Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Pixorial


It?s a safe bet that somewhere in every house is a box of home movies?several even. Maybe those movies are on VHS,? Betamax, or even film reels; the one near-constant is that they?re all on old-fashioned media and need to be digitized. Enter Pixorial, a service that takes all that old media and modernizes it. Not only does the company digitize and preserve your media, but it gives you some neat Web-based tools that let you edit and share the results. The process can be nerve-racking when it involves your family?s memories, but Pixorial works well and quickly, and if you can handle the price it?s one of the best ways available to bring your memories into the 21st century.

Converting Your Media
A quick note on pricing before we dive in. Pixorial?s individual prices aren?t high, but there are a number of different costs, and they can add up quickly. The most obvious is for converting your stuff: You?ll pay $14.99 per tape or cassette, and 20 cents per roll of film. (Pixorial will convert VHS, VHS-C, Digital8, Hi8, MiniDV, 8mm, and 16mm for now, but the company says more formats are coming soon.) That?s the only cost you have to pay other than the shipping kit and shipping itself. But to really take advantage of Pixorial, you?ll want to use its Web app, which is free for 1GB of storage, or $5 per month or $49 per year for 25GB. You?ll be shocked how quickly you'll fill 1GB, so plan to pay the $49 if you want to use the Web features.

Setting up with Pixorial couldn?t be easier?the company makes the whole process surprisingly simple. When you first sign up on the site, the first thing you?ll do is order a shipping kit. There are two sizes depending on how much stuff you?re dealing with, but all come with boxes and envelopes for your various media, and are designed to make both yours, and Pixorial?s life easier, dealing with your stuff. You can ship things yourself and save the $4.99-$14.99 cost of the kits, but I?d recommend using them.

Once you ship things off, the company handles the rest, keeping you up to date on the process: I really appreciated the emails updates when my stuff was received, when it was processed, and when it was shipped back to me. Peace of mind is a big deal when you?re shipping fragile and important film across the country, and Pixorial seems to understand that. A couple of weeks later (my order took just over two weeks to finish a hefty amount of video) all of your original media, plus the digitized copies, show up on your doorstep.

As you?d expect (or at least hope), all my media looked good. The DVD quality was high, and there didn?t seem to be any loss between the old videos and the new ones. The one thing I didn?t like was that it was hard to figure out where everything was?I sent in a number of video tapes, and though Pixorial bundles tapes with their returned DVDs there?s still a lot of fast forwarding and rewinding to find a particular scene or tape. The only way to alleviate this, really, is to do it yourself, but having to re-catalog where everything was became a bit frustrating.?

The Web App?
This is where Pixorial really gets interesting. Instead of just turning your VHS tapes into DVDs, which countless other services and devices will do, Pixorial turns them into Web videos that you can do almost anything with, using its online tools. You can watch your videos online, or share them on sites like Facebook and Twitter. Being able to share my family?s old videos on Facebook with one click never stopped being fun. There?s also a basic video editor on the site, which lets you trim the video to cut out the inevitable camera-pointing-down shots, or the moments before the good stuff happens. You can add music to your videos, split them up, and quickly download them or burn them to a DVD. (It?s worth noting you can upload your own videos to your Pixorial account and use the tools that way as well.)

Producer

If you?re really feeling enterprising, though, you?ll want to take a look at the Producer tool. Producer allows you to do more advanced video-editing tasks, but in a user-friendly way: You can splice videos together to create a supercut of your favorite scenes, or a longer video made of multiple home movies. (It?s a great way to put together your kid?s pee wee football highlight reel, for example.) It?s nowhere near as powerful as a tool like Apple iMovie, but it gets the job done fine if you just want to add a few fancy transitions, write a note or a caption over top of the film, and share it with the family. Some of these features are only available in Pro mode, though.

