view voting archives): $910
Image Gallery - (Script that allows management [add, replace, delete] of the gallery/portfolio or any other section of the website containing 5 or more images and the images description [text format]): $1,400
Mp3 player - (Adding the mp3 player to your website allowing to play online multiple compositions): $650
FLV player (video) - (Adding the FLV player to your website allowing to play video file): $250 per movie
E-Commerce Shopping Cart -(Full functionality of standard osCommerce package [the structure based on the selected features], installation included): $2,000
Blog - (Full functionality of the standard Blog package [wordpress software], installation included): $1,600
As a beginner needing a portfolio, I would suggest cutting these as far as you can.
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