The Mindjet Labs

Thanks to a good mathematician that goes by the moniker of rambler.elf, I was able to fix the zooming problem with my Media Magnifying glass Silverlight sample .  After adding his fix, the zooming worked perfectly.  I made two additional enhancements...(read more)

As you can see, I have been experimenting with posting video on my blog now that I have a HD Video Camera ( JVC GZ-HD7U ). I have been trying various encoding formats in Expression Encoder to get a good balance of bit-rate and quality. Here is my workflow:...(read more)

I'm having a blast with Popfly, Microsoft's Silverlight-based mash-up designers. I've created a block that uses AOL Video Search and made a simple page that shows the results of what it does. I fell as if I'm just scratching the surface of something really...(read more)

A customer of mine is creating a cool video sharing site with Silverlight and wanted to see some code for a simple buffering progress indicator to show the user that the video is loading.  This is actually pretty easy with Silverlight so I thought that I'd show my solution.  In the solution, I name the ScaleTransform of the green ...

In an earlier post, I said that I loved TechSmith's Camtasia Studio for doing screencasts.  After using a few consumer video editing tools (Pinacle Studio, Windows Movie Maker), I found Sony's Vegas Movie Studio ($89) to be a wonderful tool which I can do a very simple video of my boys to a pretty sophisticated movie with ...