All of the editing takes place in your Web browser?there?s a mobile Web app too, and the company says an iPhone app is in the works as well. There are upsides and downsides to using the browser, with the most prominent downside being that the site has a tendency to be very slow. I occasionally waited several minutes for a video to load before I could edit it, and saving any action took a lot longer than it would with a desktop tool. Pixorial smartly has you edit in a low-res version of the video even though the final product is much higher-resolution, but it doesn?t completely fix the problem. Of course, the upside is that you can see your videos from anywhere, and it?s a much more convenient way to create and access videos on the fly.

What Pixorial does is smart: It takes old media and makes it new again, not only by digitizing it but by making it available online, in a place where it can be easily seen and shared. There are certainly less-expensive conversion options out there including plenty of devices for converting home media like the Hauppauge?USB-Live 2, and it?s frustrating that Pixorial can?t handle more types of media, but I?ve not found any other services that offer so many tools. Instead of just converting it to a newer format that won?t age as quickly, Pixorial actually makes your videos available and useful, and at least for me, provided the best way to watch home videos that I?ve had in a long time.

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Woman to begin Antarctic crossing, awaits weather

In this photo taken on Sept. 24, 2010 provided by the Kaspersky ONE Trans-antarctic Expedition, British adventurer Felicity Aston skis across Iceland during a pre-expedition training trip. Aston plans to ski by herself across the Antarctica, all the way to the other side of the frozen continent. If she manages to complete this journey of more than 1,000 miles (1,700 kilometers) in late January, she'll become the first human person to cross Antarctica alone under her own power. She would also set a record for the longest solo polar expedition by a woman, at about 70 days. A charter flight from Chile will take her to a base in Antarctica on Friday Nov. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Kaspersky ONE Trans-antarctic Expedition/Kaspersky Lab)

In this photo taken on Sept. 24, 2010 provided by the Kaspersky ONE Trans-antarctic Expedition, British adventurer Felicity Aston skis across Iceland during a pre-expedition training trip. Aston plans to ski by herself across the Antarctica, all the way to the other side of the frozen continent. If she manages to complete this journey of more than 1,000 miles (1,700 kilometers) in late January, she'll become the first human person to cross Antarctica alone under her own power. She would also set a record for the longest solo polar expedition by a woman, at about 70 days. A charter flight from Chile will take her to a base in Antarctica on Friday Nov. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Kaspersky ONE Trans-antarctic Expedition/Kaspersky Lab)

In this photo taken on Friday Nov. 4, 2011 provided by the Kaspersky ONE Trans-antarctic Expedition, British adventurer Felicity Aston poses for a photo by a map in Punta Arenas, Chile. Aston plans to ski by herself across the Antarctica, all the way to the other side of the frozen continent. If she manages to complete this journey of more than 1,000 miles (1,700 kilometers) in late January, she'll become the first human person to cross Antarctica alone under her own power. She would also set a record for the longest solo polar expedition by a woman, at about 70 days. A charter flight from Chile will take her to a base in Antarctica on Friday Nov. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Kaspersky ONE Trans-antarctic Expedition/Kaspersky Lab)

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ? A 33-year-old British adventurer preparing for a historic solo crossing of Antarctica was waiting at a base camp for the weather to improve on Sunday in order to begin her long journey on skis.

Felicity Aston said she has been doing more than physical training to ready herself for the expedition.

"I've also been speaking to a sports psychologist about the mental aspect of it because so much of this is about where your head's at rather than your muscles and your physical fitness," Aston told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from the base camp at Union Glacier.

She aims to become the first person to cross Antarctica alone using only muscle power. If she manages to complete the journey in late January as planned, she would also set a record for the longest solo polar expedition by a woman, at about 70 days.

"Unfortunately the weather hasn't been kind to us so far," Aston said.

At the base camp, she said, "it's blue sky. It's quite warm relatively for Antarctica, but unfortunately the weather on the other side of the continent isn't good enough to fly, apparently."

"So we're sitting here waiting for the weather to improve," she said.

Aston has been to Antarctica before but said she is particularly thrilled that she will be climbing solo through the Transantarctic Mountains and onto the continent's vast central plateau.

