Tech Stuff Archives - Luci Westphal

Riding across the Brooklyn Bridge – In A Brooklyn Minute (Week 84)

On Monday late afternoon I rode my bike across the Brooklyn Bridge and filmed it with a GoPro for you. Instead of the usual smooth…

What’s with all the ads?

So I finally broke down and set up Google AdSense for my blog. While I was looking into doing that I also discovered the Amazon…

Create A YouTube Partner Click-able Image Map Banner

This post refers to the 2011 YouTube channel layout. It is now outdated. “Create YouTube Partner Click able Image Map Banner”… that’s quite a complicated…

Like me, Tweet me or Surf on

Finally did it! Today I finally managed to add the little Facebook and Twitter widgets and get them to align just right. Above (at the…

Spring Flowers & Spring Cleaning… Of Your Mac

Incredibly fragrant lilac in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Tuesday It’s that time: the sun is shining, fresh air is blowing through the open window,…

Color Correction is Done!

The Work Station (And yes this photo could actually use some color correction since that mouse and the calendar should be white.) After some complications…

iTunes Smart Playlists

Luci & Jacquelyn or “1 Bottle of Wine, 2 Blonds, 3 Monitors” (photo by Scott) Last night my friend Jac asked if I knew how…

Anvil! & The 16:9 Stretch (Ugh!)

First, a friend highly recommended the documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil after seeing it in the theater (with the band Anvil! performing), then there…

Three Column Blog & Google Friend Connect

Just gave this blog a bit of a visual and functional overhaul. Even though I started with the notion of wanting to make the actual…

Get high-quality clips from DVD into FCP

Gold Diggers of 1933 (Busby Berkeley) Aside from working on my own films I also work as an editor-for-hire. A little while ago I was…

Alright, this time, Mac.

So the good people at Apple redeemed themselves one more time. Or one time. Within less than 24 hours after I reported the buckled battery…

So tired of this piece of… Mac

I just noticed that the battery on my Mac Book Pro magically expanded just like in the video below. Within minutes the sound was also…

iTunes 8 Visualizer: Magnetosphere

The visualizers that come with computers’ music players have never much interested me after the initial “oh, cool, it changes based on the beat of…