Recent Audio and video Business White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies - BNET.com

Recent Audio and video Business White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies | BNET
Recent Audio and video Business White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies | BNET

Webcast: Unleashing the Value of VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, is fast becoming much more than just a cost-effective way of simply routing voice conversations over the Internet. Today, VoIP is also used for data exchange as well as empowering rich media applications such as video conferencing and so-called "presence" technologies that indicate a network user's location and availability. For companies of all sizes, the challenge now is learning exactly how to leverage VoIP to both save money and improve productivity. BNET is proud to present Unleashing the Value of VoIP, an on-demand webcast that details the expanded use of IP telephony to build upon an already invaluable communication network. Learn why VoIP is such an empowering technology and how it enables a company to grow its business by lowering costs and increasing productivity Discover new insight on the most common strategies for deploying, supporting and managing a VoIP communication network Explore the often-overlooked value of VoIP for business critical applications such as voice, data and rich media communication VoIP technology will soon be just as common as the telephone and Unleashing the Value of VoIP is a must-attend event for anyone who wants to truly let their fingers do the walking. View it today! Note: This premium editorial content is underwritten by VoIP-News. The registration information you provide will be shared with this sponsor.
Exclusive: Web Design God Steve Krug (Audio MP3 + Transcript)
The author is a genuinely humble guy - so he will be fairly embarrassed when he sees we called him a 'Design god' in the headline above. But, we had no choice. Steve's the expert we admire more than any other Web designer on the planet nowadays. In this paper you can share the experiences of chatting with author. It includes such as: what are the most frequent dumb-CEO web design marketers are frustrated by?; what typeface works best for web now?; how does search marketing affect good web design, especially because fewer people go to your home page first?; can flash intros and rich media such as videos work in web design.
Practical Color Management: Understanding Key Color Management Concepts - Cal...
Calibration refers to setting up a device in a centered state or known condition, where it can then yield the best performance within given parameters. For example, one might calibrate a device to a color temperature setting of 6500 degrees Kelvin and a gamma setting of 2.2. Once a person has established a few parameters, the tool to calibrate the monitor can position the color temperature and gamma for proper viewing during calibration.
Digital Video Hacks: Cut to the Beat of Your Music
Digital video is an audiovisual medium, yet the audio portion of the signal tends to be neglected until late in production. If one is attempting to enhance a scene using music, one should choose music that is appropriate to the mood one is trying to create. Even after selecting the right music, if one is editing doesn't take the music into account, the scene will not accomplish what one wants and the audience will actually become distracted by the selection.
Digital Photography Hacks: Second-Curtain Flash for Cool Effects
Typically, an individual uses a camera flash to add light when there's not enough ambient illumination for a well-exposed shot, or to fill in shadows for portrait subjects. In either of these scenarios, one typically has a relatively fast shutter speed (1/60 of a second or so) with the flash occurring at the beginning of the exposure, otherwise known as the first curtain. The term curtain refers to the phases of the shutter. The first curtain occurs at the beginning of the exposure and the second curtain occurs at the end.
Digital Photography: Who's in Charge?
When a person first picks up a digital camera and hold it in his or her hands, many thoughts go through the head. Initially, one might simply wonder where the power button is, or how to turn on the LCD monitor. Soon, the individual reaches a crossroads with two options. The first few steps are the steps that everyone takes with a new camera. This paper is a friendly guide for those who want to take the second path.
Digital Video Hacks: Zoom in From a Satellite
Establishing the location of a scene can sometimes be critical to the story. Thanks to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), one can download satellite images of almost any location. One can use a series of these images to zoom in on the location. There are a number of great web sites that allows to both locate and view satellite images. This paper uses TerraServer USA. The instructions in this paper pertain to that site, but the process can be applied to any other sites, as well.
