Ted’s Twitter Updates for 2010-08-30

Aug 30

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Ted’s Twitter Updates for 2010-08-23

Aug 23

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Ted’s Twitter Updates for 2010-08-16

Aug 16

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Ted’s Twitter Updates for 2010-08-09

Aug 09

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Ted’s Twitter Updates for 2010-08-02

Aug 02

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Ted’s Twitter Updates for 2010-07-26

Jul 26

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Jaina’s 1st Bday

Jul 19

Jaina blows out her first candle

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Ted’s Twitter Updates for 2010-07-19

Jul 19

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Ted’s Twitter Updates for 2010-07-12

Jul 12

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Caroline digs the beach (and daddy digs iMovie for iPhone)

Jul 07

This last weekend was Caroline’s first 4th of July, which we celebrated part of on the Jersey Shore, visiting Ana’s brother at his almost-finished beach house on LBI. We had an amazing day, giving baby Caroline her first roll on the beach. Ana purchased a cool collapsible wading pool, which she just loved. It was also our last day with Ana’s mom, who had to fly back to Portugal on Monday. It was sad to say goodbye (especially since we had such a great visit with her this last month), but I’m so thankful that she had as much time as she did to bond with the baby.

Throughout the day I also took a bunch of photos and videos with my new iPhone 4. Mostly I was just trying to get the hang of the device’s tap-to-focus function. When I got home, though, I decided to give the new iMovie for iPhone app a whirl. Until now it’d seemed kinda impossible to me that you could actually do any real video editing on a cell phone. But boy was I wrong. Not only was the app infinitely easier to use that the iMovie desktop app (or any video editing software, for that matter), but it was just as powerful. You can add titles, Ken Burns effects, a musical store, and even transitions. It’s unbelievable. The above clip took me all of 10 minutes to edit (ok, 15, if you factor in the extra 5 min to recut the thing, after Ana complained about some bathing suit pictures of her that were initially included.)

Best of all, you can upload your video straight to YouTube directly from the phone. The only catch is that if you do upload from the phone, it degrades the video quality. So if you want the full HD clip (which I did), you still have to copy the video from your phone to the computer, then upload via the web. If Apple can figure out how to allow HD uploading right from the phone, this may well inspire a massive boom in the amount of quality, edited mobile video. I for one will be doing my part. At least, until all my family and friends tell me to quit it with the home-movie insanity.

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Ted’s Twitter Updates for 2010-07-05

Jul 05

  • RT @kevinrose: Ok, umm, huge rumor: Google to launch facebook competitor very soon "Google Me", very credible source #
  • Totally perplexing @AdAge stat: Newspapers' share of digital ad revenue falls from 16.2% in 2005 to 11.4% last year http://bit.ly/cYzqKS #

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Giggly Girl

Jul 03

This is a random gift that Neenie (aka my mom) gave Caroline when she came down for the Christening. Until today, I hadn’t realized that it made such a goofy, thoroughly entertaining noise. As you can see, Caroline was bonkers for it.

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Ted’s Twitter Updates for 2010-06-28

Jun 28

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Ted’s Twitter Updates for 2010-06-21

Jun 21

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Your Friend the Ceiling Fan

Jun 20

Today was a trifecta of special occasions: Caroline’s christening, Ana’s birthday, and my first father’s day. Suffice it to say that it was a busy 24 hours at the Mann house. I wanted to have something extra special for both Ana and Caroline — the two women who have give my life such happiness — so for the past month or so I’ve been working on a project: a book entitled “Your Friend the Ceiling Fan.”

The book was published through Blurb, the same service I used to create “My Father and Other Manns: Volume 2″ last year. (It’s just about the best service for self-publishing that I’ve come accross, though for small orders of only 2 or 3 books, it can be kinda pricey.)

As anyone who knows Caroline is well aware, she’s just bonkers for ceiling fans. No matter what room or what house she’s in, if she lies on her back and sees a ceiling fan overhead, it makes her downright giddy. The book is my attempt to tell the story of how all her ceiling fans came to be.

But really, it’s just my way of telling my wife and daughter how madly in love with both of them I am.

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