Video Cast

Way We Work: Saving Time with TextExpander

Submitted by Aaron Pava on March 5, 2008 - 5:01pm.

One of my favorite tools in the belt is TextExpander.

TextExpander has saved me countless keystrokes with customized shortcuts for the text I type the most.

See the screencast to get a sense of how I use this amazing app.

Iraq Quaqmire --

Cheney "gets it right" in 1994 -- Warning that Iraq invasion would lead to a "quagmire" -- and so very wrong today.

"And the question for the president, in terms of whether or not we went on to Baghdad, took additional casualties in an effort to get Saddam Hussein, was how many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth?

Our judgment was, not very many, and I think we got it right."

RootsCampNYC Recap

On saturday I attended RootsCampNYC, and unconference dedicated to debriefing on the elections with a decidedly technological flavor. I shot some video with a Samsung SC-210 digital video camera (that I am returning tomorrow because it doesn't play well with Mac despite what the box says.) The video above is a short interview with Sanford Dickert. I've got a few more videos up on YouTube.

CivicAction Cast: Flying Star Cafe, Albuquerque, NM

Submitted by GregoryHeller on November 1, 2006 - 7:13pm.
Catch me if you can! For one week only I am working from Albuquerque, NM!

Work from, literally, anywhere...

Submitted by GregoryHeller on September 30, 2006 - 4:53pm.
This is the latest in my series of "Work From Anywhere" videos. I've been traveling a bunch, and will soon be adding some more videos. The hunt for open wifi is different wherever I go. In this video, I had just finished a training with a client over VOIP on the wifi signal provided by the Hollyhock Retreat Center at the Web Of Change conference.

Videocast with Matt Thompson of "Best War Ever"

Submitted by GregoryHeller on September 30, 2006 - 4:49pm.
I took a minute to speak with Matt Thompson, a documentary film maker and indie journalist who recently complete BEst War Evern. Matt and I met last year at Web Of Change when he was still working with Independant World Television (which became "Real News").

GaiaField Map

Wardriving with Arthur

Submitted by GregoryHeller on June 26, 2006 - 1:06pm.
Arthur Foelsche and I take a few minutes away from the rest of the CivicActions June Off Site in Geyserville, CA to troubleshoot and fix a mail issue for a client. Geyserville is a rather small town, no internet cafes. So we made due, after about 10 minutes of wardriving, we found an open wireless signal near the railroad tracks.

Thing Sender: a Mass Mail Recipe for Drupal

Submitted by GregoryHeller on April 10, 2006 - 5:06pm.

Recently, a client of ours needed mass mailing capability. Nothing
fancy, just the ability to send original messages and existing nodes to
a large list of email addresses. No token replacement, no click through
tracking. Just get the word out.

We contracted with Allie Micka to create a suite of modules that would
handle not only this discrete needs but other sending needs of this, and
other clients.

Ingredients:
Drupal 4.7
Mime Mail http://drupal.org/node/37911
Mailing List Manager http://drupal.org/node/44580
Send http://drupal.org/project/send
News http://drupal.org/node/45616

More Video Casts from NTEN NTC

Submitted by GregoryHeller on April 4, 2006 - 2:51pm.
I am just now getting to uploading some more video casts I did at the NTEN NTC... Coming soon, a few more Video Casts from SpeedGeeking and Penguin Day!