This week I’ve got Twitter, Green Housing, Obama’s Blackberry, Productivity, Manuals, Gimp and Geeks.
(Anti) Social-Lists 11/23/08
Just 5 links this week but they are all quality ones. I collected more during the week but then pulled some of them. A commenter noticed that I was being especially negative lately and I decided to remove some of the snark. This week I’ve got Gimp tutorials, information about WordPress 2.7, using the WordPress visual text editor, free eBooks, and an article about blogging from Copyblogger.
(Anti) Social-Lists 11/16/08
Another week already! This week I have lessons learned from IT, computer case mods, a screenshot tutorial, some photos of bands from the 70’s, recycling junk mail, and more. If you like any of the links, let me know. But, if you really like one of the articles, go ahead and leave a comment on the author’s site, rather than mine. Enjoy!
How to Make an Animated Gif from a Video Clip
Last night my friend, ronobvious, sent me a link to this video clip of Cesc Fabregas from Arsenal doing a little dance.
He then said he wished he could make an animated gif of the dance to use as an avatar. I thought that there must be a way, so I started looking for resources.
I immediately found Glickr and was excited because I thought all I would have to was input the URL to the video and that the utility would create the animated gif. Unfortunately, Glickr threw a nasty php error and didn’t work. Ok, this was going to take a little bit more work and would require a software based solution.
Programs like Photoshop CS3 Extended can do this but since I am not a graphic designer and simply use free programs like Irfanview for cropping and resizing, I have no need for expensive software.
