Next year, Jing Pro users will have to settle for low quality audio in their videos.  I do not like this one bit.  Don’t get me wrong, I really like TechSmith and have been a customer since 1999.  The have great products and great people.

But below is what we will have to settle with, low quality audio in our videos.  I have two samples, one from the free version of Jing and one from the Pro version.

Here is a sample video, created with the FREE version of Jing (SWF File):

Now here is the Jing Pro version, notice the high quality audio (MPEG 4 File):

I have tried SnagIT and also the new version of SnagIT 11 with video support.  However Jing Pro is way faster to use that SnagIT.  Also SnagIT is too cumbersome to use compared to Jing Pro.

So whats next?  Tell TechSmith how you feel about this move.  My wish, is they continue MP4 support for Jing so we can have high quality video and audio.  Please make your voice heard.

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Please be courteous and professional when contacting TechSmith.  Thank you for taking the time to read this blog entry.

Sung-Bong Choi is taking the world by storm with the story of his personal hardships growing up and his amazing performance on Korea’s Got Talent.  Like Susan Boyle and Paul Potts, Sung-Bong Choi did have some training, but all the voice training in the world won’t make you sing like he does, unless you have that talent to begin with.  I wish him the best, and I hope he wins the competition.  Thats all, just enjoy the video.

Back in the spring I entered a blog post about the FTC getting involved with photocopier hard drive privacy issues. The article started off saying: “Those photocopies of your bottom, which you thought would be an original and funny statement of the contents of your soul during the office Christmas party, have started to worry the US Federal Trade Commission.”

So I thought I would add a photo of someone’s photocopied butt to make the story more interesting. I found a picture of a photocopied butt on the Internet and used that for my blog post.

I started to get hits from search engines for photocopied butt, photocopied bottom, etc, and people were clicking on that image to copy it and use it.

I was really puzzled why I was getting so many hits for that photo. So I created a new blog entry, just before Christmas, and had a YouTube video on there, where a heavy man tries to photocopy his butt and the glass on the copier broke, no doubt injuring him, it was caught on an office security camera. Then I really started to get hits for that photo of a photocopied butt.

Now for the record, I have never photocopied my butt, and I fail to realize why it is so funny. I do have a sense of humor, but a photo or scan of someone’s butt? Why do people do that? Are they rebelling against the corporate environment?

Can anyone help me out? I am very curious why I get so many hits every day for that photo. Please leave a comment why you think people photocopy their butts and why it’s funny. Also why are people on the Net searching for photocopied butt photos? This is no joke, I want to get to the bottom of this. No pun intended.

See also related:
http://blog.unicus.com/2010/05/27/ftc-photocopier-hard-drives/

http://blog.unicus.com/2010/11/10/photocopied-butt/

Check your Driver’s License , Canada now included!

I already removed mine. I suggest you all do the same. Now you can see anyone’s Driver’s License on the Internet, including your own! I just searched for mine and there it was…picture and all!

Go to the web site, and check it out. It’s unbelievable!!!  Just enter your name, city and state or province to see if yours is on file. After your license comes on the screen, click the box marked “Please Remove.”

This will remove it from public viewing, but not from law enforcement..

Please notify all your friends so they can protect themselves too.  Believe me, they will thank you for it.

Click here:

http://www.license.shorturl.com/

When top level guys look down,

they see only shitheads;

When bottom level guys look up,

they see only assholes…

Canadian Bilingual Keyboard’s are showing up in greater numbers on laptops and this sucks big time.  If you ever typed on a US layout keyboard, then try out a Canadian Bilingual Keyboard, you will most likely be very disappointed with all the keystroke mistakes you will make.  The only solution is to get a US layout board and have it installed to get rid of the crappy Bilingual board.

Most people in Canada speak, read and type in ENGLISH, not French.  Why ram this down our throats?   Make the French get Bilingual Keyboards, and give the US layout boards to the English speaking people.

Seymour Birkoff tells Nikita what an IRC means. (Internet Chat Room) Some humor from the late 90′s TV series La Femme Nikita.

About Nikita on IMDB:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118379/

Get ready for this HOT CHICK to do a striptease for you. She will take off her shirt, her skirt, then it gets really interesting. Have fun.

Well it’s that time of year again, where people drink too much and make an ass of themselves. As seen in this video, don’t go and photocopy your butt!

The glass could break and you will be spending a few hours in the emergency room getting stitched up.

Not to mention, explaining what happened to your boss and co-workers, and paying to fix the machine.

Instead use this image of a photocopied butt.

Just think, next time you use the photocopier, someone’s bare bottom could have been on there.  Pretty gross huh?