Tech Problem with Wacom Tablet in Chrome? Here are Some Things to Try I use a Wacom tablet as my mouse. Recently I had to build a new laptop, and half the time when I tried to click something in Chrome it didn’t work. The first thing I found to try was turning off “Use hardware acceleration when available” in the Advanced
Facebook How to Connect a Tascam 70D to an iPhone for Facebook Live (or Other Reasons) Say you want to do Facebook Live but have good audio, and happen to have a Tascam 70D audio recorder. It’s super easy to connect it to your iPhone. This should also work with other Tascam recorders that have 1/8″ Line Out/Camera Out jacks, though the setting
Tech Ubiquiti US-16-XG Beta - Invalid Firmware Fix Taking a beta switch out of beta with a particular set of firmware
Production $99 to Make Your Podcast Sound A Lot Better Most Black Friday deals nowadays aren’t great. But if you’ve got a podcast, and want it to sound better, there are a couple deals you really need to check out. And even if you miss these deals, these tools even at full price are worth it. Renaissance Vox
Adobe Adobe Premiere Pro 2015.3 Drops Video Card Support Apparently Premiere Pro 2015.3 drops support for some video cards, which they now consider “legacy.” Some of the info is behind a LinkedIn members-only group, so I’m reposting it here. These are the cards that have apparently been dropped: GTX-200 series GTX-300 series GTX-400 series GTX-500 series GTX-600
Etc The Mystery Box Challenge It’s time! In honor of our 100ish podcast episode, we’re giving away a box of random stuff we grabbed from around our houses and offices. This includes (but may not be limited to): Modern Warfare 2 nightvision goggles Brand new Astro A40 headset GTA V for Xbox 360
Distribution How the "Meet Me at Starbucks" YouTube Ad Works A coworker sent over a link to this Starbucks ad campaign, interested to know more about the technology behind the YouTube integration. So of course I pulled it apart to get down to the secret guts. Basically, it’s an external web page, hosted on Amazon S3 and Cloudfront, that
Gaming So You Want to Work at IGN? Today there are a bunch of open jobs up at IGN, in both Editorial and Video, that I’m sure a lot of you are eyeing or even applying for. But stop! Take a breath, and make sure you’re doing it right. Here are a few quick tips to
Copyright The Twitch Hunts: How to Fix Automated Copyright Enforcement Well, here we are again. I’ve written before about the dangers of automated enforcement before, and very little has changed. This time it’s Twitch, which has implemented a system that will scan for, flag, and mute copyrighted music in VOD’s. It’s going about how you’d
Etc Our New Logo is Awesome and Free A few weeks ago, I got an email from a new podcast fan: I’ve listened to three episodes of Video Grandpa this far and it’s great, but the logo has been frustrating me, it quite frankly hurts my eyes every time I pick up my phone. So, I
Aereo Aereo Austin In-Depth Preview Aereo, a service that lets you watch & record broadcast TV online for $8/month, is launching in Austin on March 3rd. I took it for a test drive across iOS, Roku and PC – check it out.
