The Blog of The Video Math Tutor

First, some praise for Apple:

My Basic Math Podcast is FINALLY visible on the Apple iTunes web site. Thanks Apple! This happened a few days ago. The main image was not looking good, so I changed it. The change was reflected later. Apple also had the good sense of increasing the memory allocated to us .Mac users, so now I am able to get ALL my videos onto here in podcast form. I am working on that now.

Now, I need to slap Apple on the wrist:

Apple still has not answered my recent request to sell my videos in their iTunes store. It’s sad that a lifelong Apple user has to rely on WINDOWS MEDIA for the only way to sell videos online. At least I can provide videos for the Apple TV and iPod/iPhone in my DVD-ROMs. They are in QuickTime movie format on this web site.

I have been busy trying to create DVD-ROMs for my videos. This is a rather painstaking process, but once done, should provide my customers with some nice goodies that will supplement my DVD-Rs.

“Facebook” should be called “Pain-in-the-Buttbook”:

I leaned facebook.com is allowing all to join it. I thought it would be a good idea to join, since it predominantly has students that I can help. My plan was to join, upload all my free videos, and hope students from all over the world would see them!

Well, in my opinion, it is very poorly structured. I have joined other “social networking” sites, and this, by far, has been my worst experience IN YEARS. I had to join a “network” so that others can even know of my existence. I am NOT, apparently, able to be visible to EVERYONE in the U.S. I can pick a city, or perhaps a foreign country. Facebook does not provide an easy way to contact them to complain about this. I guess they get SO many complaints that they stopped providing an email address. I was able to send an email to ONE address, one provided to the Press. I’ll post here if I ever get a response. Oh, when I was playing around with my settings, I only discovered too late that I can only change my network setting twice in 2 months. TWO MONTHS! Since I made two changes, I now have NO network, NO way of others to find me, and I have to wait until October 19th to try to go on a new network. Sheesh! And from the hype I read on several internet news podcasts, facebook is supposed to be the new “in” area to see and join.

Yeah, right.

I think I’ll stick with more reliable and “user-friendly” video websites. You will see those recommended on my website (go to the FLASH area). I won’t bother with buttbook… errr… I mean facebook.

I discovered that one of the Fraction videos was defective. The audio was out of synch with the video. Not a good thing. Of course, I had discovered this right after spending DAYS creating different versions/formats of the video. Fortunately, I discovered the flaw before I finished burned the DVD of the Lesson. Whew! That would not have been good if I had done this. So I went back to the master video I had on tape and started over. Oh, well. I also decided to add more information to the individual videos to create better podcasts, so I needed to upload ALL of them back here. I’m almost out of disc space already, so I won’t be able to add all my videos until I can afford it. Sorry for making you all wait.

Another frustration is that although Apple accepted my Basic Math Podcast for its iTunes directory and provided a link, it’s nowhere to be seen on their web site. I will get a link to it on my main videomathtutor.com web site, but it would be nice to have it featured in iTunes. Oh, well.