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How to disable LIVE VIDEO notifications on facebook

Posted on2016/05/302016/10/22AuthorTruXterLeave a comment

Do we care? Do we care that someone has their iPhone on shooting some useless shaky footage of them at the dmv giving a play-by-play?
No we do not.
If you are at the white house and asking good questions, then yes, we all want to see it (you might get arrested using the camera. not sure. never tried so.. ask first). but if you are just running the live video for the sake of streaming live on Facebook (which you can do with Ustream and have been able to do since Facebook started). Please don’t send out mass notifications
Dear Facebook, please quit opting me in for that crap. I don’t care is someone is streaming a live video of how to call a library and ask for an extension.

Okay.
That’s out of the way.
Let’s get rid of the “Live video” notifications.

Open Facebook on your computer. Click the globe in the top right corner. the one that is for notifications.
When the list of notifications drops down, look at the top right of that. Click on “settings”
Scroll all of the way down to the bottom of the “settings” page, and there it is.Says “Live videos”.
Look to the right hand side.
There will be a small drop down menu.Likely says on or all on.
Click that and make your choice. I selected “ALL OFF!!!!” .
That simple. You’re done

Should You Make Videos of Your Products?

Posted on2015/11/20AuthorTruXterLeave a comment

You have your products and you have your storefront. Be it brick and mortar or a website with a shopping cart, or both. You have been paying for advertisements and the ads have been paying off. You want to sell more of your products. You want to know if making a video of your products would be beneficial for your business.
Well it can be. and that would all depend on what you put into your video.
You can’t just hold a camera in front of an object and upload the video and expect the product to sell. You have to give the viewers what they came to see.

Examples:
You are selling a remote control car.
You can’t just aim your camera at the car while it sits on the counter or floor and does nothing.
Inform the potential customers about your product
Tell the viewers how easy to turn the car on and off can be. Show it’s take off speed, show it’s stopping speed. Show how the car can turn. Show how long the batteries last.
The majority of the searches for video content about your product is them wanting to see it do things, and do them well.

Lighting
Use good lighting. at all times make sure your product is visible. No need in driving a toy car around in the dark. No one will see it.

Did I say be informative?
Be informative. people looking to see how long the battery lasts, want to know how long the battery lasts. If they do not find that information in your video they will scoot along for the next similar product.

Yes, making a video of your product can get you more sells.
Should You Make Videos of Your Products? Some products a video might not help. what products would that be? i haven’t a clue. I can see myself looking up a video to how good a brand of paper is. For the sake odds, there has to be some products that won’t do so well in video form, what they are I haven’t a clue.

3d Mapping your WiFi

Posted on2015/02/14AuthorTruXterLeave a comment

Have you ever wondered why you get a super strong signal from your WiFi then suddenly what seems like nearly no signal at all, out of nowhere?
Well there is a guy who posted a Youtube video showing you why. but for the most part, he is trying to understand it too. So no he doesn’t tell you why, but gives you a good look at the signal loss in action.
What the guy does is he holds a wifi device up and watches as it picks up and drops signal as he moves about in a small area and shows how dramatic the difference is in each spot.
The guy then saves this data and has it mapped out into a picture. color intensity to show where the signal is the strongest and where the signal is the weakest. Blue being the strongest signal.
The guy then realizes that this is not complete enout of data so he decides to not just move left and right and up and down, he now moves the WiFi devices front and back to give you a complete three dimension representation of the signal’s loss and strength.

Here is the the 3d image so you can see for yourself. and look at what is being done in the video above.

If the page does not load here is the link.

In sum:
since the guy is measuring such a small amount of space to test the WiFi signal loss, if you lose signal suddenly with your laptop, it would’t hurt if you move it just an inch and see what happens.

It looks as if the signal does not spread evenly and dissipate as you get further away, it more just broadcasts and only hits small spaces around an area.

The Truth about What You Share on Facebook – but wait till you see what happens next

Posted on2014/07/052014/07/05AuthorTruXterLeave a comment

There is a current gullibility in Facebook that is an old media tactic to get readers and viewers. Usually this tactic delivers an uneventful outcome and often is someone who embeds a video from YouTube into their page where they just talk about what is in the video. Instead of just linking you to the video it’s self. Instead they are trying to get their page shared to share the content of the YouTube video so the website owner can cash in on the hard work of the video maker.

Some people with good videos on YouTube, have advertisements in their video so they can be credit for their work in a manor that does not harm the viewers nor does it cost the viewers anything except a few seconds of their time as the advertisements load.

What you can do as a respecting person, is click the title of the video at the top left and that will take you to the YouTube page. share and like that. This gives more credit to the person who actually made the video. Not the leeches.

