Donnell just wrapped up her first experience with shooting video with her D7000 and with editing video with iMovie. Kyah provided the perfect subject, and her own photos were featured in the video. I think you’ll really enjoy this video, and to me, it shows the promise of great things to come from Donnell Probst Photography.
Author: Tim Probst
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Donnell Probst Guest Post Featured on Photofocus!
It is with great pride and excitement that I report to you that my wife, Donnell Probst of Donnell Probst Photography and The Photo Junkies fame, has a guest post featured on Photofocus.
Please jump over to Photofocus to check out Donnell’s review of Santa Fe Photographic Workshops. Also, check out related posts on The Photo Junkies here and here.
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Noah’s A TV Star!
Noah’s kindergarten class was recently featured by the St. Louis NBC affiliate. Strangely enough for modern-day video, there is no sound, but the video is crystal clear.
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Steve Schmidt Receives Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation Award
I learned today that my trumpet teacher, Steve Schmidt, recently received the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation Award. Having studied with Mr. Schmidt for more than six years, I can say with certainty that this award is going to a great musician and teacher. Congratulations Mr. Schmidt!
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Cannot Wait for Angry Birds Rio!
We here at the Probst residence are extremely addicted to Angry Birds. I’m talking five completely out of control cases of Angry Birds fever! Well, it would be an understatement to say that all five of us are very excited to get our hands on Angry Birds Rio in March. Check out the trailer below. If the game is half as good as the trailer, we’re all in for a treat.
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Dy-na-mite!
It seems something strange happens around here every time Taio Cruz’s Dynamite comes on the radio. The wife and all three kids instantly break into song (yes, even the two year old). When they’re not strapped into seat belts, the chances of instantaneous dancing is also very high. So, to memorialize the mysterious power of Taio Cruz, here is video evidence. Enjoy!
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Vonage: Facebook’s Phone Company
With the release of the Vonage Mobile App for Facebook, it appears Vonage is attempting to become the mobile phone company for all of those Facebook users out there with iOS-based and Android OS-based devices.
The solution is incredibly easy from a user’s perspective. All it takes is a free download from the App Store or Android Market to get the app. Once installed, the app asks you to connect to Facebook, and that is really all there is to it. The app displays a list of other Vonage Mobile App for Facebook users who you can call for free over Wi-Fi and cellular networks as well as a list of your Facebook friends that are available via Chat.
Tapping into the enormous Facebook user base is a smart move for Vonage. Let’s face it, the company advertises like crazy, but if it can provide a quality service for a massive user base like Facebook, perhaps it can convince some people to switch their home phone over to Vonage as well. The key here will be to get the non-geeks to actually give the app a try. If that happens, I see good things coming Vonage’s way.
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Blogging from 36,000 Feet
When I first started blogging, never did I imagine that I would be writing posts on an iPod while connected to the Internet on a plane at 36,000 feet, but that is exactly what I am doing. Thanks to Gogo Inflight Internet, I have been able to spend my flight getting caught up with email and chatting with my wife on my way home from a business trip. Now that is truly an incredible thing. Gogo seems to be quite fast, and I have even been able to watch YouTube videos posted on Facebook. The price is really not all that bad at less than $8.00/day, but I cannot say for sure if I would have spent the money if I had not been on a per diem for my trip. Future flights without Wi-Fi will seem so lame now that I have experienced being connected while flying. If your next flight offers Wi-Fi, give it a shot. You won’t be disappointed.
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Dell’s Windows 7 Support Fails
Although I would love for our home to be a Mac-only home, the reality is that we bought a Dell laptop two and a half years ago so my wife could go to school and use the software she needed for her program. The laptop in question is an Inspiron E1505 with a fast Core 2 Duo processor, 2 GB of RAM, and a dedicated ATI graphics card. It came with Vista Home Premium which had been nothing but trouble since day one.
So, when reviews of Windows 7 started coming in and were positive, I was excited to finally rid our lives of Vista so my wife could have a more stable computer to do her photo editing. I figured that the computer more than met the requirements of Windows 7, and it couldn’t really get much worse.
Only one problem. Apparently, Dell feels our computer is obsolete already. Here is Dell’s list of computers that have compatible drivers for Windows 7. I especially like their suggestion of buying a new computer if your computer is not on their list.
So, if I’m reading this list correctly, Dell sold a computer to me two and a half years ago that is not officially supported by them on only the first Windows release since I bought the computer. This is just shocking to me. It’s not like I bought a piece of crap computer for $600 that I wouldn’t expect to last more than a year or two. I bought a computer that has enough horsepower to last.
The fact is that the computer more than meets the minimum requirements of Windows 7, and Microsoft’s utilities think the computer is ready to go for the new operating system. Needless to say, I have installed Windows 7 on the computer using the drivers that ship with the operating system. Microsoft even had a couple driver updates for some of the components available after the completion of the installation.
I am incredibly disappointed in Dell for not updating their drivers for all of their shipped computers that meet the minimum requirements of Windows 7. All PC makers should be required to maintain their drivers until the requirements of Windows exceeds the abilities of their computers as they were shipped. There is no other approach that makes sense.