SlackthePlanet

Alright, so not many people know this about me but other than being a slacker and computer geek I am also an aquarium nerd. If it lives in water I love it, its just that simple. I’ve kept fresh and saltwater aquariums now for almost 12 years. It doesn’t seem like I’ll be kicking the habit anytime soon. Over the last few years I probably haven’t gone more than a day or two without checking in on Nano-Reef.com. Its a great place for information about anything saltwater related.

Lately I’ve also been playing with Animoto.com. Its a video production website that allows users to upload their pics, choose or upload a song, and then *poof* a video is born. At first I simply scoffed. There was just no way a web interface could produce something as good as a video slide-show from a home computer. I was SOOO wrong. Not only did it produce video with much high production values than “most” people can do at home, it was also dead simple to do. I don’t think I would be to far off in saying someones grandma could probably figure it out in five minutes. Well…once you got past showing good old grandma how to use a mouse for an hour anyway.

So to my point, what do these two things have in common? Nothing really, I was just setting up the fact that I just made a simple video using pictures from nano-reef.com using animoto.com and it took all of 10 minutes. Oh, did I mention that they can also transfer your shiny new video straight to your Youtube account? Try it out, its fun and free…FREE PEOPLE!!!