"Being out there and effectively having Antarctica to myself ? or it will feel like that ? appeals to me," she said. "And just the completeness of it, you know, to ski from one side of Antarctica to the other and to find out what it's like to be out there on my own."

The ordeal she faces will be similar to that endured by Boerge Ousland of Norway, who made a 64-day trip across the continent in 1997. But he harnessed Antarctica's fierce winds by strapping himself to a parachute-like sail when they blew in his favor. On those days he could ski as far as 140 miles while towing a sled carrying about 400 pounds (nearly 900 kilograms) of supplies. At other times, his speed dropped to about 2 mph (3 kph) as he struggled through crevasse-laced terrain, he said.

"It was physically and mentally tiring. I crossed snow bridges not knowing if they would hold my weight. I had to go slowly and very carefully," he said.

Aston's previous travel adventures have included skiing across the Canadian Arctic and crossing the Greenland ice sheet. But this is her first solo expedition.

"I'm looking forward to finding out what it will be like to go that length of time without seeing anyone," she said. "There's a definite appeal to just getting going and how simple life becomes when all you have to worry about is eating, sleeping and skiing."

She needed to pack the bare essentials because she will be pulling her supplies behind her. Her food rations include porridge, freeze-dried dinners and plenty of chocolate, which in all she said will add up to more than 4,000 calories each day.

"There's a lot of chocolate involved in this. It's great," she said with a laugh. "I get to eat chocolate all day and I still manage to lose weight, so that's a bonus from my point of view."

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AP Radio reporter Ed Donahue in Washington contributed to this report.

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Online:

Aston's expedition site: www.kasperskyonetransantarcticexpedition.com

Aston's Twitter site for tweets during her journey: www.twitter.com/felicity(underscore)aston

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Monday, November 21, 2011

Syria's Assad vows to continue iron-fisted crackdown

The Arab League?s deadline for an end to government violence passed last night, but Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he won't stop using force to put down a growing insurrection.

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Amid an increasingly violent uprising, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has vowed that he will continue to crackdown on the opposition and that he will not step down.

The remarks come after the Arab League?s deadline for an end to government violence passed last night and as reports have surfaced that a ruling Baath Party building was attacked in Damascus. If the reports of the attack on the government building are confirmed, it would mark the first time violence from the uprising has entered the capital city.

?The conflict will continue and the pressure to subjugate Syria will also continue,? said Mr. Assad in an interview with the Sunday Times. ?However, I assure you that Syria will not bow down and that it will continue to resist the pressure being imposed on it.?

The Syrian president went on to say that he believed the government?s role was to ?restore stability and protect civilians? by fighting those who have risen up against his government. ?We have to prevent militants from doing what they are doing now, killing civilians doing massacres, in different places in Syria,? he said.

UN: 3,500 people killed since March

According to the United Nations, at least 3,500 people have been killed since the uprising began in March. Violence has risen as Syrian military units have begun defecting, providing more weapons to the opposition. Violence in Syria is difficult to verify as most foreign journalists are unable to enter Syria and those inside have extremely limited mobility, reports the BBC.

Reports that a building belonging to the ruling Baath Party was attacked remain unconfirmed, but the Free Syrian Army, made up of many military defectors has claimed responsibility for it. Initial reports indicate that the building was attacked with grenades.

?If it is true it indicates that things are getting worse, although the attack is symbolic rather than a major attempt to attack the Syrian government,? reports Sky News? Stuart Ramsay in Beirut.

Civil war imminent?

As fighting intensifies, international leaders around the world have voiced concerns that a civil war in Syria is imminent and there are growing calls for more international pressure on Syria and potentially a military intervention like that seen in Libya.

?I think there could be a civil war with a very determined and well-armed and eventually well-financed opposition that is, if not directed by, certainly influenced by defectors from the army,? said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in an interview with NBC.

As the situation continues its downward spiral in Syria, Libyans announced that they captured Seif al-Islam Qaddafi, the last member of the Qaddafi family who remained at large.

