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2/1/2006

Videos for Admissions

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 5:04 pm
(filed under category Projects=> iPods)

Jen Francouer asked about making admissions videos available for easy iPod downloading. We’re meeting next wednesday, but i preparation I

ensured that Current new admissions videos will indeed play with  iTunes, Mac and OC (they do using high bandwidth versions already available)
ensured that Current new admissions videos will indeed play on iPod (they do using [...]

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12/12/2005

More broken iPod

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:46 pm
(filed under category Projects=> iPods)

Continued to fiddle with iPod. Demonstrated the ease with which music can be extracted from iPod and inserted into iTunes for Windows, even without copypod of ipodcopy.
But I still couldn’t  put new photos on it without it corrupting the photos. Tried Disk First aid: nothing.
So I reformated it again, now for Mac, and reloaded it.
Now [...]

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12/9/2005

iPod Photos fix

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 5:27 pm
(filed under category Projects=> iPods)

5th gen iPod was reporting "The ipod cannpt be read from or written to" while trying to update photos.
Solution was to turn OFF photo synchronization; answer yes to "Delete all photos on iPod;" then turn ON photo synchronization.
Ipod is happy again.

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11/14/2005

iPod File Recovery

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 5:07 pm
(filed under category Projects=> iPods)

Carol Caldwell-Edmunds sked fro help with a client who’s hard drive had failed and was trying to recover 10 GB of music from iPod. Carol doesn’t have an iPod for testing. Installed drivers for iPod on Gateway; reformatted iPod, tried CopyPod. All took longer and more effort than expected. Worked minimally well. Needed to restore [...]

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10/27/2005

iPod Video Demos

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 1:25 pm
(filed under category Projects=> iPods)

Demonstrtions and discussions of  use/support of iPod Video with Jon Bellum , Steve Cavrak, and Carol Caldwell-Edmonds

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10/25/2005

iPod Video Research

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 3:14 pm
(filed under category Projects=> iPods)

The new iPod arrived.
Loaded it with songs, photos, and movies.
Most movies were my own: created on little Konica-Minolta Dimage Xt, run throught iMovie, posted on blog, auto downloaded by iTunes; exported from a medium quality (LAN Quicktime preset) QuickTime file; Direct from iMovie projects; bought from iTunes store.
Watched on built-in screen, TV. I find the [...]

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10/18/2005

iPod Video Research

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 3:46 pm
(filed under category Projects=> iPods)

Off and on research during last week, tracking RSS feeds, getting latest news and gossip regarding release of, accessories for, and early test results of iPod video

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7/6/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 8:49 am
(filed under category Documentation=> Projects=> Video and Audio=> iPods)

met with geoff Duke and Rob Ryan (rob.Ryan@uvm.edu) to discuss counseling center needs

"Record" video from several different computers, and recordings done on each computer by more than one user (ccdesk or wbrownsw).
Video saved to a secure location, probably on a network share.
Video can be played [...]

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5/17/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 1:52 pm

tracked down issue with new Tiger iCal application and CT_Cal.pl related to meetings displayed in UTC rather than local time

provided consulting to D Jacobowitz  for perl CGI-BIN programming at UVM

tested new Cisco VPN clients

finally figured out how to get "SDP Announce" method to work with QuickTime broadcaster and quicktime.uvm.edu

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3/3/2005

iPod Documentation

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:03 pm
(filed under category Projects=> iPods)

I’ve begun the long process of documenting what i have learned about iPods and Acadmics. First bit was calendars. Based on experiments with Oracle Calendar and ics files (see here ), I was able to produce this. Griffin iTalk (and Larry Shelton) provided [...]

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Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 11:56 am

Negotiations with CIT management to find a Dspace disk space solution
investigated and solved issues with print server in Art Lab
help a hendrickson with issues related to FormMail.pl and mailform.pl
iPod documentation

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2/28/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 11:56 am

Advised L Shelton on procedures for uploading iPod Voice Memos to web as MP3 files
Documented procedures for uploading iPod Voice Memos to web as MP3 files
Advised C Rathbone on DV camera purchase

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1/20/2005

Calendar & iCal issues

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:13 pm
(filed under category MacOS Support=> Projects=> Scripts - Programming=> iPods)

On Jan 20, 2005, at 10:33 AM, Robert H. Maurizi wrote:
Additionally, has anyone had any luck making Calendar & iCal (or  iSync) talk to one another? I’m not looking for anything fancy where I  can update Calendar entries from a different app– I’d just like to have a read-only version of [...]

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1/19/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 3:53 pm

helped g nunley with romance languages department home page problems
advised l shelton on audio recording of lectures using an iPod

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