September 6, 2009 – 1:19 pm
This video is 1280 x 720 – watch it in fullscreen to see the details.
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This is, sadly, a report about the present. I read reports yesterday about an attack on all versions of WordPress except the very latest – 2.8.4. I have a bunch of sites that I maintain and many of them were pretty easy to upgrade by using the built-in automatic upgrade feature. I also have a few sites that are old and inactive. Those needed to be upgraded by hand. The thing that I noticed on ALL of the sites that were not already running 2.8.4 was that they had hidden admin users on them. The sneaky thing about that is that you may not have any other symptoms besides these hidden accounts and then think you are safe once you’ve upgraded. The are, essentially, back doors left on your site to be exploited later. So you have to make sure to get rid of them. The process is a little tricky – at least it’s not a typical WordPress user operation so I’ve documented two ways to do it in this screencast.
More info:
Old WordPress Versions Under Attack
Wordpress Permalink & Rss problems
How to Keep WordPress Secure
August 24, 2009 – 11:50 pm
The second post on this blog (Jan 2008) was called Machinima: Filmmaking Of The Future. For me, it still feels like something from the future even though the process in this video is less elaborate than the one outlined in that earlier post. I love that I’m able to work with most anyone, in real-time, in an amazing world where you can create just about anything you want – even goofy robots that love to curse.
The example Talkbot episode in this video is “Back To Normal” from yesterday. The embeded video is 1280 x 720 so if you put it in fullscreen mode you’ll be able to see all of the details. I’ll warn you that the video is nearly 37 minutes long (and 275MB) as many sections are of me working things out in real time. It’s also about as simple an episode as we can make and it actually took about an hour and a half to create. What was cut out was some of the story brainstorming, reworking one of Lifal’s lines of dialog, music selection and lots of progress bars and app launching.
Links to software and services used:
Open Atrium
Celtx
Dropbox
Skype
Final Cut Studio
AT&T Text-to-Speech demo
Crazytalk
Second Life
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Ryanne, Jay and I have been trying to come up with a good way to embed ogg video with the new video tag and have it still work in browsers that don’t support that yet. We want to show people how to set that up at the Open Video Conference. We came up with a method similar to this but hadn’t finalized it yet. Anyway, Kroc Camen’s Video for Everybody code is better.
There were a few things about the Video for Everybody code that I didn’t like so I edited it so that it validates as HTML5 and in the interest of simplification I took out the fallbacks for “QuickTime Installed but no Flash installed” and “No QuickTime and no Flash installed.” Also, the QuickTime object fallback is simplified because it assumes playback only on the iPhone.
So check it out the test page with a self hosted Flash player fallback
and
one with a YouTube fallback.
If you are using FireFox 3.5 beta you will get an ogg video, If you have Safari 3 or 4 you will get an mp4 and if you have FF 3, IE6, IE7 or IE8 you will get the Flash player (actually playing the same mp4 that Safari is playing).
Here’s the code snippet with a self-hosted flash player
and
Here’s the code snippet with the YouTube flash player.
The one big stumbling block to this whole thing at the moment is that poster image attribute is not supported yet and (because of that?) the video will load whether you play it or not. My understanding is that it’s supposed to be resolved in Firefox 3.5 before release (who knows what Apple’s plans are with Safari).
Following up on the last post about HTML 5 and OGG video, here are some ideas that I’ve been thinking about in preparation for the Open Video Conference. If you have some ideas please leave a comment here or email me.
Today I was playing with Ogg video (Theora) and the new HTML 5 video element which is supported in the Firefox 3.1 beta. This is a short screencast showing Ogg video playing in the new Firefox and the simplicity of using the video element. This video is 1280 x 800 so be sure to click the fullscreen button to see the details.
There is an Ogg version embeded after the jump. (Get the Firefox 3.1 beta)
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