I’m a big fan of Photoshop. In fact, I bet I use it every other day, if not every day. It’s a program that allows you to clip, crop, edit, tweak, color, discolor, warp, bend, flip….any image. You name it, it’s nearly possible to do anything to an image to change it just how you want. And if you’ve stood in a checkout line at any grocery store and found...
Good Thursday to you all. Today’s GeekLift centers around the iPhone (forgive me) and has a nod to privacy if you’re an AT&T customer. If you’re an Instagram user, maybe you’ve always wondered how to save a photo after you’ve applied a filter WITHOUT posting it for the world to see. Also, have you ever seen something on your iPhone screen and wish you could take...
If you work in television news, you know all about budget cuts. Actually, if you work in any industry, you may have noticed the effects of slimmer budgets at some point. In TV News, there are certain things that crews go ‘without’ when times are tough and the belt is tightened. Vending machines, reporter notebooks, Sharpies, free company Polo shirts…the list is long. Some things...
A Boeing 777-200 operated by Asiana Airlines crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport, CA. Flight OZ-214 originated in Seoul-Incheon International Airport, South Korea. There were 291 passengers and 12 crew members on board The airplane impacted the ground while attempting to land on runway 28L. Photos and videos from the accident scene show debris including pieces of the...
Asiana crash audio from air traffic control Saturday, July 6, 2013: Here is a stripped down audio from air traffic control of the Asiana Airlines Flight #214 crash in San Francisco (click play button above). (via: San Francisco International Airport) Crash Narrative (Developing) A Boeing 777-200 operated by Asiana Airlines crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport, CA (SFO). ...
It may be the 4th of July, but that doesn’t mean your tech problems go away. Happy Independence Day, first and foremost. We should all be thankful for our freedoms and to those who fought for them. Today’s GeekLift includes fixing a lagging DirecTV box and slow-scrolling channel guides. I’ll also help you understnad what ‘your carrier settings have been updated’...
TV News is a unique business in that you can’t get too comfortable. That’s been my experience, anyway. For most people in the industry, maintaining a job requires moving to several cities over the course of your career. Some are able to land a job at their home-town television station and stay for 30-40 years before retiring, but it’s not the norm. I’ve been in the...
Apple recently filed for a trademark for “iWatch” in Japan. Despite the fact that Apple already offers consumers the Nano watch option, they look like they’re interested in designing a full, smart-watch from the ground up. Reports signal that the iWatch could be released by the end of 2014. With all the patent talk, I thought it would be fun to look back at some funny patent...
I came across some of my old, 8mm video tapes the other day. I shot a lot of video back in college during parties, band rehearsals in the basement and just anything else that would make for some great video. This was by far one of the greatest ‘gets’ I got back then. It’s the day Squeege the Squirrel broke into our house and ate our chips. Squeege was the neighborhood squirrel...
Twitter is quite a way to communicate, isn’t it!? I love it. But it wasn’t always that way. In 2009, I thought Twitter was childish. Who the hell is going to post two sentences and have it mean anything to anyone? Well, I was clearly wrong. It’s blown up to be how many of us gather news, communicate with friends, family and colleagues, tell jokes, find out drama and learn about...
