This year really is going to be an enormous year for Internet marketing. There’s going to be a lot of focus on getting businesses online and an increase in mobile (cellular) advertising. You truly do have to be prepared.

If you want an audio recording AND the powerpoint presentation from last night’s meeting, just go respond to my blog entry and you will be emailed with the download link. I talk about some very powerful tools to use that will save you hundreds of hours of manual labor a month.

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Listen to the audio carefully, because there’s some information there not covered in the presentation. There’s a chance to save some money on my next product. You DON’T want to miss it.

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Blue-screen, green-screen, chroma-key - it’s all the same thing. To put simply this is the process of filming a scene, object or person in front of a pure coloured screen (typically either blue or green) so that the colour can be removed later to achieve certain special effects.

The majority of major motion pictures use at least some blue-screen work so chances are you may find a use for it in your own production as well. The most common use for blue-screen is to provide a backdrop for your actors when it may not be feasible (financially or practically) to actually film in the desired location. So if you want your actors to be standing on an active volcano you may choose to find some volcano footage and then film your actors in front of a blue-screen. Using the power of technology you can then remove the blue and replace with the volcano footage. Easy. Well may be not. All this bollocks will be covered in later tutorials but for now we want to just build our blue-screen first…

>>READ MORE HERE…

And if you can’t have a whole room to yourself, you could always build a PORTABLE GREEN SCREEN. Here’s MORE on green screens from another resource.

Now let’s move on to some lighting tricks:

Three secrets to getting pro quality video lighting on a shoestring budget.

In most cases, the biggest difference between video perceived as being ‘professional’ and that perceived as being ‘amateur’ is the quality of lighting in the video.

A well lit video - even one shot with a home camcorder - immediately delivers a professional image. While a poorly lit video, no matter how expensive a camcorder was used to shoot it, says ‘amateur’.

>>READ MORE HERE…

If anyone else has more details on creating your own video production from home, please share them here. I’d definitely like to learn more myself. And yes, I’ll be going to YouTube later to learn a few tricks, lol.

Here’s one I like: Lighting Tricks by Digital Juice

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_QWP8xrGf8

So I don’t know who messed this up, but it’s still funny. I wonder how many other items are like this right now. Anyone find some interesting ones to mention?

This is the piece I needed to replace:

MS-10102 DC Jack Module

And so I began taking it apart:

Averatec 6200 Ripped Apart

Here’s the part taken out:

Averatec 6200 DC Jack Module

After I was done de-soldering the old dc jack and soldering the new one, I realized it wasn’t the only problem! The other problem was also my power cord, it just wasn’t charging. To make sure of it, I inserted my external/portable battery into my laptop. And tah dah:

Averatec 6200 Fixed

In case you’re wondering why there’s another dc jack module sitting on top of my laptop, it’s because I DID buy another one. After fixing it myself, I didn’t even need it. I ended up keeping my old one and sold the new one on ebay.

That’s my fun with the laptop.

Sincerely,
Kevin Lam