{"id":1340,"date":"2016-03-22T00:18:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T05:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2018-11-19T11:18:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T16:18:06","slug":"latest-technical-information-on-abelfamily-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/latest-technical-information-on-abelfamily-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Technical Information on Abelfamily.ca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warning &#8230; tech talk ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The saga continues &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No need to repeat the messages regarding Google, Picasa etc.\u00a0 Earlier this month the slide show system stopped.\u00a0 Not wholly surprising, I&#8217;m not really sure what will stop working when Picasa shuts down in May, although all indications are that 12 years of photo albums will be fine.<\/p>\n<p>So I figured to replace the slide shows from the beginning of 2015 with movies; easy to do in Picasa. But, the movies are in .wmv format which is fine but isn&#8217;t supported on Apple devices. So, I converted them to the more portable .mp4; but, as I found out, not all .mp4 files will run on Ipads; so, I figured, the slide shows haven&#8217;t run on Ipads for 14 years, no point in working more on this for 2015 only.\u00a0 Finally, and unaccountably; the slide shows started working again.<\/p>\n<p>Moving forward, I&#8217;ll be adding a movie file to the blog, the photos are degraded quite a bit but that allows the movie to load in a reasonable period of time.\u00a0 Eureka, they load on Apple devices, they don&#8217;t look great but it is better than nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning &#8230; tech talk ahead. The saga continues &#8230; No need to repeat the messages regarding Google, Picasa etc.\u00a0 Earlier this month the slide show system stopped.\u00a0 Not wholly surprising, I&#8217;m not really sure what<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-17","category-information","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}