Archive for the ‘Internet Experiences’ Category
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 |
There have been many relationships for me over the years. I have met many interesting people. There were the friends and teachers from grade school who you have your first real relationships. The first girl that you kissed and you knew that this time would last forever. The bully at recess, who you knew would have a tough life ahead of them. The other kids who stayed overnight to play hide and seek in the basement. The fun we had, and the dreams we had we knew would keep us all together. I had different friends in high school, some were the jocks and some were the geeks. We went to prom together like everyone else, yet it seemed that the interaction among us started to change. The feelings were stronger and the pain was longer. The weekdays were just as long as the weekends were short. The breakup after 3 months with a girlfriend seemed like this time would last forever. School was tough in other ways too. I had a lot of friends, but it seemed like there were bigger things to come after graduation. We all went our separate ways to meet other new friends. We moved on to new adventures. Meeting new people in college and working odd jobs became a whole new social experience for me. Working at a restaurant and meeting middle-aged men washing dishes seemed a little unusual, but then I began to think about what their circumstances were about. I met a girl who was about 10 years older than me and she was a single mom, she was going to school at night and she worked as a cook. Her story was how she wanted to help her son by getting him into a better school, since he had difficulties learning. The other cook was proud to moving up at the restaurant as a the head cook, he had been there for nearly 4 years. The older lady at the check out was here to make some money and to make new friends since her husband had passed away. I realized that this was just a moment for me while during school, this was a big deal to them. Some days I did not want to work, because school was getting me down. As I looked at the others and their situations, I began to realize that my experiences were not about me, but about everyone else.
After college I got a job far away from family and friends because it was the best opportunity at the time. Although, I began to see more hardships of others around me. I was not always the type who considered the glass half empty, but I guess this kind of stuff was more evident to me than the good things at this point. As I moved on into my adult life I guess I really began to understand my life lesson. I began my first real job in sales and have not looked back since. I will share my job experiences on a future post. I have learned how to better see and feel the needs of others. This has helped me in my experiences with others. No matter how difficult your life may seem, there is always someone who has a bigger challenge.
I have now begun to explore other personal experiences on the web and have enjoyed blogs and forums like these to share and read about others. Words cannot describe that the world is so much bigger than you are, look outside yourself to see inside of others and you will have a more positive social experience.
Posted in Awkward Experiences, Business Experiences, Financial Experiences, Happy Experiences, Internet Experiences, Life Experiences, Marketing Experiences, Proud Experiences, Relationship Experiences, Sad Experiences, Travel Experiences, Winning Experiences | 2 Comments »
Thursday, September 18th, 2008 |
From my experience, Digg has chosen a very intrusive advertising method. Here is a screen shot of my Digg home page and the ad that popped up. Notice the very subtle close button, for all intents and purposes, hidden in the top right.
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008 |
From my experiences, starting a blog is exciting, fun and a lot of hard work. Well, actually, starting a blog isn’t hard work, maintaining a blog is extremely hard work. Let me define maitaining: writing blog posts on a regular basis. This blog, From My Experience, started with lofty goals of being a resource to help other people by user and bloggers sharing their personal experiences in daily life situations. It hasn’t gone as I would have hoped. I have written the majority of the posts even when I had hoped I would only be kick starting the blog (more…)
Posted in Hobby Experiences, Internet Experiences | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 |
From my experience Google is the best search engine on the web, but it isn’t the only search egine and sometimes even the almighty Google has come up short in the search results. Of course there is Yahoo! and Live Search by MSN and a few people use Ask. But there is another search engine that I like very much and recommend you give it a try: ChaCha
Here is a description of the ChaCha Search Engine from ChaCha’s About page:
Tired of search engine results that aren’t even close to what you’re looking for? Us too. So we started thinking about a better way to search the Net… and we figured out what was missing… people.
That’s how ChaCha was born. The first search engine that uses the brainpower of really smart people to find anything you want on the Internet. Here’s how you use it:
INSTANT SEARCH - Just like all those other search engines… only better. Because ChaCha keeps getting smarter. Our search experts are constantly handpicking cool, hard-to-find sites so you get only the best, most relevant results… OR
LIVE GUIDED SEARCH - Instant search not cutting it? One click hooks you up with a live ChaCha Guide. A real person that will ask you questions, understand exactly what you want, and send you results that are dead-on. Computers can’t do that. It takes a community of people who are motivated to help you get the answer you seek - no matter what it takes. The brainpower behind ChaCha.
While you may not agree with all the search results being the most relevant you can see the differences from your first search. Try the guided search, but be careful what you search for, it can be a bit embarrassing.
Posted in Internet Experiences, Technology Experiences | No Comments »
Saturday, September 15th, 2007 |
If this iMovie tutorial still doesn’t help, I can recommend ScreenCastsOnline. They have excellent tutorials for all your Mac products: iMovie, iPod, iPhone and so forth.