Let’s be honest, you really have no idea if the site with the video embedded in it, is trustworthy or not.

To many unfair people out there.
Only the internet should determine what is distasteful and disrespectful. So now that power is in your hands.

and yes I titled this like they do “wait till you see what’s inside”.

Be sure and pass this on when you can.

Crazy Woman smashes her own face on laptop in video

Posted on2014/06/102015/06/02AuthorTruXter50 Comments

crazy Lady smashes face on computer and you want to now if it is real.

Facebook current viral video is of a woman in what I suspect is her dining room, just sitting and staring at the laptop camera and she suddenly smashes her face against her laptop. Repeatedly.
Woman in video smashes her face against the computer until her nose is bleeding and forehead is gushing blood.
Here is the link that gets shared on Facebook which is a 9 second cut from the 1.5 minute YouTube video posted below. Watch the Facebook video first, please.

This video is titled “Girl goes Psycho during make up tutorial” also found as”Woman goes crazy during makeup tutorial” .

It’s fake.
Listen to the sound.
It’s someone beating on a garbage can. Instead of the sound that plastic of a laptop or keyboard makes when you smash it.
The cut on her forehead, notice the lump (you do not knot up that fast, blood has to clot (or fever build) so the lump is fake, blood pack)…. she had to tilt head back to hide flaw in blood pack.
There is a buzz sound to make you think the microphone in the laptop is damaged when it actually wouldn’t sound like that in a laptop. That is more like an amplifier having an input cable removed, the buzz sound you hear is when a hand grabs the chord and grounds it.

This a stunt by a low quality make up artist, trying to get noticed

This psycho video was created to promote something called “The 15 Experience“. Some guy is making a web series.

Thanks to Jon in the comments section, Her name is Nakia Secrest, she is an actress.

Almost 1 million views!! #girlgoespsycho #makeup #girlbangshead #makeupdeath #worldstarhiphop… http://t.co/wkUUm5lh5N

— Nakia Secrest (@NakiaSecrest) June 1, 2014

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Samsung Galaxy Admire 2 From Cricket

Posted on2013/07/302013/09/03AuthorTruXter2 Comments

Built in the Axiom shell is the latest Android Galaxy. This means that if you need a new case or any accessories, you have a good chance of finding the parts you need by simply looking for Axiom. Or go into setting/about device and scroll to bottom you will see a model number SCH-R830c. Google that or search eBay for that number and you will find Axioms and Galaxy Admire 2 are the exact same phone, and share a lot of identical parts.
Video of first boot of my Samsung Galaxy Admire 2 From Cricket to show it’s boot time (scroll to bottom of page). Then pictures to compare the Admire to a Bionic and a Zio. ( Benchmark scores)
I received my Samsung Galaxy Admire 2 today from Cricket. and right away, put the phone on it’s charger. Battery was at about 50% charge upon arrival. (of course I didn’t think to take pictures until a bit after opening and charging)

Finally, No stupid logo in the front.

The sim card and micro SD already inserted. For the record, this phone does not require a special memory card to Cricket’s Muve Music.

Samsung Galaxy Admire 2 with back cover off

Now understand, I am upgrading from a very out dated Kyocera Sanyo Zio. Which is a decent phone for it’s time. But. Single core 600mhz little to no storage, Android 2.2.1. on the plus side, the phone is almost bullet proof. Been dropped countless times and still works fine, no cracks and less than average scratches. It’s a little tank.
Little is the key word. The screen is a bit small so the Samsung Galaxy Admire 2 will be a nice upgrade with near 1/4 inch larger screen.
Here is a front comparison of the two phones the Samsung Galaxy Admire 2 and the Sanyo ZIO

Which doesn’t look like that much pocket space has been compromised, but look at the slight difference in the screen size.
Here is a side photo of the two phones

Very little (if any) difference in thickness.

I do have to admit that for a couple months, I had a flashed Motorolla Droid Bionic from Verizon , but there was this stupid update notice that I was warned not to do. Well one day, I was typing a text…. and the notice popped up. yep… I clicked it. $50 for the flash right down the drain. but the screen on the bionic was huge. and the Android version was Ice Cream Sandwich. Some options and abilities from Froyo android 2.2, gone, but some things ran smoother with ICS. Also I had to replace the screen on the bionic on the second day after flashing to Cricket. Dropped the thing not even 2 feet. Landed on a corner.
Here’s a front view comparison of the Motorola Bionic and the Galaxy Admire 2.

The screen area of the Bionic is nearly the same size as the entire Admire 2.
Thickness comparison between the bionic and the Samsung Galaxy Admire 2.

The Samsung Galaxy Admire 2 is a considerable amount thinner than the Bionic.