Digital Video Hacks: Fix Timecode Problems on an Existing Tape
If one has timecode that jumps from one time to an earlier time, one will encounter problems when digitizing the footage. For example, if the tape's timecode is 00:34:23;00 and jumps to 00:00:00;00, one has a problem. It is best to fix problems in the process as early as possible. One way to avoid this problem is to black and code the tapes ahead of time. Some people attempt to overcome timecode problems while digitizing by using tape numbers to indicate which breakpoint to locate. If one is going to fix timecode on a tape, one has to transfer it to another tape or onto the computer.
Digital Video Hacks: Mount Your Camera to Your Car
There are certain shots that are difficult to acquire, particularly those that are shot from a moving vehicle. Instead of building some elaborate apparatus to mount the camera to a car, one can purchase a heavy-duty suction cup, with camera mount, called The Cleat. It is manufactured by PowrGrip (http://www.powrgrip.com) and can be purchased online at http://shop.store. yahoo.com/cinemasupplies/cleatsuccamm.html for $75. Using The Cleat, and a camera that weighs less than 10 pounds, one can capture great shots from a moving vehicle, or from just about anywhere there's a smooth surface.
iPod & iTunes Hacks: Manipulate Audio Using the Terminal
One of the greatest advantages of Apple's OS X operating system is its Unix core. Unix is a flexible environment that lets one get their hands dirty and solve problems when other applications fall short. The LAME encoder (http:// lame.sourceforge.net; free) is the Internet standard for quality MP3 encoding. In the Usenet MP3 groups, one will find LAME in much wider use than any other codec, and the ears will hear the difference.
iPod & iTunes Hacks: Make a New iPod Playlist From Your Selections
iTunes has a convenient New Playlist From Selection command (available from the File menu) to create a new playlist from a bunch of selected tracks. The only drawback is that it creates the playlist in the current source. This paper lets the reader select some tracks in iTunes and send them to the iPod, optionally placing them in a newly created playlist. It even suggests a default name for the new iPod playlist based on the info from the selected tracks.
iPod & iTunes Hacks: Alter the iTunes Look and Feel by Resource Hacking
All applications use computer code to describe how they look. With a little work, one can get to the code that makes iTunes looks the way it looks and alter it to one's heart's content. This method isn't as simple as "Skin iTunes with ShapeShifter". However, one's efforts will be rewarded, because one will be able to change elements of the iTunes UI that ShapeShifter cannot touch.
iPod & iTunes Hacks: Extend Your Visualizer Options
One might not have discovered it yet, but there is a pretty cool visualizer - an engine for generating interesting patterns based on the pitch and rhythm of the currently playing track - built into iTunes. To see the visualizer do its thing, play a track and go to Visualizer ? Turn Visualizer On. iTunes translates the music into some pretty psychedelic graphics. Go back to the Visualizer menu and select Full Screen, and the effect will fill the screen. The visualizer looks great from across the room on the computer or, even better, connected to the television. If one is having a party, one can even try connecting the laptop to a digital projector and projecting the visuals on a wall.
iPod & iTunes Hacks: Clean Up Your ID3 Tags
When one inserts a CD to be ripped in iTunes, it looks up the album information on the CD Database (CDDB). All of the information about the CD magically appears in iTunes, which is very handy - except when the CDDB labels as Alternative music that one would classify as Pop, or when information one thinks is important has been omitted. Back in the wild-west days of downloading from Napster, one could also find MP3s that someone else catalogued in an entirely different way. Suddenly finding that album or song one want in iTunes is like finding a digital needle in a haystack.
iPod & iTunes Hacks: Convert Text Files Into iPod Books
Text2iPod X converts the text file into a Contact file that one can place inside the Contacts folder on the iPod. The benefit of this method is that the Contacts feature works on older iPods that do not support the Notes feature of newer iPods. The down side is that while the file can be larger than the 4-KB limit of the Notes files, it will still tend to get cut at around 32 KB. Nevertheless, if one has an older iPod, cutting the text into a dozen 32-KB text files (which one then runs through Text2iPod X) is a workable solution.

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