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Developing for Windows Phone - a story

Around three years ago I bought one of the first models of WP7 phones to appear - HTC Mozart 7 - which was very similar to the Android-based Nexus One. Wanted to see what's like to be an early adopter and early player in the app marketplace. I managed to get a free app registered on the app store: Fast Offline Translator EN-DE. http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/fast-translator/ccf24cce-d48e-e011-986b-78e7d1fa76f8 I did it mostly for myself as I knew very little German. Not much has changed since. This is the story of doing the development, deployment and update for that app.

Adventures in video blogging

I started preparing for doing short YouTube videos - lighting, cameras, display setup, sound. In this post I will deal with the software editing setup and a bit of hardware. Editing requirements: - synchronize videos from multiple cameras - DSLR, point & shoot, camcorder, mobile phones, capture - single video in a split-screen setup showing multiple streams - must be able to zoom in on a camera - subtitles and image overlays - speed boring portions of the video up - switch between microphones, adjust levels and compression The baseline video:  http://youtu.be/KTEGRSdxxxg  - what I expect to get out of the programs. Windows  Movie Maker Everyone's favorite:  unfortunately it's not multi-track and awkward to use. Most of the free / really cheap editing suites fall in this category. Adobe Premiere Too expensive, but the last time I used it (several years ago) was pretty ok. Kdenlive Really good, supports most of the stuff above. Unfortunately it's Linu