Took me too long to figure this out, but the tiny button on the right side of the Samsung Galaxy Admire 2 is the power button. Not the big skinny button in the front.

Now for the initial boot up

Very fast boot.
Shockingly fast.

: First Screen

: Balloon Tip

: Trying to load location for weather

Big issue I have run into repeatedly is the back button and menu button. They buttons are too close to the edge. My fingers barely ever make proper contact. and then add the edge of the case I recently added. Plus, for some reason that space between the buttons and the glass, is somehow active and sensitive. So whatever is on the screen above that space activates when you hit that space.

GTA V game play Trailer Video

Posted on2013/07/09AuthorTruXterLeave a comment

New Video released by Rockstar games showing actual game play and a glimps of menus and multiplayer.

This is a new game.. but somehow looks like True Crimes.
But better.
GTAV will be the best Grand Theft Auto yet.
Now enjoy the trailer

Why do Videos Load Faster than Gifs?

Posted on2013/01/162014/08/15AuthorTruXter

Why do Videos Load Faster than Gifs?
Codecs. Compression/Decompression is further along for video. a Video is a frame rate of 30 frames per second while a gif is typical 2-4 frames per second for the better gifs. But this leaves for a very large file for your computer to open at a rate of two frames per second. a simple 7 second picture could get up to anywhere around 50 megs or more. While a 50 meg video at a higher image quality can get to 10 minutes (and still be under 50megs). A nice quality single frame gif image is usually up to 2.5 megs. Imagine having 4 frames per second of 2.5 meg images.

At one time, a video on a computer was unimaginable. most computers couldn’t handle it. So, all we had were gifs. Our monitors didn’t display much better than the lowest quality gif, so gifs were just like videos by those standards, only easier to open. but
The Gif was obsoleted when everyone started putting effort into compression/decompression for videos.

but now we have a new generation of computers and computer users. We have mobile device users with screens so small that a gif actually looks decent on them. To the old school crowd, this is horrendous. Simply because they have been down this road.

The whole reason people study “history”.. Is so we don’t repeat it. but oddly enough, it seems every generation wants to pick up the old broken crap and say “I like it, I don’t see why you don’t.. You’re dumb” or. .. standards and i.q. get lower with each generation. Which means my grandpa was pretty dang smart.

Here is a small bit of information
“On June 15, 1987, CompuService, the first major online commercial service in the U.S., introduced the graphics interchange format (GIF). According to a recent Daily Dot article, the first-ever GIF pictured an airplane.”
The word is actually pronounced like “Jif” as apposed to the sound “guh”sound at the beginning.

Codecs for video are better than LZW used for gifs.

Basically, gifs are obsolete files that seem to be a retro trend right now because tiny mobile devices have such small screens you can’t see the flaws in the picture (each frame is a separate picture, for better quality you add more frames) as well as you could if you watched them on your computer.

For a couple seconds of a watchable gif, it takes a whole lot of images that can be barely compressed anymore than they are already at creation before they look like garbage. This makes the file quite large.

Videos can decompress in segments, gifs have to completely download before they are fully watchable. Unless you want the slow-motion version first, while this big hoopty of a file downloads. because you don’t need a media player to run a gif = no pause button, no buffering, no skip.Gifs are either open or closed. They do not buffer the way you understand how videos buffer.

Don’t forget bus rate and processing rate of your video card’s processor and how much temp data your video card can store up per milliseconds in your video card’s memory.

It is my suspicion that the people who make these gifs from perfectly good videos that load and play faster, are the hipsters of reddit.

Example:
I saw it first, I saw it so first, I made a gif of it before you saw it and made you sit through a shitty gif before it got shared on your petty site. If you had faster internet, you would love gifs.

Audio Monitoring On These Premises – Extreme

Posted on2012/04/17AuthorTruXter

Safety and Security taken up 20 notches.

Sat through a presentation today, about Site security and audio monitoring. The manufactures of this security system did say this is not a perfect science. but with Video surveillance and Audio monitoring, you can have your criminal in no time.
Audio monitoring that is so strong, you can hear someone’s heart pattern. and with the proper video surveillance and face recognition and body dimensions, you can have your criminal caught in a short period.

Yes, audio monitoring so strong that you can hear a heart beat. you can hear the blood in their veins. If fingerprints are visible, you can have your criminal caught, the next time they enter a retail outlet that has the same video/audio monitoring.

Imagine this security surveillance and monitoring system in your house.

On the downside, I can not release the manufacturer’s name until they unveil it. Count on it being introduced to retail centers world wide before the end of 2012. Count on this new security system being monitored by your local law enforcement agencies, at a small fee that helps bring our local budgets back to where they need to be.