How to broadcast your worship services live online

Posted: January 31st, 2010 | 1 Comment

We have been broadcasting our service online at the Ville-Emard Church of Christ in Montreal since 2006.  In that time we have worked out a lot of kinks that have taken place with the technology and equipment needed.  I will now be showing you how you can broadcast your worship service online. 

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GrooveShark Hide Ads Bookmarklet

Posted: January 28th, 2010 | No Comments

UPDATED JUNE 16th 2010

I love the Mp3 streaming site GrooveShark.com a lot.  The UI is clean and when my playlist isn’t skipping tracks it’s a beautiful application.

What I don’t love is: the get ripped in two weeks, here are my dentures, how many eyes does this girl have, which picture is Obama, ads that are displayed on the right side.

Now I could do like they want (and probably need) and go VIP for a couple of bucks a month but it was much faster to just write a Firefox Bookmarklet to get rid of those things for me.

So if you want it too, drag this link: GrooveShark No Ads to you bookmark toolbar. You can click it once to visit Grooveshark, then hit it again to remove the ads and make your player go fullscreen.  Hot stuff!

And here is the code:

javascript:(function(){document.getElementById('mainContainer').removeChild(document.getElementById('sidebar'));document.getElementById('mainContainer').insertBefore(document.getElementById('mainContent'),document.getElementById('mainContentWrapper'));})();

or

javascript:hideAdvertisingBar();

Free Idea #3 – A Stock Photography Website

Posted: January 21st, 2010 | No Comments

I’m not here to tell you we need a good stock photography site.  We have good pay for stock photography sites like iStockPhoto and DreamsTime and we also have good free stock photography sites like MorgueFile and Stock.XCHNG.  So today I am simply going to throw out another idea that would really make me happy. 

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Subtitles with FlowPlayer

Posted: January 18th, 2010 | No Comments

I recently built a subtitling system for a site that I am working on: khristos.org

It uses FlowPlayer with the built in Captions Plugin.  The interesting part is that I also built an admin section where clients can add the subtitles on their own. Click the image below to see what it looks like. You can also check out the video here.

FlowPlayer Captions Admin Interface

What’s also interesting is a Mashable article that explains how you can add Captions to your YouTube videos.

With the rising popularity of this subject and videos on the web, I figured it would be a good chance to give back to the community that has taken me so far.

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