From my experience posting your iMovie video to YouTube requires the following settings to get the best quality you can. You want to send YouTube the highest quality you can while still staying within their video and audio limitations.
Of course the settings I’m providing can be used with any video editing application, but since iMovie is used by so many novice videographers I felt some specific instructions would be useful. If you aren’t using iMovie 6 for this, be sure that your application can export to a .mp4 with H.264 video. Quicktime Player Pro version can also do this.
Since YouTube upload limitations will scale the video to 320 x 240 pixels there is no point to export it at a larger size. Better to apply higher quality settings to your file size limit, which is 100 megabytes set by Youtube.
I am assuming your video has been edited and is ready for export. Follow these steps to have a video that you can upload with confidence to YouTube.
Choosing the best settings for iMovie when exporting for YouTube:
- Under the main menu click the Share menu option.
- Choose the Share option at the bottom of the drop down menu.
- The next window will allow you select from a popup menu. It is labeled “Compress movie for:”. You will chose Expert Settings. Click the share Share button in the bottom right. (see image #1)
- The next window will allow you to choose where to save the video and what to name it. At the bottom of the window you will see a popup menu labeled Export. Choose the “Movie to MPEG-4″ option.
- Click the Options… button to the right to choose specific video and audio settings.
In this window choose the following setting under the video choices. (see image #2)
- Video Format: H.264
- Data Rate: 2000 kbits/sec
- Optimized for: Download
- Image Size: 320 x 240 QVGA
- Check Preserve aspect ration using: Fit within size
- Frame Rate: 30
- Key Frame: Automatic
- Click the Video Options… button and then select the Main checkbox and the Best Quality radio button. Click OK.
- Next choose the following Audio Settings:
- Audio Format AAC-LC
- Data Rate: 64kbs
- Channels: Mono
- Output Sample Rate: Recommended
- Encoding Quality: Best
- Click the OK button and in the next window click the Save button and wait for your high quality video to export.
You can see the latest video I have posted using these settings by viewing my family’s Zip Line in Hawaii.
If you need more help and you like the video instruction method. I can safely recommend ScreenCastsOnline.
Posted in Hobby Experiences, Internet Experiences | 25 Comments »
Thursday, September 13th, 2007 |
From my experience on the http://moon.google.com web page I found out the moon is indeed made of cheese. I had my doubts at one time, especially when there was talk of the man in the moon, but now I know that is pure foolishness. Google’s mapping program, which shows the Apollo 11 - Apollo 17 landings on earth’s moon, will also show that the moon is made of cheese when you zoom out to the highest setting.
Hard to believe? Yes, but who would doubt the authenticity of Google and Google Maps. Try it yourself at http://moon.google.com. All your chilhood dreams are now in question.
Update 9/13/2007: Google has removed the cheese image from the moon maps page page. The screen shot will have to suffice.
Google Moon Gets Major Updates
“This update brings higher-resolution map imagery, text search,
and photos and stories from every Apollo landing,” stated
Michael Weiss-Malik, a software engineer, on the Google LatLong
Blog.
He then continued, “We even included Street View-style panoramas
of the moon’s surface, taken by the Apollo astronauts …
something you won’t see anywhere else. And last but certainly
not least, we tossed in scientific charts that are good enough
for actual mission planning and science classrooms alike.”
Excerpted from an article by Doug Caverly, staff writer at WebProNews.
Posted in Funny Experiences, Internet Experiences | 2 Comments »
Thursday, September 6th, 2007 |
From my experience, Firefox is the best browser out there for surfing the web. I speak from experience of using an Apple Macintosh computer from home and a Dell Windows computer from work. I use Firefox on both as opposed to Safari for the Mac and Internet Explorer for the Windows computer.
Tabbed browsing and fast load times are the features that intrigued me enough to try it years ago, but the most amazing thing about Firefox are the add-ons. What are add-ons, you say? Here it is from the Firefox site:
“Add-ons are small pieces of software that can add new features or tiny tweaks to your Firefox. They can add new search engines or change the look of Firefox with a new theme, or much more.”
This allows you to customize Firefox in ways you can’t imagine. They even give you a lift of some of their favorite add-ons to get you started. One of my favorite add-ons is StumbleUpon, which I will post about later, but just know it will eat up your free time so be careful when try it.
If you haven’t tried Firefox, download it and surf for a few days and see if you don’t love it as much as I do. Once you start searching through and adding the add-ons you’ll wonder how you surfed without them. You can read about Firefox’s features before you try it.
If you need more convincing, here is a site dedicated to helping you make the switch from Explorer to Firefox.
Posted in Internet Experiences | 3 Comments »
