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Big thanks to friend and voice actor Erik Sheppard for clueing me in to the video below. 

Erik, like me, is a big supporter of the VOICE events, and it wasn’t until I looked at the video that I realized that my voice is the first one heard!

OK, so that’s not a compelling reason to watch it…but the video is just reminder of how much fun this event is, and how hard James Alburger and Penny Abshire work each time to make this thing an unabashed success.

The take-away message:  Start saving and planning now for the June 2010 event.  I’m gonna be there in my usual role as ‘Host”, and I am hoping you will be there too.

CourVO

I have an iPhone.
 
I also have a rant about iPhone…well, actually the rant is about a misguided misnomer that’s gaining momentum in regards to a new iPhone 3GS feature.

LOVE the iPhone!  Love the new 3GS…it comes with a VoiceControl feature that lets you press a button, call out a name, and the phone dials the number. Cool!

It is VoiceControl though, not VoiceOver. (see here, iPhone 3GS feature website) Yet, iPhone’s avid proselytes are consistently referring to it as “VoiceOver”. 

Here’s why you should be intolerant of this.  From now on, every time you do a search for voiceover, a keyword selection for voiceover, look up an e-mail reference, or depend on the singular integrity of the word “voiceover” ANYWHERE, it’ll be trashed, sullied, and laden with numerous references to iPhone 3GS.

I’ve already noticed this when I configure my Tweetdeck columns to include the searchword “voiceover” as a topic.  About half of the recent returns for that word refer to iPhone 3GS’s VoiceControl feature…being misnamed as VoiceOver by all its users.

I thought Mac aficionados were supposed to be smart! (ooops…I will pay for that one… but I’m leaving it in the final publish).

My rant is probably worthless in the real world.  The cat is out of the bag, and I don’t think it’ll go back in the bag with the legs it has among users now.

But I can rant, can’t I?

CourVO

The world’s #2 most popular browser (and gaining)…a fabulous open-format program, is now available in V3.5, a major upgrade fromo 3.01.

Among other enhancements, “Firefox 3.5 is the first browser to support open video formats,
allowing movies to become part of today’s dynamic web pages without
requiring a plug-in.”

Even WITHOUT the new version, FireFox knocks competition down with all it’s productive add-ons and plug-ins.  If you haven’t yet made the switch…consider FireFox.

Here’s the link for downloading.

CourVO

   ‘Just back from 10 days vacation, and you’d think I was gone for a month the way people are wondering where I’ve been.  V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N…. that means you unplug from your usual duties and have some downtime.  SHEESH!!!

Oh, and thanks for asking…yes, I had a great time.

Now that I’m back, I face a 10-foot pile of responsibilities…but now I’m renewed in my energy to tackle it.

HERE is the link to the new EQ magazine, July Edition.

You would not have to read far to know that I love this publication…the online format, the magazine, and its excellent content..

Look for “NEW RECORDING OPTIONS: BETTER THAN DAWS?”…plus a look at Ableton Live 8, and Sony  Acid Pro 7.

BTW, hope YOU get some vakay time this Summer…worth its weight in gold.

CourVO

Just a day or two until I’m back to the busy world of responsibility and work. Finishing up my vacation in my little hometown of Greenville, IL. This is the Bond Co. Courthouse in the town square.

I approach my Wednesday return to reality with trepidation and preparation… If you’ve been checking in here…thanks! I’ve probably been most concerned about losing momentum in my VO work, and losing regular visitors to this blog during my time away. Probably neither is true, but such is the pace of the world these days…jump off the “grid” long enough and you start falling behind and missing out. Example: I surfaced late last week to hear about the triad of celebrity deaths two days late. Not good for a news guy!

Thanks for following along on my trip. Relax with nothing on Monday…travel on Tuesday…back to work Wednesday.

I just hate jet skis (water motorcycles). Hate ‘em…. They’re just no fun at all!

CourVO

Under the radar on the water

– Post From My iPhone

A day lost to travel…well, not lost… But not what I REALLY want to be doing either… Travel is tedious…

Bored daughters. What did kids do before iPods?

When you’re gainfully employed…’have kids and responsibilities, you’re rarely truly without a care in the world.  But you can come close. 
For the next few days I’m off on a family vacation to Kentucky Lake.

This is a comfortable and familiar place for the 5 of us.  My middle daughter will be a HS Senior next year, and the Summer after that will be taken…so we do a family vakay in the Summer between Junior and Senior years.  For my oldest daughter (now in college), we did the Carnival cruise down the Mexican Riviera.  This daughter and this year: KY Lake.

The fishing is good (although I don’t), but the lazy is excellent.  Boating, lazing, jet-skiing, lazing, swimming, lazing, dirt-biking, lazing.  You get the idea.  We’re with the best of friends, so I’m planning for a fish fry, a Bar-B-Q, a couple of good cigars, and lots of great conversation.

Yes, I’m taking my portable VO set-up, ’cause one client already told me to expect it.  But internet connections are dicey on the lake.  (yes, we have flush toilets and electric lights). So I may have to run into nearby Murray State University to find some Wi-Fi.

I will blog to the best of my connections…but don’t expect a lot of tips about voiceover, ’cause my mind won’t be there.  You might see some wonderful pics, though, and hear a tall tale or two.

Blessings,

CourVO

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CourVO

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