Just getting started with using Adobe’s creative suite? Always wanted to learn Photoshop? Here’s a way you can get some lessons for free. Around the time Adobe released CS3 there was a huge boom in tutorials on the internet aimed at Adobe beginners. One site, TechTutor TV is still up and running. While the tutorials […]
Continue readingMedia Services Produced Video Now on Library Homepage!
Media Services assisted in creating a short video which documented some of the excitement of this spring’s Final Perk out in front of the library. It can now be found on the American University Library homepage. The video captures the large number of students who take a study break to gather for free cookies and […]
Continue readingDMS Help: Media Services Serves Up Math Help. O rly??
Ok, so math tutorials are not really DMS Help, but this particular website certainly is worth knowing about for a couple of reasons. For those who don’t know, Salman Khan is the MIT-educated creator of the not-for-profit educational website Khan Academy. Salman, or “Sal” as he likes to be called, began developing video tutorials to […]
Continue readingTodd’s Tips: External Hard Drive Suddenly Not-Writeable on a Mac?
This is a problem that comes up in the DMS from time to time. Patrons come in and say, “I’ve been using this external hard drive on a mac for a long time and suddenly it won’t work; I can’t put files on it.” My first question is always the same: “Did you use it […]
Continue readingTodd’s Tips: Choosing an External Hard Drive
It seems like choosing an external hard drive would be little more than a question of price. But this is far from the case. There are a number of important considerations one needs to take into account when choosing an external hard drive. 1) Purpose – The answer to “why do I need an external […]
Continue readingInteractive Media: iPhone Development – Updates
Since my last post on this topic a few things have changed. Some good, some not so much… Let’s get the bad news out of the way first. The new iOS SDK is no longer free. That’s right, XCode 4 now costs $5.00 on the AppStore. Oh, and it only runs on Snow Leopard. There […]
Continue readingSelected New Home Use Titles
Check out these Home Use titles that we’ve recently added to the collection: Casanova – HU DVD 4075Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 – HU DVD 6047Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 – HU BLU RAY DVD 604730 for 30: Volume 2, DVD 7 – HU DVD 790730 for 30: Volume […]
Continue readingBill Introduced to Make Streaming a Criminal Offense
Senators Amy Klobuchar, John Cornyn, and Christopher Coons have introduced a bill amending Copyright Act by making public performance of [infringed] media a criminal offense, in addition to the current civil penalties. There are provisions within the amendment that would especially apply to electronic contexts. See Bill full text.See Techdirt story.
Continue reading300+ Free movies Online: Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns…
Where to watch free movies online? This may be too good to be true, but it appears to be a site attempting to be a gateway to legitimate streams of feature films online. OpenCulture.com has put together a list of 300+ quality films that you can watch online. The collection is divided into the following […]
Continue readingLost-Films.eu Identifies Missing Films Through Crowdsourcing
Lost Films is a collaborative effort among film societies in Germany, France, Poland, New Zealand and several other countries to help identify and locate some 3,500 lost or missing films through crowdsourcing. Anyone can become a member and then upload clips and images from “mystery movies” to the site and also comment on as-yet-untitled stills […]
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