This was my first attempt at using the iMovie Movie Trailer tool in iMovie 11. I’ve read a lot of reviews and most user reviews consider it fairly easy and fun to use. I’ve also read a few tech reviews that say you should plan on spending hours sifting through video clips to put together a 1 minute movie trailer. Mine took maybe 20 minutes…. The footage I sifted through was mostly from Mets games this past year and if...

I just upgraded to iLife 11 a few days ago because I just had to have the new iMovie and it’s advanced audio editing capabilities but when I upgraded my version of iMovie it looked just like my old one. No mention of how to activate the advanced audio editing features. A Google search for “How to find the advanced audio editing features in iLife 11″ turned up nothing. Eventually, through trial and error, I found out how...

Today Microsoft will be releasing a huge update to patch 16 critical holes in XP, Vista and Windows 7. There are 49 total updates making this the biggest update ever! From what I can tell from Microsoft’s latest update it effects every operating system from XP to Windows 7 and every version of Internet Explorer from version 6 to Version 8, all critical updates. I do not see any updates for IE9 which is still in beta. You may want to...

I’ve been using new twitter now for about a week and absolutely love it. Here is a video from twitter lead developer, Kevin Cheng, who walks through some of the newest features of new twitter… For more video’s from twitter you can check out their youtube channel. Surprisingly they’ve only been on youtube a few weeks and as of this posting only have 3 video’s uploaded. I’m sure there’s more to...

Finally, a security suite for facebook. I know I have tried really hard to lockdown my facebook page using facebook’s privacy tools but they don’t go far enough. Now you can protect your facebook page from spam comments, malware, malicious content and unwanted URL’s by using Defensio 2.0. It’s a security suite for your facebook page. They even put out a quick video on how it works…. There is also an available...

I’ve been using everything Google now for the past 5 years. Gmail, Chrome, Docs, Notebook, Reader, ect, ect… Now NYS is going to be using Google Apps in the classroom. Essentially I was born too late! :) But check out the video and check out all the cool stuff you can do with Google Apps. Everything is free! Note: Google notebooks is no longer updated by Google but is still one of my favorite online tools for taking notes....

Citifield at Night, originally uploaded by DVdaniels. I attended the Mets game last night and this may be the best picture I have gotten of the park in quite some time. The low cloud cover adds an excellent effect. What do you...

I’ve had the opportunity to watch the new Freedom Tower continue to go up this summer and these are some of the clips from different vantage points from around the World Trade Center. Not all the clips are from the same day but they’re all from the last month. By next year I’m hoping the new Freedom Tower has risen to the point it can be seen over all the other buildings in the surrounding area and I’ll get a couple...