The events unfolding in Syria make the overthrow of Libya?s former leader Muammar Qaddafi seem like a comparatively ?marginal event,? writes Patrick Cockburn in an editorial in The Independent.

?[T]he media's coverage has been misleadingly simple-minded and one-dimensional, giving the impression that all we are witnessing is a heroic uprising by the Syrian masses against a brutal Baathist police state,? writes Mr. Cockburn. ?But manipulation of the media by the opposition is also made easy by the lack of information from the country.?

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[OOC] Paranoia Games

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Sounds very interesting!
May I reserve a male?

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I call one male and one female!! They're gonna be twins :)

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TwiliXDragon
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I would rather only one character, but if you can make it work. I might add more spaces depending on how popular this gets.

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HelecateRhapsody223
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A game all about 42! Well... false 42... but I still love the concept.... I believe i'll be making a maale character

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Rarikou
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42?? Never heard of it lol, care to explain?

And I will reserve your place.

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HelecateRhapsody223
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japanese numbers...it's a arody

1 = ichi
2- ni
3.= san (not sure of the spelling)
4= shi

42= 4 and 2= Shi+Ni
= Shini, witch is japanese for death

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Rarikou
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Quick Question. Do any of you see the picture the icon for the roleplay? Cause for me its not showing up.

Edit: Oh, I see now xD thats pretty cool. Lol

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HelecateRhapsody223
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Nope, i didn't. And Taylor and Tori are in :)

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TwiliXDragon
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I submitted Seth

Edit: *looks at Twili's Characters* are you serious? The one time I think about using a song from Devil May Cry, someone beats me to the punch?

A strategic retreat is in order

*runs away in a cloud of dust* I'll REMEBMER THISSSSSSSSSSSSssss-ss-sss-sss

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Rarikou
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Lol, he has been accepted. We just need the final characters to be submitted and then things can start getting organized.

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HelecateRhapsody223
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Thank you!

@To Twil

I'll see your D.M.C and raise you Otherworld.

(I like the anime. Completely random, but totally Bad A with lots of comedy. Never thought Dante was the strawberry sundae kinda person.)

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So I have two of my Girlies getting on and joining as the last two. Anywho, the killer will be chosen and everyone will receive who they got the name of through PM. Diesel and Marine said they would be on soon to add their characters.

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okay so... just to make sure I have everything down.

Only the killer is actually killing someone, and the others are just trying to prank-kill by doing something. This part I have down

and we're all sending in how we kill them to you, and you post all the pranks, or, is there something I'm missing, cuz there won't be much for us to post otherwise...

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Rarikou
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Lol this is Helecate, I asked Blue to post this since I got offline.

Helecate: No, you get the names but dont reveal them, you can prank anyone but your ultimate goal is the name you got. Only the Killer will send anything to me.

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Dont know why my computer is being so screwy :/ But I might not be on for much longer because of it. If I really need you guys to know anything I text Diesel to tell you.

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HelecateRhapsody223
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Crap. Diesey would you play Rylie? Stupid Marine said she is too busy T~T and I wanna get this started soon.

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HelecateRhapsody223
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And whats in it for me???? Aww fine, whatever I'll do it. Lol, I will submit her soon. I am assuming your wifi is being just as bad as mine??

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If This Is Nikon's New D800 DSLR, We Should Be Excited [Rumors]

Back in October we reported the first leaked specs of Nikon's new flagship DSLR, the D800. Now the first pictures of the camera have circulated, and boy does it look like it means business. More »


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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Deficit deal failure would pose crummy choice

Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, co-chair of the supercommittee, tells reporters outside his office that the deficit reduction panel would work over the weekend as the deadline for its work nears, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, co-chair of the supercommittee, tells reporters outside his office that the deficit reduction panel would work over the weekend as the deadline for its work nears, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., Co-Chair of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, often called the Supercommittee, speaks to reporters following a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., the Senate GOP whip, arrives for a meeting with bi-partisan members of the supercommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., member of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, often called the Supercommittee, speaks to reporters following a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Sen. Patrick Toomey, R-Pa., arrives for a meeting with bi-partisan members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, often called the Supercommittee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

(AP) ? If the deficit-cutting supercommittee fails, Congress will face a crummy choice. Lawmakers can allow payroll tax cuts and jobless aid for millions to expire or they extend them and increase the nation's $15 trillion debt by at least $160 billion.

