A few days ago I had to show my pastor how to take screenshots on his mac. After showing him 2 common methods, I came across an awesome third method from iHospital. Here are all three methods:
1. To take a picture of your entire screen as it appears hold down the Command+Shift+3 keys in that order.
You will hear a snapshot noise and the image thumbnail will appear on your desktop.
2. To take a picture of a selection of your screen, hold down Command+Shift+4 in that order.
Use the tool to select the area in which you want to tae the picture of.
3. To take a picture of a window on your screen, hold Command+Shift+4 in that order, release all three keys and tap the Space Bar. Then click the window which you want to take the picture of.
Try them out and I bet they’ll become part of your workflow.
This past weekend I had the privilege of serving at the CAOG Roots ’11 Youth and Young Adult Convention. I was responsible for the programming of the main sessions as well overseeing all worship and creative aspects.
Part of what I really wanted to do was to get a live twitter stream going whereby students can tweet using a simple hashtag (e.g. #Roots11) and have it show up immediately on a screen. I figured this would give everyone an opportunity to share what God was doing in their lives throughout the course of the weekend.
After searching for a little while, I found a solution that was perfect for our needs. Here’s a simple tutorial of how you can achieve a similar result:
In case you are wondering, I use “command-1″ to toggle the output screen in ProPresenter.
When it comes to the “world wide web”, If you are remotely human, you try to be meticulous about your online accounts and login credentials (I use 1Password to easily manage these).
Generally, after doing some online banking or some secret online birthday shopping for your wife, it’s a good idea to clear your browser’s cache, cookies, and history trail.
However, with recent hacks on facebook (think “firesheep”), there’s no better time to tighten things up than right now. Users’ privacy and online safety have been questionable and with this in mind, I want to share 2 simple things you can do in facebook to make for a safer experience.
Now you’re ready to download the video that you want to include in your presentation. Head over to YouTube and once you are able to view the video you should be able to see a download button with resolution options.
Once the video is downloaded, make sure it has a file extensions appended at the end. If not, click the video file’s title and then append the appropriate video extension, matching the extension from the download button as in the image above. [example: "japanvideo" should be "japanvideo.flv" if I downloaded the 240p or the 480p videos.]
3. Download and Install Perian
Perian is “the swiss-army knife for QuickTime. You’ll have to download Perian as it is a nifty open source QuickTime component that adds native support for almost any video that you will attempt to view on your Mac. This is a key component for viewing your video once you’ve downloaded it.
Simply double-click the Perian.prefPane image on the top left.
I leave the settings as is.
4. Launch Keynote and Choose a Theme
Once you launch Keynote, select a theme that will compliment your presentation and content.
For this tutorial I used the White Theme (if you watched the video, I could’ve have simply used the Black Theme).
5. Drag Your Video into Keynote and Save It
As you can see, the video appears in my Keynote presentation and I am now ready style it and save it.
It’s also good to note that Keynote saves your video in the presentation itself. That means you can trash the downloaded .flv or .mp4 file but I’ve learned that it’s better to be safe than sorry, so I keep them on an external hard drive.
Hope that was simple enough.
Let me know in the comments if you enjoyed this and/or if you’re stuck and I will be glad to help you out!
Being a musician, I’m used to sharing my gear-list, and I know that some of you would want to look at my tech-list for life, ministry, music, and blogging.
You may have picked up on it already, but here on my blog, I use the Standard Theme, a premium WordPress theme designed with serious bloggers in mind. They just announced a special 20% discount on all Standard Theme products, starting now and lasting until Tuesday the 15th. Just like an Apple product, the theme looks great out of the box, and makes it easy to get started with advertising and social media. Standard comes with the popular “Follower Counter” feature, which integrates your RSS and Twitter followers. It seriously uses SEO best practices and chances are you’ll notice an increase in search traffic almost immediately.
The Support License (this is the one I bought – so worth it), which usually costs a one-time fee of $99, is on sale for about $79 and comes with technical support for life! In addition to that you get access to a growing community of developers and designers, as well as new styles (called customizations) every month. Even better, once you purchase the Support License, all future version upgrades to Standard Theme are included! Purchase once, upgrade forever. It really is a great deal.
Mashable called Standard Theme one of the 8 best premium themes available for WordPress in 2010. Any blogger who wants to increase their traffic, begin selling advertisements, or improve the speed of their blog should seriously consider making the jump to Standard Theme. I’m glad I did!
The last couple of days have been exciting and I’ve got some great news to share with you. JonManna.com has been approved as a publisher on the Beacon Ad Network.
Believe it or not, when I first submitted my site for approval, I received a quite pleasant and encouraging rejection notice:
Well that’s all fine and dandy, but I’m glad I read through the entire email. That last sentence was golden for me…
Getting denied does not mean that we will not approve you at a future date.
4 Things I Did Before I Resubmitted My Site
So what did I do to get my site approved? Here are 4 things that I consciously did:
Started blogging consistently and specifically on music and technology in ministry
