Working on the bleeding edge will lead to some cuts every once in a while.  I report hereby one such situation for the convenience of those who may want to follow my advice regarding the the production of mp4 movies out of PP files using Keynote.

It is not what you know but what you can learn!  It seems that, in order to be able to surf in the high waves of information technology, one must be prepared to take up new things almost on daily bases.  When the WebALT project started I had the motto that "we are sailors, not the wind."  By that I meant that  the best we can possibly do is to take advantage of the developments  in the field, and, perhaps, add little ingredient of our own.   

I have earlier reported in this blog about using GrageBand, a component of Apple’s iLife 08, to produce Calculus Podcasts. While GarageBand allows the convenient editing of the soundtrack, the quality of graphics that GarageBand supports, is not good enough for Calculus Podcasts.

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM) explains the abbreviation RTFM as “Read the Fucking Manual” and lists almost 40 equivalent expressions like GLOG for “Go Look on Google.” The multitude of such abbreviations simply tells us that people do not have the patience to learn before starting to use computers. I almost never read the booklets entitled “Read This First” when opening a package and starting to use a new computer or other similar device. I assume that it will be self explanatory, and that I will be able to use these devices right out of the box.

New ideas come from the kids. Some time ago I promised to my daughter to get her a microphone if she improves her grades a lot. Now she got her report, and I had to take her to a professional music store to buy the microphone. She got an AUDIX OM 2 microphone. We also got an USB Audio Capture device (EDIROL, UA-25, USB powered).