How to Embed Vine Videos Just About Anywhere

I love Vine, the app that lets you make unedited, six-second, looping videos. The six-second time limit is pretty confining, but this is what makes me love it so much. It's like a personal challenge to see if I can document a whole drugstore trip that way, and you know what? I can!

The Vine app doesn't offer up ready-made embed code for you to paste your precious videos into your own site, but you can still do it.

How to embed a Vine video:

• Tweet your video on Twitter.
• Copy and paste the following code into your website.
• Replace the red part of the url with the Vine url that showed up when you tweeted your video.

<p><iframe src="https://vine.co/v/bnrtW52x1uJ/card?mute=1"
width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>

UPDATE: If your video sizing seems funky, which can happen with this code in Tumblr, iWeb, and I'm sure some other places, try specifying the height and width in pixels rather than percentages:

<p><iframe src="https://vine.co/v/bnrtW52x1uJ/card?mute=1"
width="500px" height="500px" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>

And voilà! Now you can share six seconds of your cats being really high on catnip with all of your friends.

Enjoy!

Me at Work It, Mom!: iPhoneography Tips

In my post, "Problem Solved: iPhoneography Tips" at Work It, Mom!, I'll show you how to use the iPhone's Camera+, Snapseed, and Noise Master apps to create beautiful photos:

When I got my first smart phone, an iPhone 3G, I had no idea that it would have such decent camera ability, but it didn’t take long for me to fall in love with it. Now, two years later and in a household that boasts about 10 to 15 cameras, my iPhone, now an iPhone 4, is just about the only piece of camera equipment I ever use.

I’m not the only one who’s fallen for its charms. iPhoneographers are everywhere these days, and it’s easy to see why once you realize just how much power a few easy camera apps can wield. I have three favourite, go-to camera apps right now that make it easy to create good-looking images: Camera+, Snapseed, and Noise Master.

Mouse or Balloon People Porn? It's All In the Eye of the Beholder.

One of the apps I use to edit photos on my iPhone is Iris Photo Suite. In the FX part of the app, there is little icon for Art FX that has always confused me. I have circled it in red in the image below:



I could never figure out what it was, because I was sure that it wasn't what I thought it looked like. It couldn't be, because I thought it looked like...

wait for it...

TWO BALLOON PEOPLE HAVING SEX.

I knew it couldn't be that, so I looked and looked and looked at it this afternoon, because I just could not fathom that a group of creatives sat around a table and decided that TWO BALLOON PEOPLE HAVING SEX was the perfect icon for Art FX.

And then it finally hit me after months of giggling at the two porny balloon people. It's MICKEY MOUSE:



This has been bugging me for months, and now I feel like I just failed some kind of basic psychological test, and you're all going HMMMMM and mentally writing me out a prescription.

If you are, can you make that prescription out for something smooth and slow like those 1970s disco biscuits that the educational films of my youth made look so good? Thanks.