President Barack Obama and Democrats on the deficit panel want to use the committee's product to carry their jobs agenda. That includes cutting in half the 6.2 percent Social Security payroll tax and extending jobless benefits for people who have been unemployed for more than six months.

Also caught up in what promises to be a chaotic legislative dash for the exits next month is the need to pass legislation to prevent an almost 30 percent cut in Medicare payments to doctors. Several popular business tax breaks and relief from the alternative minimum tax also expire at year's end.

A debt plan from the supercommittee, it was hoped, would have served as a sturdy, filibuster-proof vehicle to tow all of these expiring provisions into law. But if the panel fails, as appears likely with Wednesday's deadline nearing, a dysfunctional Congress will have to sort it all out.

There's no guarantee it all can get done, especially given impact on those measures on the spiraling debt.

Instead of cutting the deficit with a tough, bipartisan budget deal, Congress could pivot to spending enormous sums on expiring big-ticket policies.

If lawmakers rebel against the cost, as is possible, they would bear responsibility for allowing policies such as the payroll tax cut, enacted a year ago to help prop up the economy, to lapse.

Last year's extensions of jobless benefits and first-ever cut in the payroll tax were accomplished with borrowed money.

The 2 percent payroll tax cut expiring in December gave 121 million families a tax cut averaging $934 last year at a total cost of about $120 billion, according to the Tax Policy Center.

Obama wants to cut the payroll tax by another percentage point for workers at a total cost of $179 billion and reduce the employer share of the tax in half as well for most companies, which carries a $69 billion price tag.

"The notion of imposing a new payroll tax on people after Jan. 1 in the midst of this recession on working families is totally counterproductive," said Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate.

Letting extended jobless assistance expire would mean that more than 6 million people would lose benefits averaging $296 a month next year, with 1.8 million cut off within a month.

Economist say those jobless benefits ? up to 99 weeks of them in high unemployment states ? are among the most effective way to stimulate the economy because unemployed people generally spend the money right away.

"We will have to address those issues," Durbin said.

Extending benefits to the long-term unemployed would cost almost $50 billion under Obama's plan. Preventing the Medicare payment cuts to doctors for an additional 18 months to two years would in all likelihood cost $26 billion to $32 billion more.

Lawmakers also had hoped to renew some tax breaks for business and prevent the alternative minimum tax from sticking more than 30 million taxpayers with higher tax bills. Those items could be addressed retroactively next year, but only increase the uncertainty among already nervous consumers and investors.

This time, Obama wants them to be paid for. But a move by Democrats to try to finance jobs measures with hundreds of billions of dollars in savings from drawing down troops in Iraq and Afghanistan has gotten a cold shoulder from top Republicans.

"I've made it pretty clear that those savings that are coming to us as a result of the wind-down of the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan should be banked, should not be used to offset other spending," said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. He did not address whether war savings could be used to extend expiring tax cuts.

Those savings are the natural result of national security strategies unrelated to the federal budget. Deficit hawks say tapping into them is simply an accounting gimmick.

"It's just the worst of all worlds if that were to happen," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

But without the war money at their disposal, lawmakers simply can't pay for the payroll tax cut and jobless benefits. Liberals such as Durbin are fine with employing deficit financing, especially if the alternative is playing Scrooge just before the holidays.

"Many people will hate to go home for Christmas saying to the American people, 'Merry Christmas, your payroll taxes go up 2 percent Jan. 1 and unemployment benefits are cut off.'"

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