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Wordpress 2.5 has been released. It includes tons of new features including a highly updated admin panel and dashboard. The post editor is now more Safari friendly. There is a new gallery feature for uploading multiple images in the same post which I will use extensively. The whole template for the admin panel is different! If you are running a site with wordpress, I highly recommend you upgraded!
There are a lot of tutorial websites out on the web these days. A lot of databases containing links to tutorials for every piece of software you can think of. However, the best tutorials tend to come from sites targeted to one piece of software alone. It takes a lot of discovering to find such sites. But below, I will show you my picks of the most helpful, informative sites.
–Photoshop– PSDTuts has gained a lot of popularity over the past year. The tutorials are free for the most part, but sample .PSD files are available for download for a few bucks to help keep the site going. New tutorials are posted around 3 times per week, but the website already has a bunch of tutorials from the countless previous weeks. Every month PSDTuts also published a web roundup featuring a few of the best photoshop tutorials on the web from other sites. You can submit your own tutorials to the site if you want, and if accepted, the owner, Collis, will give you $125.00 for it.
–Flash Programming– The tutorials on Emanuele’s site are top notch. With a new article posted almost everyday, techniques are shown how how some flash game hits are made. Bloons, Tower Defense, etc…– Emanuele starts from scratch in multipart tutorials showing and explaining the code to replicate it. He also shows many tips on how to bring in revenue from your game. How to create a game and get it sponsored, or put in-game ads in it is a snap if you read this blog.
–Web Design– This online magazine is great if you want to learn how to improve a website. A List Apart is published around twice a month, containing 2 articles per publication. The List Apart has been around for a very long time though. At present it is at issue #255. The good, the bad, and the evil about web design is discussed including some tips and other very useful information.Am I missing something? Comment! I am interested to hear in other high class sites for specific tutorials like these.
Did you know Photoshop can take a video and make an animated image out of it? Yes, it can! Photoshop has the ability to import a video file and convert each frame into a layer and automatically animate it, heres how:
Now, clearly, I didn’t put too much time making this look good. I just placed video and text. However, the point of this tutorial wasn’t to make as good a signature as I could, but to show how to incorporate video.It is hard though. I only had 60 video frames, and it came out to 200 and some odd kb. I hope this was informative and you learned how to add video to a photosohp document!
There are some applications that are so amazing, every mac user should have. Although some are payware, the are limited and are definitely worth it. A lot of good applications are included with Macs in iLife, however there are still some that are necessary for the happiest mac-ing!
These applications pretty much cover it for me. iWork is awesome for me, but some business users would prefer something with more Microsoft compatibility should opt to the new Microsoft Office 2008. Adium is a great, muli-protocal instant messaging client thats more light weight than iChat. Perian allows for playing of many different types of media files from within quicktime. Photoshop, although expensive, is the greatest image editing program available.
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A lot of people want to learn how to make applications. Mac OS X provides an easy way to do so. Every single (genuine) Apple Computer comes with XCode on it’s install disks. Using XCode and the Cocoa framework makes it easy to learn and make your own application. And it is how most major Mac OS software publishers do it. I have made a video tutorial to introduce you to XCode and the things you can do with it. Although the application is somewhat simple, it is necesary to learn with simple applications and gradually move on with increasingly more difficult apps.