Share your videos
This year, let the kids take their own videos — with their camera cell phones. And even better, upload them onto the computer, slap them on YouTube and show the whole world how your family holiday plays out.
If this sounds like a foreign language, don’t worry. Your teens know all about this. Besides, if you let them take over documentary filmmaker duties, it will give them something to do besides grumble about having to hang with the oldsters.
According to ehow.com, the key to sending cell phone videos is having a YouTube Mobile account, which is free. Once the video is shot, log on at YouTube, find “Account Settings,” and click “Mobile Upload Profiles,” then “Create Profile” and you’re ready to go.
E-mail the cell phone video to the address(es) you provided when the account was created. Access the video under “My Videos,” where you can edit it. Voila!
NEED HELP?
Here are a few Web site services to help you share videos.
•Treemo.com: A Seattle-based online mobile business whose mission is to share digital media. One advantage: Treemo sends an e-mail message to designated recipients letting them know a video is ready to be watched.
•Eyejot.com: Also based in Seattle, eyejot.com relies on a Web cam instead of a cell phone.
•Ehow.com: Type in whatever it is you want to learn and it’s probably there.
•YouTube.com: The popular site also gives some downloading instructions.
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