Happenings from M.D. Shivers

One of Mastercard's design firms contacted my about using some photos of that I took for the website Priceless.com. They were very easy to work with and the site turned out great. They were doing a story on Café 458 and I went there a few weeks back when some friends of mine where volunteering there. Well the firm found my pictures through my flickr account and now they are on the site.

It's the first picture on the home page of priceless.com and also on the article page at , http://www.priceless.com/articles/a208.html

I did a screen capture of the page for archiving purposes

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KMD photo shoot, originally uploaded by mdshivers.

did a photo shoot on sunday for the band "Katie and the Ming Dynasty". We had lots of fun... .this is one of the images for it. Will be posting more.

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the streets of Vevey, originally uploaded by mdshivers.

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If you are in the mulitimedia field or ever deal with PowerPoint presentations and movies and AVI's, and you have Mac and PC or your client has a PC and you have a Mac or something to that degree- well the world has gotten a little bit easier with some good 'ol open source software.

What is it you say? Well its Perian. How has this made my life more easier? Part of what I do is create presentations for people and they are usually filled with AVI's. Now Powerpoint for Mac and Powerpoint for Win are two different apps really. And there are issues with embedding movies in one of the programs/platform and then watching it on a different platform. The Mac uses the quicktime architecture to make it happen and windows uses windows media driver- which is different than windows media player. (Good 'ol windows to screw things up.)

Ok- i am side tracking here. Back to my original point. AVI's and MOV's are both container files. you can put lots of different types of files inside the container.

Well Perian will let Quicktime play those screwy AVI files MS-MPEG4 v1, MS-MPEG4 v2, MS-MPEG4 v3, (and more) that Quicktime just can't play until now.

So download it- make your Mac life easier.

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