Where’s the music at?
So, I’ve stopped carrying around all of my music with me. It happened when I upgraded my iPhone to iOS 5 Beta a few times. After every update I would have to plug in my phone, wait for my playlist to transfer over, and inevitably the download would finish right before a date with my beautiful bride. It would take forever! Granted, this [...]
Continue ReadingGurus of Tech
The church tech world can be frustrating sometimes*. I think one of the main reasons for this is loneliness. It’s often said in church that “we were made for community” or we weren’t made to “go it alone”, and I think that speaks to the techie at heart as well. Most of the time there are only one or two [...]
Continue ReadingGoogle Search Techniques
These days, what can really set you apart is simply knowing what and how to search for something on Google in order to find answers quickly. It’s impossible to know everything, but a few simple search techniques can help troubleshoot problems more efficiently. Here are a few of my favorites (syntax is in bold): site: Sometimes you want [...]
Continue ReadingText at random Y Positions in After Effects
I have been working on a project recently that required tons of text boxes to be placed at random y positions on the screen. I wanted to be able to reuse the project for different composition sizes (HD, SD, 2K, etc), and needed to also factor in a “title-safe” area… Instead of manually doing all of this, I wrote this little [...]
Continue ReadingDeveloping for the Desktop
Our company, Digital Stache, has been making apps for a little over a year now (Spin That Wheel, Score Keep and our free countdown maker, Ready, Set Go!) . It has been exciting to learn to develop something from scratch that hundreds of people can experience and benefit from. From the get-go we knew that we wanted to make exciting, clean [...]
Continue ReadingTop Eight Alfred Extensions
I bought Alfred’s Powerpack the other day, and so far it’s pretty awesome! For those of you who don’t know, Alfred is a free application-launcher, file-searching beast, that is mostly keystroke driven (like Quicksilver, but still supported). The Powerpack allows you to write your own scripts (Shell, Applescript, Automator, [...]
Continue ReadingFriday Pick: Spin That Wheel
I’ll have to be honest and say that I’m a little biased about this week’s pick, Spin That Wheel, because my buddy Dave and I developed it. That being said, it’s still really fun to use, super simple, and DANG is it pretty! A little over a year ago, Dave and I were looking at games that we could play in our youth ministry, [...]
Continue ReadingRetreiving Java data into Titanium Desktop
Yesterday I posted how to get Titanium to open a Java application and run it. This may be fun, but pretty useless unless Titanium can retrieve data from that application, right? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 var separator = Titanium.Filesystem.getSeparator(); var jar = Titanium.App.home +separator+ "Resources" +separator+ "java/javaProcess.jar"; [...]
Continue ReadingRunning java jar files in Titanium Desktop
Being that I know almost nothing about Java, and slightly more about Appcelerator Titanium Desktop, this proved a little difficult. But, if you need to run a jar file in Titanium, here is the best way that I have found… 1 2 3 4 5 var separator = Titanium.Filesystem.getSeparator(); var jar = Titanium.App.home +separator+ "Resources" [...]
Continue ReadingCamera Cheat Card, plus free Illustrator file
We do things just a little different at Southeast Student ministry, namely in that almost all of our production is handled by the students. Junior Highers and High Schoolers They run the graphics. They run the lyrics. They run cameras, lights, the switcher, direct and even produce. All of this means that part of my team’s job is to train [...]
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