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It's a moment in a journalist's career akin to watching the first man walk on the moon.

Someone FINALLY made a cell phone, an operating system and combined it with a wireless network that can reliably stream acceptable live video that isn't the size of a postage stamp.

The video in itself isn't that great, but the first "photograph" in 1839 wasn't too great either by today's standards. It sure beat sitting for a painting.

Next comes refinement and integration into our Brightcove video platform.

On Monday, Brightcove will release a massive upgrade supporting a native video player on the iPhone.

So Droid and the iPhone might be able to play together in the near future.

Life is easy today not worrying about a king lopping off your ear or a day in the stocks.

It's the time of year we remember York's role in adopting the Articles of Confederation.

I didn't have access to one of our pool Sony HVR-Z1U video camera's today... so my Droid came to the rescue! And I wanted to play with it anyway!!

Today, I put the Droid on airplane mode to shut off the transmitter and any possibility of processor activity or notifications adding sound and activity.

Unlike the still camera, which is triggered by a mechanical button, the video start button is on the start screen. The interface is basic and works. With Android, the possibility exists for people to develop new interfaces for things like the camera module, so you never know what might appear in the Android Market tomorrow.

The processing switch over from record to pause is pretty quick. With no lag processing large files. The maximum length for video files is 30 minutes at this time.

I downloaded an app called Time-Lapse that will record time lapse video.

This video was a last minute deal today at a news event that wasn't too active. My instant web update was satisfied and it was time to train baby Droid.

The DVD quality video (720x480 resolution) of up to 24 fps capture on the Motorola Droid offers great potential for capturing spot news.

This video was shot at double arm length. I was ganking a TV interview so standing in front of their camera would have been rude for the situation.

Twenty seconds in, I suddenly realized that I had the PoliceStream app running in the background when York County Control started blurting out of the speaker, two inches from my microphone on the Droid and six inches from the TV video camera microphone.

This is multi-tasking hell.

A quick spin around and regroup scrambling at controls I'm not familiar with and I resumed recording the interview.

I also changed the video limit to 30 minutes so it wouldn't cut off.

The Droid ran smoothly after that.

Verizon gives the Droid a 16 gig removable mini SD card and the phone can handle up to 32 gig card plus internal memory. I chose to open up the phone and pull out the card and use a generic USB interface. The phone also has a mini USB charging port for data transfer.

The Android operating system allows developers to come up with software that may better control hardware so there may be different Android video app solutions out there.

It would be prudent to make sure there weren't any background programs running on the Droid before shooting video. There are several free apps available though the Android Market to manually stop background processes rather than going into each app and shutting it down.

I like TasKiller. Advanced Task Killer Free is listed in the VCAST (Verizon) section of Android Market as a suggestion and easy grab for the Droid, but TasKiller skips a step of checking a box to quickly kill processes. It also give you a memory warning when it's time to start the killing.

Shutting down the ring and alert tones also silences the camera noises. I will also try setting the phone to airplane mode to avoid data transfer and a random call in the future.

Note that I "zoomed" in using my video editing software in the production process zooming in my 720 raw files that will ultimately become a 300 pixel video. Something not usually possible from the raw pulls of a phone camera.

After Carl Williams and Peggy Gross get married Saturday, he'll go home, she'll go home, and together they'll live separately ever after.

Williams, 55, and Gross, 53, dated for several years before they each moved into opposite sides of a Warrington Township duplex -- him in his self-described man cave, and her in her more elegant, antique-filled home.

The couple cut a door between the two houses but maintain separate electric service.

He likes to air condition his home and she prefers to keep her doors and windows open.

In winter, they keep the door open to spread heat from a wood stove in his house using wood they both cut.

"It works very well for us," Williams said. "I think it will make our marriage stronger."